Audio Modern mountain biking was born on the trails of Mount Tamalpais in Marin County in the 1970s. We talk to some of the pioneers of the sport who are featured in a new documentary, “Klunkerz.”Host: Scott ShaferGuests:• Charlie Kelly, creator of the Repack races and founder of the first magazine devoted to mountain biking• […]
Billy Savage lived in the hills of Marin County, often pushing his 20″ BMX bike up the fire roads in the same area where local legends Tom Ritchey, Joe Breeze, Gary Fisher, Alan Bonds, Wende Cragg, and others created the sport of Mountain Biking. Stevie Wilde, one of the founders of Veloclub Tamalpais who helped […]
UC Davis Cultural Studies Professor Sarah McCullough, PhD, discusses the renegades of bike culture in a couple of previous American bike booms.
I suppose I should post some of my photos from the 2009 Sea Otter Classic and Expo. BMX is kind of fun to take pictures of. Ben Clough of CycleAware shows me the Torpedo vacuum insulated bottle that fits in a standard bicycle bottle cage. I think he told me it will be available for […]
NOTE: Watch for a contest this next week. The prize will be one of these leather toe clip sewing kits from “Swamp” in Tokyo. Jim G writes about his next LED bike light project. There’s a ton of LED lighting technology available now and Jim writes his thoughts on what he’ll with some of the […]