Riding Repack - A History Of Mountain Biking

Riding Repack - A History Of Mountain Biking | GMBN Retro Week

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5 жыл бұрын

Mountain Biking as we know it originated in Marin County, California in the late seventies. Doddy and Neil flew out to the US to chat with the founders of MTB; Gary Fisher, Charlie Kelly, and Joe Breeze, and send it down Repack. One of the first mountain bike trails🤘
'70s Repack Race Photo by Everett Utterback courtesy of Ibis Cycles.
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@vonweizhacker 5 жыл бұрын

This could have been 3 hours long and I would watch it.

@amc_sounds 5 жыл бұрын

You can (almost), it's called Klunkerz

@dereksmith3632 5 жыл бұрын

Who knew, The Grateful Dead may have influenced the development of mountain biking 😀

@joshallen6520 5 жыл бұрын

Derek Smith literally so cool!

@lusenator 5 жыл бұрын

Surprised they didn’t say it but apparently the winner usually got a big bag of weed

@Wizler71 5 жыл бұрын

Then the heat came round and busted me for [riding] on a cloudy day.

@dereksmith3632 5 жыл бұрын

@@Wizler71 hot damn cuz, that was good 👍

@ashleyphotog 4 жыл бұрын

Gary Fisher produced a limited run of Grateful Dead art bikes back in the 90's

@RESolberg 5 жыл бұрын

I rode a lit of single track back in the 80’s. I had a Schwann Timberline. It was rigid chrome-molly. It was fun in those days. What ever you showed up with and what ever you wore didn’t matter. It was about the ride.

@robinheil 4 жыл бұрын

I just got a '90s Taiwanese Schwinn full rigid as my first MTB and am loving it

@Mr_RichardH 5 жыл бұрын

Was lucky to have a guided tour around the Museum by Joe Breeze in 2016. What an absolute gent. I was in heaven for a couple of hours, grinning like an idiot.

@markturner-smith5309 5 жыл бұрын

Poor Doddy that bike looked terrifying! Respect to the Mountain Bike founders. XC racer of the 90’s myself - look back now think how in earth did we ride or race such bikes!

@AthelstanEngland Жыл бұрын

Father's what?

@markturner-smith5309 Жыл бұрын

@@AthelstanEngland mistyped and edited now.

@AthelstanEngland Жыл бұрын

@@markturner-smith5309 lol no worries I was just being a jerk pointing out the erroneous apostrophe. :)

@colinthompson5881 5 жыл бұрын

During Mountain Mayhem quite a few years ago got to ride for about 5 mins with Gary Fisher. Everything you’d hope he’d be, super cool, totally chilled down to earth and friendly. And love of bikes and being with other riders just shone through. #legend. Ned Overend was there as well, but I couldn’t catch him up 😀

@beardedvikingmtber 5 жыл бұрын

It’s been proper fascinating watching all the retro week vids, it’s made me look into the history even more. Well done lads top quality content as usual 🤘🏻

@MaQuGo119 5 жыл бұрын

I would fatter and sadder if it was not for this amazing sport, thanks to all who have contributed to develop it.

@M3PH11 5 жыл бұрын

11:23 Doddy looks genuinely terrified. Feel for you man.

@ronwhite8503 5 жыл бұрын

Being an old git (and a skinflint!) I am loving the retro week...... especially as I still use my two old, steel Konas regularly.

@gadgetsgalore 5 жыл бұрын

My first foray into MTB was on a steel rigid orange Kona Lava Dome which I quickly purchased a white Manitou fork for it. I called it the creamsicle. Been riding ever since. Enjoy the ride!

@ianholmquist8492 5 жыл бұрын

Steel is real

@ghazypangerang6118 3 жыл бұрын

@@gadgetsgalore i believe Neil has a lava dome as well.

@jenmac287 5 жыл бұрын

Fellas what a great video it was good to see the old hero’s of mtb on the show I actually ride a. Nice old Gary fisher and enjoy it very much Well done

@dcorica79 5 жыл бұрын

My 1st expensive bike i bought was a Gary fisher aquila.. Been buying gary fishers ever since... I now ride a Gary fisher x-cal 29er..

@Wizler71 5 жыл бұрын

My first two real mountain bikes were Gary Fisher (Kaitai and Hi-Fi). They served me well and I loved them. His catalogs were fun with outlandish costumes, hairstyles and glasses.

@welshy8216 5 жыл бұрын

I Still ride a mid 90's Gary fisher kaitai & enjoy it too

@kevinmontgomery1383 4 жыл бұрын

@@welshy8216 My first Mt Bike was a Fisher. I had no clue, that I should have just changed components'. I could not change gears, with out backing off the pressure, on the cranks. Our Oldest daughter, husband, and family, have lived in Marin, for 8 1/2 years. It would be hip now, to have that bike.

@rong1924 2 жыл бұрын

Went to Marin summer 21 and rode Repack. Dropped by the museum and Charlie Kelly is still haunting the place. Got to hang out with him and listen to him tell his stories for quite a while. AWSOME experience. (Buy his book, :"Fat Tire Flyer" if you want to be a legit mtb biker. Pure joy.)

@xrocket100 5 жыл бұрын

I think it’s great to look back at the beginnings of MTB it gives you a real appreciation of how good we have it now with current equipment and doff of the cap to guys who got us here!

@Oldfatbeerman 5 жыл бұрын

Brings back some of the damn crazy stuff we used to do back in the day , Warrah trig car Park to Pearl Beach ( Central Coast , NSW , Australia ) in sub 4 minutes on full rigid bikes was very sketchy indeed . Scared the Beejesus out of me the day after I fitted a digital Speedo to my Marin Pine Mountain when I saw 84 KPH bombing down the Trig fire trail dodging the bush walkers and snakes as I flew down the hill , never really expected that number on the speedo , but it was what it was .

@terrymtbnurse4760 5 жыл бұрын

Great video, respect for the founding fathers. Retro week is brilliant.

@ronaldtartaglia4459 5 жыл бұрын

You are right... absolutely brilliant.

@TrailPOV 5 жыл бұрын

Awesome drifting! You have more faith in that bike holding together than I would :)

@daviddowning8077 5 жыл бұрын

I was up at the Marin Museum of Bicycling a couple of weeks ago. it's a truly fascinating and unique collection of bikes and Fairfax is such a cool town. Only shame was I didn't have the time to sling my leg over a bike and shred some of the classic Marin trails.

@fender10g 3 жыл бұрын

These guys are my heroes. I grew up riding these trails (I'm 21 now) There is a ride put on by the Marin county bike coalition every year that's pretty much 60 miles of classic cross country trails. Gary sometimes shows up.

@sueneilson896 4 жыл бұрын

Don’t forget, if you throw a chain on a coaster hub bike.... there are no brakes anymore. I learnt this at about 6years of age.. the hard way.

@007artimus 2 жыл бұрын

“Nice, crispy orange chain”. This video is so awesome.

@Franksey180 5 жыл бұрын

That intro though with the knackered VHS tape and retro music/titles, nicely done :)

@nvanpraag 5 жыл бұрын

This was awesome! Marin native here... born at Marin General, live currently in Mill Valley. It was SO cool seeing you guys came to our hood! Hey Neil... repeat after me, "Mah-rin."

@bushld0229 5 жыл бұрын

The Dutch Biker cheers man. I live in Fairfax.

@victrip 4 жыл бұрын

I live in fair fax omg

@sixbanger 3 жыл бұрын

Would be dope to see more of the gmbn guys riding the trails we have here in the bay. Wanna see Neil in the mile and boyscout. Dodie in JMP and Blake tearing up soquel 😂

@bushld0229 5 жыл бұрын

Dude. You guys came to my home town of Fairfax. ??? Went to the coffee hut and Gestalt Haus. Shocked I didn’t see you. Hope you got a chance to ride some of our single track trails while you were here. There’s lots. 🍻🍻 cheers.

@onerider808 Жыл бұрын

1972, riding our Schwinn Stingrays down mountain paths, quarry hills, and anywhere we could. We weren’t the first. Ever since there was a kid and a challenging trail, there have been kids riding them. We weren’t called mountain bikers then, just crazy kids.

@raneti76 5 жыл бұрын

This video brought back so many memories from my childhood. Always wanted to ride where the MTB was invented. Great video!

@JayBirdPhotos 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks guys for an awesome video. Brings me back to the old days having grown up in and around San Francisco. I never got a chance to do repack but there are so many areas around there that I explored (Santa Cruz for one). Can't believe we survived mountain biking back then. (Hey Doddy... my first time down the hills were on a beach cruiser as well that I used to deliver papers with then hit the trails)

@jamesowen418 5 жыл бұрын

My favourite GMBN video EVAR!!!!!!! AWESOME!!! 👍🏻👌🏻😁

@robbchastain3036 5 жыл бұрын

Everything about this is oh wow. Thanks, GMBN. And Doddy would've gone faster with better background music, something from The Big 610 or KSAN.

@aidenrobertson947 5 жыл бұрын

This was such an interesting video as I’m new to mountain biking 🚵🏻‍♂️ and I’m keen to know everything I can about it love the content❤️

@metmerc1 5 жыл бұрын

I've loved retro week. It's a great reminder of what you can do on an old mountain bike. Suspension is great and allows for riding some pretty gnarly terrain, but people have been having a fun shredding trails for 40+ years now on stout, rigid framed bikes.

@paulcritchley464 4 жыл бұрын

Eyyye remeeeember Manyyy yeaaars ago back in 64 we’ll it was 63 when us kids use to ride on the ruck’s (slag heaps) on our roads bikes, fats tyre bikes, even three wheelers or what ever we could, up and down the rucks. Always had to sneak home and have a bath before mum could see us covered in black coal dust. It was brilliant Thanks for you videos Have a great new year

@vaughanlockett658 4 жыл бұрын

I made my first mountain bike 37 years ago from a Raleigh Maverick. Alloy wheels six speed block Suntour chain set Shimano drailer Muddy fox seat and post Renthal bars , as the factory was down the Road. Pedals were called soul grabbers I think. Center pull brakes were fitted I had braze on the brake fittings, to convert it from side pull. Road that thing for Ten years great memories.

@heizenblade 5 жыл бұрын

Wow...great content fellas, more of these in the future? 🤘🤘🤙🤙

@aidanvermeulen1256 5 жыл бұрын

To live close enough to Marin to ride these trails and get to know the history of them is awesome! Camp Tamarancho is another awesome place to ride right out of Fairfax, and I’m lucky enough to get to ride almost every day!!!

@Jayneflakes 5 жыл бұрын

Please tell us that you have longer versions of those interviews? Another great show from GMBN, thank you.

@mtbthiccness3605 5 жыл бұрын

Hey guys thanks for visiting the bay area, a little gem we've got in annadel state park in Santa rosa. Used to be some amazing races there and the terrain is gnarly as all hell. You'll love it

@DanaBrown1984 4 жыл бұрын

Last time I bombed repack I crashed so hard my crank bent out of shape and I could only pedal in half-orbits. Stopped at Sunshine and they were like Daamn dude. Walked and coasted all the way down Sleepy Hollow and hiked over to my house in Lucas Valley. A rough outing. Also gashed the bezel on my rolex 14060M, so when I look at my watch, now and again I'll remember that ride.

@sugondez7799 5 жыл бұрын

love your vids keep it up guys

@danervin2530 5 жыл бұрын

Man this one got me right in the feels. Took one of our best honeymoon pics right on Conzelman Drive there by the Golden Gate. Amazing vids recently guys. You’re really connecting with people. I live in Maryland but have loads of family in Sonoma County CA. Next time I’m out there I’ll stop by the museum for sure.

@lorenzo6mm 5 жыл бұрын

Excellent video. We had Schwinn "Stump Jumpers" in Santa Barbara County in the late 70's and early 80's in between surfing between Rincon Point to Jalama Beach park. Along with home made long board skate boards for Downhill & Slalom runs with comp wheels. Gary Fisher was a big time MTB maker even then.

@fender10g 3 жыл бұрын

I love riding this trail--no idea what the history was behind it until I saw this!

@mogulhopper 5 жыл бұрын

what a cool show guys , quality magazine episode

@rotten2guts 5 жыл бұрын

Long overdue video on this channel! Wouldn´t mind a longer story

@ethanbenton6676 4 жыл бұрын

repack has been on my bucket list forever

@jimseiler4651 5 жыл бұрын

Awesome vid., guys! Thanks!

@VegasCyclingFreak Жыл бұрын

This was very interesting. I was BMXing and dirt jumping when these guys were comimg up with these ideas. There was no such thing as a mountain bike in 1980.

@pedalingpastor 5 жыл бұрын

Awesome video! Fun and informative.

@mikieson 5 жыл бұрын

great stuff..thanks guys

@katherinepoindexter4380 3 жыл бұрын

when I was a kid i had a bike I now dub "the pink machine" It was wonderful bike..it could skid, jump, and was great...ever after my dad ran over the wheel with the car..i think that made it better.

@ronaldtartaglia4459 5 жыл бұрын

I so love this channel.

@SobanBhatti 5 жыл бұрын

I was there last year and Fairfax is such a nice place to be. Joe and Charlie had lots of great stories to tell. One thing not mentioned in the video is the fact there is lots of great mountain biking to be done in and around Fairfax.

@roddyheckelman2866 5 жыл бұрын

thats my town boys, glad you got to visit

@01FozzyS 5 жыл бұрын

Well done with this series!

@GazzaView123 5 жыл бұрын

I rode with Charlie Kelly on my local UK trails a couple of years ago. Top guy!

@derman3658 5 жыл бұрын

Sick

@mark1webb956 5 жыл бұрын

Stoked to see you in the same bar that me and some mates went into after a good trail ride. Its an awesome area for MTB.

@cormacpetre4805 5 жыл бұрын

First i didn't like retro mtbs but after retro week i have been liking them more

@MrTony2187 5 жыл бұрын

Great video, Doddy looks genuinely terrified there and I don’t blame him, would have been nice to see the boys do a run on a more modern bike though just for comparisons sake

@glynncairns4712 5 жыл бұрын

I'm loving these videos

@Kampy_ 2 жыл бұрын

I've had Gary Fisher gear for years and always wondered what he looked like and what his story was. Now I know

@sebgardner1640 5 жыл бұрын

Hi guys loving what your doing never stop shredding the gnar 🤙🤙🤙🤟🤟

@birthaappleshirt7404 4 жыл бұрын

Hell yes Marin county! Beautiful place

@MrVanderpoorten 5 жыл бұрын

FANTASTIC 👍👍

@fender10g 3 жыл бұрын

So lucky I was able to grow up on these trails!

@aljsom 5 жыл бұрын

Neil is a maniac! Love the series!

@hyw079 4 жыл бұрын

Here's a video project you GMBN can do. It's not Bay Area, but it is Northern California. Downieville Classic. You guys can do the race and film it.

@shmerickl2249 5 жыл бұрын

Amazing content as per usual

@aspoonfulofslurry 5 жыл бұрын

Neil is such a dh lover from the old school himself. Awesome to see him get to rip down Repack like he wanted. #respect

@GTChucker86 5 жыл бұрын

aspoonfulofslurry They should get Steve Peat in a GMBN video again.

@EricAnderson-AKA-Norwedsh 5 жыл бұрын

That is a steep ride and hike! I hope you guys took the opportunity to ride the trails a Camp Tamarancho.

@cf5914 5 жыл бұрын

Oh man I live in Fairfax and missed you guys!

@BlokHed75 5 жыл бұрын

I NEED TO RIDE THAT ON MY MOUNTAIN BIKE! Love to blast down fire roads on my Cannondale fsi

@onethingeverything 5 жыл бұрын

Very well done!

@stevedaniels2010 5 жыл бұрын

Another hoofing ( great) video well done

@AlexvonderHoff 5 жыл бұрын

Poor Doddy. Poor poor Doddy..

@joachimgrammig9590 5 жыл бұрын

Awesome

@eartharrow6772 5 жыл бұрын

Hyper cool, gnarly and rad

@loganhouck5270 5 жыл бұрын

i was there but never had time to go to the hall of fame :( i passes right by it, great video

@benjijones1944 5 жыл бұрын

Jheee gmbn steepin up the game w the cinematics and transitions jhee

@budgreen100 5 жыл бұрын

Great video.!

@tomolyaadam6455 5 жыл бұрын

Good vid🙌🙌

@siriosstar4789 3 жыл бұрын

Respect . finally someone shows the days before mt. biking was Aerial acrobatics . I lived in marin in the fifties and we would ride our steel framed schwinns everywhere . almost everthing in the countryside was considered off road . We didn't go up very high into the hills because it took too much effort to push the bikes up the steep slopes . After i moved to Ny in the early sixties ,i forgot about that area and it wasn't until the eighties that i rode repack on a crappy so-called mt. bike . i timed myself and was only one minute and thirty seconds off of the world record . 😂😂😂 That's seriously slow .

@terrywoods4597 2 жыл бұрын

That's awesome man! We lived up on the hill in Woodacre in the eighties. Played little league in Fairfax. I still miss it.

@nickwatkins5227 5 жыл бұрын

Someone told me that TV 📺 was once in Black and white , incredible the fast moving technology of today great show guys

@canadianbacon5474 4 жыл бұрын

I live in Marin it’s beautiful if you ever get a chance to go you should try riding tamerancho

@olrenison 5 жыл бұрын

Dope 👍👊

@savasolarov8424 5 жыл бұрын

nice, more retro/cheap bike content !!

@dcorica79 5 жыл бұрын

Gary fisher is my hero! I collect and ride gary fisher bikes.. Im still looking for a full suspension gf 29er... But i finally found a gf x-cal 29er hardtail... I've also got 2 joshuas (an f3 & f4) An aquila (98) an opie (09) Gf rig bmx.. & 4 others that were Facebook marketplace impulse buys.. I also have various shop advertisements for gary fisher bikes & a denim jacket i made back when i was 18... Gary fisher bikes rule... It's sad that trek bought them out

@retrycz 5 жыл бұрын

Interesting vid.

@lukethompson6668 5 жыл бұрын

awesome video dudes

@andreasqueo6547 5 жыл бұрын

It would be nice to bring back to Repack the Dh World Cup. I enjoyed this documentary a lot and I would have seen Neil on that scary bike!

@millsies07 5 жыл бұрын

great video!

@davisclark0776 5 жыл бұрын

While you are here in the US. You should come visit Utah! We have great trails up here!

@Metal-Possum 5 жыл бұрын

In regards to who was first, most of those old bikes were made for unpaved roads long before pavement was ever invented... During the war they probably road their bikes on any surface, if it meant getting away from the wrong end of Hans' gun. One of the guys in the Klunkers documentary, John Finley Scott (tragically and ironically murdered by a man named Charlie Cunningham), was riding off-road in the 1950's. There was the Morrow Dirt club (named after the Morrow coaster brake, which was, and remains to be, the most repack-proof coaster brake), who inspired Gary Fisher significantly with their gears and drum brakes already fitted to a pre-war Schwinn Excelsior frame. Geoff Apps from the UK, known for Cleland Cycles was modifying bikes for off-road use in 1965 onwards, and pioneered in both 650b (27.5) and 700c (29") wheel size using Nokian snow tyres from Finland. Not to mention, all the pioneering BMX kids in the late 60's and early 70's probably had some influence, especially in regards to good quality parts for riding on dirt such as aluminium rims, knobbly tyres, stems, cranks, etc. But no matter who you try and trace it back to, somebody else will claim they'd already done it before them.

@edmundscycles1 5 жыл бұрын

I was going to mention Geoff. What people don't realise is that the long top tube short stem was developed by him. He even sent Nokia tyres over to Garry Fisher. Geoff also made suspension forks and rear suspension for himself too.

@Metal-Possum 5 жыл бұрын

@@edmundscycles1 Correct! In regards to frame geometry, I'm not sure he had a direct impact on today's bikes though, his bikes were not long, but very short, and very upright. They were more like the tractor of bicycles, designed to just get you places a Raleigh Sports 3spd wouldn't.

@edmundscycles1 5 жыл бұрын

@@Metal-Possum compared to the cyclocross frames they were much longer with a higher stack height. I fancy building myself a Clydesdale style bike with an 8 speed hub. His bikes were all most like trails motorbikes or scramblers . As you say very upright but mostly down to the high head tube and handle bars.

@karlfonner7589 5 жыл бұрын

Alex Paulsen You forgot about the buffalo soldiers in the 1800s road most likely off-road

@BarryJTaylor Жыл бұрын

Downhill mtb started in Australia in 1896!! Read Mulga Bills Bicycle.

@yengsabio5315 2 жыл бұрын

If there's one good reason to go to US America, it would be to go to Marin county & be engorged with MTB history. Lots'a love, cheers, & Mabuhay, from tropical Philippines! #KeepBiking