Enter to win some of mountain biking’s best books
VeloPress is the leading cycling publisher and is giving away three of its most popular books. From the Marin Headlands to Morocco, travel through amazing stories from the earliest days of mountain biking in Charlie Kelly’s “Fat Tire Flyer.” In Rebecca Rusch’s “Rusch to Glory,” written by the Queen of Pain herself, read how one woman went from ...
Win a copy of Fat Tire Flyer
They were pioneers—creative and courageous. Before Dirt Rag, before the term “mountain bikes” even existed, Gary Fisher, Tom Ritchey, Joe Breeze and others were chronicled in Charlie Kelly’s Fat Tire Flyer. Now collected into a book, it is the true, complete and often unbelievable story of the creation of the sport we all love. This ...
Book Excerpt: Fat Tire Flyer by Charlie Kelly
Editor’s note: Charlie Kelly’s Fat Tire Flyer began in 1980. It is considered the first ever mountain bike publication and until 1987 it was the only one. Kelly wrote most of the copy himself using different names, took photos, did the layouts, edited submissions, handled publishing and took care of the mailing list. The magazine closed ...
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