THE FOUNDATION AND FORMATION OF ENDURO MOUNTAIN BIKE RACING can be accredited to three figures - Fred Glo, the backbone; Enrico Guala, the voice; and Chris Ball, the face - all three who individually and collectively brought “the spirit of ...
Growing up racing motorcycles and BMX bikes, Sam Hill discovered mountain bikes at the age of 12 years-old. By age 16, Hill was already achieving extraordinary results in downhill mountain bike racing—earning the bronze medal at the 2001 UCI Junior ...
JEFF STEBER – HE CHANGED THE FACE OF DOWNHILL RACING. No different than many other motorcycle riders and racers who came to the sport of off-road cycling in the early 90s, as a bicycle manufacturer, Jeff Steber looked at the ...
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Hank Barlow
2016, Mountain Bike Hall of Fame
Hank Barlow is the creator of Mountain Bike magazine, the first full-color magazine offering off-road enthusiasts the same levels of reporting and production that existed for road cycling. ...
Josh Bender, aka Bender, quickly made himself a name in the emerging Freeride scene in the late 1990s. His name became synonymous for going big on a mountain bike, hucking off cliffs very few dared, at heights the sport hadn’t ...
Brent Foes has applied his ability with fabrication and craftsmanship to bring innovations to off-road cycling through simplicity, with products that stand the test of time and the riders that have chosen his frames. ...
In the year 2000, a rumor began circulating around bike shops and mountain bike races. A guy in New York had figured out a way to replace traditional inner tubes with a liquid that could seal punctures almost instantly, improve ...
The creative partnership at the core of the magazine, launched in 1987, which established and maintained the MTB lifestyle in Great Britain and beyond and which was key to the UK's unique and continuing success in Downhill Racing and Freeride. ...
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 ...
By now we all know that Mike Sinyard introduced the first widely accepted mass produced mountain bike, the ‘Stumpjumper’. But the man who actually conceived the bike, built the first prototype and convinced Sinyard to put it into production, was ...
Steve Peat has had an illustrious career racing downhill mountain bikes that has spanned nearly 25 years starting in the early 1990’s. He had early success in the sport and has been a favorite with fans around the world. Hailing ...
