Kent is a native of West Bend, Wisconsin. In 1975, he founded a bike shop in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. His specialty was building touring bikes for trails and dirt roads. In 1978, Kent began building his own custom frames for ...
Web Site: brianlopes.com Mountain biking is a brotherhood, a fraternity of sorts for millions of thrill-seekers all over the world. I challenge you to set forth an inquiry among these fellow brothers, in any of the seven continents, and I ...
Web Site: www.bikeradar.com/news/article/interview-doug-dr-dew-lafavor-of-kona-mountain-bikes-29637 The first country outside the USA to be exposed to Mountain Biking was Canada. In 1980, John Gadsby a Vancouver, BC based engineer and a lifetime racing and touring cyclist, stopped by Gary Fisher’s shop in Fairfax, ...
Participant in the early days of mountain biking. Don began riding the trails and fire roads in the Eastern Sierra Nevada on his 1980 hand-built Tom Ritchey-Gary Fisher Mountain Bike. Mountain Bikes were popular for trail riding in Marin County ...