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Gary Christopher Fisher (born 1950) is considered one of the inventors of the mountain bike. On a personal level, mountain bikers are unsure how to take his eclectic personal style, evidenced by such things as wearing rose-tinted diamond-shaped sunglasses, brightly colored suits, and sporting "soul patch" facial hair.
 

 

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But those things are looked at with amusement by mountain bikers in the know because Gary loves mountain biking and still rides avidly. Fisher started competing in road and track races at the age of 12. He was suspended from the sport in 1968 because race organizers felt his hair was too long, and cited a rule that agreed with them [citation needed]. But by 1972 this rule had been repealed and Fisher's cycling career continued. In more recent decades, Gary has won the difficult TransAlp race in Europe and a Masters XC national title.
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Perhaps inspired by a bicycle he saw that had been built by Russ Mahon, Fisher went to work on his 1930's era Schwinn Excelsior X bicycle in 1975. His innovations to the model included drum brakes, motorcycle brake levers and cables (to improve stopping power for mountain use, thumb shifters and derailleurs (so that it could climb up the mountain), and triple front chain rings, all taken from "junkers" that Fisher and friends found at local bike shops.

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