BikeBiz Bicycle and cycling retail news
The six nomination categories are Advocacy, Industry, Journalism,
Pioneers, Promotion, and Racing History. The nominees must have a history of at least ten years as mountain bikers.
Nominations must be a minimum of 250 words. Include in the narrative why you think this individual or group belongs in the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame.
You must include the nominee’s current address and phone number so the Hall of Fames organisers can obtain fuller biographical information about the candidate.
The nominees from the 2000 ballot not yet selected were all American.
The current members of the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame mostly Americans, until Europeans were introduced in 1999 are listed below.
But what about the following for a starter list of UK possibles: Richard Ballantine (for bringing in the first MTB to the UK), Drew Lawson, then of Muddy Fox (for being the first MTB marketeer, and who helped popularise the sport in the early days); Geoff Apps (for making MTBs before the Yanks ever thought of doing it!); Jason McRoy (for being Jason McRoy); Tym Manley and Chris Turner (for launching MBUK); the Hope boys (for taking coals to Newcastle); and Lester Noble and Steve Wade (for sticking to their guns).
The list goes on, but heres the official US roll-call:
CHARTER YEAR 1988
Charlie Kelly
Jacquie Phelan
Charlie Cunningham
Joe Murray
Tom Ritchey
Gary Fisher
Joe Breeze
Mike Sinyard
Steve Cook
Murdoch
1989
Erik Koski
Wende Cragg
Victor Vincente
Steve Potts
Jeff Lindsey
Don Cook
1990
Tom Hillard
Cindy Whitehead
Chris Chance
Glen ODell
Ned Overend
Scot Nicol
1991
Craig and Gary Cook
Ross Schafer
John Tomac
Carole Bauer-Romanik
Al Farrell
Mike Rust
Chuck Bodfish Elliot
1992
Mark Slate
Gary Klein
Ed Zink
Fred Wolf
Tom Mayer
Sara Ballantyne
1993
Otis Guy
Jimmy Deaton
Julie Furtado
Gary Helfrich
Alan Armstrong
Don Douglass
Charlie Litsky
1994
Keith Bontrager
Douglas Bradbury
BillCockcroft
Ignaz & Frank Schwinn
1995
Richard Cunningham
Zapata Espinosa
Kay Peterson-Cook
Junzo Kawai
Steve Ready
1996
Marilyn Price
Kent Eriksen
Greg Herbold
The Cupertino Riders
1997
Susan DeMattei
Mert Lawwill
John Parker
1998
Jim Hasenauer
Max Jones
Dean Crandall
1999-European Induction
Thomas Frischknecht
Tim Gould
Mountain Bike Club Discovery
Paola Pezzo
Hans Rey
Regina Stiefl
Velo Cross Club Parisien, VCCP
2000
Lind DuPriest
Keizo Shimano
John Stamstad
Steve Tilford
Dave Wiens
Contact: Kay Peterson-Cook, Don Cook
P.O. Box 845, Crested Butte, CO. 81224
A new website www.mtnbikehalloffame.com will be launched within the next two months. Deadline for nominations is April 15th, 2001.
