Filmmaker Nathan Ward grew up in Salida when it was still a sleepy mountain town, but he was there to meet Mike Rust, or “Mike the Bike” — the man who lit up the old Western railroad stop through his love of bikes. Rust’s legacy remains in Salida, along with the dangling mystery of his disappearance. Ward’s new film, “The Rider & The Wolf,” is a feature documentary about Rust’s tremendous influence on the sport of mountain biking in its early years, as well as the mystery around how he vanished. The film will be shown at 6 p.m. Friday …
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