Dean Bradley was the editor of BMX Plus! before taking the job at Action Now. His friend Monte Ward had one of the first Ritchey MountainBikes sold, and Dean was happy to feature it and the owner in this issue.
Month: October 2021
Bicycle Motocross Action 1980
In 1979 Bob Osborne from a BMX publication called Bicycle Motocross Action paid a visit to Marin County to check out the new “clunker” movement. The real draw was Mert Lawwill, retired motorcycle champion who now had his own line of balloon tire bikes called the ProCruiser. The result was one of the first articles…
Scot Nicol at Home
This from the English magazine Privateer, which did an entire issue about Northern California.
Fairfax Pat
My deceased riding companion Pat Reddix used the internet handle “FairfaxPat.” When I was unable to host visiting English mountain bike journalists, for better or worse I turned them over to Pat. Here is the article they wrote from the experience.
Riding With Legends
The Marin mountain bike crew is pretty colorful even by American standards. While the English have their share of colorful characters, they don’t have a state dedicated to the concept, so when they come here they tend to get more excited about these folks than the locals do. Here is an example from the English…