They ran out of weed, and said, forget about it. They did a tremendous first album, it was a double album, he went on a road to go promote it. He was a roadie for a band called Sons of Champlin. He looks like you had long hair like me and he rode an orange Colnago. He was another roadie and everybody said, Oh, you got to meet this guy. I immediately started getting into road racing again. Then I came back to Marin in 72 around then. I got a couple my own klunkers around then in high school. Then I went away for four years and hung out with the Grateful Dead. You want to be able to let loose and get to terminal speed.Ĭross bike was stupid out there. Big hills, long descents something like two miles long.
It was ridiculous! There’s so many rocks and stuff and you’d want to let loose.
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You’d ride for an hour and then you’d patch tires for three hours. The problem with the cross bike is you’d go out in the woods and you’d take three tires over your shoulder. I was a junior in high school and I’m out riding with them on big fat tire bikes and I’m going this is a lot of fun, because you can go really fast without a puncture. They approached me and said, ‘I know you’re into bikes, you’ve got to come and check this out.’ The Klunker scene was getting a bike for five bucks, because you could literally buy a bicycle for $5 that was good enough to go and ride out there. Larkspur Canyon Gang was a culture of hippie kids, drum circles, then the Klunker scene. Then about 66 they put chains on the gates. In the early 60s at Mount Tamalpais you could drive any vehicle you wanted out there. It was the Klunkers and bikes scene and you’d do the drums out at Mount Tamalpais. It basically started out with drum circles, drumming. We both went to Redwood High, and I met all the other guys in the gang. It was my friend who lived a few blocks away from me. There were some guys in Redwood High School that were obviously hippies. That was when I was a kid, when we were living down in Burlingame. Gary Fisher: Well, I’d gone off-road on a cyclocross bike. Oli Russell-Cowan: How did you first come up with going off-road? That year Gary and Charlie Kelly founded MountainBikes specialising in bikes that could be used in off road terrain.įind out how Gary came up with the idea for the mountain bike, his time as a bike mechanic, bike tester, journalist and lighting engineer in the late 60’s for bands like the Grateful Dead and Janis Joplin, dealing with Hells Angels, his family background in Hollywood, importing mountain bikes around the world, selling his company to Trek Bicycle Corporation and so much more! Gary Fisher Rad Season Podcast He set the record for the Repack downhill race on a modified bike which lead to Gary coming up with the term ‘mountain bike’ in 1979. This opened up his world to racing bikes taking wins in the TransAlp and Masters XC national title. Gary Fisher grew up in Beverly Hills then moved to San Francisco, California riding road bikes as a kid and persuaded the Belmont Bike Club to let him join them. Gary Fisher, the GodFather of Mountain Biking and Founder of Fisher Bicycle
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