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2 unusual facts about Mountain Bike


Mountain bike

North Shore bikes are much like freeride bikes in their geometry and downhill bikes in their component makeup.

Tylihul Estuary

Mountain-biking is also popular, and "Kalinovka" (informally called "the Jug"), located in the Gulf of Kairy is a popular paragliding site.


Edvandro Cruz

Edvandro de Souza Cruz (born July 19, 1978 in Ilhabela, São Paulo) is a male cyclist from Brazil, specializing in competitive mountain biking.

Hydrapak

Hydrapak initially focused on equipment for Mountain Bike users and gradually expanded to other active sport markets including, running, triathlon, Motorcycle and Road cycling.

Orbea

Samuel Sánchez rode an Orbea Orca Carbon to win the road race at the Beijing Olympics and Julien Absalon won the mountain bike gold on an Orbea Alma.

Sportsmobile

Brian Lopes, professional mountain bike racer, designed his own bike hauler with Sportsmobile called the “Lopes 55”.


see also

2007 Pan American Mountain Bike Championships

The 2007 Pan American Mountain Bike Continental Championships were held from March 8 to March 11, 2007 in Neuquén, Argentina.

2010 UCI Mountain Bike Marathon World Championships

The 2010 UCI Mountain Bike Marthon World Championships was the 8th edition of the UCI Mountain Bike Marathon World Championships held in Sankt Wendel, Germany.

2012 UCI Mountain Bike Marathon World Championships

The 2012 UCI Mountain Bike Marathon World Championships was the 10th edition of the UCI Mountain Bike Marathon World Championships held in Ornans, France.

Alison Sydor

She won a silver medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in mountain bike, and has won 3 world mountain bike championships gold medals (1994 in Vail, Colorado; 1995 in Kirchzarten, Germany; 1996 in Cairns, Australia; and the 2002 relay race in Kaprun, Austria.)

Arlauskas

Ramunė Arlauskienė (born 1973), a Lithuanian female mountain bike orienteer

Charlie Cunningham

Cunningham and his wife Jacquie Phelan are charter inductees to Crested Butte's Mountain Bike Hall of Fame.

Chris Kovarik

In 2008 Kovarik married team mate and fellow downhill mountain Bike rider, Canadian Claire Buchar.

David Wiens

David Wiens is known most for his six consecutive wins in the Leadville Trail 100 MTB mountain bike race including defeating both Floyd Landis and Lance Armstrong of Tour de France infamy.

Gary Ellis

Some other top pros like Tinker Juarez who in addition to a 12 year BMX career went on to have a 20 year Mountain Bike Racing (MTB) and Road Racing careers has been fortunate to have remained remarkably injury free.

Idaho Springs, Colorado

Jennifer Whalen is a professional mountain bike racer who has resided in Idaho Springs since 2002.

Jacques Boyer

Adrien Niyonshuti has earned a spot in the 2012 London Summer Olympics cross-country mountain bike race for Rwanda.

Joe Breeze

An early participant in the sport of mountain biking, Breeze, along with other pioneers including Gary Fisher, Charlie Kelly, and Tom Ritchey, is known for his central role in developing the mountain bike.

John Tomac

By the autumn of that year, he had won his first two major mountain bike events: the Ross Fat Tire Stage Race in Massachusetts and the Supercross Mountain Bike Exhibition race held at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum.

Kateřina Neumannová

On July 31, 1996 she became the first Czech female athlete to compete on both Winter and Summer Olympics when starting in the mountain bike race at the Georgia International Horse Park in Conyers, USA.

Keith Bontrager

The Ti Lite, a titanium version of the mountain bike frame, was made by tubing manufacturer Sandvik.

Leadville Trail 100 MTB

In 2010, Armstrong was unable to return due to injury, but his Team RadioShack teammate Levi Leipheimer, riding in his first mountain bike race, won and set a new course record of 6:16:37.

Missy Giove

Giove was one of mountain-bike racing's first mainstream female superstars, did some ads for Reebok, is the all-time leader in NORBA downhill wins with 14, and is second on the World Cup list with 11.

Mountain Biking UK

The magazine along with co-sponsors such as Nike, Santa Cruz and Fox Racing Inc. operated a successful professional mountain bike team from the mid-1990s until the mid-2000s, including riders of the calibre of Steve Peat, Mark Beaumont, Rob Warner and Will Longden and competing in the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup.

Nairo Quintana

Quintana comes from a very humble background and his parents raised him in what the newspaper El Espectador refers to as "precariously difficult economic conditions" but still saved up to buy Quintana a second-hand mountain bike to make the 9-mile journey to school.

Ot Pi

Ot Pi (aka "Hot Pie") Isern made his U.S. debut at the age of 17 at the Mammoth Mountain World Mountain Bike Championships in August 1988 where he easily clinched the Trials competition.

Rapelje, Montana

The 24 Hours of Rapelje is a USA Cycling sanctioned endurance mountain bike race held on the weekend in June closest to the summer solstice.

Simon Burney

As a manager and the creator of the Ace Racing Team along with professional mountain bike teams throughout the 1990s, Simon was privileged to work with the finest 'cross riders of that generation: world champions Dominique Arnould and Henrik Djernis, plus Beat Wabel, and Peter Van Den Abeele, among others.

Thijs Al

He still became third at the Dutch national mountain bike championships, but afterwards his main results were from the cyclo-cross, among those his second position in Veghel-Eerde and his third position in Hofstade.

Tim Gould

Gould raced for Britain internationally and as a world class pro for the Schwinn Mountain Bike Team, with numerous wins and podium finishes in the Grundig World Cup series.

After a string of World Cup victories and podium placings through the early 1990s his strength was climbing and in this era he was the best in the world, becoming the Official World Mountain Bike Hill Climb Champion in 1990 at Durango.

Väisänen

Mervi Väisänen (born 1973), Finnish ski-orienteering and mountain bike orienteering competitor

Yealmpton

Highlights included the Royal Horse Artillery parading and firing their guns as well as the M.A.D mountain bike display team.

Zimbabwe Cycling Federation

In July 2007 Zimbabwe entered a 9 member team to the African Mountain Bike Championships that were held in Windhoek Namibia along with South Africa, Rwanda, Namibia and Mauritus.