When the Wall Street Journal contacted English bicycling writer Robert Penn to write a review of my book, they probably didn’t realize that he was a personal friend and that I had appeared on his BBC special, “The Ride of My Life.”
Category: Reviews of My Book
Book reviews of my Autobiographical Book — Fat Tire Flyer: Repack and the Birth of Mountain Biking
Fat Tire Flyer: Repack and the Birth of Mountain Biking
I published the first mountain bike magazine, the Fat Tire Flyer. My book of the same name is the definitive history of the early days of mountain biking, with a foreword written by Joe Breeze. As of August, 2021 VeloPress has taken Fat Tire Flyer out of print.
I am working with a new publisher to get back into print.
Meanwhile, enjoy these items from my files.
Book Review from Massif Central
Growing up in Hull, an English city that is so flat that driving instructors have to teach ‘hill starts’ on a flyover, I should have had no interest in mountain bikes as a kid.
Dirt Rag
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…
United States Cycling Report
The day after Fat Tire Flyer was released, Tom Baker had already read it and written this review.