Squidly Didly
20-11-2007, 09:32 PM
The award winning documentary Klunkerz will be showing at the Bicycle Film Festival which rolls into Sydney at the end of November and then on to Melbourne in early December.
Directed by Billy Savage, the film tells the story of the early days of the mountain bike through interviews with the California riders from Marin County )(just North of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco) who started riding up and down hills in the area in the late 60s and early 70s. There were apparently a huge number of guys involved and the film features interviews with most of them. The interviewees include the near-ubiquitous (in MTB History) Gary Fisher and Tom Ritchey, but there were many more, a few of whom started up various MTB or related companies.
The film features archival footage of the early klunkers (bikes that were put together from other bike parts and other non-bike parts).
Savage tells a great story, and there’s a lot more to it than the bits you may already have heard. Sure, Gary Fisher was a major player, as his marketing department is fond of telling us, but plenty of others were as important.
Full festival details available at http://www.bicyclefilmfestival.com/
http://forums.farkin.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=87343
Elaena Gardner
BIKE Sydney
http://www.bikesydney.org/new/
Directed by Billy Savage, the film tells the story of the early days of the mountain bike through interviews with the California riders from Marin County )(just North of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco) who started riding up and down hills in the area in the late 60s and early 70s. There were apparently a huge number of guys involved and the film features interviews with most of them. The interviewees include the near-ubiquitous (in MTB History) Gary Fisher and Tom Ritchey, but there were many more, a few of whom started up various MTB or related companies.
The film features archival footage of the early klunkers (bikes that were put together from other bike parts and other non-bike parts).
Savage tells a great story, and there’s a lot more to it than the bits you may already have heard. Sure, Gary Fisher was a major player, as his marketing department is fond of telling us, but plenty of others were as important.
Full festival details available at http://www.bicyclefilmfestival.com/
http://forums.farkin.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=87343
Elaena Gardner
BIKE Sydney
http://www.bikesydney.org/new/