One of the great collectors of mountain bike lore, history and equipment was Jeff Archer, who was sadly killed in a traffic accident a couple of years ago, and posthumously inducted into the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame. Jeff had the Museum of Mountain Bike Art and Technology , otherwise known as MOMBAT, which he…
Dirt Rag is the spiritual heir to the Fat Tire Flyer. In the early years of Dirt Rag, I got a package from some guy out west, a guy by the name of Charlie Kelly. In the package were some magazines. Fat Tire Flyer it was called. It was the first MTB magazine, published from…
In 1978 I joined my Marin County friends Joe Breeze, Gary Fisher, Mike Castelli and Wende Cragg on an expedition to Colorado for the ride from Crested Butte to Aspen. We thought we would find people just like us, but we were shocked to find that it was just a bunch of people with town…
After years of online communication with UK bike blogs, and after hosting several visitations by UK mountain bikers I met on those blogs, I wanted to go there and ride on their turf. In 2017 the excuse and the vehicle was a lecture tour to push my book, Fat Tire Flyer: Repack and the Birth…
The day after Fat Tire Flyer was released, Tom Baker had already read it and written this review.