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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 along with the wrecking crew as they burn through a party lap full of good laughs and good times. About SkyPark Whether […]
Long before dropper posts and long travel suspension
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 posed for a photo for their fans in 2018 in Nevada. Photo: JK/Mountain […]
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 der Poel topped the podium in the Elite Men’s XC […]
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)
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)
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)
Mixed-wheel sizes have been around a long time
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)
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)
Checking out Danny’s skills and his bike, five years ago
Aaron Gwin flies down a rocky section of the downhill course at Mammoth Mountain, California, in September of 2018. (Photo by John Ker/Mountain Bike Action)
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)
This guy was helping his little kid get in a ride on one of the trickier sections at Ray’s Indoor Mountain Bike Park in Cleveland, Ohio. (Photo: JK/MBA)
Kevin Norton was one of the top stars in mountain biking in 1987, when he and Chris Culver shared their tips for going on mountain bike rides with other people.
Our January 2001 issue included our coverage of the NORBA National Championships, held at Mammoth Mountain, California, at the end of the 2000 race season. Take a look at how our story looked. If you click on the pages to enlarge them on your computer, you might even be able to read the story and […]
We’re going back to the 2010 UCI Mountain Bike World Championships in Mont-Sainte-Anne, Quebec, with this photo. It now looks like we’ll have to wait until at least 2022 to see a major UCI race at MSA again. The UCI canceled the World Cup there in 2020 and they didn’t schedule one there for 2021 […]
Click the link below to continue reading the full story from 2002: INSIDE THE NEW INTENSE VPP PROTOTYPES–JUNE 19, 2002
Bike designers are always coming up with ideas that are supposed to make their bikes work better. They come up with changes to the frames, the drivetrains, the suspension systems, the wheels and anything else they can imagine changing. Some ideas work and others don’t. We shot photos of this guy riding this bike in […]
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 […]
The world’s first suspension bike arrived in 1885, but it was discontinued three years later. The arrival of inflatable, air-filled, pneumatic tires in 1888 made the first suspension bike obsolete.
It all came down to the final race of the year at Mammoth Mountain, California