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REPACK RESULTS

Races #1 through #15 original documents This page: Complete stats with notes

Joe Breeze has compiled the all-time Repack statistics. I have posted them here for your research or amusement. At the right is his hand-drawn map of the course. Click the image to see it full-size. Repack ended in 1984, after 91 racers, the biggest field by far, descended on the course in the NORBA sanctioned event. Downhill racing is a worldwide sport now, and Repack links the underground racing of the past to the major sport it is today. It is fitting that the first sanctioned downhill races were the last two Repack races. The history of downhill bicycle racing starts at Repack, and here are the records of that birth.	(Click image to see full size)

Joe Breeze in a Wende Cragg photo Poster for the 1983 Repack event. This was the first NORBA sanctioned downhill race.

Race #1, Thursday, October 21, 1976
1. Alan Bonds	San Anselmo	5:12	Only rider who didn't fall
2. ?
3. ?
4. ?
5. ?			This is the only result page that no longer exists.

Race #2, Tuesday, October 26, 1976
1. Bob Burrowes	San Anselmo	4:50	First run timed under five minutes. This would become the
2. Fred Wolf	Fairfax	5:19	standard that divided the novice from the expert category.
3. Alan Bonds	San Anselmo	5:19
4. Wende Cragg	Fairfax	5:43
5. Bob Peterson	Fairfax	6:24
Racers: 9			Fastest dog was Ariel, Alan Bonds' dog (7:30)

Race #3, Saturday, October 30, 1976
1. Joe Breeze	Mill Valley	4:56	First Repack race
2. Fred Wolf	Fairfax	5:08
3. Bob Burrowes	San Anselmo	5:08
4. George Newman	Larkspur	5:17	First Repack Race
5. Alan Bonds	San Anselmo	5:34
Racers: 11

Race #4, Saturday, November 13, 1976
1. Joe Breeze	Mill Valley	4:44
2. George Newman	Larkspur	4:46
3. Fred Wolf	Fairfax	4:55
4. Jerry Riboli	Corte Madera	4:59
5. Otis Guy	San Anselmo	5:09	First Repack race
Racers: 13

The title is a little misleading. This is a partial list of personal best times for each rider.

Race #5, Saturday, November 20, 1976
1. George Newman	Larkspur	4:47.51
2. Joe Breeze	Mill Valley	4:49.58
3. Gary Fisher	San Anselmo	4:50.36	First Repack race
4. Otis Guy	San Anselmo	4:50.44
5. Fred Wolf	Fairfax	4:50.95
Racers: 21

Race #6, Sunday, November 28, 1976
1. Joe Breeze	Mill Valley	4:32.17
2. Fred Wolf	Fairfax	4:37.66
3. George Newman	Larkspur	4:44.58
4. Alan Bonds	San Anselmo	5:05.74
5. Eric Fletcher	San Anselmo	5:10.52
Racers: 15			First out of county riders, Berkeley Trailers Union (BTU)

Race #7, Sunday, December 5, 1976
1. Gary Fisher	San Anselmo	4:22.14	Course record
2. Joe Breeze	Mill Valley	4:33.81
3. Fred Wolf	Fairfax	4:40.65
4. Otis Guy	San Anselmo	4:43.59
5. Alan Bonds	San Anselmo	4:56.46
Racers: 14

Art Black, 1978 Wende Cragg photo Gary Fisher celebrates a win. Wende Cragg photo

Race #8, Sunday, December 12, 1976
1. Otis Guy	San Anselmo	4:25.68	3rd fastest time ever, including a stop to avoid a dog on the course
2. Joe Breeze	Mill Valley	4:27.71
3. Charles Kelly	San Anselmo	4:57.82
4. Alan Bonds	San Anselmo	4:59.50
5. Les Degan	Fairfax	5:06.46
Racers: 19			First racer from out of Bay Area, Craig Smith (Sacramento)

Photo by Larry Cragg. The starting area for Repack, 1977. A time for bike inspection while Bob Burrowes shows off his new "Marin Klunkers" t-shirt. Photographer Wende Cragg is at right.

Race #9, Sunday, December 19, 1976
1. Joe Breeze	Mill Valley	4:24.07	Personal best, second fastest time ever
2. Otis Guy	San Anselmo	4:40
3. Fred Wolf	Fairfax	4:42
4. Alan Bonds	San Anselmo	4:46
5. George Newman	Larkspur	4:47
Racers: 18			Last race until the next spring

Race #10, Sunday, April 3, 1977
1. Alan Bonds	San Anselmo	4:50
2. Benny Hendricks	Berkeley(?)	5:03
3. Charlie Kelly	San Anselmo	5:04
4. Bob Burrowes	San Anselmo	5:06
5. Ron Brookman	Tiburon	5:07
Racers: 9

Race #11, Sunday, April 10, 1977
1. Bob Burrowes	San Anselmo	4:39
1. (Tie) Alan Bonds	San Anselmo	4:39	Personal best
3. Fred Wolf	Fairfax	4:40
4. Joe Breeze	Mill Valley	4:49
5. Ron Brookman	Tiburon	4:52	The only race with a tie for first place
Racers: 16			All subsequent races were recorded in hundredths of a second

Race #13, Sept. 17 or 18, 1977 (Last leg of first cross-country "Enduro" race shown in Jerry Riboli photo)
1. Alan Bonds	San Anselmo	4:27.61
2. Joe Breeze	Mill Valley	4:52.66
3. Robert Stewart	Larkspur	5:01.97
4. Roy Rivers	Larkspur	5:07.57
5. Craig Mitchell	Fairfax	5:08.39	As part of the longer race, this Repack time had a
Racers: 16			"rolling" start. Alan Bonds promoted and won the race.

Race #14, Sunday, October 2, 1977
1. Joe Breeze	Mill Valley	4:34.58
2. Fred Wolf	Fairfax	4:40.95
3. Bob Burrowes	San Anselmo	4:41.69
4. Alan Bonds	San Anselmo	4:42.36
5. Charlie Kelly	San Anselmo	4:58.99	First Repack for Kent Bostick, later to be national road champ
Racers: 16			and Olympic cycling team member

Race #15, ???, 1977
1. Joe Breeze	Mill Valley	4:25.55	First race on first "Breezer" bike
2. Fred Wolf	Fairfax	4:35.60
3. Bob Burrowes	San Anselmo	4:36.04
4. Alan Bonds	San Anselmo	4:48.64
5. Charlie Kelly	San Anselmo	4:49.33	Personal best
Racers: 10			Same finish order as previous race

Race #16, ???, 1977
1. Gary Fisher	San Anselmo	4:42.49
2. Alan Bonds	San Anselmo	4:50.40
3. Eric Bredt	Fairfax	5:14.93
4. Gordon Meyer	Berkeley	5:15.54
5. Chris McManus	Mill Valley	5:21.77
Racers: 16

Race #17, Sunday, December 4, 1977
1. Joe Breeze	Mill Valley	4:30.10
2. Otis Guy	San Anselmo	4:39.18
3. Ken Fuetsch	Corte Madera	5:14.20
4. Toby Hardman	San Anselmo	5:27.95
5. Pat Oliver	Berkeley	5:41.18
Racers: 7

Race #18, Sunday, October 29, 1978
1. Joe Breeze	Mill Valley	4:40.00	Three "Breezer" bikes in race
2. Gary Fisher	San Anselmo	4:44.92
3. Mark Green	Novato	4:51.32	Personal best
4. Alan Bonds	San Anselmo	4:55.20
5. Bob Burrowes	San Anselmo	4:55.45	First mountain bike race ever to be advertised on a poster.
Racers: 18			Race poster

Race #19, Sunday, November 26, 1978
1. Joe Breeze	Mill Valley	4:31.65
2. Bob Burrowes	San Anselmo	4:35.74	Personal best
3. Alan Bonds	San Anselmo	4:40.85
4. Gary Fisher	San Anselmo	4:41.21
5. Fred Wolf	Fairfax	4:43.73
Racers: 26

Race #20, Saturday, December 30, 1978
1. Joe Breeze	Mill Valley	4:44.19
2. Ralph Venne	Larkspur	4:58.87
3. John Drum	Larkspur	4:59.43
4. Toby Hardeman	San Anselmo	5:04.41
5. Ed Vickart	Greenbrae	5:05.28
Racers: 11			Wende Cragg finished 7th with a personal best of 5:29.82

Race #21, Saturday, January 20, 1979
1. Gary Fisher	San Anselmo	4:30.36
2. Joe Breeze	Mill Valley	4:31.30	Six "Breezer" bikes in race
3. Craig Weichel	Larkspur	4:37.27	Personal best
4. Otis Guy	San Anselmo	4:39.68
5. Alan Bonds	San Anselmo	4:49.01
6. Bob Burrowes	San Anselmo	4:50.79
7. Mark Green	Novato	4:53.00
8. Fred Wolf	Fairfax	4:54.44
9. John Drum	Larkspur	4:56.19
10. Art Gleck	Corte Madera	4:58.52
Tom Ritchey's first Repack race, on a converted Schwinn "clunker." 5:17.51
KPIX (Ch. 5, San Francisco) "Evening Magazine" filmed a segment on Repack, later broadcast nationally

From Joe Breeze's History of Repack:

Race #22, Saturday, August 11, 1979
1. Gary Fisher	Fairfax	4:38.70	First race on the first Ritchey Mountainbike
2. Joe Breeze	Mill Valley	4:41.50
3. Noel Agajan	San Anselmo	4:50.50
4. Alan Bonds	San Anselmo	5:01.40
5. Roy Rivers	Larkspur	5:02.50
Racers: 12			"MountainBikes" shop opened one month later in San Anselmo

Race #23, Saturday, October 8, 1983 (Gary Fisher put this race on.)
1. Jimmy Deaton	Roseville	4:41.50
2. Joe Breeze	Mill Valley	4:43.70
3. Mike Jordan	Redding	4:45.88
4. Roy Rivers	Larkspur	4:52.33
5. Otis Guy	Fairfax	4:53.26
6. Larry Slate	Greenbrae	4:53.18
7. Marcus Ganister	Monte Sereno	4:58.56
8. Rob Nilsen	San Anselmo	4:58.65
9. Brian Skinner	Canoga Park	4:59.31
10. Mark Michel	Santa Cruz	5:00.85
First Repack race run under a NORBA sanction, also the first NORBA sanctioned downhill race. This was the first "official" downhill mountain bike competition ever held.
Participants included Mike Sinyard, owner of Specialized (5:12.59), and Dan Hannebrink (5:39.30)

Race #24, Saturday, May 19, 1984 Grand Finale
1. Jimmy Deaton	Roseville	4:34.20
2. Erik Westerhof	San Rafael	4:39.50
3. Joe Peterson	Stinson Beach	4:40.70
4. Roy Rivers	Larkspur	4:46.80
5. Joe Breeze	Mill Valley	4:47.00
6. Dirk Denny	Novato	4:53.20
7. Rob Nilsen	San Anselmo	4:53.80
8. Noel Agajan	San Anselmo	4:53.80
Racers: 91			This was the last Repack race, a victim of its own success. It was co-sponsored by Fat Tire Flyer and Ross Valley Fire Department. The downhill finish was combined with the next day's "Rockhopper" race in Santa Rosa for a two-stage event.

A map of Repack Drawn by Joe Breeze Joe Breeze drew this map as his own "secret weapon," a means of memorizing the course. "Vendetti's face" and the "Breeze tree" mark the sites of major crashes. Marc Vendetti left a lot of his face at "Vendetti's face."

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