U.S. Downhill National Champion Kailey Skelton at the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships
Kailey Skelton, America’s 2021 downhill national champion, showed perfect form at the recent UCI World Championships. (Photo by Nathan Hughes)
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Kailey Skelton, America’s 2021 downhill national champion, showed perfect form at the recent UCI World Championships. (Photo by Nathan Hughes)
(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 choice on choosing his position on the starting line in the full-length Cross-Country Olympic race this weekend. […]
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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 gave any information on the topic. We didn’t find […]
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 flair and style. (Photo by John Ker/MBA)
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 shot this in September of 2018, and , as […]
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 the summer. That turned out to be the same Olympic […]
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 Ker/Mountain Bike Action)
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 you their favorite trails, it’s probably a good idea to take them up […]
We first met Kyle in April of 2001 when he won the Pro Dirt Jumping contest at the Sea Otter Classic at the age of 13
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 way. It’s possible that he was doing it to reduce […]
If we weren’t dealing with the coronavirus pandemic, there’s a good chance we’d be at the Sea Otter Classic this time of the year. Here’s a shot from April 10, 2010, of Aaron Gwin racing against Australia’s Mick Hannah in the event’s world-class dual slalom competition . (Photo by John Ker/MBA)
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)
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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 the strangest year most us have ever experienced. We had almost no major […]
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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 what the temperature was this day, but the […]
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We shot this photo of a dad teaching his son riding skills at Ray’s MTB (https://raysmtb.com/)in Cleveland, Ohio, in January 2009. The indoor mountain bike park was the creation of Ray Petro, who opened the park on Thanksgiving weekend in 2004, and it’s still open today. MBA’s John Ker, who shot the photo, spent almost […]
We posted this five years ago, in December 2014. We’re talking about some serious cold winter riding here: When the “Polar Vortex” came down from the Arctic Circle last winter, it brought the coldest temperatures seen in years to the Midwest. It so happened that there was a bike race at the same time. Dave Gray […]
Brett Tippie takes on one of the steeper lines at Whistler Mountain. Photo: JK/Mountain Bike Action