This is Dave Epperson’s photo essay from the 1982 Fat Tire Bike Week in Crested Butte. It ran in the first issue of Bicycle Sport, August, 1983.
Author: Charlie Kelly
1983 Bicycling Magazine Workshop
This is a collection of what east coast non-mountain bikers discovered about mountain bikes. In 1983 they are careful not to call them “mountain bikes” for fear of a trademark issue with the company Gary Fisher and I had started, “MountainBikes.”
Memories of Marin: Mountain Bike Action
Every few years, bicycle magazines try to figure out where mountain biking came from. The is from May, 1991.
Action Now 1981
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.
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…