I would like to call attention here to Alan Bonds’ Clunker website. Alan shared the house at 32 Humboldt in San Anselmo with Gery Fisher and me, and is responsible for assembling some of the most beautiful “clunkers” ever. No two are alike, because each is a separate creation. There are now dozens of “tribute…
I spent the month of October last year barnstorming around UK. I spent a day in Hebden Bridge, which is where the magazine Singletrack is published. In connection with that, I did a video interview, took a night ride, then regaled the locals in a pub. One of the “locals” was Hannah Dobson, one of…
This was intended to be a club newsletter for a club that only met one time. after that it became the sole voice of mountain biking for six years, until major magazines jumped into the market. The 25 or so copies went to people who all knew each other, which made “news” a low priority….
One of the great collectors of mountain bike lore, history and equipment was Jeff Archer, who was sadly killed in a traffic accident a couple of years ago, and posthumously inducted into the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame. Jeff had the Museum of Mountain Bike Art and Technology , otherwise known as MOMBAT, which he…
Dirt Rag is the spiritual heir to the Fat Tire Flyer. In the early years of Dirt Rag, I got a package from some guy out west, a guy by the name of Charlie Kelly. In the package were some magazines. Fat Tire Flyer it was called. It was the first MTB magazine, published from…