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 ...

John is the founder of YETI cycles and has been a strong supporter of mountain bike racing. John’s Yeti Cycles was a leader in after-market racing components: tires, bars, stems and saddles. Yeti built the world’s first thermoplastic downhill bike ...

Web Site: www.bikeradar.com/news/article/interview-doug-dr-dew-lafavor-of-kona-mountain-bikes-29637 The first country outside the USA to be exposed to Mountain Biking was Canada. In 1980, John Gadsby a Vancouver, BC based engineer and a lifetime racing and touring cyclist, stopped by Gary Fisher’s shop in Fairfax, ...

Ultra-Marathon Cyclist John Stamstad lives in Seattle, WA while competing in some of the world’s most difficult Ultra-Marathon mountain bike races. Stamstad has dedicated himself to seeking those events which claim to be the “most challenging” or the “most difficult”.

John Tomac was still a youngster when he began winning bike races; and at age 17, in 1984, he won the National BMX Cruiser Class Championship. Since then, “The Tome,” has crossed over into both road racing and mountain bike ...