Steve "Gravy" Gravenites was there for the birth of mountain biking, and rode the crest of its wave in the 1990s as a team mechanic and wheel builder. Now he's putting his skills and knowledge to work in his custom wheel building venture, Gravy Wheels.
One of the neatest products we saw at Interbike is an emergency tool kit intended for nothing more than getting you moving again after a mechanical out on the trail.
Tom Ritchey describes the experiences and people that helped form his ideas and products for the new sport of mountain biking in the late 1970s and early 1980s.