Time Capsule from 1980 — amazing video

A friend from way BITD put these videos up on YouTube. They were shot in Crested Butte, Colorado in 1980 when there might have been a hundred mountain bikers in the world, and most of them had built their own bikes. At that time no one had any idea that mountain biking was anything other than an obscure hobby that was unimportant to everyone else on the planet outside the few dozen participants.

It's beyond primitive mechanically, but you will note that modern mountain bikers did not invent the concept of partying hearty.

I'm the guy showing off the bicep and talking about the new type of bike, Gary Fisher is the guy with the handlebar mustache, Scot Nicol (Ibis) is the guy juggling while riding, and the girl in the Haagen Dazs t-shirt has some Colorado mountains to show you.

Thank you so much for that – that has to be one of the best things I've seen for ages. Wish I'd been there!!

great stuff

Brilliant.

How upset would they all be to read this forum and see what they created 😯

I love the youthful exuberance in those vids.

Not a helmet between them – how on earth did they survive from one week to the next?

😉

Really enjoyed watching that. Thanks for posting Charlie.

I counted two helmets, but one of them was one of those old style bunch of bananas thingies, so I don't know if that counts!
Nice to see that post ride beers are nothing new.
Biiiiiig Rocks!

Wow! I miss Crested Butte. It doesn't look like the town has changed much. Beautiful town, beautiful trails, beautiful people and some of the best riding ever.

Kudos to those guys. That terrain is hard going on modern kit let alone on 'clunkers'!

excellent! And I thought my handlebars were wide!

Ha Ha that was a great way to start the day. Thanks for posting that Repack Rider. Amazing really as well that its only 30 years ago, seems so much longer 😯

Fantastic 🙂

Love the guy who says he's going to be listening to the Stones – reminds me of Oddball from Kelly's Heroes 😆

Clubber, I was going to say that I'm sure I saw Donald Sutherland muttering away in there somewhere!

chuffin fantastic – best thing ive watched for ages!

Really enjoyed that, thanks for posting.

And not a pampered trail in sight.

It was fun to watch.

LOL at the Superstar maintenance demo at the start of part 2

Bump for the lunch time crowd.

Brilliant stuff.

Brilliant. Made me feel warm all over.

Will have a butchers at this when I get home 🙂

Very cool, reminds me of mucking around on bikes in my youth..

very cool video, thank you for posting! (it's very well shot, too)

"gotta disco up the mountains" 😀

mmmmm Hagan Daz

she didn't get 'em out.

very disappointing

god biking though – ace vids

Great stuff 😀

I can't believe they even attempted this without advice from strangers on the internet, and, at the very least, attending a skills course with Jedi 😉

Great videos thanks!

"gotta disco up the mountains"

Brilliant. Loved that, going to chuck it onto the phone for those boring shopping trips. Imagine turning up in 1980 with a 2010 bike!
Anyhooo, what tyres for Pearl Pass?

Awesome sh17 dude!! Well before the "nanny state"

Respect.

🙂

thanks rpr, liked that a lot

Single speeds hub gears daft wide bars steal and beards. Last weeks STW ride?

Wonderful, thank you.

mmmmm Hagan Daz

My thoughts exactly 😆

You do realise that you're lusting over someone who's probably sfb's age now, don't you 🙂

Cool vids. The sky is always more blue in old movies….

Fantastic and a young Pat Adams kicked the race off.

Awesome vid. Normally people watch retro vids to mock the fashion, in this case they probably look more cool than modern bikers, pre-lycra. I like the wide riser bars we've veered away from and back too as well, another foot or so and we'll have gone full cirlce.

Wish more rides like this existed nowadays, I'd grow a beard especially.

excellent.
thanks for posting that.
J.

Really enjoyed that, thanks for posting !