Local bike series spits out the seeds
May 24th, 2005 by MikeThis is a cool article about how mountain bike racing started at Vail.
EAGLE COUNTY - Mountain bike racing was a different animal 30 years ago than the Lycra and titanium suspension forks we all associate with it today.
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When the inaugural Vail race series started in 1984, 12 racers turned out to test the wheels of their heavy, rigid-fork rigs down Shrine Pass from the Vail Pass summit to Red Cliff.
“We didn’t really know anything about mountain bike racing,” said Katrina Ammer of the Vail Valley Foundation, who, in 1984, was a teenage employee at Snug, the ski shop in Vail whose owners, Ramsey Kropf and LeeAnne Esp, launched what is now the Mountain Challenge Bike Series run by the Vail Recreation District - the 2005 series of which kicks off Wednesday with the Eagle Classic.
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