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Alright, that was fun. Having looked through that Wikipedia article on Gary Fisher and finding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klunkerz:_A_Film_About_Mountain_Bikes, getting copy via bittorrent, and then watching it, learned an amazing amount about the history of the Mountain Bike and the people who made that happen. Here's the second bike built by Gary Fisher in the early days among the Mount Tam Clan:

Gary would go scavenging for usable bike parts at all the small local bike shops in the area and build a bike from scratch from all these parts. '40's era klunker frames from Schwinn and others, add in gears & brakes, etc. He'd have to file and bend and make it all work together. Product was a bike you could ride up Mount Tam on and then down at high speed and survive.

Gary would go scavenging for usable bike parts at all the small local bike shops in the area and build a bike from scratch from all these parts. '40's era klunker frames from Schwinn and others, add in gears & brakes, etc. He'd have to file and bend and make it all work together. Product was a bike you could ride up Mount Tam on and then down at high speed and survive.