A steel Schwinn from 1940, an antique coaster brake that "spits out all its grease," and a 38-mile grind over Pearl Pass at 12,700 feet. Fifty years after Crested Butte's beer-fueled bike tinkerers first pedaled this route, their klunker tour still argues for the town's claim as mountain biking's birthplace.

— via Colorado Sun, Jason Blevins