This issue warms up the 1985 mountain bike season by suggesting that Jacquie Phelan had rivals. As it turned out later that year, she did not. Also, a pair of Dutch mountain bikers climbed Mont Blanc, to claim some sort of claim.
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Hanna Dobson: “So hard to write about a day out like that without sounding like ‘first we went to the chocolate factory, then we ate the chocolates, then we ate the secret chocolates, then we swam in a river of chocolate, and then we ate more chocolates with the inventors of chocolate. And you lot, you can go and buy Hershey’s.'”
Bicycle Action, March 1985
This issue featured the Crane Brothers trekking with their mountain bikes to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro.
Cyclist, April 1985
This issue of Cyclist featured two articles about Charlie Cunningham, as well as my report on the 1984 National Cyclocross Championships.
American Bicyclist (and Motorcyclist)
This was the unreadable, least influential, and most useless of the trade magazines. They paid me to write shitty articles. Because I had no pride, I took their money. Here is one of those articles