MTB HAll of Fame moves to Fairfax, CA
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Ok, then that would be the RSF (established 1955) if you want oldest with unbroken chain. Off to the UK you go...
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well he comes with pretty decent drugs
so you admit you're an attention whore?
This is turning into a MTB version of the East coast v. West coast rap wars...
"Yo dawg, CB be where is at, fo shizzle..."
"Fo rizzle? Cali be happening if you be on dirt yo..."
"Sh!t, best be watchin what you be saying, I will bust a CO2 cartiridge on yo a$$!"
"5 inches fo life, SoCo keeping it real!"
"Thats what you sister sayz..."
"Yo man, I put the GUN in Gunnison..."
"Yo dawg, CB be where is at, fo shizzle..."
"Fo rizzle? Cali be happening if you be on dirt yo..."
"Sh!t, best be watchin what you be saying, I will bust a CO2 cartiridge on yo a$$!"
"5 inches fo life, SoCo keeping it real!"
"Thats what you sister sayz..."
"Yo man, I put the GUN in Gunnison..."
I'm familiar with the RSF
Gary Fisher and I were members of the Rough-Stuff Fellowship; we were two of the three RSF members in NorCal (the third was Holland Jones). The club newsletter published my article about the Crested Butte to Aspen ride.
The RSF members did not ride fat tire bikes. They didn't care for downhill. They liked wide, level equestrian paths.
But other than that, they were just like us.
The closest England came to "inventing" a mountain bike was Geoff Apps and his "Highpath" cycles.
Geoff did and he beat Gary Fisher to 29er fad too.
Bill Brasky invented the mountain bike after he fathered what would eventually become the 1972 miami dolphins
Where does Al Gore fit into this?
I'm grateful to all those who made our sport possible on whatever level they participated.
I'm grateful to all those who made our sport possible on whatever level they participated.
if it weren't for al gore, we would have nowhere to talk sh*t about bikes, riders, races, other than real life
What is this "real life" of which you speak? I exist only on the interweb...
We won't abduct the french in the MTB hall of fame, 29er belongs in the hall of fame. Yall must be underpaid 26" wheel riders. With $500 hitch hiking wherever this place is from NJ might be a snap and a clap. We all know the 29er was built first on the east coast, now you do. East coast wins, no matter whatever city you move the hall of fame to it is far far away. And yall to trust airplanes must be crazy, those machines can drop from the sky any minute. 29er still gets east coast award because it was closer to the east coast then the other coast. Finland is right over the creek from Maine if you had a map you'd know.
they clearly attended the specialized school of adding unnecessary chain and seat stays
Nothing says non conformist status quo challenging rebel like incorporating and selling out to Trek.
Go read Geoff's entry on Wikipedia. You will see the record of collaboration between him and MountainBikes. He used 650-B because it was all they had in England. We used 26" because it was all we had.
You can make a bike in a garage. You can't make a rim and a tire in one, so you use what you can find.
Joe is giving me one of those in exchange for the use of my trademarked race name.
Geoff also used 29ers back then too. Wheelsize doesn't determine bike type though, though with poor selection in tires and/or rims it slows adoption by users then just as it has now. Maxxis just started selling some nice enduro/gravity oriented 29" tires in 2013 over 30 years after the 29" MTB was invented.
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Well Specialized did introduce the first mass-produced mountain bike....or so they claim.they clearly attended the specialized school of adding unnecessary chain and seat stays
Here is an update on the Marin Museum of Bicycling.
Bitter guy with no known contributions to the sport complains because the people who contributed most of the collection in the MTB HoF have raised the money, found a building, and done the work to bring their stuff back where it came from and make it accessible to millions of people.
For a place that "sucks for mountain biking," you can't find a parking spot on a weekend because of the hundreds of mountain bikers who show up, ride, and spend lots of money. And now the town wants to build MORE stuff that bicyclists might enjoy and give them a reason to spend more money.
Communism, for sure.
I invite Mr. A.S.S. to open his own museum in a more "appropriate" location, where he can display his pathetic collection of bicycling souvenirs dating back to 1993, and see who comes to visit it. It's a free country.
Ripping off the black veterans: http://www.highonadventure.com/Hoa97aug/Montana/montana.htm
The home of MTB is the Ft. Missoula Museum...
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i think we may have each just poopdecked the same thread.
Fortunately, nobody cares what you think.
Wrong. Maybe The Oatmeal can make cartoon to go with ASS article on Marin like this:
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/columbus_day
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ahh this has turned into a classic lounge thread of flying monkey poo with our most bombastic and pedantic poster jumping into the feces......
Help me out here. Is there some reasonable objection to a bunch of people spending their own time and money to collect and display objects that may be of interest to many cyclists? In a place that is visited by tens of thousands of bicyclists every year, where the economy revolves around bicycles? The only town I know of with a public monument to mountain biking?
Nobody makes anyone pay attention to stuff they don't care about, nobody makes you come to Fairfax. Apparently it is important for people to let me know ad nauseum how little they care about people who are so passionate about bikes that they are working on a museum of bicycling, and how the riders of Marin ripped off a bunch of guys they had never heard of who lived a hundred years ago.
If you don't care, leave it alone. Let it go. Deep breathe. Meditate. Read another thread. It's a free country.
I see a lot of Black mountain bikers. You must not live near me.
All my employees are Black, and I gave one of them one of my bikes, a F/S Specialized. He's pretty good, can ride a wheelie for miles, but like a lot of people new to it he doesn't much care for clipless, especially on the trails. Not something he's used to. He's amazingly tough, can ride up the steepest trails on flat pedals, kicks my ass, but of course he's 35 years younger.
I don't think anyone is hating on your friends and the Museum. I hope things work out well for you and your friends Bikes are cool in any way, shape, or form.
When I was young and getting into cycling, I read every magazine I could find and I read about all these mythical Norcal rides. Many us ventured out to the West coast and tried to ride these mythical trails. But as magazines and companies do. Those trails really didn't exist except in the magazines. However a lot of us went home and built the trails we wanted to ride and bought bikes we wanted to ride. And Mountain biking grew to the sport we all love. Here, there, and everywhere. So maybe they did build it in the right spot. Congrats that's pretty cool.
When I was young and getting into cycling, I read every magazine I could find and I read about all these mythical Norcal rides. Many us ventured out to the West coast and tried to ride these mythical trails. But as magazines and companies do. Those trails really didn't exist except in the magazines. However a lot of us went home and built the trails we wanted to ride and bought bikes we wanted to ride. And Mountain biking grew to the sport we all love. Here, there, and everywhere. So maybe they did build it in the right spot. Congrats that's pretty cool.
Okay, who asked for the update?
Unless its raining in Durango, well....go f-in Mt. biking.
In Marin, that's harder to do.
So take everyone to the museum instead.
In Marin, that's harder to do.
So take everyone to the museum instead.
Where would we establish the butt-hurt hall of fame? We have a long list of qualified nominees in this and other threads. I'm going to suggest Alabama.