http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ CityCyclingEdinburgh Forum » Topic: Camera Corner: Wende Cragg Documents the Birth of Mountain Biking en Wed, 13 May 2026 02:35:53 +0000 http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21684#post-378003 Fri, 20 Dec 2024 23:43:27 +0000 chdot 378003@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>“</p> <p>Her first experience on a 54 lb. Klunker was hard and she was the “token woman” on many of the Marin rides of the 1970’s. She was the first woman to ride Pearl Pass out of Crested Butte, Colorado and probably the first woman to ride many of the California trails. </p> <p>“</p> <p><a href="https://mmbhof.org/wende-cragg/" rel="nofollow">https://mmbhof.org/wende-cragg/</a> </p> http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=21684#post-377998 Fri, 20 Dec 2024 21:36:07 +0000 Arellcat 377998@http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/ <p>It's time we had another "mountain biking history film" thread. In past years we have had a few that I remember watching:<br /> <ul><li><a href="http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=16292">Mountain Biking - The Untold Story</a></li><li>Klunkerz</li><li><a href="http://citycyclingedinburgh.info/bbpress/topic.php?id=8750#post-88984">Hardihood</a></li></ul></p> <p>Longer-time CCEers will remember mad-as-a-box-of-frogs ace mountain biker, mud-encrusted Rock Shox model and occasional CCEer Jacquie Phelan coming to the Edinburgh Festival of Cycling a couple of times, back in the day.</p> <p>The days of Repack and proto-mountain biking in 1970s Marin County are well documented, with photos of people like Gary Fisher, Tom Ritchey, Joe Breeze and Charlie Kelly hightailin' it down the fire trails in flannel shirts, with big moustaches and even bigger rooster tails of dust behind them. But who took all those amazing photos?</p> <p>Wende Cragg did. This hour-long film is a really nice history of her mucking in with the chaps (and one or two women), while hauling her camera and goodness knows how many rolls of film at the same time.</p> <p><a href="https://youtu.be/jsbJojnbdYY" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/jsbJojnbdYY</a></p> <p>(and JP does get a wee piece to camera later on!) </p>