Sal Ruibal, the cycling reporter at USA Today, was the first prominent journalist to chronicle the sport in the mainstream media. Since he began covering the sport in 1995, he’s introduced mountain biking to a mass audience around the world. ...

Hill Abell has been riding mountain bikes since 1984 and found so much joy doing it that in 1985 he bought Bicycle Sport Shop, a mountain bike specialty shop in Austin, TX so he could share his passion for mountain ...

Elaine and Maurice Tierney founded Dirt Rag in 1989 to promote and document mountain bike culture, following in the footsteps of Charlie Kelly’s Fat Tire Flyer. Issue #1 was a 16 page black and white ’zine, folded in the center ...

Wende’s willingness to communicate about mountain biking attests to the central position the sport has in her life. As Wende talks about riding her stories relate humor and stories with great history.

Zapata Espinoza, a graduate of UC Santa Cruz, worked for LA Weekly Magazine in the mid 1980s, writing articles on local politics. In 1985, he began working for Hi-Torque Publications, initially on its Motocross Action magazine. From 1986 to 1993, ...