Racing Klunkers on Repack Road

[Matthew Williams]

Here's some footage of people racing down Repack Road in the hills of Marin, ca. 1977.

https://singletrackworld.com/2017/11/video-racing-klunkers-on-repack-road/

Some more history:

https://mmbhof.org/mtn-bike-hall-of-fame/history/repack-history/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CWMCNzmKNM

[Tim Bantham]

That was really great! Thanks for sharing. Makes me appreciate my Clem built up "klunker" style as a throwback to that era. Works just as good now as it would have back then.  

[Philip Williamson]

Next Rivmoot we should time-trial Clems down Repack.

Philip
Santa Rosa, CA

[Jim M.]

On Thursday, June 11, 2020 at 8:33:59 PM UTC-7, Philip Williamson wrote:

Next Rivmoot we should time-trial Clems down Repack.

See if you can beat Gary Fisher's time. Amazing that it's still a record given the "advances" in mountain bikes, though it also speaks to what a fantastically skilled rider he was.

jim m

walnut creek, ca

[Joe Bernard]

Next Rivmoot should have Gary Fisher time-trialing a Clem down Repack.

[Paul Clifton]

Coaster brake Riv mountain bike would be lots of fun! My friend very generously gave me this Jamis Earth Cruiser that I'm planning to swap in a coaster brake hub and take klunking out in the national forest. I wonder if my MTBubbe could run a fat 26" wheel with a coaster brake??? We'll find out!

[EricP]

Wasn't riding banned there for a long time? Seem to remember that happening. Hard to remember being half a country away.

Thanks for sharing the video. Watched it when Charlie Kelly first pointed it out. Those people really had no fear. Even when younger never could do something like that.

Eric Platt

St. Paul, MN

[Patrick Moore]

A good place for one of those kickback 2 speed + coaster brake hubs by Sturmey Archer and SRAM, but I don't see SRAM's for sale. SA's has a 3%" overdrive, so you could get a 50" climbing direct and a 69" cruising gear.

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Patrick Moore

Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum