Last updated: 2/5/2012
Crested Butte, Colorado
Street Address
331 Elk AvenueCrested Butte, CO 81224
Mailing Address
P.O. Box 845Crested Butte, CO 81224

Hours

Winter:
CLOSED during the off-seasons which are April, May, October and November.
Daily
12 PM - 6 PM
Summer
Daily
10 AM - 8 PM

Admissions

General Admission: $3

Museum Type(s)

Staff

Kay Cook
phone:
Description

The Mountain Bike Hall of Fame and Museum (MBHOF) is located in downtown Crested Butte at 331 Elk Avenue within the Crested Butte Mountain Heritage Museum. Our biking museum houses items of memorabilia, including vintage bikes, components, classic photos, press clippings and highlights from historic races and events.

Our website offers cyber travellers a way to educate themselves on mountain bike history without a trip to our Crested Butte museum. Check out the ARCHIVES section for magazines, vintage catalogs and photos. We have listed other websites on our Great Web Links page that have lots of historic information and photos. Check them out!!!

History
Origins of mountain biking

There’s a lot of history and information floating around about the origins of mountain biking, some that’s recognized and some that depends on who has the best public relations firm. Mountain biking would have happened somewhere and it did.

Did it begin with the Buffalo Soldiers, a turn-of-the-century infantry who customized bicycles to carry gear over rough terrain? It was August 1896, the riders, black enlisted men and a white lieutenant, rode from Missoula, Montana, to Yellowstone and back, an arduous trip. Their mission: to test the bicycle for military use in mountainous terrain.

The Mountain Bike Hall of Fame believes that the inception of mountain biking needed to be a continuous series of events that connected with one another as opposed to an isolated incident. Another example, in the early 1970s there were a band of cyclists, The Cupertino Riders, aka. the Morrow Dirt Club, from Cupertino California, 75 miles south of Marin, who were modifying their bikes. They were grafting thumbshift-operated derailleurs and motorcycle lever-operated drum brakes to their klunkers to help them get up and down the south bay hills. They competed against some future hall-of-famers at a Marin County cylcecross race in late 1974, where their technology was noticed. Then they disappeared.

Much more about the history of Mountain Biking on our website...

Artifact Collections
Mountain Bike Magazines
Fat Tire Flyers
Vintage Bike Catalogs
Race Posters/Results
Old Fun Magazine Articles
Photos
Wende Cragg Photo Gallery
Services
Gift Shop

Drink Ware
T-Shirts
Sweat Shirts
Hats
Books ...

Gift Shop
Online Gift Shop
Special Event Rental
Group Tours
ADA
Wheelchair Accessible
Exhibitions
Museum Events
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