Originally Posted by Repack Rider

On October 21, 1976, I met a few friends at the top of a steep dirt road we called Repack. The object was to settle for all time who was the undisputed Universal Champion of Downhill on Klunker Bikes.

It didn't settle anything. It started something and we now call that something "Mountain Biking."

We recently celebrated the 40th anniversary of that day, and my friend Rob Korotky documented it in the current issue of Dirt Rag.