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Repack Rider Added a comment about video FULL FILM RELEASE Camera Corner: Wende Cragg Documents the Birth of Mountain Biking
12/16/2024 1:35pm
Wende has been my friend for over 50 years. We shared many bicycle adventures. Her photographs are essential to my definitive history of the sport of mountain biking.
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Repack Rider Started a new thread My book is out
10/28/2014 9:36am During the '70s my roommate Gary Fisher and I experimented with off-road bikes. Then we started racing downhill on our experimental bikes. Then we started selling them. Then mountain bikes took over the cycling world. The story is a lot longer than that, and there are a lot of photos. So I wrote the book. This is not something I...
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Repack Rider Added a comment about photo original_Screen_Shot_2014_01_09_at_12.35.01_PM.jpg
3/19/2014 6:23pm
Just came across this, couple of months late. I put this race on, and I'm the guy with a ponytail and the bicycle cap being interviewed, That was a great day for me, and it was the first national exposure of this new type of fun. Velopress will be publishing my book about all this in the fall. http://velopress.com/books/fat-tire-flyer/ You can check out my website also: http://sonic.net/~ckelly/Seekay/mtbwelcome.htm
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Repack Rider Added a reply to Post your ride!
5/12/2010 3:29pm Current XC machine 
Previous XC machine 
Old skool XC machine. I let this guy hold my bike because he built it in 1983. 
Previous XC machine Old skool XC machine. I let this guy hold my bike because he built it in 1983.
Repack Rider Added a reply to History Lesson: Kamikaze
5/12/2010 8:29am The first Kamikaze race was in 1985, and since the only previous downhill races were the ones I had put on at Repack, the promoter called me to help run the event. I acted as the starting timer, and the original "Repack" clocks were the official time pieces.
