Here's the cover of Mountain Bike Action from June of 1994. We don't remember who most of the riders are in the cover photo, but that's Toby Henderson, the founder and CEO of Box Components, in second place in this photo. Toby… Read More...
Ned Overend says this looks like the expert class to him
We found this picture in our photo archives, and we didn't notice what year it was shot. It looks to us like the late 1980s or early '90s. We showed it to Ned Overend, who was the UCI's 1990 XC World Champion, to see if he could tell… Read More...
In today’s era of alternative materials (carbon fiber, titanium, magnesium and matrix composites), a lot of people forget that aluminum is the most successful alternative ever used. Read More...
That morning, I stood in front of the mirror wearing her jersey and medal, and just cried and cried, realizing how enormous and powerful the day at hand was going to be. Read More...
"I still get invited to races, and it ain’t because of my looks or speech-making; it’s because people recognize that, even at 60 years old, I still race to do well." Read More...
"In the summer of 1994 I took my BetaCam my bikes and my dog Ole to Big Bear for the NORBA National Championships. Tinker and Tomac were battling for the final stage of the national series." Read More...
If all goes as planned, the Olympic mountain bike races will take place in late July. Here's a video of the pre-running of the course with the world's top racers battling for the win.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i113O0Y3Oco
Watch Jolanda Neff and Nino Schurter riding the Tokyo Olympic mountain bike course in the official test race from 2019. Read More...
Cannondale showed us this bike, their first with rear suspension, at the UCI World Championships in 1990. Notice that the bike didn't have front suspension yet, so we can't call it a full-suspension bike. Paul Turner had recently… Read More...
Johnny Salido launches over one of the scariest road crossings we've ever seen during the 2019 Red Bull Hardline event. (Photo by Boris Beyer, courtesy of Rasoulution) Read More...
We found this ad in our second issue of Mountain Bike Action, the November 1986 edition. We haven't seen any mountain bike shoes that look like this in a long time. Read More...
(Click on the picture to enlarge it and read the copy more easily.)
Back in 1990, this was considered one of the most innovative mountain bikes in the world. Check out the elevated chainstays, which had been designed by future… Read More...
Back in the summer of 2010, the MBA staff went to Crested Butte, Colorado, to check out their 30th Annual Fat Tire Bike Festival. It was a wild week of fun and crazy events, not the least of which was the wacky Chainless Downhill… Read More...