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Dec. 1985

Pineapple Bob 1985

I shot a cross race in Dec. '85 someplace in the East Bay....Tilden Park? I know the date is right because it's stamped on the Ektachrome slides. I was having one bad day....only a few of the photos are worth anything. But I found this nice shot of Pineapple Bob, who I suspect at the time was at Bridgestone with Grant Peterson. An important time and place in the development of the mountain bike.


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Grant Petersen c/o RBW 08-Jul-2020 04:59
Tons of neat, wonderful photos here. This IS Pineapple Bob--Robert Kurosawa. It's closer to 1983, I think, before he was "with" Bstone. He and I and a handful of others rode on the Jintensha Studio/Hiroshi Iimura-sponsored SHULA team. SHULA was the brand of road frames we raced. The jerseys were made in England by a company called GIBBSPORT, and were beautiful but super scratch polyestet--like the backside of a rug, almost. This does look like the Tilden course, and the Shimano thumbshifters put it at 1983-5. I'm pretty sure. Nobody cares, but for the record, that's my opinion. I love the Bosnia photos. All of these, really. Man, good work, James.