My friend Gavin Chilcott made the cover in the days before helmets were mandatory on cover shots. The editors visit California to try to figure out this mountain bike thing. Editor Chuck McCullagh opines.
Month: January 2023
Cyclist, August 1985
This issue had several interesting features, including the American magazine version of the Crane brothers’ mountain bike ascent of Mount Kilimanjaro. Jacquie Phelan contributed a story about women in their first race. There is a review of the Schwinn Cimarron. Here is another article about the Crane brothers.
Victor Vincente of America
Another profile of my friend Victor Vincente of America.
Cyclist, May 1985
This issue of Cyclist is chock full of goodies, two articles by Jacquie Phelan and one by Hank Barlow. I even left in the Rockhopper review.
Sports Illustrated, April 1985
By early 1985 mountain biking had gone mainstream enough that it shared ink with Hulk Hogan. The focus of the article is Laurence Malone (R.I.P.) who was the perennial cyclocross champion in the United States.