“Some fifteen years ago I embarked on an involving my personal transportation – call it my ‘voluntary carlessness,’ inspired by a dying Mercury and my rediscovery of the bicycle…I was motor-free for thirteen years, no spark plug troubles or rusty ...

SCHWINN made their contributions to mountain biking long before the mountain bike movement of the past 25 years. Ignaz began producing his bicycles in 1895 and worked at the company he founded, Arnold, Schwinn in Chicago, until his death in ...

The Morrow Dirt Club was a band of early day mountain bikers from Cupertino, California, 50 miles south of Marin County. it was over 20 years ago at a Marin county, cycle-cross race, December 1, 1974, that these fellows were ...

Web Site: www.boure.com By the time he was 32, Ned Overend had climbed to the top of the world, both literally and figuratively. With much younger men in pursuit, Overend won two world mountain bike championships in August 1987; one ...

In 1979, Richard Long and Gary Turner started a company from a small settlement Richard had received from a motorcycle accident. It grew into one of the largest bicycle companies in the world, GT Bicycles. GT built their first mountain ...

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.