Although the term, “keeping it real” is about as overused as the most beat down Madison Avenue ad hype, it’s nonetheless a phrase that accurately reflects the life and times of Travis Brown. Born and raised in Durango, Colorado, an ...

“Bicycle Bob” Gregorio I first met Bob in 1979 at the Four Faces bike shop in Durango, Colorado. At that time I was a student at FLC and an aspiring roadie. Bob and a fellow named Forrest Yelverton, who would ...

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.stphoto.com I wish to nominate Tom Moran for membership in the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame in the Journalism category. Tom was among the first professional photographers to document mountain biking pictorially and remains active today, at the ...

Gary Sprung has been arguably the sports number one advocates for the past two decades years, working with local groups in Crested Butte and for the International Mountain Bicycling Association. As someone who has worked with Gary for the past ...

Web Site: www.bikeradar.com/news/article/interview-doug-dr-dew-lafavor-of-kona-mountain-bikes-29637 The first country outside the USA to be exposed to Mountain Biking was Canada. In 1980, John Gadsby a Vancouver, BC based engineer and a lifetime racing and touring cyclist, stopped by Gary Fisher’s shop in Fairfax, ...

You didn’t hear much about mountain biking back in 1975; you didn’t see advertisements for guided tours, commercially available gear, or even cool mountain bike shops to hang out in. But there was a Matt Hebberd, raised in the Mecca ...

Kurt Loheit has been a leader of the mountain bike community’s efforts to contribute to the design, construction and maintenance of sustainable trail systems. For more than seventeen years, his tireless advocacy has left its mark on clubs, programs and ...