Klunkers

A few years ago there was a seminal moment in the history of the Mountain Bike, when the superb film/documentary Klunkerz was released. It charts the early years of MTB, with contributions from guys you’ll never otherwise have heard of like Otis Guy (one of the very very early adopters of full-suss MTB’s!)

As the Klunkerz site says: Klunkerz is the definitive film about Mountain Bikes, the story of how a bunch of scruffy hippies gave birth to what became a multi-million dollar olympic sport. With contributions from bike legends Charlie Kelly, Gary Fisher and many more, all with the most amazing action!

It’s one of my personal favourites, and I was recently chatting with Director Billy Savage on FaceBook, after the conversation he sent me a copy of his Press Release;

Did you just see what I noticed…. Look again more carefully:

It turns out that, over all the years and through all the changes, it’s the one bike he’s always kept, and it just keeps on riding…!

If you’ve not done so already, go buy a copy of Klunkers now, help out a fellow MC bro’!