This area is for my published articles, most of them from the ’70s and ’80s..
While writing and publishing the Fat Tire Flyer, I also contributed articles for other cycling magazines such as Dirt Rag, Bicycling, Bicycle Guide, Cyclist, and bicycle magazines in other countries. After the Fat Tire Flyer went out of print, I accepted an editorial position from Rodale Press.
Here is a random sample of my other work..
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…
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…