In Loving Memory of Pat Reddix
Pat Reddix was a loving father, grandfather and family man. He was an avid cyclist, mountain biker, legendary rock band manager, general outdoorsman, that valued the simple things in life. He beat cancer two times in the past ten years and then the cancer came back and took his life. He passed December 20th, 2018.
Pat’s many friends and family, daughter, Jessica, son, Sean, daughter Sage, Pat’s granddaughter Catalina, brother Danny, brother Roger, brother Rusty, and Waldo Dave were there for him in his final days with a special loving vigilance. All shared great funny stories about Pat and showed him the love all had for him.
Pat was an avid road cyclist with the Marin Velo Club in the ’60’s and an original Marin County Fairfax mountain biker who was friends with several of the guys who invented the sport. He wrote for several mountain bike periodicals, writing reviews as well as his own world-wide read blog on his daily mountain biking adventures. He had many Europeans seeking him out for his knowledge of Marin County mountain biking and the secret trails he loved guiding them on. He was a very intelligent guy who loved riding and sharing his jokes with friends. He had an infectious crazy laugh and a disarming smile that would make you feel at ease even if you didn't know him. All of his mountain bike buddies participated on a memorial mountain bike ride to celebrate Pat's life in one of the places he loved most, Mount Tamalpais.
In 1975, Pat was asked by his lifetime friend Phil Lesh of the Grateful Dead, to manage a couple of Phil’s side bands, mainly “Touloos Ta Truck,” and also, “Seastones.” “Touloos Ta Truck” consisted of the innovative Phil on bass, virtuoso Terry Haggerty on guitar, John Allair of Van Morrison’s band on keyboards, and a guy who’s last name was Mitchell on drums.
Pat was a close knit member of the local Fairfax mountain biking scene from it's very inception in the 1970's and was good friends with mountain bike legend Joe Breeze, as well as Charlie Kelly and Gary Fisher who went on to found the world's first large scale mountain bike manufacturer "Mountain Bikes". Pat was a timekeeper in the original Repack downhill mountain bike race, the world's first official mountain bike race, and went on to write as a freelance journalist for multiple international mountain biking publications. He was riding his bike almost every day of his life, climbing up Mount Tamalpais and passing young riders even as a septuagenarian.
One of the true "O.G.'s" of mountain biking has passed, and this campaign seeks to honor his memory by commemorating a rest bench along a trail in the Marin County Municipal Water District, where he so loved to ride, as well as dedicating a brick in his name at the Mountain Biking Hall of Fame in Fairfax.