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Two years ago VeloPress took my book, Fat Tire Flyer: Repack and the Birth of Mountain Biking out of print. That made it collectible and the price went up over 10X.. Now I am back in print. The new publisher is Terran Empire Publishing. The price has gone up, but the good news is that my...

After two years in limbo, my book, Fat Tire Flyer: Repack and the Birth of Mountain Biking, is back in print. The new publisher is Terran Empire Publishing. The price has gone up, but the good news is that my royalty went up even more. New format is slightly smaller than the old one, but the...

I have finished scanning every page of every issue of the first mountain bike magazine, which I edited from 1980 to 1987. You can see them here. For a random sampling of the other vintage mountain bike literature in the Mountain Bike Legacy Archive, click this.

I was scanning an old issue of Bicycle Action, when who should call me but the girl on the back cover, which makes her the uncover girl. While I have everyone's attention, it has been raining steadily here in California, so I just sit in my little office at the Marin Museum of Bicycling and...

In 2018 I spent a day in Hebden Bridge entertaining the staff of Singletrack World, primarily editor Hannah Dobson, who wrote an article about the experience. More recently, as in earlier this year, she returned the favor by visiting Fairfax. So I spent another day entertaining her. Her story...

Last spring Hannah Dobson, editor of Singletrack, reciprocated for my 2018 visit to Hebden Bridge with a visit of her own to Fairfax. It took forever for her to get it into print, and it's behind a paywall, but here is the link...

I volunteer at the Marin Museum of Bicycling/Mountain Bike Hall of Fame in Fairfax, California. There are frequent lectures and programs held there that would be of interest to the cycling public, such as the upcoming Mountain Bike Hall of Fame induction. The building has video capability, and...

My uncle is 91 y.o. He lives on a dirt road, and only rides his Ritchey mountain bike these days. Since he had no further use for his '70s Colnago, he gave it to me with the admonishment that I shouldn't sell it. I spent more than it cost when it was new, to restore it.

50 years ago I had a 1971 Colnago. My uncle, who is 15 years older, figured that if I had one, they must be nice bikes, so he bought one a few years later. Then he put a book rack and clincher tires on it. In 1979 he was also the first customer for Gary Fisher and me, in our company called...

On October 21, 1976 I agreed to help a few friends settle an argument as to who was the fastest downhill rider on our modified "klunker" bikes. We had decided that a time trial was the way to make it as fair as possible. I worked out a timing system with a couple of clocks. We had that race on a...

This bike had been in a state of genteel decay, since I was not riding it., My friend Josh Orlando brought it back to life. Tom Ritchey built this custom frame for me. Paint is original, and very battered. Tom put my name on it, but most of it has worn off. This bike has been to a few amazing...

I apologize if this is posted in the wrong area. If it disappears I will know why. I had an email from a RetroBiker asking about some of the items I sell online, i.e. posters, t-shirts, old copies of my magazine, etc. Because postal expenses add so much to the price of these items sent to...

I have printed posters of the 1986 Fat Tire Flyer cover featuring Jacquie Phelan. They are printed on heavy 17" x 11" poster stock. Then I had her sign a bunch of them, which I am sending to my UK distributors, "Fat Tire Flyer UK & Europe." See Benji Norton at the Bike Cabin if you need one.

I am ably represented across the pond by Fat Tire Flyer UK & Europe. They will sell you Fat Tire Flyer logo items, such as t-shirts, original copies of Fat Tire Flyer magazine, coffee cups, and my signed "Repack" race posters. Check them out on Instagram

Singletrack Magazine has informed me that I won their annual "Legends" award. Why do I feel like they made it up just to give it to me? In any event, it will look great in my trophy case, which is currently empty. Here it is.

Gary Fisher's book has finally hit print, a little late for the Christmas season. It's called "Being Gary Fisher." It's not sold through traditional book outlets like Amazon or book stores, only from Trek or through Trek dealers. I have no information about the availability in UK.

The San Francisco Chronicle" How A Wild Downhill Race In 1970S Marin County Launched National Mountain Biking Trend

I have done a couple of lecture tours of UK to promote my book, but that is not currently possible. I have toyed with using Skype to present a PowerPoint that I created to help my lecture, but I have decided that I hate PowerPoint, at least in that context. My current idea is to present the...

I took part last week in a showing of "Klunkerz" in support of a local mountain bike charity, Redwood Empire Mountain Bike Alliance (REMBA). Attendees paid a hefty sum to attend, $50, and then spent considerably more at an auction of donated items that included lavish mountain bike vacations...

I have been mining my archives and creating .pdf documents of the more interesting ones. I can't post those here, but I can post the links to the files on my blog, fattireflyer.com. Examples: 1989 Gary Fisher interview in Mountain Biking UK. Bicycle Magazine (UK) 1983 Mountain Biking UK John...