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Vote Now for the 2015 Inductees To the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame

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Want to provide your input as to who gets inducted to the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame? If you haven’t done so before, here is your chance for the class of 2015. Now that the nominees have been chosen, anyone is able to cast their vote for mountain biking immortality provided you are a member of the Hall of Fame. Not already a member? Memberships are available for $30 with the proceeds going to fund the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame and Bicycling history museum in its new home of Fairfax, California.

Voting is open until August 12th – check out the list of nominees after the break…

2015 Mountain Bike Hall of Fame Nominees:

Click on any nominee to read their bio from the MMBHOF website.

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satisFACTORYrider
satisFACTORYrider
9 years ago

horst & bender

Pillz
Pillz
9 years ago

Um, that pic of John Tomac racing with drop bars is sick. All the mtb guys who harsh on roadies, sigh…

Antipodean_g
9 years ago

That pic of Tomac makes me feel old! What a legend.

craig
craig
9 years ago

That’s when tomac finished 4th in the DH worlds in 1990. On a bike with drop bars and a 73 degree head angle. I remember reading an interview when he claimed something along the lines of being out of control during much of the race run.

Horst leitner surely has to be in the hall of fame. His suspension design would have to be the most successful and most widely copied in the history of mountain bikes

Pillz
Pillz
9 years ago

He did lots of xc with drops too. Google “tomac drop bars” and look at the images tab to see a lotta cool pics. Not that drops are ideal for mountain biking, but on some trails maybe. Nice to see xc guys using lower positions lately.

sebastacruz
sebastacruz
9 years ago

bender obviously

Professors
Professors
9 years ago

All of them should be in.

Marko
Marko
9 years ago

I rode those shoes, that fork and those glasses..lol

Trey
Trey
9 years ago

Wow, explain to me again how John Grafton isn’t in the HoF yet???

postophetero
postophetero
9 years ago

Bender…gimme a break. How about Karpiel instead? I’ve had the misfortune of running into Josh in AK and OR–egomaniacal sociopath to the extreme. Not saying I would ever dream of doing what he did, but he’s a pretty unlikable creep. How about good people with a sense of humility for the HOF?!

Gillis
Gillis
9 years ago

Horst and the North Shore guys. The latter mostly because I’m not familiar with the other guys on the list (sans Bender, whom is not worthy at this point), but also because I think they deserve it.

Jeff
Jeff
9 years ago

Can’t they all be put into the HoF? All of their contributions all established change in the sport/ industry.

satisFACTORYrider
satisFACTORYrider
9 years ago

Bender deserves in because of King Kong in Utah.

OFfCourse
OFfCourse
9 years ago

I really want to throw Bender in the mix, but there were some other names around his time that had a little more control and less yardsale crashes that could be on the list; albeit he was an early big hucker. But why not have them all introduced as well?

Turner92
Turner92
9 years ago

What about Gunner Shogren?

Ryan
Ryan
9 years ago

That chain!

Jon
Jon
9 years ago

Bender deserves it because I sure sold a ton (literally these things are heavy) of freeride bikes during his peak and isn’t that the game….grow the sport of mountain biking?

Horst Cause duh

Abdal
Abdal
9 years ago

IIRC Horst did not invent the “Horst Link” it was the guy who runs Nicolai who did it when he worked for Horst so I think they should share it if it is true.

heywood
heywood
9 years ago

Tomac’s positioning came from his place on the Motorola road team. He missed out on the Tour team, but had to be “At the Ready” should he get called back across the pond. All John Parker had to do was build him a bike that emulated the position of his Merckx.

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