How to Pick a Bicycle : History of Mountain Bike Development

Mountain bikes were derived from beach cruiser bikes in the seventies, from innovators like Gary Fisher and Joe Breeze; learn more about the development of mountain bikes in this free biking video series.

Expert: Aaron Phillips
Bio: Aaron Phillips teaches at the University of Utah and has lead several bike tours. He's also logged multiple wins as a cross-country racer.
Filmmaker: Mike Phillips

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[mattepolaco]

biking is all about having some fun.  True that!

[redheadspasms]

how are they gay? road biking is about speed, so if you like to go fast....

i road bike and mountain bike

[1RadNomad]

History of development? Hardly! "We went from Schwinns like this.. to modern bikes like this". Oh what a genius! Nothing whatsoever about development. From full rigids, to hardtails with shocker forks, to full sus. From steel to aluminium to titanium, From centrepull to V-brakes to hydraulic disc brakes. From thumbshifters to gripshifters to modern quad-levers. From quill stems to a-heads. You can give a great insight into development in 3 minutes. This guy said basically nothing much at all.

[motoxdady]

drinking beer is great with mountain biking....! this guy is a tool...

[TOASTMANOO7]

what waz 1st the mtb or bmx???

[SteveTheJazzMan]

road a beach cruiser down a downhill.... intense

[speedjunkie66]

@TheBzeroslasher check out ebay.com they have cheap starter bikes

[TheBzeroslasher]

umm i got 100 bucks :l

any advice? i need a bike to start and just cruise around i want a bike that is well kinda fast and im not relly doing big drops

[fxdrdnme]

Blah! You dont need all that shit! HAHAHA! I bust leg shaver balls on my mountain bike. Why do they get so butt hurt?

[bicycleguy111]

dude.... the tires back in the day were not bald

[hammr25]

The expert is correct. Watch the movie KLUNKERZ if you don't believe him.

[trueeasyrider]

Friend, first of all let me say thanks for making this video. But what you said in this video is NOT AT ALL TRUE. To cut the long story short, mountain bike evolved from BMX. The were BMX races on the dirt road and many other activities. Then people needed more speed, rougher terrains and that's why MTB came about. That's it. When MTB first appeared, i remember a lot of people calling them the big BMX. They look exactly the same except for the gear.