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Throwback Thursday: John Tomac vs. Ned Overend in the 1987 NORBA National Championship

Reliving the Legendary 1987 Showdown Between John Tomac and Ned Overend at the NORBA National Championships

Mar 20, 2025

Take a trip back to one of mountain biking’s most iconic battles—John Tomac vs. Ned Overend at the 1987 NORBA National Championships in Durango, Colorado. Hear firsthand memories from both legends as they reflect on their historic rivalry…
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SEE IF YOU CAN NAME THIS RIDER, THEN WATCH THE VIDEO OF AN EPIC RACE BETWEEN JOHN TOMAC AND NED…

The NORBA National Championship from Durango, 38 years ago

Sep 18, 2024

Throwing the sport back 38 years
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FLASHBACK FRIDAY: 37 YEARS AGO IN MOUNTAIN BIKE ACTION

John Tomac told us how he won the Rockhopper Classic in that issue

Sep 6, 2024

Tom Hodge was the main rider on the cover, in a photo we took while testing the Trek 8000 in that issue. That's John Tomac leading the race shown in the smaller, inset photo on the cover. Tomac was starting to dominate the sport of…
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FRIDAY FLASHBACK: 35 YEARS AGO—NED OVEREND AND THE 1989 SPECIALIZED STUMPJUMPER

Check out what the Stumpjumper looked like in the old days

Aug 2, 2024

This ad came out the year before the first UCI Mountain Bike World Championship, in 1990. Today, Ned is still working for Specialized, and he is also well known for having won the first UCI Elite Men's XC World Championship, 34 years…
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FLASHBACK FRIDAY: RACING AT MAMMOTH MOUNTAIN, MORE THAN 30 YEARS AGO

Ned Overend says this looks like the expert class to him

Jun 7, 2024

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…
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THE LAST TIME THE USA TOOK THE TOP THREE PLACES IN AN ELITE MEN’S WORLD CUP RACE

Check out this World Cup race video from 1992

Apr 18, 2024

Ned Overend told us that the best American result he could remember for a World Cup XC race in the 1990s was the opening round of the 1992 World Cup series in Houffalize, Belgium, when the American men took the top three spots on the…
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NED OVEREND TELLS HOW HE BEAT JOHN TOMAC TO WIN THE 1988 SWATCH/NORBA WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS

Before the UCI put on their first Mountain Bike World Championship, other mountain bike groups were putting on events that they called "World Championships"

Feb 28, 2024

Ned Overend, on his way to winning the Swatch/NORBA Mountain Bike World Championships at Mammoth Mountain, California, in 1988. (Photo: Mountain Bike Action Archives) We found this picture in our photo files from the late 1980s, but…
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The Greatest Riders in Mountain Bike History (Updated)

From XC to Downhill, and Trials to Rampage, we considered all of them

Feb 5, 2024

We considered all the UCI World Champions, all the World Cup champions, all the Red Bull Rampage winners and even consulted John Tomac
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NED OVEREND NAMES ALL SEVEN LEADERS IN THIS PHOTO FROM THE 1980S

The 1990 UCI XC World Champion comes through again

Dec 14, 2023

We shared the following photo earlier this week on the MBA website and asked our readers to see if they could find the world-famous racer in the group. As it turned out, many of the racers were famous back then, but it would have been hard…
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THROWBACK THURSDAY: THE GREATEST RIDERS IN MOUNTAIN BIKE HISTORY

Did your favorite make the list?

Aug 24, 2023

That’s a tough question, but it’s one that we thought would be fun to consider.
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FLASHBACK FRIDAY: RISHI GREWAL TAKES US TO 1993 AND THE GOLDEN ERA OF CROSS COUNTRY RACING

"A picture is worth a thousand words"

May 26, 2023

“Looking at this picture from 1993 rattles memories long forgotten in the midst of dust, bumps, and life."
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THROWBACK THURSDAY: JOHN TOMAC AND NED OVEREND SHARE THEIR STORIES IN A GREAT INTERVIEW TOGETHER

Hear their stories about the World Championships, their training, and the things that derailed their own Olympic dreams

Jan 5, 2023

Hear how they both missed making the U.S. Olympic team in '96, and a whole lot more.
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WELCOME TO AMERICA’S FIRST MOUNTAIN BIKE CAPITAL

Dec 17, 2022

Crested Butte was there (and still is) from the beginning
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FINDING NED OVEREND’S KRYPTONITE

Surfing with a legend

Jul 20, 2022

As he sat there slumped over in a heap, gasping for air, he suddenly looked human.
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66 YEARS YOUNG AND STILL WRITING HIS OWN HISTORY – THE NED OVEREND INTERVIEW

Mountain biking legends don’t come much bigger than Ned Overend

Jul 8, 2022

"My biggest rivalry, what I resented most, was how famous Johnny was, because he was so flashy."
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THROWBACK THURSDAY: EUROPEAN XC RACERS OF THE 90S WHO CHANGED EVERYTHING

Taking a hardtail blast back to the past to remember the greats

May 28, 2022

Although there had already been a version of the mountain bike “World Championships” held in 1989 at Mammoth Mountain, it was of the unofficial variety and lacked true representation of the “world.”
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THROWBACK THURSDAY // JOHN TOMAC, INTENSE UZZI, DENALI EBIKE BEFORE ITS TIME

Looking back at the bikes, products and people of 1998

Mar 17, 2022

What happened in 1998
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