Fat Tire: A Celebration of the Mountain Bike
1999, Chronicle Books
Foreword by Joe Breeze
In 1997 designer Lee Jakobs asked me to write the text for a Chronicle Book on mountain bikes. The subject matter was somewhat familiar. I’d once ridden a Diamond Back Apex from Nice, France to the former Yugoslavia over the French, Italian, Swiss and Austrian Alps. Plus my dear friend Roberto Carra was doing the photography and layout. Fat Tire is a history and celebration of these agile, adventuresome, all-terrain machines. Inside are hundreds of amazing photos, interviews with the founders, profiles of champions, and the ever evolving technology of the bicycle. Along with a number of contributors, including Joe Breeze, this is a glorious, full-color, snap shot of the culture, equipment, terrain, and innovators of the most popular evolution of the bicycle ever. That’s real tire tread on the cover — if you can still find a copy.