I bought my first mountain bike in 1984 moved to Crested Butte in 1985. It was past the klunker era but there were singletrack trails everywhere, thanks to all those pioneers. Crazy fun days just exploring the beautiful mountains surrounding town in every direction. I got hooked then and remain hooked today. Great film. Brings back a lot of good memories.
Riding a bike in nature is one of the best thing in life, there is something universal about this. Much gratitude to all the folks who build trails and design bikes, because of their effort, many of us can now ride mountain bikes in many places all over the world, keep on riding!
Great film, love hearing these stories of the early days of mountain biking. Here in the UK in the late 70s I was about 10 years old, I was riding a Raleigh Chopper on dirt tracks around our town, my friend and I called it scrambling.
I learned to build with junk. Literal junk. Leftovers. Spare parts. Whatever I could get my hands on. I'd strip broken derailleurs, cranks, headsets and salvage every nut and bolt, every barrel adjuster, didn't matter if it was rusty. As long as it wasn't broken it could be cleaned up. I took things apart, cleaned them, put them back together. I made headsets out of scrap parts. I learned what to do from watching three of the best I've ever seen do it, guys who performed miracles with scraps and salvage. Then i taught myself the "how" of it. There's nothing wrong with buying a bike and having fun riding it, that's the point, to have fun, but I think to really understand and appreciate pretty much anything for what it is as a whole means understanding and appreciating how it started, where it came from and how it's evolved over time. Anything owes its current state to what existed before
My buddies and I used to walk to the local dump with tools and ride home on bikes. The early 70’s was the bike boom, and 10-speeds were the rage. Perfectly good Raleigh 3-speeds and Columbia coaster brake bikes were being thrown away. I worked in a bike shop assembling bikes. One day we assembled 165 bikes. Business was booming!
Our teachers at the vocational school I went to used to say, work with junk and you get junk. I don't believe that. I love building from junk. Yeah. Peace
Please produce more films like this. Maybe from different ski towns or something. History of mtb is more interesting to this old rider than yet another video of some rubbery kid throwing backflip barspinny thingy.
Guys, HERE is The Savior HalleluYAH translates “Praise ye YaH” YaH is The Heavenly Father YaH arrives via the TENT OF MEETING YaH was Who they Crucified for our sins ** NO FEMALE INVOLVED WHATSOEVER ** - Hebrew Book of Isaiah Isaiah 42:8 "I am YaH; that is my Name! I will not yield my glory to another or my praise to idols. Isaiah 43:11 I, I am YAH, and there is no other Savior but Me. Isaiah 45:5 I am YaH, and there is none else.
excellent film, I'm a mountain bike rider and have been since 1990 when I got my first mountain bike and I'm nearly 52 now and I'm now riding an E mountain bike as my body is not as tough as it was but I love the freedom and independence that bikes give you, people talk about getting their first car and forget about the first bike that gave them freedom and independence at a young age, thanks for your video.
WOW, REALLY ENJOYED THAT. I'm a Brit and just started a family when I first heard of Clunker's. I was into Bike Touring and had a fast Touring Bike with 6 gear's and would 'go off road' often. So a Mountain Bike sounded IDEAL for off road Touring. Unfortunately, I was in my 60's when I eventually got a Mountain Bike. Now in my mid Seventy's I'm about to buy my second Electric Bike, essential for my living in hilly Wales UK with many Cycle Path's. My only form of transport, do all my shopping, etc. and looking forward to getting a bike that'll "go all day" and not just 30 mile's. I'm no 'racer' just enjoy cycling & enjoying the countryside.
This video made me feel good. I grew up in a small town and at the time it was steel Supercycle bikes (CCM and Raleigh bikes rebranded). This is how I started riding a bike. When I was a kid in the 70's, I loved finding trails to ride on. Probably mostly foot paths to party spots I imagine. ;)
It's amazing to see how far mountain biking has come, thanks to these passionate pioneers. We love reading the comments of folks who fell in love with mountain biking here, too. It's incredible to see all the people this place and this sport has touched. Happy trails, everyone.
Great film.It took me back to SoCal 1965 when me and the crew were picking up old Beach Cruizers that people wanted out of their yards for free,fixing them up with handlebars from Stingrays as well as the banana seats and knobby tires so we could ride where the dirt bikes and dune buggies were.We were all young Surfers so that was our main interest and the bikes were just something fun to do when the surf was flat,never realizing years later it would become something.
The first time I drove 32 straight hours from Ottawa Canada to Crested Butte to ride the Mountain bikes trails. I found myself in one of the most magical place I have been. It was as if I came home . the people, the lifestyle and the mountains felt right. Riding those trails in and around Crested had me in awh and contentment at every turn.
My wife and I have our old balloon tire beasts for summer cruising; they’re heavy, unsophisticated, and as fun as hell. Thanks for making this movie, for taking the spotlight away from the $$ for a few minutes, but especially for showing us what we should never forget: damn the torpedoes and have fun.
great video. I remember in the late 60s early 70s we used to build what we called tracker pushbikes, with fatter knobbly tyres, wide handlebars, decent seat etc for woods riding. bloody great bikes. from uk 🏴☠️
Got my first mtb in 86, a Jamis Dakota, and went to the fat tire fest in CB a week later. Rode up Pearl Pass with a group that included Charlie Kelly. The elevation nearly killed me. Good thing I was a youngster of 39 back then.
HERE is The TRUE Savior HalleluYAH translates “Praise ye YaH” YaH is The Heavenly Father YaH arrives via the TENT OF MEETING YaH was Who they Crucified for our sins ** NO FEMALE INVOLVED WHATSOEVER ** - Hebrew Book of Isaiah Isaiah 42:8 "I am YaH; that is my Name! I will not yield my glory to another or my praise to idols. Isaiah 43:11 I, I am YAH, and there is no other Savior but Me. Isaiah 45:5 I am YaH, and there is none else.
Great film. Good to see that it was the joy and friendship that started it all. Nowadays I have to remind my buddys firstly to enjoy themselves. There are no medals to win here.
I love to ride the logging roads near my home in the pacific north west, especially in the forest in the rain. I still remember the the thrill of exploring something new, but I still love it.
That was an Awesome video to watch. I was the first one in my town to buy my first mountain bike. I was a skinny tire cyclist then,when I showed up with my new mountain bike my friends thought I was crazy. After a few weeks after they followed the trend. A year later we all ordered new Fatchance Bikes. Thanks
Loved the movie (your movies in general) but, it really shines the light on the origins of that beautiful old Schwinn Sierra i've got lurking in my closet. The days of rigid, no thought of the latest suspensions, or parts and peices that nowadays cost more than the bike itself back in the day, just amaze me.
Fantastic film, thank you. In the 1970's and 1980's my father in-law and his 2 brothers owned Gundelach's Bike Shop in New Rochelle New York. At one point they were the largest U.S. Schwinn dealers. When the 3 brothers retired in the early to mid 1980's 2 of their sons took over the business. Mountain Biking to these 2 was just a passing fad and they decided not too sell Mountain Bikes. Well as you can suspect they almost went out of business while their competitors who embraced mountain bike sales thrived and grew in size. Me I'm 72 years old retired to Puerto Rico from the Virgin Islands. In the 90's we had a small crew on St.Croix of mountain bikers and we would travel to other islands to race their crew and vice versa. I Just bought a 2022 Scott Spark, my 2nd Scott Spark, terrific bike. But the early 1990's the Santa Cruz Superlight that I raced during those years still ranks as my favorite out of the many bikes I have owned. 😊
I remember reading about that ride from Crested Butte to Aspen back in the 80's when I was just getting into bicycle riding of a variety of types, and thinking about how much fun it would have been to actually do it. I was focused on racing on the road and track, but just seeing the pictures from the late 70's into the early 80's brought back so much. That was a much friendlier time. Everything and everyone is so intense now. It's fucking ridiculous.
Enjoyed this Very Much, I am fortunate enough to have Ridden some of these trails while in College at Western State 91'-95', miss the landscape so much, and fortunate enough to be still riding here in PA. Great Video, thanks for taking the time to tell the story, i will try to pass it on.
I lived in Gunnison the summer of 84, remember a guy named Loren who lived up in Crested Butte. Worked for Rick and Dana Spear who owned Almont Outfitters as a rafting and fishing guide. Loren told me stories of the mountain bike scene up in Crested Butte and after my 1971 Opel 1900 station wagon broke down for good, I bought a Trek MTB at the Tune Up in Gunnison. The rest is history. I "raced" that fall at the Fat Tire Fall Classic in The Butte and also did the Pearl Pass ride that weekend. I remember two guys riding "Velocitech" mountain bikes which had a 26 inch front wheel and a 20 inch back wheel, crazy bike set up! I'm still hungover from the party on the pass that night! The ride was an overnighter back then, and it was a life changer.
I saw the first Fat tire bike over Pearl Pass between Aspen and Crested Butte in 1983 while living in Aspen. Everyone was riding road bikes, and people were looking for a way to ride the single tracks in the mountains. It is so cool to see what was possible and how far could you go. Pretty soon the desert in Utah took on a whole new dimension.
Awesome story and video production! Loved to hear it from the people that lived it. I’ve been to Crested Butte twice for mtb riding trips, and Gunnison once. Amazing trails and riding there. Teocalli and Doctor Park are some of my favorites.
I just picked up from what I can tell, an all original 1982 Ross Diamond Cruiser in green with anodized gold at a thrift store for $40 last week. Had no idea it was such a piece of history! stumbled across this trying to learn more, thanks for sharing the story!
I live in sausalito, Gary Fisher used to Grow Dope upon top of Tam. Ride down to the Trident and provide us with the goods. Then grind way back up there in a day or two. We used to put a stingray sprocket in the crankset. Voila, mountain bike
Just stumbled across this vid and boy does this bring back a ton of memories. The soul of mountain biking still can be found but it's a challenge. Nevertheless it's there, all the commercialization in the world can't kill it, the passion and comradery is preserved in the new generations while us old guys are caretakers of the archives.
This is fantastic, and very well done! I started cycling in the early '80s, just as the sport was becoming popular to the masses. It has changed and evolved a lot!
So great! What an amazing moment in history! Although the folks at The Saloon in CB did get their own chapter, I wish I could have gone deeper into these legends when I did Klunkerz. Ride on!
HERE is The Savior HalleluYAH translates “Praise ye YaH” YaH is The Heavenly Father YaH arrives via the TENT OF MEETING YaH was Who they Crucified for our sins ** NO FEMALE INVOLVED WHATSOEVER ** - Hebrew Book of Isaiah Isaiah 42:8 "I am YaH; that is my Name! I will not yield my glory to another or my praise to idols. Isaiah 43:11 I, I am YAH, and there is no other Savior but Me. Isaiah 45:5 I am YaH, and there is none else.
Here in Canada, i built my first frankenbike when i was 8. I used to go to the dump and make em for my friends n kids in the neighbourhood. It was the 70's. I am 52 now and haven't stopped. The folk i met along the way....pioneers in the evolution in bikes and armour n helmets...best times in my life. So many stories, yrs. Of riding, trips, trail building, trials courses etc. What a rip!!!😂😁😂
Beautifully shot and agelessly incorporated. What a sweet little slice of history whoever produced this short documentary. Left a really good feeling at the end, well done! 👏👏👏
When I was a kid in Australia riding bikes in the late 70's early 80's I had a 10 speed racer and a bmx, I remember saying to a mate and my brother "all I want is a big bmx with gears so I can ride anywhere " I had no idea mtb was being born and was the answer to my prayers, now I'm 58 riding my Trek Roscoe over everything everywhere thinking back to those days and how good it is to be on this bike doing what I dreamed of way back then, totally awesome 😊
Enjoyed the history lesson. That's my era and I was riding my road bike that l worked hard to buy. I was busy working to earn my college tuition, studying and also having lots of fun as the world was now open to me. Now I'm retired and needing to get healthy so I bought an ebike last year. I'm enjoying my rides and just bought two more bikes last month. I'm planning to ride to my last days, hopefully into my nineties. One of my bucket list items is to ride over the mountain East of my home in Wasatch range.
Absolutely outstanding. I knew more about the origins of the sport from Marin County and the "Repack" ride on Mt. Tam in California, or at least that was what magazine articles in the 1980s had to say about it. Fascinating to see pictures of the old rigs and the Grubstake Crew getting it done. Amazing history about finding the old CCC trails (Civilian Conservation Corps, I had to look it up. Way to go Franklin D Roosevelt!) I jumped on board the sport here in Toronto around 1984. Something I loved in this doc was the other rider passing by and connecting him to the broader scene. Same thing happened to me as a bike courier in the 80s when another courier rolled up alongside me at the end of the day on his mountain bike. "Thanks for the draft. You going to the race this weekend?" That was Jeff, and that's how I ended up with the Dirt Dogs of Duke's Cycle. A few years later I was there at the birth of Speed River Bicycle in Guelph, Ontario. Still there today; they sold me my beautiful handmade Canadian full-suspension Rocky Mt Carve. Cheers and much love and respect to Cosmo's Factory. Keep rolling everybody! Peter
Great film thank you, it probably took quite some time and planning to make this one. Mountainbikers here know the 90's bikes, but not the old Klunkers. They did not grew up with klunkers bikes. Now that I ride some of those, people give me a variety of looks, mostly positive 😀 I am happy that I discovered Klunking, because for me, its more about fun than the lightest/latest tech. Thanks again!
Trip down memory lane... Skipped class at Tam High to shred Mount Tam in those days on a hand built mountain bike. Riding an EUC these days and still have a an original Marin mountain bike. Older now, still love to shred.
Wow! I had no idea mountain biking had its origin at Crested Butte. And wonderful to see the link with the Co-evolution Quarterly which, around the same time (1989), pointed me to Home Power Magazine and my life was never the same. Back to Crested Butte -- my link with that place was being a grad student at UC Berkeley's Energy and Resources Group which has a decades-long research project on climate change at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory (RMBL) above Crested Butte.
Man, that's an awesome flick! My backyard in those times was way up Northwoods Wisconsin and I bashed my bike all over those woods. I left and landed in Eugene in the early daze of mountain biking and had an absolute blast! I was fast on a road bike, and thus tzar of the Creative Crash Committee since I translated speed into carnage so well. God, the races (parties) were soooo fun! I rode trail so much I had trench foot lol With all that said, give me one of them nice Santa Cruz all-mountains, all day, every day, and eight times on Sunday over the old shitbags bikes I rode through the woods. You can keep those parts of the past. I'm sure they're still layin in the woods and mountains somewhere.
Yeah baby!! I rode everywhere, CB, Moab, Mt Tam, parts in between, living in Santa Fe. Started late - 1980, first mtn. bike from Bianchi of all things. Riders came down from CB, one w/ home bent drop bars - the FIRST GRAVEL BIKE! is what they call it today, I've been riding those bars, bent myself, Cinelli drops, since '84. Gosh don't want to sound like I'm bragging, I mean, it was the quiet rage, small little mtn bike festivals in CB and Moab, must have done 4-5 autumns of each in the '80s. Hallelujah - love that this video came to light - BUT MAN THERE IS JUST SO MUCH MORE TO THIS STORY (w/o the dramatization). Thanks a heap for makin' an old 74 yr old guy weep w/ joy and just soooooo many simple assed memories. Still have my Redline, their first mtn bike, 1984?, w/ those bent Cinelli drops, my city bike, still in Santa Fe. And still riding in funky shorts and a t-shirt.
@@tedecker3792 O Ted, good for you, what a brilliant move. I'm embarrassed to admit I'm barely riding at all lately, spoiled by my '92 airhead BMW R100GS, BUT still on 2 wheels, LOL. We are both still living in Gawd's wild adventure country, and keeping our spirited youthfulness. Thanks for the comment.....
In the mid 70s my friends and I were building 20" versions of these klunkers. We called them swamp racers and rode them on wetland paths that we made and maintained near my Minneapolis home. In the early 80s my best friends cousin moved here from California with a Mongoose BMX bike, it was so different from our bikes that it could have been brought in by a spaceship!
I biked in the 70s in New Orleans with my klunker BMX made from used parts from Mr Henry's garage. I raced on the road from 82-2012 and now have a fancy klunker to take me all over Europe.
THIS IS such a beautiful story. i thank you for that energy .that is in me , that is us , that is then and now. and the betweens. that was from you. truly , u just need to be the right one for the task - not the best one in a faux-natural emcompassed society and culture. . truly.... just being a being is always the right choice in a flow of the concsiouness. i thank all dudes n dudettes in the forest finding this root that sets it for us all - its a moment for me too !!!! om shanti and long live the right way of us understading pachamama!
I bought my first mountain bike in 1984 moved to Crested Butte in 1985. It was past the klunker era but there were singletrack trails everywhere, thanks to all those pioneers. Crazy fun days just exploring the beautiful mountains surrounding town in every direction. I got hooked then and remain hooked today. Great film. Brings back a lot of good memories.
Riding a bike in nature is one of the best thing in life, there is something universal about this. Much gratitude to all the folks who build trails and design bikes, because of their effort, many of us can now ride mountain bikes in many places all over the world, keep on riding!
Yes, one of the best things, best adventures a person can have.
Great film, love hearing these stories of the early days of mountain biking.
Here in the UK in the late 70s I was about 10 years old, I was riding a Raleigh Chopper on dirt tracks around our town, my friend and I called it scrambling.
I learned to build with junk. Literal junk. Leftovers. Spare parts. Whatever I could get my hands on. I'd strip broken derailleurs, cranks, headsets and salvage every nut and bolt, every barrel adjuster, didn't matter if it was rusty. As long as it wasn't broken it could be cleaned up. I took things apart, cleaned them, put them back together. I made headsets out of scrap parts. I learned what to do from watching three of the best I've ever seen do it, guys who performed miracles with scraps and salvage. Then i taught myself the "how" of it. There's nothing wrong with buying a bike and having fun riding it, that's the point, to have fun, but I think to really understand and appreciate pretty much anything for what it is as a whole means understanding and appreciating how it started, where it came from and how it's evolved over time. Anything owes its current state to what existed before
Nicely said. I'd like to also add that there's a different pride in riding something that you built.
My buddies and I used to walk to the local dump with tools and ride home on bikes. The early 70’s was the bike boom, and 10-speeds were the rage. Perfectly good Raleigh 3-speeds and Columbia coaster brake bikes were being thrown away. I worked in a bike shop assembling bikes. One day we assembled 165 bikes. Business was booming!
Our teachers at the vocational school I went to used to say, work with junk and you get junk. I don't believe that. I love building from junk. Yeah. Peace
Please produce more films like this. Maybe from different ski towns or something. History of mtb is more interesting to this old rider than yet another video of some rubbery kid throwing backflip barspinny thingy.
Right
ski towns?..most of us mt bikers weren't born near mountains.
I'm 42 and I just learned those backflip barspinny thingies. Nothing wrong with that.
Guys, HERE is The Savior
HalleluYAH translates “Praise ye YaH”
YaH is The Heavenly Father
YaH arrives via the TENT OF MEETING
YaH was Who they Crucified for our sins
** NO FEMALE INVOLVED WHATSOEVER **
- Hebrew Book of Isaiah
Isaiah 42:8
"I am YaH; that is my Name! I will not yield my glory to another or my praise to idols.
Isaiah 43:11
I, I am YAH, and there is no other Savior but Me.
Isaiah 45:5
I am YaH, and there is none else.
It's funny that when I watch something like this makes me cry the whole way so glad I was a part of something sure did have fun with mountain bikes
excellent film, I'm a mountain bike rider and have been since 1990 when I got my first mountain bike and I'm nearly 52 now and I'm now riding an E mountain bike as my body is not as tough as it was but I love the freedom and independence that bikes give you, people talk about getting their first car and forget about the first bike that gave them freedom and independence at a young age, thanks for your video.
WOW, REALLY ENJOYED THAT. I'm a Brit and just started a family when I first heard of Clunker's. I was into Bike Touring and had a fast Touring Bike with 6 gear's and would 'go off road' often. So a Mountain Bike sounded IDEAL for off road Touring. Unfortunately, I was in my 60's when I eventually got a Mountain Bike. Now in my mid Seventy's I'm about to buy my second Electric Bike, essential for my living in hilly Wales UK with many Cycle Path's. My only form of transport, do all my shopping, etc. and looking forward to getting a bike that'll "go all day" and not just 30 mile's. I'm no 'racer' just enjoy cycling & enjoying the countryside.
This video made me feel good. I grew up in a small town and at the time it was steel Supercycle bikes (CCM and Raleigh bikes rebranded). This is how I started riding a bike. When I was a kid in the 70's, I loved finding trails to ride on. Probably mostly foot paths to party spots I imagine. ;)
It's amazing to see how far mountain biking has come, thanks to these passionate pioneers. We love reading the comments of folks who fell in love with mountain biking here, too. It's incredible to see all the people this place and this sport has touched. Happy trails, everyone.
Great film.It took me back to SoCal 1965 when me and the crew were picking up old Beach Cruizers that people wanted out of their yards for free,fixing them up with handlebars from Stingrays as well as the banana seats and knobby tires so we could ride where the dirt bikes and dune buggies were.We were all young Surfers so that was our main interest and the bikes were just something fun to do when the surf was flat,never realizing years later it would become something.
The first time I drove 32 straight hours from Ottawa Canada to Crested Butte to ride the Mountain bikes trails. I found myself in one of the most magical place I have been. It was as if I came home . the people, the lifestyle and the mountains felt right. Riding those trails in and around Crested had me in awh and contentment at every turn.
I love the coastal California/Colorado mountain connection. Kindred spirits sharing ideas and it just went into chain reaction overload.
My wife and I have our old balloon tire beasts for summer cruising; they’re heavy, unsophisticated, and as fun as hell. Thanks for making this movie, for taking the spotlight away from the $$ for a few minutes, but especially for showing us what we should never forget: damn the torpedoes and have fun.
great video. I remember in the late 60s early 70s we used to build what we called tracker pushbikes, with fatter knobbly tyres, wide handlebars, decent seat etc for woods riding.
bloody great bikes.
from uk
🏴☠️
Got my first mtb in 86, a Jamis Dakota, and went to the fat tire fest in CB a week later. Rode up Pearl Pass with a group that included Charlie Kelly. The elevation nearly killed me. Good thing I was a youngster of 39 back then.
What a great bunch of enthusiasts who were just having fun on bicycles. It's really that simple.
BTW, great nod to Austin Weaver.
HERE is The TRUE Savior
HalleluYAH translates “Praise ye YaH”
YaH is The Heavenly Father
YaH arrives via the TENT OF MEETING
YaH was Who they Crucified for our sins
** NO FEMALE INVOLVED WHATSOEVER **
- Hebrew Book of Isaiah
Isaiah 42:8
"I am YaH; that is my Name! I will not yield my glory to another or my praise to idols.
Isaiah 43:11
I, I am YAH, and there is no other Savior but Me.
Isaiah 45:5
I am YaH, and there is none else.
Great film. Good to see that it was the joy and friendship that started it all. Nowadays I have to remind my buddys firstly to enjoy themselves. There are no medals to win here.
Happy I was living and riding in the Butte in the 80s. It was a rush. Thanks for the memories!
Lived there for 9 years… still miss all those roads and trails. This film brings back great memories.
I love to ride the logging roads near my home in the pacific north west, especially in the forest in the rain. I still remember the the thrill of exploring something new, but I still love it.
So good, can't wait to get on mine after work like every day, but today is a little more special. Thanks!
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That was an Awesome video to watch. I was the first one in my town to buy my first mountain bike. I was a skinny tire cyclist then,when I showed up with my new mountain bike my friends thought I was crazy. After a few weeks after they followed the trend. A year later we all ordered new Fatchance Bikes. Thanks
thank you very much for this piece of history. thank you for letting us to know and to see the founders of mountain bikes.
Very cool film! By 1987 it had spread to Connecticut and I got a Giant "Sedona" fully rigid mtb with my saved money from a paper route.
Loved the movie (your movies in general) but, it really shines the light on the origins of that beautiful old Schwinn Sierra i've got lurking in my closet. The days of rigid, no thought of the latest suspensions, or parts and peices that nowadays cost more than the bike itself back in the day, just amaze me.
I love this! Thanks for putting together an amazing film portraying the actual, factual history of early MTB culture. Inspiring!
Fantastic film, thank you. In the 1970's and 1980's my father in-law and his 2 brothers owned Gundelach's Bike Shop in New Rochelle New York. At one point they were the largest U.S. Schwinn dealers. When the 3 brothers retired in the early to mid 1980's 2 of their sons took over the business. Mountain Biking to these 2 was just a passing fad and they decided not too sell Mountain Bikes. Well as you can suspect they almost went out of business while their competitors who embraced mountain bike sales thrived and grew in size. Me I'm 72 years old retired to Puerto Rico from the Virgin Islands. In the 90's we had a small crew on St.Croix of mountain bikers and we would travel to other islands to race their crew and vice versa. I Just bought a 2022 Scott Spark, my 2nd Scott Spark, terrific bike. But the early 1990's the Santa Cruz Superlight that I raced during those years still ranks as my favorite out of the many bikes I have owned. 😊
What a super story I hope everyone over there as well through this most unbelievable time
I remember reading about that ride from Crested Butte to Aspen back in the 80's when I was just getting into bicycle riding of a variety of types, and thinking about how much fun it would have been to actually do it. I was focused on racing on the road and track, but just seeing the pictures from the late 70's into the early 80's brought back so much. That was a much friendlier time. Everything and everyone is so intense now. It's fucking ridiculous.
Enjoyed this Very Much, I am fortunate enough to have Ridden some of these trails while in College at Western State 91'-95', miss the landscape so much, and fortunate enough to be still riding here in PA. Great Video, thanks for taking the time to tell the story, i will try to pass it on.
I lived in Gunnison the summer of 84, remember a guy named Loren who lived up in Crested Butte. Worked for Rick and Dana Spear who owned Almont Outfitters as a rafting and fishing guide. Loren told me stories of the mountain bike scene up in Crested Butte and after my 1971 Opel 1900 station wagon broke down for good, I bought a Trek MTB at the Tune Up in Gunnison. The rest is history. I "raced" that fall at the Fat Tire Fall Classic in The Butte and also did the Pearl Pass ride that weekend. I remember two guys riding "Velocitech" mountain bikes which had a 26 inch front wheel and a 20 inch back wheel, crazy bike set up! I'm still hungover from the party on the pass that night! The ride was an overnighter back then, and it was a life changer.
I saw the first Fat tire bike over Pearl Pass between Aspen and Crested Butte in 1983 while living in Aspen. Everyone was riding road bikes, and people were looking for a way to ride the single tracks in the mountains. It is so cool to see what was possible and how far could you go. Pretty soon the desert in Utah took on a whole new dimension.
Masterpiece. Just bravo from Greece guys. We need more of this...
Awesome story and video production! Loved to hear it from the people that lived it. I’ve been to Crested Butte twice for mtb riding trips, and Gunnison once. Amazing trails and riding there. Teocalli and Doctor Park are some of my favorites.
I just picked up from what I can tell, an all original 1982 Ross Diamond Cruiser in green with anodized gold at a thrift store for $40 last week. Had no idea it was such a piece of history! stumbled across this trying to learn more, thanks for sharing the story!
I live in sausalito, Gary Fisher used to Grow Dope upon top of Tam. Ride down to the Trident and provide us with the goods. Then grind way back up there in a day or two. We used to put a stingray sprocket in the crankset. Voila, mountain bike
I still have some old Trident menus...
was it good dope?
Great photos to accompany the great story. Well done 👍
Just stumbled across this vid and boy does this bring back a ton of memories. The soul of mountain biking still can be found but it's a challenge. Nevertheless it's there, all the commercialization in the world can't kill it, the passion and comradery is preserved in the new generations while us old guys are caretakers of the archives.
This is fantastic, and very well done! I started cycling in the early '80s, just as the sport was becoming popular to the masses. It has changed and evolved a lot!
So great! What an amazing moment in history! Although the folks at The Saloon in CB did get their own chapter, I wish I could have gone deeper into these legends when I did Klunkerz. Ride on!
Loved this. I was in Aspen starting in 78 and the klunker runs were a blast. This is how I caught the mountain biking bug that continues today.
HERE is The Savior
HalleluYAH translates “Praise ye YaH”
YaH is The Heavenly Father
YaH arrives via the TENT OF MEETING
YaH was Who they Crucified for our sins
** NO FEMALE INVOLVED WHATSOEVER **
- Hebrew Book of Isaiah
Isaiah 42:8
"I am YaH; that is my Name! I will not yield my glory to another or my praise to idols.
Isaiah 43:11
I, I am YAH, and there is no other Savior but Me.
Isaiah 45:5
I am YaH, and there is none else.
My dad moved our family to Anchorage Alaska in 1974, I can totally relate to all of this.
Here in Canada, i built my first frankenbike when i was 8. I used to go to the dump and make em for my friends n kids in the neighbourhood.
It was the 70's. I am 52 now and haven't stopped. The folk i met along the way....pioneers in the evolution in bikes and armour n helmets...best times in my life. So many stories, yrs. Of riding, trips, trail building, trials courses etc. What a rip!!!😂😁😂
What a wonderful film. It got me very excited about getting back to the mountains on my bike.
Beautifully shot and agelessly incorporated. What a sweet little slice of history whoever produced this short documentary.
Left a really good feeling at the end, well done! 👏👏👏
When I was a kid in Australia riding bikes in the late 70's early 80's I had a 10 speed racer and a bmx, I remember saying to a mate and my brother "all I want is a big bmx with gears so I can ride anywhere " I had no idea mtb was being born and was the answer to my prayers, now I'm 58 riding my Trek Roscoe over everything everywhere thinking back to those days and how good it is to be on this bike doing what I dreamed of way back then, totally awesome 😊
Enjoyed the history lesson. That's my era and I was riding my road bike that l worked hard to buy. I was busy working to earn my college tuition, studying and also having lots of fun as the world was now open to me. Now I'm retired and needing to get healthy so I bought an ebike last year. I'm enjoying my rides and just bought two more bikes last month. I'm planning to ride to my last days, hopefully into my nineties. One of my bucket list items is to ride over the mountain East of my home in Wasatch range.
Love the history and so many memories from back in the day 96” western state!
Absolutely outstanding. I knew more about the origins of the sport from Marin County and the "Repack" ride on Mt. Tam in California, or at least that was what magazine articles in the 1980s had to say about it. Fascinating to see pictures of the old rigs and the Grubstake Crew getting it done.
Amazing history about finding the old CCC trails (Civilian Conservation Corps, I had to look it up. Way to go Franklin D Roosevelt!)
I jumped on board the sport here in Toronto around 1984. Something I loved in this doc was the other rider passing by and connecting him to the broader scene. Same thing happened to me as a bike courier in the 80s when another courier rolled up alongside me at the end of the day on his mountain bike. "Thanks for the draft. You going to the race this weekend?" That was Jeff, and that's how I ended up with the Dirt Dogs of Duke's Cycle. A few years later I was there at the birth of Speed River Bicycle in Guelph, Ontario. Still there today; they sold me my beautiful handmade Canadian full-suspension Rocky Mt Carve. Cheers and much love and respect to Cosmo's Factory.
Keep rolling everybody!
Peter
I was born 1988 July and second time 2003 March when i start Mountainbiking.
Thanks for the Memories. God bless Guys
Great film thank you, it probably took quite some time and planning to make this one.
Mountainbikers here know the 90's bikes, but not the old Klunkers. They did not grew up with klunkers bikes. Now that I ride some of those, people give me a variety of looks, mostly positive 😀
I am happy that I discovered Klunking, because for me, its more about fun than the lightest/latest tech.
Thanks again!
Beautiful story reminds me of all the good rides
I dig hearing about the beginnings.
Great film! Thank you so much. Special appreciation for those who started mtb a thing I can't live without!
What a well done and cool video
I like when it was said that at the end of a ride you weren't talking about mountain biking. You guys were in the moment of discovery.
What a great documentary, I learned so much from it, thanks to those pioneering people back in the 70s;
I was shaking my head the whole way through
Great story, documentation and production!👍
This made my day, thanks!
We had ‘Trackers’ in the UK,bullhorns on ‘city’ bikes,straighten the forks in a grid,small front big back sprockets…summer 1976…
Trip down memory lane... Skipped class at Tam High to shred Mount Tam in those days on a hand built mountain bike. Riding an EUC these days and still have a an original Marin mountain bike. Older now, still love to shred.
It's great! Adding more history on mtb!
Fabulous.. I have such fond memories of riding at Crested (a visit from the UK)
Well that was amazing to see!! Just gave me an understanding of where it did come from! Mountain Biking! Fun it is!! Thanks for that Freehub!!
Great movie, thanks for sharing! great story, folks, movie editing + music :)
Great film, thanks!
Wow! I had no idea mountain biking had its origin at Crested Butte. And wonderful to see the link with the Co-evolution Quarterly which, around the same time (1989), pointed me to Home Power Magazine and my life was never the same. Back to Crested Butte -- my link with that place was being a grad student at UC Berkeley's Energy and Resources Group which has a decades-long research project on climate change at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory (RMBL) above Crested Butte.
This was really really well done! Great job folks
one love, one passion. inspiration ☘️
Man, that's an awesome flick! My backyard in those times was way up Northwoods Wisconsin and I bashed my bike all over those woods. I left and landed in Eugene in the early daze of mountain biking and had an absolute blast! I was fast on a road bike, and thus tzar of the Creative Crash Committee since I translated speed into carnage so well. God, the races (parties) were soooo fun! I rode trail so much I had trench foot lol
With all that said, give me one of them nice Santa Cruz all-mountains, all day, every day, and eight times on Sunday over the old shitbags bikes I rode through the woods. You can keep those parts of the past. I'm sure they're still layin in the woods and mountains somewhere.
So epic Boys! Thanks for the memories!
The rough stuff fellowship is a UK mountain/ gravel bike club that started in the 50s. Well looking up there history
Wow, what great mini doc.
Well done!!
It’s been a long time since i watched a video start to finish. So cool!
SuperWonderful.. i was one of them but in italy in the '80 :-) loved
Ha...! Great to see Austin Weaver doing this....!
Videos like this make me love my 2018 trail bike.
Bloody amazing stuff,well enjoyed that.
That was amazing to watch all the best guys
Yeah baby!! I rode everywhere, CB, Moab, Mt Tam, parts in between, living in Santa Fe. Started late - 1980, first mtn. bike from Bianchi of all things. Riders came down from CB, one w/ home bent drop bars - the FIRST GRAVEL BIKE! is what they call it today, I've been riding those bars, bent myself, Cinelli drops, since '84. Gosh don't want to sound like I'm bragging, I mean, it was the quiet rage, small little mtn bike festivals in CB and Moab, must have done 4-5 autumns of each in the '80s. Hallelujah - love that this video came to light - BUT MAN THERE IS JUST SO MUCH MORE TO THIS STORY (w/o the dramatization). Thanks a heap for makin' an old 74 yr old guy weep w/ joy and just soooooo many simple assed memories. Still have my Redline, their first mtn bike, 1984?, w/ those bent Cinelli drops, my city bike, still in Santa Fe. And still riding in funky shorts and a t-shirt.
Hey Todd- you are not the only 74yo still riding. I escaped the DC area in 99 and moved to Moab. As my truck’s license plate says “RIDE365”.
@@tedecker3792 O Ted, good for you, what a brilliant move. I'm embarrassed to admit I'm barely riding at all lately, spoiled by my '92 airhead BMW R100GS, BUT still on 2 wheels, LOL. We are both still living in Gawd's wild adventure country, and keeping our spirited youthfulness. Thanks for the comment.....
@@1young-geezer sold my last dirt bike two years ago to help pay for a hip replacement, but will probably get another, electric start this time!
Super cool and inspiring vedio! I love those old bikes, sure would like to find one!
Thank you!!
This was happening in the UK in the 60s, an old guy in my cycling club told stories of fat tyre bikes being ridden off road on the island of Jersey.
Love it ❤❤❤❤❤ thanks for this short documentary really inspiring!!
In the mid 70s my friends and I were building 20" versions of these klunkers. We called them swamp racers and rode them on wetland paths that we made and maintained near my Minneapolis home. In the early 80s my best friends cousin moved here from California with a Mongoose BMX bike, it was so different from our bikes that it could have been brought in by a spaceship!
I biked in the 70s in New Orleans with my klunker BMX made from used parts from Mr Henry's garage. I raced on the road from 82-2012 and now have a fancy klunker to take me all over Europe.
Such an amazing short film!!
I just got a mountain bike been loving every second of it
Amazing video and incredible magazine! Always look forward to getting new mag.... Thanks
Fantastic work.
Thank you.
Crested Butte is such an amazing town. The 401 Trail is number 1 on my list of favorite rides ever.
Thanks for the video. I loved it.
Well done folks....
Make this into a movie. So much fun
This was awesome!!!
Loved this
That was great!
Congrats on a awesome piece!
THIS IS such a beautiful story. i thank you for that energy .that is in me , that is us , that is then and now. and the betweens. that was from you. truly , u just need to be the right one for the task - not the best one in a faux-natural emcompassed society and culture. . truly.... just being a being is always the right choice in a flow of the concsiouness. i thank all dudes n dudettes in the forest finding this root that sets it for us all - its a moment for me too !!!! om shanti and long live the right way of us understading pachamama!
Tremendous video!