MTB HAll of Fame moves to Fairfax, CA
- Thread starter Repack Rider
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Paul Dianno's magic was instantly cancelled out by teh "777" on the car, tho.
A guy went to Tiburon and uses that experience to dis Fairfax, as though the two places had any similarity. His loss.
Meanwhile, every weekend thousands of cyclists of both road and off-road persuasion show up in Fairfax. I don't know where they come from, but they arrive and spend money and make the town very happy. Now they will have yet another reason to come here and another establishment where they can spend their money supporting cycling.
The town is better off without Downer Deb hanging around and kvetching about how bad the place is because...Tiburon. Can't you just see some nut with a sandwich sign ranting to every two wheeler that passes, "Stop smiling and laughing! You're not having fun! Tiburon it only ten miles away!"
And another thing... The guy who wrote that probably spent multiple thousands of bucks on his bike(s). I can't afford that kind of money for bikes, and if I wasn't sponsored for my machinery, I would probably have to take up basketball instead.
We were SO excited for her too. She's just plain AWESOME!
Did learn your accounting at Enron?
I guess you like caviar, but for the rest of us $1,000 is a lot of food. You could probably get 75 real meals out of that. Are you planning on staying for a month? $1250 for flying? Do you live in Alaska? I just flew from SFO to Indy for ~$500. Tolls/Parking tickets = $500? I guess you plan on leaving your car parked in an intersection?
Anyway, flying to SF is not all that much more expensive than most other major cities. Maybe a little more, but certainly not extravagantly more unless you like to live it up big time.
Will you stop using that fvcking word? It's annoying me. Mostly beause I don't know how to pronounce it.
You're whinging about kvetching...
All this kvetching has motivated me to point out that I have hella respec for all the old skool mtbers like Repack and his homies...I would just rather ride with them (Or behind them...) then look at pictures and dusty old kit from the old days. I just dont do museums or halls of fame...not my thing. Knowmsayin dawg?
before or after the fashion show?
Look at it from my perspective. I have the definitive library documenting the most important developments in cycling of the 20th Century. I have an incredible collection of souvenirs. I can hoard this stuff and admire my collection of file cabinets (Gee, look how many there are!) or I can find a way to make this stuff available to others. It doesn't bother me that some don't care to see it, but I want it available to those who do.
I am digging it, and appreciate what you are doing...all I am saying is that I am not into it...to each his own as they say.
i'm gonna start the mtb hall of shame.
Gonna tap JBPs neon collection?
he will be exhibited next to biker fox
Just include something about hot women, artisanal beer and bacon at the hall of fame and there will 100% back up from the Lounge.
At least a special edition seems likes a good idea 
Who is your first nominee?
lopes. i'm going to get a wax statue of him, and his display will be nothing but t-shirts
Everyone who claims to have invented riding bikes on dirt.
I would induct DN. He basically invented the modern Mountain bike. He was that cool.
brad muthafvckin hodges!
Well okay, I would for that too...Nicki Gudex too.i'd visit if the entire museum was devoted to Paola
Do we get a special Monkey™ wing?
Keep in mind that Gary Fisher would be part of that package.i'd visit if the entire museum was devoted to Paola
Fisher is an Italian transgender?
If not, he sure as hell dresses like one.Fisher is an Italian transgender?
It would be hard to find a more appropriate town for the HoF. This Sunday in Fairfax the ribbon will be cut for the "Repack" monument. How many towns would have a public monument dedicated to the activities of a bunch of hippie bike bums?
Uhhh... Crested Butte, maybe?
ledges.....skaters love ledges.It would be hard to find a more appropriate town for the HoF. This Sunday in Fairfax the ribbon will be cut for the "Repack" monument. How many towns would have a public monument dedicated to the activities of a bunch of hippie bike bums?
Back in '78 five of us from Marin went there and showed them our new type of bikes. Crested Butte became a big mountain bike town, thanks to people from Marin showing the locals the way.Uhhh... Crested Butte, maybe?
The Crested Butte HoF was embarrassingly small and unsupported by the town. Fairfax is all over the HoF with the city officials taking a big role in promoting the sport. The new facility is many times the size of the CB version.
Thousands of cyclists visit Fairfax every weekend, which makes the HoF available to many more people there than it was in CB.
I don't disagree. I've been going to Crested Butte since 1982-ish and never visited the HoF. I always found there were *way* too many distractions in CB to go check it out.
don't be hogging up the white mans air....
Of course there is an unbroken chain of events leading from them to the modern sport.
Not.
People rode bikes on dirt for a long time before there was a sport called mountain biking.