Without Patrice Drouin and Chantal Lachance from GESTEV Event Management, Mountain Biking may never have had a World Championship, World Cup Series or inclusion in the Olympic Games. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

David Epperson has been on the mountain bike scene since the early 1980s and almost always with a camera in tow. He could be as easily nominated for Pioneer as he could for Journalism. One thing is clear: David’s photography ...

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 ...

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 ...

Jimmy began competing in the early 1980’s. Deaton raced in all six Whiskytown Races (81-86), in the Annual Rockhopper (82-90), all the Norba Nationals and the National Series Race World Championships in 1987, ’88, ’90 and ’91. Jimmy won many ...