John Tomac made his first cover appearance in the upper left corner of our second issue
July 1986 was the date of the first issue of Mountain Bike Action, and it was so popular that we came out with our second issue of our magazine in November 1986, shown here That's trials champion Kevin Norton splashing through the ocean… Read More...
I just received the November 2022 issue in the mail today and had to write a short note to say how much I enjoyed the “Table of Contents” photo that shows Christopher Blevins racing XCO at Snowshoe, West Virginia. Read More...
Absa Cape Epic Press Release:
Sina Frei and Laura Stigger (NinetyOne-songo-Specialized) won Stage 3 of the Absa Cape Epic in Tulbagh today, continuing their commanding march towards overall glory.… Read More...
(Christopher Blevins, posing with his hardtail bike a couple of years ago for MBA.)
America's Christopher Blevins won the inaugural Elite Men's Short Track (XCC) race at Val dI Sole, Italy today. The win will give Blevins first… Read More...
We're not sure, but here's what he was doing five weeks ago
After Mathieu van der Poel pulled out of the Tour de France following Saturday's stage, we wanted to know what he was doing to get ready for the Olympic mountain bike event on July 26th. We checked out his Instagram page today to see if it… Read More...
We're going back to December of 2014 with this photo of Patrick Reynoso riding the S-Works Enduro 650b in the mountains near Pasadena, California. The clouds were starting to lift above the hills, while Patrick was riding with his usual… Read More...
We were going through one of our collections of photos from a few years back, and this one caught us by surprise. It's a picture of a Rayvolt Cruzer, a Spanish e-bike that is made to look like a classic motorcycle of the early 1900s. We… Read More...
MBA got to travel to Italy for the UCI World Championships in June of 2008 and check out the newest GT bikes while there. The Worlds were held in June that year, which was earlier than normal, because of the Olympics coming up later in… Read More...
We're going back around nine years with this photo. That's Marco Aurelio Fontana leaning into an uphill switchback at Mont-Sainte-Anne, Quebec. Marco won the bronze medal at the 2012 Olympics in London, England.
(Photo by John… Read More...
Brett Tippie leads Richie Schley on one of their favorite mountain bike trails in Whistler, British Columbia, well outside of the city's famous bike park. Whenever you get a chance to have two legends of the sport take you out and show… Read More...
Kirt Voreis (left) battles Steve Peat in the round of four during the Sea Otter's dual-slalom competition in April of 2008. Kirt rode without a visor in the race, but we don't know if he lost it, broke it, or simply chose to ride that… Read More...
Brendog showed off his style at the Whip-Off World Championships in Canada in August of 2014
Brendan "Brendog" Fairclough demonstrated his incredible bike-handling skills for the crowd at Whistler's Crankworx Festival a little over 6-1/2 years ago. (Photo by John Ker/Mountain Bike Action) Read More...
Vincent Thiboutot of the Pivot Cycles On the Edge Team from Quebec, Canada, flies over one of the jumps at the Vail Lake RV Resort in Temecula, California, on March 15, 2020. (Photo by John Ker/MBA)
This past year has probably been… Read More...
Since the 2020 Sea Otter is not going to happen this year, we thought we'd share a shot from one of our favorite Sea Otter Classics of the past. This was the Dual Slalom event at the Sea Otter in April of 2008. We don't remember now… Read More...
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