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2 unusual facts about Mount Tamalpais


Cruiser bicycle

During the mid Seventies, a group of enthusiasts in Marin County, California began racing bikes down the fireroads of local Mount Tamalpais, in a race they called "Repack" because the ride was so grueling that riders had to repack their coaster brakes with grease after each run.

Paffard Keatinge-Clay

Here, he built a pavilion in the desert – an elemental study of components that would later become the template for his own home on the slopes of Mount Tamalpais in Corte Madera in Marin County.



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Joe Breeze

A downhill time trial on fire roads in the hills west of Fairfax, California, Repack brought together riders from around Mount Tamalpais who stripped down older bikes for off-road use and fitted rugged parts to them.