Absolutely amazing film. Art, portraying art. Thank you so much for sharing this with the world! What a blessing to have this documented in such a beautiful way!
Josh, this is so beautiful, it actually hurts. It hurts that we can´t turn back time, be there, join that vibe. Thanks so much for showing the world! What a woman! Can´t wait for the book! Peace!
Dude, my only disappointment is I can only hit that like button once. Kudos for an excellent film. The direction and editing are perfect. I'm going to go share this everywhere I can.
I guess RUclips isn’t completely broken, that it suggested this to me on the day that it got uploaded. It was a fantastic behind the scenes of mountain biking’s birth! It is high time for Wende to receive credit for capturing these early images and to hear her recount the evolutionary developments of a sport and lifestyle we still love today!
Wende has been my friend for nearly 50 years, and we shared many cycling adventures, Her photos are featured in my book, Fat Tire Flyer: Repack and the Birth of Mountain Biking.
you all were very fortunate to happen to together and create all this, and to be so blessed as to have Wende be in the group and be a true shutterbug and have all this documentation is just shy of a miracle!
Bought my first mountain bike in September of 86. A few weeks later I went to the Butte for the fat tire festival and rode up to Pearl pass. Stopped at the top for a smoke break with Charlie Kelley before turning around and heading back to town. About half the group kept on to Aspen. Moved to Moab in 99 and still riding at 77yo.
that was an absolutely beautiful thing you all did right here. never been prouder to read the credits at the end of a film! I'm just beaming right now, thanks for all of this ❤
I guess I’m biased but I have to say, this documentary is a beautiful work of art. Wende preserved mountain bike history with her artistry and you preserved herstory with this amazing documentary. Thank you!!!
In '74 I was 21 and too busy with college in the Midwest to pay attention to mountain bikes. It wasn't until Trek came out with their first bikes that I got to even ride one.
Truly impressive documentary-thank you for shining a well-deserved spotlight on Wende. She absolutely deserves our admiration/gratitude for creating such a rich and invaluable record of early mountain biking history.
Thank you Wende for doing what you do and doing what you did. Thanks John and Cari for making this story possible. Thanks Josh and Chris for brining the creative and collaboration. Thanks to everyone in this film for making what we all love, friends and bikes on a distant mountain, possible.
This was actually happening in North Wales, (U.K) way back in 1974. We were ditching our Choppers and Raleigh Racers for cheap £10 second hand, dumped, old single speeds and heavy duty ex post office bikes. Forks were straightened, Cow horn handlebars with welded cross bars or old trials bike bars added, some with 26" front wheels and 24" rears, with centre pull brakes and the odd 5 speed. By 1975, regular Saturday, time trials were run, up in Colwyn Heights. The trails ridden on Cefn yr Ogof from 1976, are still in use today!
Prior to this video I had never heard of Wende and I am truly grateful for this film bringing her and the gang to life and giving context to one of the greatest pleasures in my 68 year old life. I still mountain bike to this day and this was a heartwarming meaningful moment. Thank you!
same here , same age and i am lucky to have many trails in the woods in my area, also had no idea where the scene originated , hearing the bike was in the Smithsonian is monumental
That was nothing but epic! Thank you for documenting this in such a beautiful way, and a lot of love to Wende for shaping the life of so many of us all over the world.
This is beautiful stuff folks, thanks for taking the time to put this together. Wende's closing thought is exactly what I hope everyone gets to experience at some point as it's exactly how I feel on a bike.
One of the best documentaries I've seen in recent years! A digital shrine to the community that influenced anyone who has found joy in mountain biking.
UNBELIEVABLY GOOD! All the feels! Thank you to these pioneers for giving us this thing we all love...bikes on dirt! I'm proud to have carried on the legacy in a small way by co-founding a NICA team in my area and helping grow the sport even more. Literally none of this comes to pass without these folks stumbling across a joyful activity and pursuing it. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
Great film, respect to Wende and the Marin crew. I'm a bit younger than these guys but we were building "Trackers" as teenagers in the UK and racing them downhill through the local woods on a Sunday afternoon, MX style start and flat out down the trail. We rode them to school during the week and did paper rounds on them too! There's a lot of similarities between the USA Klunkers and our Trackers! Strong steel frames, wide mx bars, fork strengtheners, biggest block tread tyres we could find. Clothing: Jeans and t-shirts, trainers in summer and DM boots in winter with army surplus jacket, no helmets. My guess is kids were building and racing bikes offroad all over and had been for decades. I once met a guy from the north of Scotland who built "scrambler bikes" as he called them with his mates before MTB, the same kind of era as we were building trackers. Our trackers got put to one side once purpose built Mountain bikes made it here. I honestly can't remember what happened to mine, it probably got left in my folks shed and eventually got scrapped..... 😞 Still got my 85 Stumpjumper though. I still ride a modified hardtail MTB on cross country trails weekly and off-road bikepack in the summer. Klunkers,Trackers,Scramblers and Mountainbikes for life! 👍
Exactly my experience too. In the early '70's in Yorkshire we built what we called tracker bikes from whatever old bikes we had, the defining feature I think were the 'cow horn' handlebars, and we rode them around the fields, old allotments and waste ground. I was so chuffed to get a real mountain bike in the late '80's. Kona Cindercone. Still riding mtbs today.
@@rickappleton4603 I've been collecting up bits of old bikes for about 2 years, with the plan to build a replica of the last tracker I had back in the day. Plan is to exhibit it at local steam fairs with my other old bike. I reckon it will be a bit of a talking point among blokes of a certain age who built them up as well .......
Thank you for this remarkable report on the genesis of MTB. A fair and honest tribute to the role played by Wende! An endearing and delightful person! ❤ Ten years later, the mountain bike wave hit Europe. I watched this film with great emotion.... Thank you
Well, that was fantastic! What a chronicle of Wende Cragg's photo-journey through the birth and infancy of mountain biking! She was quite the rider as well as accomplished photographer. I can only hope her legacy will encourage other young women and girls to get in the saddle and ride! Kinda cool that my wife, also a photographer, was introduced to mountain biking, which became her favorite sport. I'll be sure she gets the chance to watch this. Many many thanks from another 70's California kid.
Anytime I see images of those times or read about them or catch a great video, it inspires me to think on my next bicycle adventure. I love the things she was saying about the spirit of the times and of the activity without all the extra stuff. A great human being and an excellent film!
I started mountain biking in 1989 and it's been the one aspect of my life that has always brought me happiness and health. I'm a big fan of the Clunkers movie and this movie fills in all the blanks by showing it through the lens of the one person who loved photography as much as biking. WELL DONE ! This video is very inspiring. From all of us riding today and from the young future riders yet to come, we thank you for starting something so meaningful for so many people. Getting this moment of history on film and in pictures kept it alive and made it possible for the world to see that biking can be more than dodging cars on the road. I know this comment is long but this video as well as the clunkers movie always stirs up lots of emotion. Thanks again. I can't wait to ride again tomorrow.
WHAT AN ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT DOCU FILM... When life on earth was soooo much more fun and authentic. The Mountain Bike, born to connect us to nature in an eccological way. The only vehicle we really ever needed to get us to the mountain top, and to do it with our own strength just so we could see the beauty of the world from up top. 🙂 Thanks for sharing this video.
This is a service to the history of mountain biking. Thanks to everyone involved I loved watching this on the big screen but I'm glad everyone gets to enjoy it now.
This pops up today, on it's release, never heard of it but I have known of Wendy and all her pictures for a long time. Had to watch it ASAP. what a great documentary and it's always great to see more of those pictures. They are so cool to see and wonder but it must be something else to have been there and get that magic trip back just by looking at them. Thanks again.
I went to see this at a screening in LA. Thank you Wende for such fantastic images of the birth of the sport! It’s wonderful that you documented it all, and now we have this fantastic documentary about your work!
Thank you so much for this story! Wende is indeed the poet laureate of MTB and our patron goddess. Our industries her a lifetime of gratitude and thanks. ❤❤
I watched this just hours after it was posted. I heard of Wende and the Marin based MTB movement. I have only been into MTB for a year or so, however I was born and raised in Marin County. This was such moving documentary. Wende, WOW!! Thank you for this. I am going to post this on 1 of the Face book groups that I belong to.
What an amazing story. The photo record is priceless. Wende, you are a rock star. Over the years, I had heard bits and pieces and had a vision in my minds eye of what it must have been like at the beginning. Well, this film has brought it all to life. Well done!
great documentary. beautiful to see all the people that originated our so beloved sport, and the sport that keep so many of us alive every day, that give us so much in this life and makes our life fun and full of friends. Thank you all for being together at that point in time and generating all of this. THANKS, and this includes you HAns, and so many other guys that were "influencers" of that time, making the sport available for all of us in the 80's and 90's.
FANTASTIC! I was so very fortunate to live in Gunnison in 1984 and race the Fat Tire Week xc race at Crested Butte and then do the Pearl Pass ride that fall on my Trek 890 which was a hybrid ahead of its time. It turned me on to mountain biking forever, and a career in and around the industry for many years! Thank you Wende for the amazing documentation!
Thank you @theradavist666 What an amazing production! The images, the narration, cinematography, editing and the overall pacing were fantastic. Hooked me right in and took me on a journey through the most influential individuals and imagery of the Repack Era of mountain biking. A beautiful documentary in every way.
Thank you so much for this film, it is a treasure, just as Wende is. Our sport would not be where it is today without her amazing and invaluable contributions.
I have a copy of Klunkerz, (which I got by mailing Billy Savage a check and he mailed me back the DVD), but I think this is an even better documentary. Wende Cragg was a bit player in that one. It's nice to see her get the recognition she deserves!
Thank you Wende for your love for photography and bikes. Your pics will be for the next generations. You are amazing! And the film is so great! Congrats to the staff and director! 🙏
Thank you Wende. Your vision and creative persona quantify the origin of a lifestyle. You and your endeavors helped normal people see the reality that surrounds them. You epitomize the unrecognized reality of the moment. You captured the creation of a world changing force in the form of fond memories. You are beautiful in all your endeavors. Thank you for sharing this with us. LYB - M
Amazing, started riding a mountain bike about 86, South Wales in the U.K. me and a friend, we used to have the P**s taken out of us for riding such weird bikes, but they used to take us up the mountains locally to us, now locally it’s all mountain e-bikes, still riding at 66 Thorn Nomad, Touring Bike still gets me into the wild. Also my other passion is photography, still take film on occasions with my Nikons, you have to admit the colours on Wende’s slides are amazing after all these years
Wende craft with the photos gave us the mountain bike. Fisher breeze. All the people who did the repack. LEGENDS. THANK ALL OF YOU FOR GIVING ME MY PASSION
An excellent documentary about amazing people getting together to have fun and change the world. Wende's great pics and films are a treasure and they all capture the fun they had! The Klunkerz movie, Charlile Kelly's excellent book, and now this!
I can't tell you how happy seeing this made me. Thank you all so much. Wende's photography is perhaps the most important part of the whole mountain biking story. What a joy to be able to see it all through her eyes. Amazing.
What a wonderful story, and such a fantastic film. Thanks so much (and SO many Adidas!). For an older photographer, Wende gets bonus points for shooting on slide film. Great advantages to the final product, but correct exposure is more difficult to achieve than on the digital cameras of today.
I spent ten years in Crested Butte, from '97 to '07. Great seeing all those old photos from way before my time even. Id never heard of Wendy Cragg before.
Truly amazing, so cool... Imagine being part of that gang. Wende is incredible, you could listen to her stories for days.. Great video thank you The Radavist ❤
It’s so great to see so many I rode with during my too brief time in Marin. I need to find all the photos I made out there and on my one trip to Crested Butte for the 7th annual. Epic times. Truly.❤
Fantastic, well done to everyone involved, it's good to know where it all started and what continues to drag us out into the worst of the UK winters in mud, rain and wind and still enjoy the beauty of nature and the adrenaline associated with MTB, thank you for this my American cousins!
I wanted to present another angle to the story without it being so macho. It wasn’t all about speeding competition and trying to outdo the other guy. If you’ve ever ridden in the woods on a mountain bike and you didn’t stop the smell the rose hips you’re missing the whole point. I completely agree Wende❤ The ability to get out and have a life highlight by way of your own two legs your self or with friends to places most don’t get to see and have a blast… it’s just wonderful. Great film thanks. I am excited to see the publication of Wende’s work.
PLEASE LIKE AND SUBSCRIBE. :-) We didn't want to add that to the film but we're adding it here.
Great documentary ! Thanks so much🛐
Absolutely amazing film. Art, portraying art. Thank you so much for sharing this with the world! What a blessing to have this documented in such a beautiful way!
Josh, this is so beautiful, it actually hurts. It hurts that we can´t turn back time, be there, join that vibe. Thanks so much for showing the world! What a woman! Can´t wait for the book! Peace!
Thanks so much for making this film. I so enjoyed it. It really captures the basic love of mountain biking that so many of us enjoy.
Dude, my only disappointment is I can only hit that like button once. Kudos for an excellent film. The direction and editing are perfect. I'm going to go share this everywhere I can.
The best 59 minutes and 07 seconds I have had watching a RUclips video in a long time.
Look at all these legends still sharp and looking great well into their 70s and 80s. Biking is the fountain of youth, folks
It really is!
I guess RUclips isn’t completely broken, that it suggested this to me on the day that it got uploaded. It was a fantastic behind the scenes of mountain biking’s birth!
It is high time for Wende to receive credit for capturing these early images and to hear her recount the evolutionary developments of a sport and lifestyle we still love today!
Amen!
Wende has been my friend for nearly 50 years, and we shared many cycling adventures, Her photos are featured in my book, Fat Tire Flyer: Repack and the Birth of Mountain Biking.
you all were very fortunate to happen to together and create all this, and to be so blessed as to have Wende be in the group and be a true shutterbug and have all this documentation is just shy of a miracle!
Bought my first mountain bike in September of 86. A few weeks later I went to the Butte for the fat tire festival and rode up to Pearl pass. Stopped at the top for a smoke break with Charlie Kelley before turning around and heading back to town. About half the group kept on to Aspen. Moved to Moab in 99 and still riding at 77yo.
I need to find this book! Can you get links into the summary? Her pics are amazing!
@@firsthippy Google fat tire flyer
@@firsthippy Google "Fat Tire Flyer."
that was an absolutely beautiful thing you all did right here. never been prouder to read the credits at the end of a film! I'm just beaming right now, thanks for all of this ❤
You’re making me verklempt 🥲
I guess I’m biased but I have to say, this documentary is a beautiful work of art. Wende preserved mountain bike history with her artistry and you preserved herstory with this amazing documentary. Thank you!!!
To anyone who ever passes through Marin county, the museum of mountain biking is a must see. I had the pleasure of meeting Joe Breeze there in 2018
Highly recommended! Great folks over there.
In '74 I was 21 and too busy with college in the Midwest to pay attention to mountain bikes. It wasn't until Trek came out with their first bikes that I got to even ride one.
Truly impressive documentary-thank you for shining a well-deserved spotlight on Wende. She absolutely deserves our admiration/gratitude for creating such a rich and invaluable record of early mountain biking history.
She is the absolute best.
Thank you Wende for doing what you do and doing what you did. Thanks John and Cari for making this story possible. Thanks Josh and Chris for brining the creative and collaboration. Thanks to everyone in this film for making what we all love, friends and bikes on a distant mountain, possible.
You're a legend, Justin!
Thank you, Justin, for asking the hard questions to Howie in the film! haha. Love ya, bud!
This was actually happening in North Wales, (U.K) way back in 1974.
We were ditching our Choppers and Raleigh Racers for cheap £10 second hand, dumped, old single speeds and heavy duty ex post office bikes.
Forks were straightened, Cow horn handlebars with welded cross bars or old trials bike bars added, some with 26" front wheels and 24" rears, with centre pull brakes and the odd 5 speed.
By 1975, regular Saturday, time trials were run, up in Colwyn Heights.
The trails ridden on Cefn yr Ogof from 1976, are still in use today!
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@@AlanWilliams-ql6dg Same man! only a little later in the west country.
Did not expect this to be one of the best things I’ve watched all year. Amazing and inspiring, thank you.
That was bloody fantastic! Thanks for making and sharing. Gratitude from across the pond 🇬🇧
Prior to this video I had never heard of Wende and I am truly grateful for this film bringing her and the gang to life and giving context to one of the greatest pleasures in my 68 year old life. I still mountain bike to this day and this was a heartwarming meaningful moment. Thank you!
same here , same age and i am lucky to have many trails in the woods in my area, also had no idea where the scene originated , hearing the bike was in the Smithsonian is monumental
That was amazing. The whole team killed it!
Cheers, Ryan!
That was nothing but epic! Thank you for documenting this in such a beautiful way, and a lot of love to Wende for shaping the life of so many of us all over the world.
This is beautiful stuff folks, thanks for taking the time to put this together. Wende's closing thought is exactly what I hope everyone gets to experience at some point as it's exactly how I feel on a bike.
One of the best documentaries I've seen in recent years! A digital shrine to the community that influenced anyone who has found joy in mountain biking.
UNBELIEVABLY GOOD! All the feels! Thank you to these pioneers for giving us this thing we all love...bikes on dirt! I'm proud to have carried on the legacy in a small way by co-founding a NICA team in my area and helping grow the sport even more. Literally none of this comes to pass without these folks stumbling across a joyful activity and pursuing it. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
This is a lovely and deserved tribute to a beautiful, strong and talented woman. Bravo, Wende.
Wonderful. Truly wonderful. It really captures the essence of why I fell in love with mountain biking. It brought a tear to my eye.
Awesome history. I’ve been blessed to have been mountain biking for 40 years now, thanks to these pioneers.
Great film, respect to Wende and the Marin crew. I'm a bit younger than these guys but we were building "Trackers" as teenagers in the UK and racing them downhill through the local woods on a Sunday afternoon, MX style start and flat out down the trail. We rode them to school during the week and did paper rounds on them too!
There's a lot of similarities between the USA Klunkers and our Trackers! Strong steel frames, wide mx bars, fork strengtheners, biggest block tread tyres we could find.
Clothing: Jeans and t-shirts, trainers in summer and DM boots in winter with army surplus jacket, no helmets.
My guess is kids were building and racing bikes offroad all over and had been for decades. I once met a guy from the north of Scotland who built "scrambler bikes" as he called them with his mates before MTB, the same kind of era as we were building trackers.
Our trackers got put to one side once purpose built Mountain bikes made it here. I honestly can't remember what happened to mine, it probably got left in my folks shed and eventually got scrapped..... 😞 Still got my 85 Stumpjumper though.
I still ride a modified hardtail MTB on cross country trails weekly and off-road bikepack in the summer.
Klunkers,Trackers,Scramblers and Mountainbikes for life! 👍
Exactly my experience too. In the early '70's in Yorkshire we built what we called tracker bikes from whatever old bikes we had, the defining feature I think were the 'cow horn' handlebars, and we rode them around the fields, old allotments and waste ground.
I was so chuffed to get a real mountain bike in the late '80's. Kona Cindercone. Still riding mtbs today.
@@rickappleton4603 I've been collecting up bits of old bikes for about 2 years, with the plan to build a replica of the last tracker I had back in the day.
Plan is to exhibit it at local steam fairs with my other old bike.
I reckon it will be a bit of a talking point among blokes of a certain age who built them up as well .......
Fantastic!!
Man, I got goosebumps from start to finish watching this one! So incredibly good!
Canonical material treated with the utmost respect. Loved it, well done Radavist team! 🙌
This is the best documentary I've ever watched in my life!
Perhaps we ought to step back and simplify this pastime we all enjoy. Great movie.
Thank you for this remarkable report on the genesis of MTB.
A fair and honest tribute to the role played by Wende!
An endearing and delightful person! ❤
Ten years later, the mountain bike wave hit Europe.
I watched this film with great emotion....
Thank you
Well, that was fantastic! What a chronicle of Wende Cragg's photo-journey through the birth and infancy of mountain biking! She was quite the rider as well as accomplished photographer. I can only hope her legacy will encourage other young women and girls to get in the saddle and ride! Kinda cool that my wife, also a photographer, was introduced to mountain biking, which became her favorite sport. I'll be sure she gets the chance to watch this.
Many many thanks from another 70's California kid.
Anytime I see images of those times or read about them or catch a great video, it inspires me to think on my next bicycle adventure. I love the things she was saying about the spirit of the times and of the activity without all the extra stuff. A great human being and an excellent film!
I started mountain biking in 1989 and it's been the one aspect of my life that has always brought me happiness and health. I'm a big fan of the Clunkers movie and this movie fills in all the blanks by showing it through the lens of the one person who loved photography as much as biking. WELL DONE ! This video is very inspiring. From all of us riding today and from the young future riders yet to come, we thank you for starting something so meaningful for so many people. Getting this moment of history on film and in pictures kept it alive and made it possible for the world to see that biking can be more than dodging cars on the road. I know this comment is long but this video as well as the clunkers movie always stirs up lots of emotion. Thanks again. I can't wait to ride again tomorrow.
This is awesome documentary! Cheers from Kharkiv, Ukraine!
WHAT AN ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT DOCU FILM... When life on earth was soooo much more fun and authentic. The Mountain Bike, born to connect us to nature in an eccological way. The only vehicle we really ever needed to get us to the mountain top, and to do it with our own strength just so we could see the beauty of the world from up top. 🙂 Thanks for sharing this video.
I paused this so many times it took me two and a half hours to get to the end
This is a service to the history of mountain biking. Thanks to everyone involved I loved watching this on the big screen but I'm glad everyone gets to enjoy it now.
This pops up today, on it's release, never heard of it but I have known of Wendy and all her pictures for a long time. Had to watch it ASAP. what a great documentary and it's always great to see more of those pictures. They are so cool to see and wonder but it must be something else to have been there and get that magic trip back just by looking at them. Thanks again.
Massive congrats and basically... thank you! So glad that this is all documented.
Just started watching but this is rad, John! Awesome work.
This is all Josh and Justin! Stoked to have the opportunity to facilitate this film. Thanks for watching!
I went to see this at a screening in LA. Thank you Wende for such fantastic images of the birth of the sport! It’s wonderful that you documented it all, and now we have this fantastic documentary about your work!
Thanks again for making this and glad to catch this in LA. Definitely on a Smithsonian level for production and historical significance.
Sweet journey!- Wende is so warm and unpretentious. Oh yeah all forms of bike riding are magic! so Magic!
Thank you so much for this story! Wende is indeed the poet laureate of MTB and our patron goddess. Our industries her a lifetime of gratitude and thanks.
❤❤
I watched this just hours after it was posted. I heard of Wende and the Marin based MTB movement. I have only been into MTB for a year or so, however I was born and raised in Marin County. This was such moving documentary. Wende, WOW!! Thank you for this. I am going to post this on 1 of the Face book groups that I belong to.
What an amazing story. The photo record is priceless. Wende, you are a rock star. Over the years, I had heard bits and pieces and had a vision in my minds eye of what it must have been like at the beginning. Well, this film has brought it all to life. Well done!
So good, credits given where credits were due. Thanks Wende for capturing this era
great documentary. beautiful to see all the people that originated our so beloved sport, and the sport that keep so many of us alive every day, that give us so much in this life and makes our life fun and full of friends. Thank you all for being together at that point in time and generating all of this. THANKS, and this includes you HAns, and so many other guys that were "influencers" of that time, making the sport available for all of us in the 80's and 90's.
Thank you very much for this film and your work
FANTASTIC! I was so very fortunate to live in Gunnison in 1984 and race the Fat Tire Week xc race at Crested Butte and then do the Pearl Pass ride that fall on my Trek 890 which was a hybrid ahead of its time. It turned me on to mountain biking forever, and a career in and around the industry for many years! Thank you Wende for the amazing documentation!
This is a masterpiece. What an amazing woman and what a beautiful community.
Thank you @theradavist666 What an amazing production! The images, the narration, cinematography, editing and the overall pacing were fantastic. Hooked me right in and took me on a journey through the most influential individuals and imagery of the Repack Era of mountain biking. A beautiful documentary in every way.
Thank you so much for this film, it is a treasure, just as Wende is. Our sport would not be where it is today without her amazing and invaluable contributions.
Caught the Toronto showing last month, really inspiring!
I have a copy of Klunkerz, (which I got by mailing Billy Savage a check and he mailed me back the DVD), but I think this is an even better documentary. Wende Cragg was a bit player in that one. It's nice to see her get the recognition she deserves!
Thank you Wende for your love for photography and bikes. Your pics will be for the next generations. You are amazing! And the film is so great! Congrats to the staff and director! 🙏
Awesome story.
Beautifully created!
Thank you
Thank you Wende. Your vision and creative persona quantify the origin of a lifestyle. You and your endeavors helped normal people see the reality that surrounds them. You epitomize the unrecognized reality of the moment. You captured the creation of a world changing force in the form of fond memories. You are beautiful in all your endeavors. Thank you for sharing this with us. LYB - M
Amazing, started riding a mountain bike about 86, South Wales in the U.K. me and a friend, we used to have the P**s taken out of us for riding such weird bikes, but they used to take us up the mountains locally to us, now locally it’s all mountain e-bikes, still riding at 66 Thorn Nomad, Touring Bike still gets me into the wild. Also my other passion is photography, still take film on occasions with my Nikons, you have to admit the colours on Wende’s slides are amazing after all these years
One of THE best documentaries I’ve ever seen. Well done.
Wende craft with the photos gave us the mountain bike. Fisher breeze. All the people who did the repack. LEGENDS. THANK ALL OF YOU FOR GIVING ME MY PASSION
An excellent documentary about amazing people getting together to have fun and change the world. Wende's great pics and films are a treasure and they all capture the fun they had! The Klunkerz movie, Charlile Kelly's excellent book, and now this!
sooo good, thank you for making this happen and thank you Wende for your efforts in documenting history!
VERY, VERY INSPIRATIONAL! This film is true recognition for Wende's contribution to MTBing, globally👋👋👋
That was a very good watch! Thanks!
How to turn a 3 hour ride into 4 hours, stop to take photos.
That extra hour will last a lifetime.
- Great video, thank you!
tremendous work, everyone! this is absolutely brilliant.
I can't tell you how happy seeing this made me. Thank you all so much. Wende's photography is perhaps the most important part of the whole mountain biking story. What a joy to be able to see it all through her eyes. Amazing.
Thank You! So rad to see this unseen early days action. Wende rocks!
wow great vid!! so well put together and great to see all the old bikes. thanks for making it!!
gary
@@gurkangurke526 hi gurkan :D
What a wonderful story, and such a fantastic film. Thanks so much (and SO many Adidas!). For an older photographer, Wende gets bonus points for shooting on slide film. Great advantages to the final product, but correct exposure is more difficult to achieve than on the digital cameras of today.
What a great time capsule. Such beautiful pictures and places.
Thank you sooo much for sharing this!
Absolutely beautiful and thank you so much for sharing this really important story and message. Thank you!
What an awesome documentary ! Clearly Wende was a huge part in sharing mountain biking with the world. Love live the klunker !
Rad AF--thank you, that was amazing. We owe it all to you!
Outstanding Movie...Thank you for doing it!!!
This is incredible. Bravo 👏🏼 👏🏼
It's finally here!
Literally smiling through this entire video!
Amazing! Thank you so very much.
Incredibly beautiful documentary
This is awesome!! I cut my teeth on Pine Mountain and Repack! ❤️❤️❤️ Thank you so much for this
thank you, this was a blast to watch, Wende you rock!
What a beautiful story! Thank you all for sharing this.
Thanks for this one. So glad I made some time to watch it tonight.
Thanks for sharing the history and this work of art
I spent ten years in Crested Butte, from '97 to '07.
Great seeing all those old photos from way before my time even. Id never heard of Wendy Cragg before.
Thanks for creating this amazing documentary!
Truly amazing, so cool... Imagine being part of that gang. Wende is incredible, you could listen to her stories for days..
Great video thank you The Radavist ❤
It’s so great to see so many I rode with during my too brief time in Marin. I need to find all the photos I made out there and on my one trip to Crested Butte for the 7th annual.
Epic times. Truly.❤
Everything about that exact time is fascinating
So good! Thank you Wende and crew!
Fantastic, well done to everyone involved, it's good to know where it all started and what continues to drag us out into the worst of the UK winters in mud, rain and wind and still enjoy the beauty of nature and the adrenaline associated with MTB, thank you for this my American cousins!
Bravo! Bravo to all the fathers of mountain biking in the movie! And especially Bravo Wende!
Truly epic, thank you for making and sharing this.
I can't give this enough likes !!!!
Simply amazing!! Thanks
This should be 4 hours long, It is great and reminds me of what we did as kids in the 70's.
Wonderful documentary. Thanks for sharing this relevant story so beautifully!
THAAAANKS!!! So beatiful!🤩
I wanted to present another angle to the story without it being so macho. It wasn’t all about speeding competition and trying to outdo the other guy. If you’ve ever ridden in the woods on a mountain bike and you didn’t stop the smell the rose hips you’re missing the whole point. I completely agree Wende❤ The ability to get out and have a life highlight by way of your own two legs your self or with friends to places most don’t get to see and have a blast… it’s just wonderful. Great film thanks. I am excited to see the publication of Wende’s work.