While Fat Tire Flyer was my main influence into riding bikes with wider tires, the short-lived magazine "Mountain Bike - for the Adventure" put out by Hank Barlow was more my style. It focused more on touring back roads and recreational riding, moreso than racing. Although racing did show up in the magazine. The first issue actually had reviews of small tents for mountain bike touring.
Eric Platt St. Paul, MN Eric Platt St. Paul, MN On Wed, Nov 5, 2014 at 2:15 PM, 'Chris Lampe 2' via RBW Owners Bunch < rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com> wrote: > I pre-ordered mine on Amazon back when a first came available and devoured > it once I got it. You are right, I almost got the Kindle version but that > would ahve been such a waste on a library quality, coffee table sized book > full of illustrations and photos. I've watched Klunkerz, read Barto's > "Birth of Dirt" as well as a lot of articles but I still learned some > fascinating stuff. I also highly recommend it to anyone interested in bike > history. > > On Wednesday, November 5, 2014 1:31:12 PM UTC-6, jbu...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> Chris, all- >> >> Re: the Marin-legacy and it's influence on bike culture, check out >> Charlie Kelley's new memoir, "Fat Tire Flyer". It's a book of both >> lavish production quality as well as a compelling storytelling. >> >> =- Joe Bunik >> Walnut Creek, CA >> >> On 11/5/14, 'Chris Lampe 2' via RBW Owners Bunch >> <rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com> wrote: >> > Nice article. So basically we are just going back to the All-Terrain >> > Bikes that came out of Marin County in the late 70's and early 80's. >> I've >> > >> > done a bit of reading about the history of the MTB (as well as watching >> > Klunkerz) and those guys (and a couple of girls) were really just doing >> > exactly what Guitar Ted is talking about........developing bikes that >> could >> > >> > be ridden almost anywhere. The whole downhill/extreme terrain thing >> came >> > about when the racers took over. I know that Repack was all about >> racing >> > and was a huge influence but it seems those guys were doing a lot of >> what >> > would now be called expedition biking. >> > >> > I've evolved to prefer just that type of bike and no longer have any >> > interest in riding anything less than 55mm tires. When I picked up a >> 1984 >> > MTB last year, I did some research on bikes from that era and in 1985 >> > Bicycling put out a book and they were still referring to them as >> ATB's, >> > which is actually much more appropriate than "mountain bike". >> > >> > >> > >> > On Wednesday, November 5, 2014 11:21:18 AM UTC-6, Noah Deuce wrote: >> >> >> >> Hyperbole, sure, but the drum GP has been beating for decades (better >> tire >> >> >> >> clearance, too much emphasis on racing, etc.) has finally turned into >> a >> >> product "category" that may save the industry from itself. >> >> >> >> Just see the latest by Guitar Ted: >> >> http://www.gravelgrindernews.com/less-about-the-rock-and- >> more-about-the-roll/ >> >> >> > >> > -- >> > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups >> > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >> > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >> an >> > email to rbw-owners-bun...@googlegroups.com. >> > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owne...@googlegroups.com. >> > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. >> > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
