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.
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..
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.
My article on John Tomac in Mountain Biking UK
I was asked to contribute an article on John Tomac for this 1989 issue of Mountain Biking UK.
R.I.P. Dirt Rag
In 1989 the postman brought me the first issue of a new magazine called Dirt Rag. It was not much different from a dozen or so inexpensively printed local mountain bike newsletters that had come my way, with one major exception. Dirt Rag lasted over thirty years. This week the Internet brought me the news…