Camera Corner: Wende Cragg Documents the Birth of Mountain Biking | movie | 2024 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

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00:00In the beginning, it was really just me and Wendy.

00:111976 and 77, I think she rode Mount Tam every day of the year.

00:17So she was really fit.

00:20It was really just more Wendy being Wendy.

00:24I loved riding with Wendy.

00:27She was the first woman to race repack.

00:29The first three races, I raced it.

00:33I crashed.

00:34I really seriously crashed.

00:37She also carried a camera with her.

00:40Whenever you see the photographers, hold on.

00:43You see them like where it's the most dangerous.

00:46And yeah, there would be Wendy.

00:50Krodo mountain biking was about as macho

00:52as skateboarding in the 70s, which is you

00:55don't see any girls at all.

00:59Someone's perception of what a woman is capable of doing.

01:03Oh yeah, I've been getting in shape all my life for it.

01:07Wendy's presence almost certainly shamed those guys.

01:11It's possible without Wendy, that longest running event

01:15in mountain biking would not still be running.

01:18I mean, as to ask what she did with her camera.

01:21People had to see it to believe it.

01:23All these places, all these people, all these things,

01:26all these adventures.

01:28She really kept the history alive.

01:32I think pretty much she's the only one.

01:36All these guys said, I bet you can't do that.

01:39So I had to prove myself.