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Say you're a freelance writer. You write the stuff, you sell the stuff, you spend the money on a cheeseburger and a quart of whiskey, and then you throw the story into the files, never to be seen again until the invention of the World Wide Web makes it possible for you to publish it again, while the world continues to ignore your prodigious talent. |
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Clunkers Among the Hills first ran in Bicycling Magazine in January 1979. This was the first article I ever had published. I don't think I would have chosen that title, but I took the $75 (!) and let Rodale Press name it.
Photo shows Joe Breeze in 1978 with his first hand-built off-road bicycle.
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This is a satire piece that appeared in Cyclist Magazine some time during the last millenium. |
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I wrote this after coming home from the 1978 Crested Butte to Aspen "Clunker Tour," which took place during the birth of mountain biking. |
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This piece ran in the San Francisco Chronicle. |
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A satirical piece that may or may not have been published. |
In 1991 I helped put together a booklet that accompanied an exhibit called The Pioneers of Mountain Biking at the international bicycle trade show. The exhibit had bikes, souvenirs and cool stuff to look at, but the booklet just had photos of that stuff, kind of like a print version of this website.
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