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Preferred Citation: [Identification of item], [Collection Title], [Collection Number], Center of Southwest Studies, Fort Lewis College, Durango, Colorado.

 

 

Collection Description

Historical/Biographical Note: Durango, Colorado, hosted the first-ever World Mountain Bike Championships in September of 1990. The events were held at the Durango Mountain Resort (Purgatory). Durango's role in hosting international mountain bike competitions continued: it was the site for a Union Cycliste International (UCI) World Cup Series Mountain bike triple event, July 14-15, 2001. According to a notice in the Durango Dining & Activity Guide, [late 2000], page G-13, that event features all three major disciplines of the sport: cross-country, downhill, and dual; it is one of only three such events that the National Off-Road Bicycle Association (NORBA) has planned for North American in 2001-02. The article quotes Bob Kunkel, senior vice president of the Durango Mountain Resort, as saying that "`We are pleased NORBA recognized our sincere desire and commitment to make this event the best on their schedule. We have terrain that makes great courses, a backdrop of incredible scenery, a unique, exciting downtown and the local enthusiasm for mountain biking that it takes to put on a world-class event.'" 

Ed Zink, lifelong Durango resident and Fort Lewis College Foundation board member, was the event director for the 1990 World's, has been the director of the annual Iron Horse Bicycle Classic (held around Memorial Day each year since 1971; on-road bicyclists race the narrow-gauge coal-fired train from Durango to Silverton), and helped coordinate the 2001 World Cup Series event. The Durango tourism magazine cites Zink as observing that "`Getting the World Cup Series here is a validation and culmination of years of effort hosting cycling events in Durango. It's really a testament to our reputation as the country's premier mountain bike town.'"

 

Scope & Contents: This is a collection of records and ephemera compiled by Ed Zink about Durango (Colorado) mountain bike competitions. It includes 8 boxes of records of the first-ever World Mountain Bike Championships (WMBC), held at the Durango Mountain Resort (Purgatory) in September of 1990; 17 boxes (before processing) of records pertaining to the Iron Horse Bicycle Classic; and records of the Union Cycliste International (UCI) sponsored 2001 World Cup events held in Durango and in other venues. The records include administrative files and accident reports; race programs and race results lists; catalogs; media files and publicity materials; articles, magazines and other publications mentioning the events; other printed materials; slides and photo prints; and ephemera including photo prints and photo transparencies (slides); maps; and ephemera (posters, plaques, t-shirts, mugs, water bottles, etc.).

 

Acquisitions Information: These materials were donated by Ed Zink, who created and maintained the collection; accessions 2000:12002 and 2006:102. Mr. Zink had stored them in his garage during the years prior to his donation to the Center. At a meeting held on October 18, 2000, the Southwest Accessions Committee unanimously approved the acquisition of this collection.

 

Processing Information: The 2000 accession was initially arranged and described at the Center of Southwest Studies by Todd Ellison in December of 2000; subsequent acquisitions were processed by the Center's student archival assistants under his supervision, including Nicholas Costa, who arranged and described the 2006 accession during the 2007/08 school year. The inventory was drafted by Todd Ellison, October 2007.

 

Nothing was deaccessioned during processing; the following 3 linear shelf feet of materials were not accessioned but rather were returned to Ed Zink on February 6, 2001:

• duplicates of a 9/2/90 supplement to the Durango Herald about the World's event (a 9" high stack; the Center retained 6 copies)
• duplicates of the press kit for the 1990 World's (a 3' high stack; the Center retained 6 press kits)
• 1990 World's financial receipts, A-Z (5 linear shelf inches; these are considered a housekeeping income and lack long-term research or administrative value)
• 1990 World's racer registrations (4 linear shelf inches; these are considered a housekeeping income and lack long-term research or administrative value, and they are confidential personal information)
• folder of medical incident reports, 1990 September (confidential information re: individual bicyclists) 
• folder of local lodging records, 1990 (these are another housekeeping type of record containing personal or detailed information that is not suitable for a research collection)
• Up With People promotional folder
• emptied three-ring binders

 

Subjects:

Mountain biking competitions--Colorado--Durango
Durango (Colo.) --Athletic events

 

Detailed Description of the Collection

Series Description

Record Group 1: 1990 World Mountain Bike Championships (Durango, Colorado, 1990 Sept.)

Series 1.1:       Administrative records and correspondence, 1989-1990. __folders in 3 document cases (boxes 1-3). Includes planning records, organizing committee meeting minutes, rosters of race officials, and race results (retained in its original packet due to the packet's artifactual value). Arrangement is chronological.

Series 1.2       Manuals and rule books, 198_-1990. __folders, in 3 document cases (boxes 4-6). Includes records of the National Off-Road Bicycle Association (NORBA), Union Cycliste International (UCI), and United States Cycling Federation (USCF). Arrangement is by name of governing organization, then chronological.

Series 1.3       Country files, 1989-1990. __folders, in 1 document case (box 7). Arrangement is alphabetical by name of country.

Series 1.4       National team rosters and entry form records, 1989-1990. __folders, in 1 document case (box 8). Arrangement is alphabetical by name of country.

Series 1.5       Financial records, 1989-1990. __folders, in 1 document case (box 9). Arrangement is chronological.

Series 1.6       Sponsorship records and correspondence, 1989-1990. __folders, in 1 records box and 1 document case (boxes 10-11). Arrangement of folders is alphabetical by name of sponsor (after several initial general folders).

Series 1.7       Publicity materials, 1989-1990. __folders, in 3 document cases, 1 records box, and two flat boxes (boxes 12-17). Includes the souvenir program (the Center has retained all 40 copies for possible use in an exhibition), posters, press clippings, newspaper clippings, and periodicals and bicycling product catalogs mentioning the 1990 WMBC. Also includes ephemera (4 ceramic mugs and 4 plastic drinking bottles). Arrangement is chronological.

Series 1.8       Photographs, 1990. __ items, in 1 document case (box 18). Photoprints (with matching 35 mm negatives) and slide transparencies. Arrangement is chronological.

Series 1.9       Ephemera. Arrangement is chronological.
 

Record Group 2:  Iron Horse Bicycle Classic (Durango, Colorado, 19__ - ____)

Series 2.1:       Administrative records and correspondence, 19__-19__. __folders, in 3 document cases (boxes 1-3). Includes planning records, organizing committee meeting minutes, rosters of race officials, and race results. Arrangement is chronological.

Series 2.2       Manuals and rule books, 19__-19__. __folders, in _ document cases. Includes ...  Arrangement is chronological.

Series 2.3       Financial records, 19__-19__. __folders, in _ document cases. Arrangement is chronological.

Series 2.4       Sponsorship records and correspondence, 19__-19__. __folders, in _ document cases. Arrangement of folders is alphabetical by name of sponsor (after several initial general folders).

Series 2.5       Publicity materials, 19__-19__. __folders, in _ document cases. Includes the souvenir program (the Center has retained all 40 copies for possible use in an exhibition), posters, press clippings, newspaper clippings, and periodicals and bicycling product catalogs mentioning the 1990 WMBC. Also includes ephemera (4 ceramic mugs and 4 plastic drinking bottles). Arrangement is chronological.

Series 2.6       Photographs, 19__-19__. __folders, in _ document cases. Photoprints (with matching 35 mm negatives) and slide transparencies. Arrangement is chronological.

Series 2.7       Ephemera, 19__-19__. __folders, in _ document cases. Includes... . Arrangement is chronological.
 

Record Group 3: 1995 collegiate national mountain bike championships (Durango, Colorado, 1995)

Series 3.1       Publicity materials, 1995.  __ folders, in 1 document case (box 1 of RG 3).

Series 3.2       Records, 1995. __ folders, in 1 document case (box 1 of RG 3).

Series 3.3       Ephemera, 1995.  __ folders, in _ document cases. Includes... . Arrangement is chronological.

Record Group 4: Other bicycling organizations and area races. Includes the World Cup events held in Durango in 2001, and records of the National Off-Road Bicycle Association (NORBA) and Union Cycliste International (UCI).

Series 4.1       NORBA manual and rule books, 2001 (?). __ folders, in 1 document case.

Series 4.2       NORBA publicity materials , 2001 (?). Includes NORBA News. __folders, in 1 document case.

Series 4.3       NORBA records, 2001 (?). __folders, in 1 document case.

Series 4.4       UCI manual and rule books, 2001 (?). __ folders, in 1 document case

Series 4.5       UCI records, 2001 (?). __folders, in 1 document case

Series 4.6       Ephemera, 2001 (?). __folders, in 1 document case