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Luminaries such as Gary Fisher, Joe Breeze and Charlie Kelly - and many other Repack pioneers - attended the premiere of ‘Klunkerz’ at the Mill Valley Film Festival in Marin County, California, on Sunday. The movie is a ride down Memory Lane, exploring the history of mountain biking.

And it doesn’t restrict itself to the 1970s in Marin County it features footage of other US ‘mountain bike’ pioneers. However, there’s no footage of Geoff Apps, the British pioneer of the ‘all terrain bicycle’ who was developing his Cleland at about the same time as MTBing was being developed in the US. No footage either of David Wrath-Sharman of Highpath Engineering, who had hub brakes on his ‘mountain bike’ in the early 1980s.

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