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His bike, the Gary Fisher RS-1, was released in 1992. Its rear suspension adapted the A-arm suspension design from sports car racing, and was the first four-bar linkage in mountain biking. [ 8 ] In 1992, Howie Cohen, who had previously imported Nishiki , Azuki and Kuwahara bicycles, assisted Gary Fisher with his brand, [ 9 ] 18 months later ...
The name "29er" comes from a bicycle called the Two Niner, which was offered by the Fisher bike company in 2001, according to 1998 Mountain Bike Hall of Fame inductee Don Cook. [8] The US division of Bianchi Bicycles offered a line of 29″ wheeled off-road bikes beginning in 1991 called the Project bikes. Their 1992 product catalog raved about ...
In 1993, Trek introduced its first OCLV Carbon mountain bike frames, the 9800 and the 9900, which at 2.84 lb (1.29 kg) was the world's lightest production mountain bike frame. In 1993, Trek also acquired Gary Fisher Mountain Bikes , named after Gary Fisher , one of the inventors of the mountain bike and one of the most popular names in off-road ...
These were among the first "mountain bikes" ever built. [citation needed] In 1979 Kelly joined his former roommate Gary Fisher and framebuilder Tom Ritchey in a business venture called MountainBikes, [3] the first place in the world people could buy a complete mountain bicycle, rather than putting it together themselves. This is not to be ...
Ross was the longest standing member of the Subaru/Gary Fisher UCI Professional Cycling Team (now known as Team Subaru-Trek) for over a decade and was among the premier cross country mountain bikers in the world. [5] Gary Fisher considered one of the innovators of the modern mountain bike. [5] Ross competed in the first X-Games [6] Winter ...
Joe Breeze (born 1953) is an American bicycle framebuilder, designer and advocate from Marin County, California. 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.