In 1989 the postman brought me the first issue of a new magazine called Dirt Rag. It was not much different from a dozen or so inexpensively printed local mountain bike newsletters that had come my way, with one major exception. Dirt Rag lasted over thirty years. This week the Internet brought me the news…
I wrote this in 1992. Every copy of this issue of Dirt Rag sold out.
This is my article from Bicycling Magazine about the 1979 Crested Butte to Aspen tour.
In the early 1970s, cyclists in and around Marin County started assembling “clunkers” using salvaged paper-boy bikes from the 1930s and ’40s and bombing down Tam’s paths and fire roads.