What is the history of cross country mountain biking? When did cross country mountain biking Olympics first come to be featured in the Games?
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A History of Cross Country Mountain Biking | The Very Beginning
Before we get into the history of cross country mountain biking in the Olympics, it’s good to know a bit about how cross country mountain biking got going to start with at all.
Gary Fisher is credited with being one of the inventors of the original mountain bike; taking a Schwinn single speed in the mid 1970s and adapting it to be fit for mountain riding. He opened bicycle company MountainBikes in 1975, the first company to specialise in mountain bikes, and founded Gary Fisher Mountain Bikes in 1983, one of the first to mass produce mountain bikes. The company was later acquired by Trek Bicycles.