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1/4 Wild
Bob Seals was a madman, at times. Still is, maybe. I met him somewhere around 1990 at one of the sadistic races he was hosting on his property outside of Chico, and then remember blatantly propositioning him at the Shasta Lemurian the next...
New Whirled Order
Volume 5, Issue 10, Nov/Dec 1998
This was the first fully recognized issue of the new Petersen Publishing version of BIKE. There were many changes on the masthead; Rob Reed was now editor, Steve Casimiro was gone, there was an “editorial d...
Sticky Thoughts
“Now is all the time we have”…
This sentence came about when Gary Sullivan was tidying up the logo you see above us here. He asked what I wanted the keyboard letters to be, since we didn’t have room for the full QWERTY complement. He had...
Nature Bats Cleanup
Volume 5, Issue 9, October 1998
There was a tiny little line of print in the ISSN boilerplate of this issue - the tiny words inserted unobtrusively at the bottom of the Table Of Contents that serve to officially signify what it is, where i...
Sunday
Volume 5, Issue 8, September 1998
“I remember being 12 and seeing a guy wearing a t-shirt that read “…and on the seventh day, God created… motocross!” and thinking I had found my faith.”
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