UK Mountain Bike Hall of Fame to launch at Wiggle Mountain Mayhem

Pat Adams has been talking about a mountain bike hall of fame for years. While there is an International Mountain Bike Hall of Fame in the States, it’s rather US-centric. And there’s a British Cycling Hall of Fame too (of which Pat is an inductee) but Pat felt that there was nothing for the UK riders to have as their own.

The Hall of Fame will launch at the Wiggle Mountain Mayhem on June 22nd with its first dozen inductees. These represent some of the riders, organisers and other important characters who’ve helped inspire and influence this sport of ours.

The ‘hall’ as such will be virtual, with a permanent online exhibition, however at this month’s Wiggle Mountain Mayhem, there will be an actual exhibition of the characters involved where racers will be able to see who’s been nominated and inevitably come up with their own, different list.

While this first batch of inductees has been decided on by a small panel of bike industry characters, in future years, the Hall of Fame recipients will be nominated and voted on by the public.

We’ll run a story on the first inductees when they’re launched at Mayhem.
Keep tuned to this: www.ukmtbhalloffame.com

Chipps Chippendale

Singletrackworld's Editor At Large

With 23 years as Editor of Singletrack World Magazine, Chipps is the longest-running mountain bike magazine editor in the world. He started in the bike trade in 1990 and became a full time mountain bike journalist at the start of 1994. Over the last 30 years as a bike writer and photographer, he has seen mountain bike culture flourish, strengthen and diversify and bike technology go from rigid steel frames to fully suspended carbon fibre (and sometimes back to rigid steel as well.)

Comments (7)

BenHouldsworthBenHouldsworth June 13, 2012 at 11:51 am

Tim Gould and JMC please

Zulu-ElevenZulu-Eleven June 13, 2012 at 12:14 pm

Colin Palmer deserves a place too!

fatmaxfatmax June 13, 2012 at 1:10 pm

Tim Gould and JMc were my two heroes when I was a kid too!

rhayterrhayter June 13, 2012 at 2:39 pm

JMC died on my birthday, so I can never forget what a great rider he was; he should go in. Tim Gould, simply awesome. How about some of the early even pioneers: Schmoo, for example?

footflapsfootflaps June 13, 2012 at 4:56 pm

Will it be as unimpressive as the US one, which is better described as the ‘corner of a shack of fame’?

jimmyjimmy June 13, 2012 at 9:38 pm

JMC has to be, along with Peaty. I think I should be in there, too, in all seriousness.

ollmenollmen June 14, 2012 at 4:59 am

That Tim Gould knew how to dope before anyone!