It turned out that there were hippies involved.
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..
1989 Mountain Biking UK Gary Fisher Interview
Bicycle Magazine (UK) 1983
In 1983 Richard Grant and Richard Ballantine brought the first Ritchey MountainBike to the UK. They used it, and a tall, beautiful model wearing cowgirl garb, to shoot a rather strange article for Bicycle Magazine.
Mohawk Maker Quarterly #13
A few years ago the Mohawk Paper Company paid homage to the Fat Tire Flyer in their quarterly publication. Working with a local company, Hybrid Design, they created a replica of the Flyer as an ’80s ‘zine using my original text and excerpts from the oroginal Fat Tire Flyer. This is a .pdf, so scroll…
Singletrack Magazine Interview
Here is Hannah Dobson’s account of a night of carousing in Hebden Bridge, England.