In the summer of 1976, Chris King created his first sealed bearing headset in a Santa Barbara, California garage. Aluminum scraps and discarded medical instrument bearings were used for those first pieces, showing the manufacturing and social ethics that underpin ...
Ashley’s long and active involvement in mountain biking began in 1989 when she became the president of Merlin Metalworks. Since then she has been involved in almost every aspect of mountain biking, including industry, racing, touring, and advocacy.
...Anne-Caroline Chausson (born October 8, 1977 in Dijon, France) is a French Olympic gold medalist in BMX, and downhill time trial and cross-country mass start, dual, and four-cross mountain bicycle racer, best known for having won fifteen Union Cycliste Internationale ...
Promoter of the Great Flume Race, Lake Tahoe, Nevada (9 years). Rebuilt this scenic trail and the 26-mile Flume Loop in 1983 specifically for biking. This trail now sees about 70,000 uses per summer.
...Laird was born into a military family. His dad was an army captain and much of Laird’s childhood was spent re-locating from one military base to another. Laird learned to ride a bike when he was 5 years old in ...
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 ...