John Ker

Emily Batty and friends check out the trails in the Pontiac Lake Recreation Area, not too far from Detroit, Michigan. Photo: JK/Mountain Bike Action
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Mountain biking along the Pacific Coast in Northern California. Photo: JK/Mountain Bike Action
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Spencer Rathkamp wheelies across a stream in Southern California. Photo: JK/Mountain Bike Action
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Rocky Mountain's Wade Simmons drops into Whistler, summer 2009. Photo: John Ker/Mountain Bike Action
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Riders take in the options at Ray's Indoor Mountain Bike Park in Cleveland, Ohio. Photo: JK/Mountain Bike Action
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Jack Zabrowski samples the epic riding near Hayward, Wisconsin, last spring. The area was recently rated as an IMBA Bronze Level Riding Center, meaning that it ranks among the best all-around areas in the world for mountain biking,…
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Two riders take a moment to check the sunset before turning on their lights and starting their evening ride in Castaic, California. Photo: JK/Mountain Bike Action
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Mark Weir (right) and Jason Moeschler make the most of Weir's private trail system that he and his friends built on a friend's cattle ranch in Marin County, California. Photo: JK/Mountain Bike Action
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 Chris Layton leads Doug Barnett on a trail ride in Thousand Oaks, California. Photo: JK/Mountain Bike Action
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Too much snow in the Northeast? Head south and stop in Ellijay, Georgia. The trails are good there. Photo: JK/Mountain Bike Action
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 Logan Binggeli was still an up-and-comer on the downhill scene  when this picture was taken in Colorado in 2009. He'd be the U.S.A. Cycling Downhill National Champion before long. Photo: JK/Mountain Bike Action
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Mike Palmieri (far left) of the Cartecay Bike Shop in Ellijay, Georgia,  brought this gang together to sample the best trails in North Georgia. That enormous poplar tree behind them was one of the few old-growth trees that was spared by the…
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Somewhere near Garberville. Photo: JK/Mountain Bike Action
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Spencer Rathkamp finds that even 29+ tires will slide out if you corner too fast on a snowy hill. Photo: JK/Mountain Bike Action
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 A rider lets go of his bike for a second, only to get back on again the next second, at the Whip-Off World Championships in Whistler this past August. The trick was invented by BMX freestyle legend Ron Wilkerson about  30 years ago. He…
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 Judy Freeman weaves her way down one of the more technical sections of trail at the Red Rocks riding area outside Denver, Colorado. Photo: JK/Mountain Bike Action
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Frederic Schmid took the podium in Pennsylvania last summer at the USA Cycling cross-country National Championships after taking the win in the 80-and over Masters division. Schmid, 81, said he was heading to the Leadville 100 in Colorado …
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Bryson Martin Jr. launches over some roots in British Columbia while testing out the latest fork from DVO Suspension, the company started by his dad. Photo by Mike Lord
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Kevin Aiello flies through a rocky turn at Fontana in this photo by the ever-creative Mike Lord.
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This is one way to get your picture taken at the Mammoth Kamikaze Bike Games. Photo: JK/Mountain Bike Action
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Norco's Jill Kintner is America's top female gravity rider. In 2014, she won both the dual slalom and downhill national titles in Angel Fire, New Mexico (pictured here). It was her fourth time as downhill national champion. Among the many…
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Spencer Rathkamp shows classic climbing form in this outtake from the Jamis Nemesis 650 Team bike test in our April 2014 issue. Photo: JK/Mountain Bike Action
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 Katerina Nash has competed in the Olympics four times, twice as a skier, twice as a mountain biker. When she entered her first mountain bike race, she signed up for the pro class—and won! There's a reason she was rocking the number one…
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Rich Bartlett  powers through the hills at Lake Castaic in last summer's Over the Hump race series in Southern California. Rich is a former Mountain Bike Action test rider and the current owner of Block Bikes in Lancaster, California.…
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 A rider throws a sick whip for the crowd and the cameras at the Whip-Off World Championships. Photo: JK/Mountain Bike Action
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Ned Overend is a living legend. He won six NORBA cross-country titles in the U.S. (1986, '87, '89, '90, '91 and '92). He also won the first mountain bike race billed as the "World Championships,"  held at Mammoth Mountain in 1987.…
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 A rider rails a wooden berm at Snow Summit, Big Bear, California. Photo by Jay Woolwine.
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 Twin daughters Libbey (in front) and Carley Endersbe lead dad Mick on a ride in Wisconsin's Northwoods. The girls attend Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado, and race on the school's mountain bike team. Mick and his wife, Beth, own the…
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Patrick Reynoso leads Mike Wirth into a fast corner during the  testing of two Scott Genius bikes. Photo: JK/Mountain Bike Action
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Todd Wells powers into a rocky section of singletrack in Fontana, California. Photo: JK/Mountain Bike Action
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