Another profile of my friend Victor Vincente of America.
Cyclist, May 1985
This issue of Cyclist is chock full of goodies, two articles by Jacquie Phelan and one by Hank Barlow. I even left in the Rockhopper review.
Sports Illustrated, April 1985
By early 1985 mountain biking had gone mainstream enough that it shared ink with Hulk Hogan. The focus of the article is Laurence Malone (R.I.P.) who was the perennial cyclocross champion in the United States.
Winning, April 1985
This issue warms up the 1985 mountain bike season by suggesting that Jacquie Phelan had rivals. As it turned out later that year, she did not. Also, a pair of Dutch mountain bikers climbed Mont Blanc, to claim some sort of claim.
UK comes to Fairfax
Hanna Dobson: “So hard to write about a day out like that without sounding like ‘first we went to the chocolate factory, then we ate the chocolates, then we ate the secret chocolates, then we swam in a river of chocolate, and then we ate more chocolates with the inventors of chocolate. And you lot, you can go and buy Hershey’s.'”