Fat Tire: A Celebration of the Mountain Bike

By Amici Design Staff Firm and Amici Design

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811819825
• ISBN13: 9780811819824
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Chronicle Books (CA)
• Length: 142 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 8.8" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Mountain biking 101

It is kind of cool to have actual tire tread on the cover. But I did get this because I like mountain biking, and it was on sale. Anyway. Basically just a history lesson. Does have great pictures, but also plenty to read. It covers everything from the very first fat tire bikes, right up through disc brakes and any other advances from recent history. If I remember correctly it also comments on the people and culture of biking through the years. Nothing too deep. Like someone else said, good coffee table book.

kind of like a coffee table book

This book is best bought for the pictures. The photography is awesome. You dont learn techniques, but you learn history and personalities. I thought that the pictures were so beautiful that the book is worth it just for them. I got the book at the library but plan to buy it for myself.