Bodfish Bicycles and Quiet Mountain Sports

This business was started by Chuck Elliot who has used the nom de plume Bodfish for the last 43 years (1973). His columns, under the headings...Outback with Bodfish/ Biking with Bodfish appeared in various publications for decades. In 1976 he started an offroad bicycle race that is still held annually in Chico's Bidwell Park called The Bidwell Bump....purported to be the oldest offroad bicycle race on the planet. In 1979 he published Butte Country Bicycle Journeys which described rides both on and offroad in California's northern Sacramento Valley and all the way to the Pacific Coast. He also developed and orchestrated the first Wildflower Century ride that same year. In 1981 he published a more extensive book of NorCal bicycle trips called Cycling in the Shadow of Shasta with Bodfish, it also featured on and offroad rides, everyone of which featured a view of Mt. Shasta. In 1983 Chuck Elliot published the first mountain bike book titled...Cycling The California Outback with Bodfish. In 1990 Chuck published California Dream Cycling with Bodfish while performing stay at home Dad duties and teaching part-time. His son, the "microfish" grew up in the bicycle shop and now has his own business: Pup And Suds Productions.