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…
Category: My Own Articles
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..
26″ x 24″ Mountain Bikes
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…
Mountain Bike YouTube Podcast
I spent almost two hours talking to Robert Schumacher about mountain bikes and stuff. TWO HOURS, you ask? How is that possible? Well, it was all the time he had.