While talking to my friend Pat in the coffee shop this morning, he told me that Craig made the first MTB for Charlie Kelly, but unhappy with the bike, Charlie went to Tom Ritchey. Craig's bike was more conventional than that funky 20"er that we remember. This bike that Craig made for Charlie was built before Breeze made his first batch of ten. chris ioakimedes Fairfax California
-----Original Message----- From: classicrendezvous-bounces@bikelist.org [mailto:classicrendezvous-bounces@bikelist.org] On Behalf Of Philcycles@aol.com Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2004 2:51 PM To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org Subject: Re: Subject: [CR]Anyone remember Craig Mitchell of Marin?
In a message dated 2/10/04 2:42:35 PM, bradley@americancyclery.com
writes:
>I have an interesting Craig Mitchell Mountain bike that he made using
20"
>wheels and designed for an adult to ride off road. He took a 70's BMX
frame
>and added a strut and trussrod system to extend the seatpost up. It's
>a
>pretty wacky bike but it is one of the early mountain bikes from Marin.
>
I knew Craig as well but as I remember Doug White bujilt the first 20"
wheel
off road-don't call it a mountain-bike. We were living in Oak Manor and
just
up the street was one of the fire roads. Like Craig's-and Victor's- it
doesn't
count because of the 20' wheels. I remember the Sofa Cycle recumbent as
well.
Doug built one too and used to ride it from Pt Reyes to Fairfax. Those
were
the days.
Phil Brown
Waxing nostalgic in San Rafael, Calif.