Gary Fisher

What do the Grateful Dead, Greg Lemond, and mountain biking have in common? A cycling maverick from the Bay Area.

The ideas are decades old, but the time has finally come for electronic shifting, the 27.5-inch wheel size, and dropper posts

Check out the winning bikes of the 2011 Leadville 100 MTB

Here's a look at the bike Armstrong rode in Crested Butte, and what he might ride if he did decide to take that pre-race helicopter ride.

It was one thing when mountain bike pioneer Gary Fisher took his 29er crusade to the masses. It was another when, in 2010, he made the Subaru-Gary Fisher mountain bike team 29er all the time.

The Cronus CX, part of Trek's Gary Fisher Collection, is a high-end carbon cyclocross bike, with features borrowed from the Madone road line.

Instead of a standalone Fisher brand, the mountain bike pioneer's bikes will now be distributed exclusively through Trek retailers under the Gary Fisher Collection moniker.

Gary Fisher Bicycles, Subaru and Mellow Johnny's bike shop join up with Hotel San Jose to sponsor Austin team.

While the UCI blessed 29-inch wheels for mountain bike racing in 2004, the German Cycling Federation is only now allowing racers to choose between 26ers and 29ers.

Sometimes the only way to learn a valuable lesson is the hard way, like crashing that new Gary Fisher while on a bike shop test ride.

Kelly Benefit Strategies heads into 2010 with new confidence — and a couple of new sponsors.

Annual ride in Marin covers ground that spawned mountain biking legends Gary Fisher and Joe Breeze.

Size matters when it comes to tires: Many sizes that have the same, or almost the same, designation are actually completely different sizes.

A round-trip revelation in the way-back machine makes a stop in Marin and ends in a room beneath millions and millions of dollars worth of lust-worthy products on the Interbike floor.

For the past few seasons Jeremy Horgan-Kobelski's carbon Superfly 29er has hovered around the 21- to 22-pound mark, a respectable weight for an extra large bike with large diameter wheels. But tech breakthroughs have the rig now under 20 pounds.