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The LTS tells us that the fastest-moving bicycle company in the USA is headed in the right direction.
“Lots of people naturally say “I know,” but actually, the only thing they do know is that they don’t know.”
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 and the silver medal in the UCI’ Downhill World Championship. Watch and listen to […]
“It was definitely the hardest thing I had ever done—not massive, but so technical—and I didn’t know if I had the skills to do it.”
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 have his next chance on the weekend of […]
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.”
If you can judge a book by its cover, the LTS should be the perfect second-generation full-suspension bike from the blue-and-yellow team.
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.
Tioga uses the NORBA National star to hype its most famous product
Mush Is For Oatmeal, Not for Brakes
FULL-LENGTH MOUNTAIN BIKING MOVIES THAT INSPIRE US TO RIDE
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