In 2018 the Telegraph (UK newspaper) wrote that the Atherton family have done more than any other to put downhill mountain-biking on the mainstream map. That remains true to date – and most of the credit must go to the youngest sibling, Rachel Atherton “A one-woman recruitment campaign” for downhill MTB. Rachel started riding bikes […]
Darren Berrecloth’s innovative riding style and professional business acumen brought freeriding to the masses and helped elevate freeride competition to international status. “Bearclaw” grew up in North Vancouver at the foot of the mountains where Canada’s pioneer freeriders were altering the perception of what was humanly possible astride a mountain bike. Darren, however, was dead […]
Radek Burkat emigrated with his family from Poland, so most of his early years were spent scrambling to learn a new language, navigating the Canadian school system, and assimilating into a culture that must have seemed like the Wild West. Radek emerged from that experience as a gifted computer systems engineer who had recently discovered […]
It sounds cliché. In fact, it sounds so cliché to almost come across as sounding trite… but Dave Cullinan gave his heart to the sport of mountain biking. And not just once. It all started in the late ’80s when the BMX rider burst onto the dual slalom and downhill racing scene with a level […]
If a place could be inducted into the Mountain Biking Hall of Fame, it ought to be the Whistler Mountain Bike Park (WMBP). Since opening in 1999, the WMBP has served as a hothouse for global mountain bike culture, concentrating so much energy in one place that it launched countless athletic careers, generated previously unknown […]