The Fat Tire Flyer started off as a club newsletter. The club only met one time, and the only thing it accomplished at that meeting was to assign the production of the club newsletter to Denise Caramagno and me.
At that meeting, we thought about what we should call the newsletter, and Denise came up with “Fat Tire Flyer.” No discussion was necessary. It was approved by acclaim. Nothing could improve on that.
Since the first issue was distributed among a couple of dozen people who all knew each other, there wasn’t a lot of hard news to report. But we worked with what we had at the time, we learned about publishing, and over the next seven years the Flyer became the first voice of the mountain bike community.
The first issue and several that followed were a few sheets photocopied and stapled together. The average PTA newsletter is more professionally published. The type was done on an ordinary typewriter. Headlines were made with stick-on letters you could buy at a stationery store, embellished with pen and ink art. It would take a few issues before we could reproduce a photograph.
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Where is Denise these daze?
-Jim
Oakland, mother of two.
This so coooool!
Incredible and made my life a better place in the world becoming a Mountain Biker been riding literally since 18 and now 48 and still ride hard fast and fast taking chances!! Thank you for your inspiration!
Hi Charlie
How can I order the book? I sent you a message on Facebook as well.
Thanks,
Seif
The book is currently out of print. I can’t get any. I am working with a new publisher to get back in print.
Hey Charlie this is great! I recently read “The Birth of Dirt” and seeing you active here ties in so well with that!