GARY CRANDALL’s first off road experiences are rooted in northwestern Wisconsin in the tiny towns of Cable & Hayward in the late 1970’s. There the seeds of an off road bicycle event on the world renowned American Birkebeiner cross-country ski ...

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 ...

In 1972, Craig & Gary Cook (the “Cook Brothers”) started making BMX forks and frames using chrome-moly tubing. A longer version of the fork became popular on Southern California beach cruisers as an aftermarket accessory.

Pat & Tom and their Team Big Bear Mountain Bikes promotion company have produced more than 250 mountain bike racing events starting with the Rockhopper South in 1986. Since then they have produced 20 NORBA National races in Big Bear ...

Keith was born on December 18th, 1954. He is married to Laura and is the father of two girls. Keith started working on two-wheeled objects at the age of twelve, a passion that would follow him through life. At 14, ...

Ross Shafer built his first road frame in Paradise, California in 1976, and continued to build them under the Red Bush banner between carpentry and bike shop jobs. He finally started building frames full-time when he got a job as ...