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The Stumpjumper was the first commercially made mountain bike, and in the twenty-five years since its appearance, the bicycling world has been revolutionized. A whole new culture has sprung up—the fat-tire, dirt-loving mountain bike adventurers, rejecting the orthodoxy of the road, bringing their countercultural attitude and look to the American masses.This full-color history of the mountain bike celebrates all aspects of off-road -cycling, from the early experimental “clunkers” to the first Stumpjumper to the modern technological marvels replete with carbon-fiber frames, front and rear shock absorbers, and twenty-one (or more) speeds; from the scruffy daredevil pioneers of the sport to today’s well-sponsored professional riders. Nowadays every kid rides a mountain bike. And there’s a Stumpjumper on display at the Smithsonian. It is all here in this well-researched, smartly written, photo-rich coffee table book.
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Stumpjumper, Mark Riedy
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- Released
- 2006
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- Title
- Stumpjumper
- Subtitle
- 25 Years of Mountain Biking
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Mark Riedy
- Publisher
- Breakaway Books
- Released
- 2006
- Format
- Hardcover
- Pages
- 128
- ISBN10
- 1891369636
- ISBN13
- 9781891369636
- Series
- Tags
- Cycling Tourism
- Rating
- 3.1 out of 5
- Description
- The Stumpjumper was the first commercially made mountain bike, and in the twenty-five years since its appearance, the bicycling world has been revolutionized. A whole new culture has sprung up—the fat-tire, dirt-loving mountain bike adventurers, rejecting the orthodoxy of the road, bringing their countercultural attitude and look to the American masses.This full-color history of the mountain bike celebrates all aspects of off-road -cycling, from the early experimental “clunkers” to the first Stumpjumper to the modern technological marvels replete with carbon-fiber frames, front and rear shock absorbers, and twenty-one (or more) speeds; from the scruffy daredevil pioneers of the sport to today’s well-sponsored professional riders. Nowadays every kid rides a mountain bike. And there’s a Stumpjumper on display at the Smithsonian. It is all here in this well-researched, smartly written, photo-rich coffee table book.