Down The Trail

PRESS RELEASE  Ride & Party The Sedona Mountain Bike Festival is a three-day mountain bike celebration that includes a main expo/festival, bike demos, shuttled rides, gear vendors, a beer garden, great bands, food trucks, skills…
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In her rookie year in the Elite class, 22-year-old American Haley Batten...
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Where Were You In 2001
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A few bikes had Rock Shox forks. There was also an ad for an Offroad Pro-Flex bike that offered rear suspension, but...
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The fat bike revolution had yet to arrive back then, so riders who went for rides in the winter did so on their regular bikes.
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The UCI World Championships have, in effect, largely erased those other events from people’s minds and the record books of our sport.
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30 Years Ago In MBA
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By the middle of 1990, it was looking like the whole mountain bike world would switch over to elevated chainstays, but...
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Suspension systems were still being developed and improved,...
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How different the world was 10 years ago
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Check out the cover of MBA's first issue from July 1986
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Our July 2000 issue is a reminder of just how much things can change in a few years
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Seems like it was yesterday
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Jerome Chiotti confessed to having used EPO at the '96 World Championships; he handed over the gold medal and rainbow jersey to Frischknecht four years later
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People were slowly moving to the bigger wheel size, but it took an in-between "Goldilocks" size to speed...
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Our April 2000 cover showed a variety of bikes, including the Foes DHS, the Mountain Cycles San Andreas and the Cannondale Jekyll. The test rider on the Foes was Toby Henderson, who is now the CEO of Box Components. Ron Koch, who…
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Attention all California mountain bikers
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MBA'S SPECIAL ISSUE ONLY $7.99
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Aliens Have Landed!
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The Roaring 90's
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