Greg Lemond on the cover. Joe Murray wins the Pacific States Series. I covered bicycle racing, specifically but not exclusively mountain bike racing, for Winning. It’s easy money. The stories write themselves, All I had to do was check the spelling.
I profiled Ned Overend for the beginning of the racing season. John Ross built excitement for the Pacific States Series.
John Tomac at his peak.
This is the first issue of the Knobby News, from 1985. If there was a second issue, I don’t have it. But they managed to round up all the usual suspects as advertisers. This is from the first generation of computer publications, so it looks a lot like every other mid-eighties small publication, except the…
Mammoth Mountain is now a premier mountain bike destination, but in 1985 the ski resort was just beginning to figure out that the people who ski in the winter ride bikes in the summer.