Bob Seals: Devil, do-gooder or daydreamer?

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Spiritual eco-warrior? Half-naked singlespeed pioneer? Genius machinist who brought you the Cool Tool and Klean Kanteen? Or someone who offended a race organiser so badly they forklifted his team truck out of the arena? Robert, Bobby or Bob Seals is obviously all of these things and more. Words As told to Hannah & Chipps Photography Singletrack I have heard of Bob (or Robert, or Bobby) Seals, often in a context that makes me somewhat glad…

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Chipps Chippendale

Singletrackworld's Editor At Large

With 23 years as Editor of Singletrack World Magazine, Chipps is the longest-running mountain bike magazine editor in the world. He started in the bike trade in 1990 and became a full time mountain bike journalist at the start of 1994. Over the last 30 years as a bike writer and photographer, he has seen mountain bike culture flourish, strengthen and diversify and bike technology go from rigid steel frames to fully suspended carbon fibre (and sometimes back to rigid steel as well.)

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  • mtbfix
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    This article surprised me. Bob is clearly a guy who does not sit still for long not rest on his laurels.

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