Growing up in Marin County in the 70’s, Joe was fortunate to be exposed to this triving cycling community, considered one of the birthplaces of mountain biking. Starting out road racing with a local club, he realized a strong interest ...

World Champion, World Cup Champion, Olympian: these are a few of the many titles held by Ruthie Matthes, during her 19-year cycling career. ...

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 ...

Pure passion is something that cannot be replaced with anything else. Wolfgang Renner has contributed to mountain biking on many levels as a manufacturer, journalist, race organizer, traveler and 3-D photographer. In a nutshell, he is mountain biking's first advocate ...

Any time you refer to a mountain bike as a “Fat Tire” bike, you are using a phrase coined in 1980 by Denise Caramagno. Denise moved to Fairfax from her native New York in 1978, and immediately fell in with ...

Where he’s been…Where he’s going 1963 Gary Fisher, age 12, starts competing in on the road and track in races sanctioned by the predecessor of the USCF, The Amateur Bicycle League of America.

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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. ...

When Giovanna Bonazzi traveled to the US in 1992 to compete in World Cup mountain bike events, she was already a role model for Italian women. In the early 1990s mountain biking was still very much centered on US brands, ...