Marc is a Bay Area native, born in Redwood City. His family lived in San Francisco during his grade school years and they moved to Mill Valley in Marin County in 1969. Marc started riding as a way to get ...

Advances in any sport are evolutionary. Successful ventures are built on and refined, while failed ones are discarded. This premise guides Mark Norstad, the founder and owner of Paragon Machine Works, when he designs and manufactures his bicycle frame building ...

“One of the forefathers of extreme sports,” Shaun Palmer, burst into mountain biking in the mid-1990’s, at a burgeoning time for the sport. In previous years, it was commonplace for “mountain bikers” to ride the same, single bicycle to participate ...

In 1996, Rob Warner was the first British mountain biker to win a downhill world cup. Still, you may know him by his other talent, namely as ‘the voice of mountain bike commentary’ – an accolade that he truly deserves, ...

A Beast of passion. That’s how I would define Steve Boehmke. Lucky for all of us, his passion is bicycles – and for over 2 decades, more specifically – the mountain bike. A case study of Steve Boehmke’s life is ...

Mert has played a formidable role in introducing many key suspension concepts into the world of mountain biking. He is also one of the early pioneers in the off-road world, having introduced the first production mountain bike.

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Julien Absalon ruled cross country competition for the lion’s share of his 20 year career. Born in 1980 in Remiremont, France, near the German and Swiss borders, he literally grew up with the sport. Absalon was officially introduced to mountain ...