Day, Moseley, Minnaar and Commencal Inducted in Lake Placid
On Sunday, October 4, the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame welcomed its 2026 class at the Olympic Center in Lake Placid, New York. Stan Day, Tracy Moseley, Greg Minnaar and Max Commencal were inducted during The Golden Arrows, the first annual awards gala of the WHOOP UCI Mountain Bike World Series, held at the close of the season’s World Cup final weekend.
Taking the induction ceremony from Fairfax to the World Cup finale put the sport’s history in the same room as its present. Four hundred people, including athletes, teams, organizers and industry leaders who had just finished the 2026 season watched four of the people who made that season possible take their place in the Hall of Fame.
Fifty Years From Repack to the Olympic Center
The timing is poignant. Fifty years ago this month, in October 1976, a handful of riders timed themselves speeding down a fire road in the hills above Fairfax in the first Repack race. The sport that grew from that rural hillside has closed its season with an awards night at an Olympic venue.
The Hall of Fame’s four newest members each had a hand in getting the sport to this point. Two of them built the bikes and components. Two set the standard for racing them.
Stan Day
Stan Day co-founded SRAM in 1987, led as CEO for more than three decades, and now serves as chairman. The company’s first product, Grip Shift, came from a simple complaint he had while training for triathlons: reaching down to the frame to shift was slow. Moving the shifter to the handlebar turned out to suit mountain bikes perfectly, and it gave a small startup a foothold in the component business.
Under Day’s leadership SRAM went on to introduce the 1x drivetrain and AXS wireless shifting, two changes that altered how modern mountain bikes are built and ridden. Most riders on a current bike are using something that traces back to decisions Stan made.
Tracy Moseley
Tracy Moseley reached the top of two disciplines. In downhill she took 16 World Cup wins, the World Cup overall title in 2006 and 2011, and the World Championship in 2010. She then moved to enduro and won the first three Enduro World Series titles, from 2013 through 2015, before stepping back from full-time racing in 2016.
Her influence runs past the results. Moseley has spent years coaching and mentoring younger riders, and many of the women racing at the top level today grew up watching her.
Greg Minnaar
Greg Minnaar’s record is the measure of longevity in downhill: 22 elite World Cup wins, 86 World Cup podiums, three World Cup overall titles and four World Championships. His first rainbow jersey came in 2003 and his fourth in 2021, eighteen years apart. In between, he won the 2013 title on home soil in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa.
Minnaar spent most of his career with the Santa Cruz Syndicate, then moved to Norco. He retired from World Cup racing after the 2024 season and now manages the team.
Max Commencal
Max Commencal has shaped gravity racing for more than four decades, first with Sunn and then with the company that carries his name. At Sunn he helped professionalize downhill as a sport, building a factory team whose riders included Nicolas Vouilloz and Anne-Caroline Chausson. In 2000 he founded Commencal Bicycles, which stayed committed to aluminum frames and gravity riding and produced the Meta, credited as one of the first enduro bikes.
Max’s eye for talent hasn’t faded. On the night he entered the Hall, the COMMENCAL/MUC-OFF team received The Summit trophy as the top downhill team of 2026. Its 19-year-old rider Max Alran was voted downhill Rookie of the Year.
From Lake Placid Back to Fairfax
The induction ceremony traveled this year, but the Hall of Fame’s home is still the Marin Museum of Bicycling in Fairfax, where you’ll find many of the roots and pioneers of the sport. The 2026 inductees join the Hall’s permanent record there, alongside the bikes and artifacts that tell the story from Repack forward.
Our thanks to the WHOOP UCI Mountain Bike World Series and Warner Bros. Discovery Sports for hosting the induction at The Golden Arrows, and to everyone who made the trip.
The Museum is open Thursday through Sunday, 11 am to 5 pm, at 1966 Sir Francis Drake Blvd. in Fairfax. Read about every inductee in the Hall of Fame, or nominate someone who belongs there.
