In 1978 I joined my Marin County friends Joe Breeze, Gary Fisher, Mike Castelli and Wende Cragg on an expedition to Colorado for the ride from Crested Butte to Aspen. We thought we would find people just like us, but we were shocked to find that it was just a bunch of people with town…
After years of online communication with UK bike blogs, and after hosting several visitations by UK mountain bikers I met on those blogs, I wanted to go there and ride on their turf. In 2017 the excuse and the vehicle was a lecture tour to push my book, Fat Tire Flyer: Repack and the Birth…
The day after Fat Tire Flyer was released, Tom Baker had already read it and written this review.
Last year I did a lecture tour of the UK, with stops in England, Wales and Scotland, to lecture on the bicycling adventures recounted in my book, Fat Tire Flyer: Repack and the Birth of Mountain Biking. More recently I spoke to the local Rotary Club. I am available to entertain bicycle groups or any…
I got a call from my friend John Ker at Mountain Bike Action. He was asking what I knew about vintage mountain bikes that had two different wheel sizes. I’m willing to stand corrected if there were others, but the only bike I could remember like that was a Cannondale from the early ’80s, which…