In 1979, Richard Long and Gary Turner started a company from a small settlement Richard had received from a motorcycle accident. It grew into one of the largest bicycle companies in the world, GT Bicycles. GT built their first mountain ...

Web Site: www.10nine8.net Linda DuPriest began her involvement with mountain biking as a rider, racer and bike store wrench in the mid-1980’s. In 1989, working for Specialized, she came to the second IMBA summer conference and told the rag tag ...

Every shift, each pedal stroke, every dusty smiling face at the run out of a descent on a mountain bike is a tribute to Keizo Shimano. A man whose brilliance questioned the status quo at every step. He studied ceaselessly, ...

Ultra-Marathon Cyclist John Stamstad lives in Seattle, WA while competing in some of the world’s most difficult Ultra-Marathon mountain bike races. Stamstad has dedicated himself to seeking those events which claim to be the “most challenging” or the “most difficult”.

Steve began racing at the young age of 14. His passion for cycling and racing developed quickly. His hard training and natural skills caught the attention of the U.S. National Team coaching staff, and at 19, he became a permanent ...

Profile: DAVE WIENS Finding the Perfect Formula By Molly Murfee This Article appeared in the Crested Butte Weekly June 25th, 2009 ~MBHOF editor’s note: Many things have changed in our sport since this was written, but we have kept this ...

Web Site: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pVj2–iSPA&e Go to the above website to see a you tube video of this historic group. As time goes on we discover early off road endeavors that had a spirit similar to today’s mountain biking. And even if ...

Today, Thomas Frischknecht is Europe’s Elder Statesmen of mountain biking. He started his cycling career with cyclo-cross in 1985, at the age of 15. After his father (a world-class cyclo-cross racer) gave him one of his old bikes, his previous ...