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 ===== Pre-History =====
-Long before the [[people:repack:start|Repack DH Race]] there were many pre-MTB bikes that would visually fit right into the timeline.   Most of these capable off-roaders didn't t evolve into the go-anywhere (especially downhill) focus of the Marin mountain bikes.  The final Marin efforts to re-invent the bike worked because they had:
+Long before the [[people:repack|Repack DH Race]] there were many pre-MTB bikes that would visually fit right into the timeline.   Most of these capable off-roaders didn't evolve into the go-anywhere (especially downhill) focus of the Marin mountain bikes.  The final Marin efforts to re-invent the bike worked because they had:
   * A decade of people Klunking on single speed cruisers through the Mt. Tam woods.
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   * An attitude of riding for fun and being unconventional.
-Other bicycles came close to MTB critical mass and deserve to be mentioned.
+Other bicycles came close to critical mass of MTB genesis and deserve to be mentioned.
+{{huret.jpg?160|Huret Duopar}}
+{{texas.jpg?200|Otis Guy's clunker}}
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+Secret ingredients for a decent off-roader: derailleur, knobby tires & cantilever brakes.
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+Huret Duopar Titanium rear derailleur: [[https://en.der-ritzler.de/products/huret-duopar-titanium-schaltwerk|der-ritzler]]
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+Tires & brakes:
+Otis Guy's Repack racer:  Uniroyal Nobby tires, fork truss, Schwinn cantilevers
+with motorcycle cables. [[https://www.mtbr.com/threads/coolest-interbike-bike-otis-guy%E2%80%99s-vintage-r
+epack-racer.1171306/|mtbr]]
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 ===== Cyclocross, 1902->today =====
-Racing road bikes in hilly & muddy terrain predates derailleurs and knobby tires by decades.  For example, the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_National_Cyclo-cross_Championships|French Cyclo-cross Championships]] have been held annually over 118 times since 1902.  Despite the obvious parallels, not much technology transfer between the two occured.  Mountain biking was rooted in 26" rims and borrowing early touring/tandem components, where cyclo-cross remained stuck with light weight road components, as much of each cyclocross event requires extensive running with the bike over one's shoulder.  And yet early mountain bikes often sported portage straps...
+Racing road bikes in hilly & muddy terrain predates derailleurs and knobby tires by decades.  For example, the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_National_Cyclo-cross_Championships|French Cyclocross Championships]] have been held annually over 118 times since 1902.  Despite the obvious parallels, not much technology transfer between the two occurred.  Mountain biking was rooted in 26" rims and borrowing early touring/tandem components, where cyclocross remained stuck with light weight road components, as much of each cyclocross event requires extensive running with the bike over one's shoulder.  And yet early mountain bikes often sported portage straps...
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 {{1923_champfr.jpg?400|1923 Le Championnat de France Cross Cyclo-pédestre}}
-Photo from Le Miroir Des Sports, 08 Mar 1923, of Le Championnat de France Cross Cyclo-pédestre, 04 Mar 1923.  Racers running down hill, using tubular slick tires with caliper brakes.
+Photo from Le Miroir Des Sports, Mar 1923, of Le Championnat de France Cross Cyclo-pédestre, 04 Mar 1923.  Racers running down hill, using tubular slick tires with caliper brakes.
 [[http://www.blackbirdsf.org/cx/2007_02.html|blackbirdsf]]
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 ===== Clunkers =====
-Clunkers((Or sometimes spelled Klunker with a "K."  Klunker first appears in print in Crested Butte in 1978.  The Repack group and local newspapers used "Clunker" from about 1976 to 1982 and gradually both words became interchangable.)) were the link from bikes to mountain bikes.
+Clunkers((Or sometimes spelled Klunker with a "K."  Klunker first appears in print in Crested Butte in 1978.  The Repack group and local newspapers used "Clunker" from about 1976 to 1982 and gradually both words became interchangeable.)) were the link from bikes to mountain bikes.
 The [[people:repack|Repack]] race started in 1976 with clunkers: converted cruisers with added gearing, coaster brakes and 26" knobby tires.
-The need to go faster and survive the 1300' Repack drop in less than five minutes created better frames, forks, brakes and gearing which became the MTB.  To be sure, the 70's clunkers were downhill worthy: seven of the top ten Repack times were on clunkers((These are from the twenty four offical Repack races, which mostly occured before mountain bikes became generally available.  In the past few years a very people have bested Gary Fisher's 4:22 record using fully suspended bikes.  See [[https://www.strava.com/segments/1129111|Strava Repack DH Historical]].))
+The need to go faster and survive the 1300' Repack drop in less than five minutes created better frames, forks, brakes and gearing which became the MTB.  To be sure, the 70's clunkers were downhill worthy: seven of the top ten Repack times were on clunkers((These are from the twenty four official Repack races, which mostly occurred before mountain bikes became generally available.  In the past few years a very people have bested Gary Fisher's 4:22 record using fully suspended bikes.  See [[https://www.strava.com/segments/1129111|Strava Repack DH Historical]].))
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 ===== Crested Butte, 1976->today =====
-The original home to the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame, Crested Butte put its name on the mountain biking calendar starting in 1976, when a local group started a single speed bike ride over the Pearl Pass to Aspen, fueled by alcohol and propelled by gravity.  The media attention got noticed by Charlie Kelly and friends who made a road trip in 1978 to cross polinate the clunker culture.  With more media attention it became the oldest annual mountain bike event in the world.
+The original home to the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame, Crested Butte put its name on the mountain biking calendar starting in 1976, when a local group started a single speed bike ride over the Pearl Pass to Aspen, fueled by alcohol and propelled by gravity.  The media attention got noticed by Charlie Kelly and friends who made a road trip in 1978 to cross pollinate the clunker culture.  With more media attention it became the oldest annual mountain bike event in the world.
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-And they spent the night before in the bar.  And they were so, so beat up the next morning.   I'm suprised any of them even made it up to the base camp.  It was mostly just a drunken party that kinda had bikes involved but wasn't really focused on them.  And they were tough.  I mean Oh My God.  We'd start riding and they throw up and they'd get back on their bike and they'd keep riding.
+And they spent the night before in the bar.  And they were so, so beat up the next morning.   I'm surprised any of them even made it up to the base camp.  It was mostly just a drunken party that kinda had bikes involved but wasn't really focused on them.  And they were tough.  I mean Oh My God.  We'd start riding and they throw up and they'd get back on their bike and they'd keep riding.
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 Wende Cragg, Gary Fisher & Charlie Kelly reminiscing in [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klunkerz:_A_Film_About_Mountain_Bikes|Klunkerz]].
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   * [[http://cbklunkers.com/page.cfm?pageid=12|cblunkers]]
   * [[https://localfreshies.com/oldest-mountain-biking-event-in-the-world-pearl-pass-tour/|localfreshies]]
+  * [[https://web.archive.org/web/20040530234428/http://www.mtnbikehalloffame.com/history.cfm?page=4|mtnbikehalloffame archive]]
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 ===== Miscellaneous =====
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-John Finley Scott, a Professor of Sociology at UC Davis, owner of the Cupertino Bike Shop, first investor in Kelly/Fisher MountainBikes and also to Tom Ritchey, coiner of the term "Bullmoose Handlebars" and early designer of off road bicycles was hugely infuential in guiding mountain biking's story.
+=== John Finley Scott ===
+John Finley Scott, a Professor of Sociology at UC Davis, owner of the Cupertino Bike Shop, first investor in Kelly/Fisher MountainBikes and also to Tom Ritchey, coiner of the term "Bullmoose Handlebars" and early designer of off road bicycles was hugely influential in guiding mountain biking's story.
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+{{tank.jpg?400|Tankagnolo}}
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+Tankagnolo, 1975
+[[http://mtbprehistory.blogspot.com/2007/09/mountain-bike-prehistory-tankagnolo.html|mtbprehistory]]
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+==== Tankagnolo ====
+Bob Crispin built up a few geared cruisers with disc brakes in Spokane Washington for trail riding, starting in 1974.  See Bob's blog at: [[http://mtbprehistory.blogspot.com/2007/09/mountain-bike-prehistory-tankagnolo.html|mtbprehistory]] and also: [[https://mmbhof.org/portfolio/1974-first-mountain-bike-with-a-disc-brake-tankagnlolo-and-first-mountain-bike-in-the-pacific-northwest/|mmbhof]]
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+Tankagnlolo, by Bob Cripsin, 1975.
+'s Schwinn Varsity donor frame, Shimano disc brakes, Shimano Crane derailleurs, cruiser balloon tire wheels.
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