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.

Jeff Day on the cover. 1669x2200 FTF25.jpg	Rich Cast on the cover. 1661x2200 FTF26.jpg	Back cover of Rich Cast issue 1622x2200 FTF26_back.jpg	Jacquie Phelan and Cindy Whitehead on the first color cover 1661x2193 FTF27.jpg
Back cover of first color issue 1630x2193 FTF27_back.jpg	Kristin Throop's watercolor cover 1583x2216 FTF28.jpg	Back of Kristin Throop issue 1599x2193 FTF28_back.jpg	Fashion issue cover 1583x2200 FTF29.jpg
Back of Fashion Issue 1669x2193 FTF29_back.jpg	Snowman by Gordon Bainbridge 1637x2185 FTF30.jpg	Dan Cain drawing. 1575x2193 FTF30_back.jpg	1630x2193 FTF31.jpg
1653x2200 FTF31_back.jpg	Back of the final issue, a continuation from the front. 1622x2193 FTF32_back.jpg	The cover for the final issue of the Fat Tire Flyer wraps around the back of the magazine. 1645x2208 FTF32_front.jpg