Fat Tire Flyer Covers

16th February 2006

These are the covers for the Fat Tire Flyer, the first publication for mountain bikers. I started publishing it in 1980 with Denise Caramagno, and it ceased publication in 1987.

When we started, the Fat Tire Flyer was the only publication in the world for mountain bikers. It was not until five years later that another national publication appeared, and by the time the Fat Tire Flyer ceased publication in 1987 there were several major publishing houses competing with us for a share of the mountain bike market.

You can see in the sequence of covers the development we made from a photocopied newsletter to a real magazine.

The first two issues of the Fat Tire Flyer. This is the first publication to ever address this new sport. 2254x1692 FTF01_2.jpg	Fat Tire Flyers from 1981 2231x1660 FTF03_4.jpg	Fat Tire Flyers from 1981 2246x1660 FTF05_6.jpg	This was the last Fat Tire Flyer done on a typewriter, and the first appearance of the logo. 1150x1660 FTF07.jpg
Marc Horwitz pulls the TofuTrailer with his Trailmaster This was printed on cheap newsprint and was very fragile. 2223x1669 FTF08.jpg	1669x2231 FTF09.jpg	Joe Breeze and Monte Ward on the cover of the Fat Tire Flyer. 1669x2208 FTF10.jpg	Malcolm Scott on a dry lake bed. 1661x2169 FTF11.jpg
Table Top jump in 1982. 1669x2239 FTF12.jpg	This back cover shows the 1981 Thanksgiving Day Appetite Seminar in Fairfax. 2239x1669 FTF12_back.jpg	1661x2185 FTF13.jpg	Tom Hillard rides on the dam at Annadel State Park 1661x2208 FTF14.jpg
Back cover shows Pearl Pass 1669x2200 FTF14_back.jpg	1669x2200 FTF15.jpg	Back cover shows 1977 photo 1661x2185 FTF15_back.jpg	Fred Wolf and Joshua "Zuzu" Dodge 1669x2200 FTF16.jpg
MudPup makes the cover 1660x2200 FTF17.jpg	Bike Pile. When you rode an old clunker, it didn't matter how you treated it. Things have changed. 1660x2200 FTF18.jpg	Mark Slate and Matt Hebbard on Repack 1630x2193 FTF19.jpg	First use of color on the cover 1661x2216 FTF20.jpg
1677x2223 FTF21.jpg	Wende Cragg on the cover 1661x2239 FTF22.jpg	1545x2153 FTF23.jpg	Brian Skinner on the cover 1669x2208 FTF24.jpg