Throwback Thursday: Aaron Gwin at Mammoth Mountain, September 2018
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)
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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
Our December 1990 issue featured coverage of the NORBA National Championships final race, at Mammoth Mountain, California. That’s Bryson Martin on the cover of the issue. He was one of our test riders in those days. He’s the founder and CEO of DVO Suspension now. Susan DeMattei (left) took the women’s XC national title for […]
We’re going back to April 19, 2008, with this one. It was one of the coldest dual slalom races we’ve ever seen at the Sea Otter, but the action was as hot as usual. That’s Kirt Voreis on the inside line and Steve Peat on the outside line. If you check the specators, a lot […]
12 Years Ago at the Sea Otter
By Zap Although the Jim Busby designed RTS-1 is widely considered the first full-suspension bike to come out of the GT Bicycle headquarters, that’s really only half-right. Recently, Gary Turner himself (as in the GT of GT Bikes) rediscovered an ancient BMX bike build that he created back in 1974. This original GT designed full-suspension […]
MBA October 1990
Mountain bike pioneer Gary Fisher and motorcycle legend Mert Lawwill teamed up to produce this “radical” Fisher RS-1 suspension bike in 1990. This story appeared in MBA’s January 1991 issue. Mert used his experience designing motorcycle suspension systems to come up with the suspension design after riding his Pro Cruiser mountain bike down Mt. Tam […]
Sometimes it takes a while for an idea to catch on
30 Years Ago, Mountain Bike Festivals Were a Lot Different Than The Ones of The Last Few Years
Freestyle motocross legend Travis Pastrana showed up at Whistler in 2014 to compete in the Whip-Off World Championship. He didn’t win, but it was great to see him riding there. Most of the motocross racers we know like to ride mountain bikes in addition to their motocross bikes. (Photo: John Ker/Mountain Bike Action)
A PHOTO GALLERY OF YEARS GONE BY
This was our most popular article of September 2015
Back in the 1990s, the Cactus Cup was the first big mountain event of the year for most of North America. In fact, it was such a big event that top racers flew in from as far away as Europe and Australia to take part in it. The racers included Olympic gold medalists, world champions, […]
Confident and Aggressive
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 […]
These were the top five downhill men from the World Cup event at Mont-Sainte-Anne, Canada, in 2013. See how many you can name.
Check out the cover of MBA’s first issue from July 1986
Danny MacAskill impressed the crowd with his skills at the Crankworx festival in Whistler, Canada, on July 23, 2011. (Photo by Mike Wirth)
Check out our cover from June 2000. That’s Santa Cruz team manager Kathy Sessler…
America’s best cycling vacation resorts, the benefits of steel mountain bikes, and…