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This video from Wired goes through a brief history of mountain bike design with MTB pioneers Joe Breeze and Charlie Kelley. Shot at the Marin Museum of Bicycling, the video shows how mountain bikes evolved over the first two decades of their existence. Very cool!

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In this episode, we talk about how Singletracks got its start in the late 1990s and also talk about where the site is headed in 2016 and beyond.

The post The Singletracks Origin Story appeared first on Singletracks Mountain Bike News.

The townsite of Turret, Colorado is located just a few miles up in the Arkansas Hills from Salida. A gold mining town founded in 1897, Turret had a peak population of 400-600 people (depending on the source you consult), but the town collapsed around 1941, when the post office closed. (Source) Now, essentially all of …

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Today’s video is very different from the ones that we normally post. It lacks the extreme stoke that you’ll normally find, but replaces it with an interesting and mostly unknown piece of US off-road biking history. So settle in, grab a drink, and check out this hour-long historic feature from PBS: Watch Bicycle Corps: America’s Black …

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This weekend during the Southern Spokes Festival I got a chance to visit MOMBAT, located inside First Flight Bicycles in Statesville, NC and it was a revelation. Like Moab, MOMBAT is one of those places every mountain biker needs to visit at least once in their lifetime–the collection of vintage mountain bikes and parts is …

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