How These Dudes Invented Mountain Biking

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1. This AD made me unsubscribe to you
2. I have made a request to your organization that this be removed from the web, and I have filed an official complaint. You took up our time and never told us that what you were filming at our nonprofit bicycle history museum was a commercial. You also never bothered to check to see if you got things anywhere close to right. This video omits important facts and names that are central to this history. No mention either that other people, outside of Marin, did similar riding, way before. You waited a full week after this was first posted to tell us that it was on the web for anyone to see.
3. What is that song on 0:33?
4. Broke my collar bone in 1977 "mountain biking" in Australia.  I hardly think these guys "invented" mountain biking.  Kid+bike+hill= mountain biking.
5. I'm fine with in-video advertisements, so long as you're honest and up front about it. Don't insult my intelligence.
   
   This is the second time you've done the shifty product placement, and my third ever YouTube post. Next time you do it, I won't bother posting, I'll just unsubscribe.
6. Seeker is still young yet, but when it grows up, it'll realize that its audience isn't stupid and sees the frequent ad placement. But...give it a couple years.
7. Love this longer videos, I think your videos are too short, I do like the content. 
8. Please just set up a Patreon.  Nobody wants to see your shitty product placement.
9. Ugh @ 4:03!
   Will unsubscribe next time.
10. Really guys? With the toast scene that didn't contribute to the video and insults your audience's intelligence? You're better than that.
11. Very bad. I appreciate the sponsored by in the beginning, but the toast about 4 minutes in was too much.
12. YAY Buzzfeed encouraging committing a DUI. Drinking beer and mountain biking!
13. I love mountain biking
14. Always feels weird when my home town of Cupertino gets mentioned in something. Makes sense though, we got Black Mountain,
15. Klunkerz 2006 documentary
16. I was there too.
    The "Mountain bike" wasn't really invented in one place; many of us in the early 1970's put fatter tires on our rugged Schwinn 10 speeds to ride trails in Ventura county; it's because we couldn't afford motocross motorcycles that were all the craze.
      In the 1970's, Old ugly 1950's Cruiser bikes were used by Surfers and pukka shell beach chicks because the fat tires, low gearing allowed for riding on wet sand and being rusty they wouldn't be stolen so readily.
     The off-road bike was being developed everywhere by everyone.  It was a re-purposing by outdoorsy baby boomers... and the BMX bike came along about the same time.
17. I'm sorry, but while these guys might've been instrumental in popularizing the sport, and in designing the modern mountain bike, they didn't invent mountain biking. Read Iron Riders: The Story of the 1890s Fort Missoula Buffalo Soldier Bicycle Corps by George Niels Sorensen.
    Sorensen recounts how in the 1890s African American Buffalo Soldiers of the U.S. Army formed an experimental bicycle corps. They conducted bicycle-mounted military exercises in Northern Montana, and eventually completed a 1900 mile ride on 100 pound bicycles from Fort Missoula to St. Louis. A cross-country ride that took them across the Rocky Mountains, through Yellowstone and the Great Plains.
18. people calling this an ad, it wasn't sponsored by the bike company you retards, just by some drink
19. Haha, nice product placement ---but yeah, interesting still
20. do bodyboard