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On a local history guided bicycle ride, a couple of the riders showed up on classic machinery. Steve Potts, a founding partner at WTB, grew up in the town where the ride was. Lettering on the Klein one-speed says "Test Bike."

After this titanium Marin retired from racing, it became a town bike.

I could not locate a SN# on the framer. Where is it?

Chain, tyres, derailleur idler, and one hour of labour.

My wife was taking a walk, and called me from a block from our house. "There is a lady putting a Stumpjumper out on the curb. You should check it out." One minute later... The chain was rusted into red ruin. The tyres were not good. But it was a 1994 Stumpjumper. It did not look as though it had...

This is the raw copy Yeti sent for an ad in Fat Tire Flyer.

It doesn't get any more "old school" than this. One of the first bikes Gary Fisher and I built fell into the hands of a rider whose friend was the editor of BMX PLUS! The editor, Dean Bradley, fell in love with the bike, and immediately wrote a bike review, the first ever of a 26" bike. As...

Titanium Marin retired from racing and is now a town bike.

T.I.G. welded, and a Tange fork. This would be after my time working with Tom, but that looks a lot more like a Fisher Montare than a Ritchey. A serial # would help.

1983 Annapurna, 1995 P-21, 2020 P-29er

Wende Cragg was an original mountain biker from the time before that term was coined. She was the only woman in a male dominated landscape, riding a modified Schwinn that weighed half of what she did. She had the foresight to lug a camera along to bicycling events whose importance can only be...

Last night I re-launched the new edition of Fat Tire Flyer: Repack and the Birth of Mountain Biking. I was assisted by Joe Breeze and Wende Cragg. There is a video of the event on the Marin Museum of Bicycling Facebook page. I don't have any way of getting my books to UK in bulk. I have...