Crested Butte to Aspen Klunker Classic 1980, Part 2 of 2

[swlabr21]

Where are your damn helmets!!!  lol

[cleekmaker00]

@drpaddle... That fork looks like a custom made Koski Trailmaster with a drum brake mount. Those forks were the primary aftermarket fork back then, as I remember.

I also remember Gary Fisher passing me about halfway down in '84... he had this SWEET Team Fisher in dark Red, just like Joe Murray's was.

[drpaddle]

AlpineDave: I think that's another Lowell-Kight Procruiser, based on the small diameter second top tube. My desert-camo one is at 1:34 (I'm wearing the Skid-Lid). The frames came without forks, so I don't know what kind he's running.

[AlpinDave]

the blue bike at 4:55-5:10 is KILLER!! what is it ? there are a lot of killer bikes here!!

[themississippikidful]

the kiddos on the 20" bikes are funny!

[cleekmaker00]

One of the EPIC mountain bike rides of all time,and one of the most historical, as well...

Fat Tire Bike Week alumnus 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987

Charter Member of the Mountain Bike HOF

[drpaddle]

"POS" is so relative to the times. In this video, I was riding a really cool, nearly cutting edge Lowell-Knight Procruiser. I bought the frame from the guys in Tiburon, matched it with an off-the-shelf cruiser fork -- Cook Bros maybe? -- and had them sandblasted and painted desert camaflouge along with the rims. It was hot! I bought a Ritchey Mountain Bike a few months later, and I still ride it. It may be primitive even compared to your 02 Trek, but it will never be a POS in my heart.

[scatteredprojects]

lol this vid makes me not feel so bad about my 02 trek 820 POS. those people are some troopers.

[drinfernogh]

15 mile downhill sounds like fun!

[drpaddle]

It is! Especially when much of it has "Big rocks! Biiig rocks!"