FAT TIRE GEB: Celebration of the Mountain Bike - Tapa dura

A collection of photographs of mountain bikes accompanied by interviews with famous cyclists, inventors, and manufacturers, and details of trails, fashions, and equipment which has been popular over the years.

The invention of the mountain bike revolutionized cycling, created an entirely new Olympic sport, spawned a slew of slick magazines, and transformed the way tens of millions of outdoor enthusiasts around the world get back to nature. For them there is "Fat Tire, a history and celebration of these agile, adventuresome, all-terrain machines and the people who ride them. Inside are hundreds of amazing photos, interviews with the founders, profiles of champions, and much more. The author and a long list of contributors--"die-hard bikers and biking advocates--"cover the designers, inventors, and frame builders; tales of the trails; style, gear, and components; evolution of the machine; Slick Rock and other extreme challenges and biking meccas--"you name it. This is a glorious, full-color, full-speed, first-hand look at the culture, equipment, and key people of the most popular evolution of the bicycle ever. Oh, and that's real tread on the cover.