Born Michael Hiltner, at some point this racer, rider and promoter christened himself with two words for “winner,” thus the catchy handle for this mildly eccentric personality. But the moniker is far from unfounded: during the 1960s, he road-raced his ...

Marilyn Price’s biking career started in 1980 as an employee of the Cove Bike Shop in Tiburon, California. At that time Cove was THE place to buy a mountain bike in the Bay Area. It was frequented by the top ...

A Beast of passion. That’s how I would define Steve Boehmke. Lucky for all of us, his passion is bicycles – and for over 2 decades, more specifically – the mountain bike. A case study of Steve Boehmke’s life is ...

Mert has played a formidable role in introducing many key suspension concepts into the world of mountain biking. He is also one of the early pioneers in the off-road world, having introduced the first production mountain bike.

Today, Thomas Frischknecht is Europe’s Elder Statesmen of mountain biking. He started his cycling career with cyclo-cross in 1985, at the age of 15. After his father (a world-class cyclo-cross racer) gave him one of his old bikes, his previous ...

Only one person has won a “Triple Crown” of mountain biking. Verona, Italy’s Paola Pezzo won the World Championship in 1993 (Métabief, France) and in 1997 (Chateau d’Oex, Switzerland). In Atlanta in 1996, she won the Gold Medal at the ...