Check out this video to see one of the greatest passes in mountain bike history. While racing four-cross in the Czech Republic, Michal Marosi crashes hard, gets back on his bike, powers hard to catch the leaders, then pulls off one of the… Read More...
More than 30 years after his best year of racing, John Tomac is still widely considered the greatest all-around mountain biker in history.
Tomac won the UCI XC World Championship and World Cup titles in 1991, plus the U.S. Downhill title… Read More...
Two months ago, Nino Schurter tied the World Cup race win record of Julien Absalon. Right now, they both have 33 World Cup wins in the Elite Men's XC ranks. Nino is hoping to break Julien's record now, but he still has to pull it off. He'll… Read More...
Taking a hardtail blast back to the past to remember the greats
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.” Read More...
We decided to visit the Answer facility to take a look at a pre-production ’93 Manitou suspension bike and find out just what Answer would be offering. Read More...
Meeting brands and riding mountains bikes on trail is Southern California
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Welcome to the first annual Mountain BIke Action Ride Day held in SkyPark at Santa's Village. We had a fun-filled day seeing our current supporters and new brands for some trial time. Follow… Read More...
The annual Interbike show used to bring together the world's top riders and industry people as well as many of the biggest bike dealers in the country. Those days are gone now. (Left to right) Hans Rey, Joe Lawwill and Geoff Kabush… Read More...
Before he started leading the Tour de France he was winning World Cup mountain bike races.
With Mathieu van der Poel wearing the yellow leader's jersey in the Tour de France for four days in a row this week in 2021, we thought it would be fun to look back at the Lenzerheide, Switzerland World Cup in 2019, where Van… Read More...
The year was 2014, and freestyle motocross superstar Travis Pastrana showed up to compete in the Whip Off World Championship at the Whistler Crankworx festival. (Photo: MBA Archives) Read More...
Bryson Martin, Jr. takes on one of the manmade sections of trail at Whistler Bike Park during the Crankworx festival in 2009.
(Photo: John Ker/MBA) 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...
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… Read More...
Trek's mullet setup didn't catch on in 2006, which might help explain why the big brands have been slow to jump on the current mixed-wheel bandwagon
America's 1999 XC National Champion and 2000 Olympic team member, Travis Brown, showed us Trek's 29"/26"-mixed-wheel XC bike back in 2006. (Photo: MBA Archives) Read More...
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