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The town of Fairfax is one of the most active cycling towns in Northern California. It is already the site of a public monument to its history of mountain biking, and now there are plans to establish a museum of bicycling.

The site is the old Food Villa/Good Earth grocery store on Sir Francis Drake Boulevard. The museum will occupy the front part of the building, and other related entities will share the rest of it. Principals involved in the planning include Joe Breeze, Otis Guy, Marc Vendetti and Julia Violich.

The project has acquired the backdrop used at the SFO mountain bike display, which will wrap around the north and west walls.
 
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First the Repack monument, now this. Good things are happenin' up there!

Is this going to be a collection of bikes telling a story similar to the SFO Museum, or general 'vintage' bikes related to Marin County luminaries? Either way, sounds great!
 
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I'm not sure whether the focus will be on mountain bikes specifically, or of bikes in general. I saw Julia yesterday at the Dave Mac 50th Birthday Ride in MV. I told her I wanted to get involved and possibly donate my archive. She said my name turns up on any list of participants longer than the four I just named.

Joe forwarded the following link to me. A very important cycling museum in Buffalo NY is closing its doors and auctioning the collection.

Others @ the DMac ride included jammin' Jimmy Sullivan, Fearless Freddy Falk and Gavin Freakin Chilcott, who I haven't seen in like twenty years.
 
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Repack Rider said:
I'm not sure whether the focus will be on mountain bikes specifically, or of bikes in general. I saw Julia yesterday at the Dave Mac 50th Birthday Ride in MV. I told her I wanted to get involved and possibly donate my archive. She said my name turns up on any list of participants longer than the four I just named.

Joe forwarded the following link to me. A very important cycling museum in Buffalo NY is closing its doors and auctioning the collection.

Others @ the DMac ride included jammin' Jimmy Sullivan, Fearless Freddy Falk and Gavin Freakin Chilcott, who I haven't seen in like twenty years.
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Damn, Dave Mac is 50! That guy shreds.:thumbsup:
 
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Sully is a crack up.
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I met Sully when he was 18, early '70s. The Sons of Champlin played an outdoor concert at Stanford U, and I saw a kid with a nice bike, so we talked bikes for a bit.

I forgot the incident, but Sully didn't forget the rock band roadie who complimented him on his bike. Years later when he won the vet national championship (after the porcine heart valve installation) I introduced myself to him, and he told me we had already met during our previous lives.

Destiny, baby, or as Sully would say, "Grab your ***** and **** your ****** with a big *****, ******!"
 
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Repack Rider said:
I met Sully when he was 18, early '70s. The Sons of Champlin played an outdoor concert at Stanford U, and I saw a kid with a nice bike, so we talked bikes for a bit.

I forgot the incident, but Sully didn't forget the rock band roadie who complimented him on his bike. Years later when he won the vet national championship (after the porcine heart valve installation) I introduced myself to him, and he told me we had already met during our previous lives.

Destiny, baby, or as Sully would say, "Grab your ***** and **** your ****** with a big *****, ******!"
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Haha, thats awesome. Amazing how small the bike world can be sometimes. Both of you guys have memories like steel traps when it comes to stuff like this. Great for the rest of us when story time comes out!
 
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