Dirt Rag

Dirt Rag
Editor Eric McKeegan
Former editors Josh Patterson, Mike Cushionbury
Categories Sports and Outdoors
Frequency 6 issues per year
Circulation 40,000
Publisher Maurice Tierney
Founder Maurice Teirney
Year founded 1989
Country USA
Based in Pittsburgh
Language English
ISSN 1082-6785

Dirt Rag is a mountain bike magazine based out of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The magazine covers many aspects of mountain-bike culture.

Dirt Rag's old logo

Unique features

Founded in 1989, Dirt Rag is an independently owned mountain bike magazine that enjoys worldwide distribution. The magazine focuses on mountain bikes and their riders, but it also embraces all aspects of bicycle culture. The magazine is known for thorough and honest product reviews, a unique perspective on cycling, and original bicycle-related literature and art.

The Dirt Rag Issue #19 Cover

Dirt Rag celebrates a grassroots connection to its readers and coverage of neglected niches of the bicycle world.

Publishing facts

  • Dirt Rag is published six times per year.
  • In 2012, Dirt Rag founded a new parent company, Rotating Mass Media, to oversee the Dirt Rag brand, its sister brand Bicycle Times, and the Dirt Fest mountain bike festivals.
  • Founders Maurice and Elaine Tierney were elected to the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame in 2002.[1]

References

  1. Mountain Bike Hall of Fame, Class of 2002 Archived April 22, 2014, at the Wayback Machine.
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