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.