MOUNTAIN BIKE HALL OF FAME 2022 INDUCTION

By Zap

Talk about a night filled with content and appreciation. There we were, a few hundred passionate fans of mountain biking and its revelatory history. Yes, after two Covid-fueled years away, the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame came roaring back with a full program of induction ceremonies covering three years’ worth of notable inclusion. Surrounded by walls lined with some of history’s most consequential fat tire steeds, a diverse group of inductees from racers to journalists and trail workers to product designers, the three-year group was as diverse in background as they were in their impact on the sport.

The Mountain Bike Hall of Fame is located in the Marin Museum of Bicycling, which is home to one of the greatest collections of historical mountain bikes. The Museum and HoF are all entirely funded by donations, so anyone who holds mountain biking close to their hearts should donate what they can to ensure that the collection and museum will endure into the future.

THE HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES
2020

Dafydd Davis: UK trail builder (photo courtesy MBHOF)


Stan Koziatek: As in “Stan’s No Tubes” tubeless tires.


Tym Manley & Steve Behr: Editors of England’s leading & original mountain bike magazine

Jason McCroy: British national champion and DH pioneer. Photo: Steve Behr

2021

Rachel Atherton: The sister act of the famous UK Family of Downhill and multi-time World Champion.

Darren Berrecloth: Freeride pioneer

Radek Burkat: Founder Pinkbike


Dave Cullinan: ’92 DH world champion


Dave Kelly & Rob McSkimming: Founders Whistler mountain bike park

2022


Jim Busby: Designer GT RTS, LTS and i-Drive suspension bikes

Ot Pi: Spanish trials pioneer & world champion


Tarek Rasouli: Rider, event promoter & rider agent

Gunn-Rita Dahle Flesja: Cross-country World, Olympic and World Cup Champion

INSIDE THE MUSEUM

It can take hours of gawking at all the bikes on exhibit…like these two very different versions of pioneering elevated chainstay designs: the Kestrel, top, (which was also the first production carbon fiber mountain bike) and the Mantis Flying V.
One of the highlights of the Hall of Fame party is getting the chance to rub elbows with many of the sport’s pioneers – like Mert Lawwill in front of the Gary Fisher RS-1 suspension bike he designed with a Lawwill Leader fork.
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