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 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 ...

Web Site: www.wtb.com A Brief Autobiography Related to Bicycles – by Mark Slate Off-road cycling began for me in 1971 on the fire protection roads of Mount Tamalpais. Several fast, steep descents on a Schwinn Ten Speed at the ragged ...

Web Site: www.10nine8.net Linda DuPriest began her involvement with mountain biking as a rider, racer and bike store wrench in the mid-1980’s. In 1989, working for Specialized, she came to the second IMBA summer conference and told the rag tag ...

Web Site: brianlopes.com Mountain biking is a brotherhood, a fraternity of sorts for millions of thrill-seekers all over the world. I challenge you to set forth an inquiry among these fellow brothers, in any of the seven continents, and I ...