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Today, the International Mountain Bike Hall of Fame, located in the Marin Museum of Bicycling in Marin County, California, announced its 2024 inductee ...
By chipps
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Chris Ball - WTF????
Sam Hill should have been in there earlier!!
Chris Ball?
I can only assume they're planning a Hall of Horrors to go alongside the Hall of Fame.
Chris Ball
Infamous ≠ famous
Huh, didn't realise the hall of fame was run by the UCI
into the international, televised sport that we know today.
10mins of crap Youtube coverage (approx 5mins actual riding footage) really doesn't count. If it does then Jack Moir should be going into the hall of fame instead
Well the comments were pretty predictable, I'll just say ditto.
Somebody is taking the proverbial!
Chris Ball… wtf?
For many in this case, the w means who.
@reeksy Chris Ball was one of the founders of the original Enduro World Series. Sold out to the UCI to make it more "professional", then sold out again to Warner Brothers/ Discovery to take over Enduro, DH & XC who put it behind a pay wall/subscription.
Instrumental in the introduction of semi-finals and other daft changes.
Now trying to turn DH etc into F1 and ruining it in the process due to commercialism, massive price hike on entry fees, getting rid of privateers and various other dick moves.....
Think that just about covers it.....
Rumour is Ball is his middle name, or in local dialect Baw.
Actual surname is Bag.
Someone at the MTBHoF has a sense of humour.
Rumour is Ball is his middle name, or in local dialect Baw.
Actual surname is Bag.
I've actually heard Ball is his middle name and his surname is Sup
Goes to Pinkbike comments.....
It's not on there!
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