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On Account Of Rain
Volume 5, Issue 4, May 1998
Oops. Thanks to my graduate degree from the Derek Zoolander School For Kids Who Can’t Read Good, I managed to get the sequence of things out of order here. So, One week AFTER recapping the June issue from 1998,...
Fix A Flat?
Volume 5, Issue 5, June 1998
This trip backward through time feels every once in a while a little like looking through a telescope in the wrong direction; details seem to get lost here, scale and meaningful context disappear there. It’s pa...
Random Drivel
Volume 5, Issue 3, April 1998
This is going to be a long one. In addition to the reprinted article, there’s a lot of additional material in there from my friend who inspired the article - the late John Pitchers - and a tribute to the late...
Kids
Volume 5, Issue 2, March 1998
There’s an odd duality that comes with working in the bike media. If you are writing for a relatively high visibility outlet, you find yourself swimming in product and drowning in the breathless hyperbole of a...
Sucktober
Volume 5, Issue 1, February 1998
Ripping the band-aid off 1998, with the first issue of Volume 5. Things were changing in the sport of mountain biking, in the publishing industry, and behind the scenes at BIKE. Rob Story had left his seat...
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