Origins of mountain biking: Joe Breeze Interview

Who 'invented' the mountain bike? Where was the birth of dirt? Who was the first to throw a bike down a hill? A bunch of hippies from Marin County California, that's who. Here, Outer Edge magazine speaks to Joe Breeze, one of the so-called Godfathers of mountain biking. Apart from being one of the original Repack racers, Joe is widely recognised as having built the very first mountain bikes with full rigging. Joe talks about how the mountain biking movement came about, the riders, and why a mountain called Mt Tamalpais in Marin County is considered the spiritual home of mountain biking and why and a race called Repack is the genesis of the sport. Interview: Chris Ord, Outer Edge magazine, 2010.

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• mountain biking
• Joe Breeze
• Repack
• history of mountain biking
• Marin
• MTB
• Outer Edge
• Chris Ord

[unrealtrip]

This is a fantastic interview, Joe tells it like it is and doesn't try to take credit where it isn't due. It is unfortunate many of the other originals are not as humble as the Joe, the guy who created the first bike specifically built for mountain biking. Thanks for sharing this!

[glueforall]

Great moment with Joe Breeze! What a guy....obnoxiously loud intro / outro music compared to volume of interview with Joe...yikes

[rameed]

I'm riding a 1990s Breezer Sky and OMG what a great bike. What a great man to say he didn't invent the bikes. I used to ride off road in England in the 1960s and we even called the sport bicycle motor cross because we rode small circuits with jumps but as Joe says no critical mas, when we got cars and motor bikes it all stopped.