#65: Gary Fisher — The Inventor of the Mountain Bike on the Bicycle Revolution - a podcast by Oli Russell-Cowan

Gary Fisher is the inventor of the modern mountain bike and Founder of Fisher Bicycle. Gary grew up in San Francisco, California riding road bikes as a kid and persuaded the Belmont Bike Club to let him join them. This opened up his world to racing bikes taking wins in the TransAlp and Masters XC national title. He set the record for the Repack downhill race on a modified Klunker bike which lead to him coming up with the term 'mountain bike' in 1979. That year Gary and Charlie Kelly founded MountainBikes specialising in bikes that could be used in off road terrain.

Tune in to find out how Gary came up with the idea for the mountain bike, his time as a bike mechanic, bike tester, journalist and lighting engineer in the late 60's for bands like the Grateful Dead and Janis Joplin, dealing with Hells Angels, his family background in Hollywood, importing mountain bikes around the world, selling his company to Trek Bicycle Corporation, the future of mountain biking and so much more!

Enjoy and get rad!

You can follow what Gary is up to on Instagram at gary_fisher
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