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Old 08-04-08 | 08:05 AM
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Originally Posted by Bekologist
JOE MURRAY was one of the founders of Kona?

Didn't he design, one of the first recognizable 26" 'mountain' bikes, the Murray Baja? That stuff was HAWT back in 1970 something.
That was a Murray bike. Murray made "cheap" bikes. No Murray MTB in 1970. No brand-name MTB, period, in 1970, or for quite a while after that.
Joe Murray was THE mountain bike racer for a while in the eighties.
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