Crested Butte and Marin County usually get credit as the birth place of mountain biking, but I’ve always figured it was a tenuous claim. After all, the bikes of the turn of the century were burly enough to handle dirt roads and some trails, and people took them there, as this 1909 photo of bikers in Williams Canyon above Manitou shows.

It is one of many, many cool photos you can browse on the Pikes Peak Library District Website.

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