The Marin Museum of Bicycling & Mountain Bike Hall of Fame announced its 2026 induction class on Monday, September 14: Max Commencal, Tracy Moseley, Greg Minnaar, and Stan Day. Read that list again. That’s the founder of the brand behind Vali Höll’s title-winning Supreme DH V5, one of the most decorated female riders the sport has produced, a downhill racer whose stat line reads like a typo, and the guy whose company built the drivetrain and brakes on half the bikes we’ve reviewed this year. We’ve written about the gear these four built and rode plenty of times on this site. We’ve just never stopped to connect it to this.

That’s the part that makes this induction worth a post instead of a footnote: it’s also the launch of a brand-new format. The 2026 class won’t get the usual quiet plaque ceremony. They’ll be honored at the first-ever “Golden Arrows” awards, held at the UCI Downhill World Cup finale in Lake Placid, New York on October 4, 2026.

Quick Take

Announced	September 14, 2026, by the Marin Museum of Bicycling & Mountain Bike Hall of Fame
2026 inductees	Max Commencal, Tracy Moseley, Greg Minnaar, Stan Day
Ceremony	First-ever “Golden Arrows” awards
Where/when	Lake Placid Olympic Center, October 4, 2026 — DH World Cup finale weekend
Greg Minnaar’s stat line	89 elite World Cup podiums, 22 elite DH wins, 4x DH World Champion, 3x DH World Cup overall winner
Best for	Anyone who’s ridden Commencal, SRAM, or watched a World Cup in the last two decades
Skip if	You’re after live results from Lake Placid — the racing hasn’t happened yet

Who Are the 2026 Mountain Bike Hall of Fame Inductees?

1. Max Commencal — founder of Sunn and, later, Commencal Bicycles, and one of the people most responsible for gravity riding looking the way it does today.
2. Tracy Moseley — British downhill world champion turned enduro dominator, one of the most accomplished female riders in the sport’s history.
3. Greg Minnaar — 89 elite World Cup podiums, 22 elite DH World Cup wins, four-time DH World Champion, three-time DH World Cup overall winner.
4. Stan Day — SRAM co-founder, the person behind a chunk of the drivetrain and brake technology sitting on your bike right now.

Max Commencal: The Frame Under More World Cup Runs Than You’d Guess

Commencal isn’t a boutique brand that got lucky with one good bike. Max Commencal started with Sunn, then launched the namesake brand in 2000, and pushed aluminum construction and long-travel gravity bikes at a time when a lot of the industry was still chasing lighter and stiffer at any cost. We’re not talking about this brand in the abstract, either — we watched Vali Höll tie Rachel Atherton’s DH Worlds record on a production Commencal Supreme DH V5 last month, and Evan Medcalf’s Commencal-Schwalbe by Les Orres program produced a genuine podium threat at this year’s Fox US Open. Commencal’s name has been next to World Cup podiums for two decades because Max Commencal kept building bikes for riders who race, not riders who buy magazine covers.

Greg Minnaar: The Résumé That Doesn’t Need Inflating

Some hall of fame cases require squinting at context and era-adjusting the numbers. Minnaar’s doesn’t. 89 elite World Cup podiums. 22 elite DH World Cup wins. Four DH World Championships. Three DH World Cup overall titles. Spread that across a career that ran from the early 2000s through 2024 — Santa Cruz Syndicate for the bulk of it, Norco at the end — and you get one of the two or three riders anyone points to when the “greatest of all time” argument starts at a trailhead. He’s not chasing that record anymore, either. Minnaar stepped off the bike and into team management, now running the Norco Race Division and shaping the next generation of riders instead of racing them. That’s not a retirement story. That’s a second act.

Tracy Moseley: Dominant in Two Disciplines, Not Just One

Moseley’s case is arguably the harder one to summarize in a stat line, and that’s exactly why it matters. A downhill World Championship and a run of World Cup wins and titles would be a complete career on their own. Moseley then walked into the early years of the Enduro World Series and put together multiple dominant seasons there too — a discipline switch that a lot of downhill specialists talk about and very few pull off at the top of the results sheet. Two different disciplines, two different eras of women’s racing, one rider who kept winning through both. That’s a harder trick than it sounds, and it’s exactly the kind of case a hall of fame exists to recognize.

Stan Day: The SRAM Co-Founder You’ve Never Thought About Mid-Ride

Here’s the one that surprised us most, mostly because we’ve reviewed his company’s products so many times without ever mentioning the guy behind them. Stan Day co-founded SRAM in 1987, and the innovations that trace back to his leadership read like a list of things currently bolted to your bike: gripshift, the 1x drivetrain standard that killed the front derailleur for most trail and enduro riders, and AXS wireless shifting. We put SRAM’s current DH lineup through a full wireless BoXXer and Maven ecosystem review and came away impressed by how far the wireless shifting and braking side of the business has come — and we separately dug into the Maven B1 brake update on its own. None of that happens without the drivetrain philosophy Day pushed decades earlier. Component brands don’t usually get hall of fame slots. This one earned it.

What Are the Golden Arrows Awards?

The Golden Arrows are a brand-new awards format from the Marin Museum of Bicycling & Mountain Bike Hall of Fame, replacing the standalone induction ceremony with a year-end event built around the sport’s biggest stage. The first-ever Golden Arrows ceremony happens October 4, 2026, at the Lake Placid Olympic Center — the same weekend as the UCI Downhill World Cup season finale, where the 2026 overall DH title also gets decided.

That timing isn’t an accident. Putting the induction ceremony inside World Cup finale weekend means the sport’s history and its current season collide in the same building, on the same day. Riders racing for this year’s overall title will be sharing a venue with the people who built the sport they’re racing in.

Why This Induction Class Is Different

A few things separate this year’s class from a routine round of hall of fame announcements:

• It’s the first class honored under a new format. Every induction before this one got the standard ceremony. The Golden Arrows change what that recognition looks like going forward, not just who receives it.
• It mixes riders and industry. Minnaar and Moseley are racing legends. Commencal and Day built the equipment side of the sport. Most induction classes lean one way or the other — this one deliberately doesn’t.
• The ceremony is attached to live racing, not separate from it. Past inductions have typically stood alone as their own event. Tying it to the DH World Cup finale puts history and competition in the same room.

Who Should Care About This

Anyone who’s ridden a Commencal or run SRAM components. Both brands show up constantly in gear reviews on this site, and this induction is the first time we’ve connected the founders’ names to the products.

Downhill fans tracking the sport’s all-time list. Minnaar’s numbers put him in the same conversation as Vali Höll’s title chase against Rachel Atherton’s record — a reminder of how small the group of riders with this kind of longevity actually is.

Anyone planning to watch the Lake Placid finale. The Golden Arrows ceremony adds a reason to tune in beyond the overall title fight covered in our Whistler World Cup recap.

Who Should Skip This

Anyone looking for Lake Placid race results. The World Cup finale and the Golden Arrows ceremony haven’t happened yet as of this post — this is a preview of who’s being honored, not a recap of the event.

Readers wanting a deep technical dive on any single inductee’s gear. We’ve already published full component and bike reviews tied to Commencal and SRAM elsewhere on the site; this post is about the induction, not another teardown.

The Bottom Line

Four names, one announcement, and a new awards format to go with it. Max Commencal built the bikes, Stan Day built the drivetrain and brake tech underneath a huge share of the sport, and Greg Minnaar and Tracy Moseley did the racing that made both of those things worth building for. The Marin Museum of Bicycling & Mountain Bike Hall of Fame will formally recognize all four at the first-ever Golden Arrows ceremony on October 4 in Lake Placid, timed to land on the same weekend as the season’s last DH World Cup round. If you’ve bought a Commencal frame or a SRAM drivetrain, or watched Minnaar or Moseley race at any point in the last two decades, this induction class is really just the sport formally admitting what its gear closets and results sheets already knew.

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Reporting sourced from Pinkbike’s coverage of the 2026 Hall of Fame announcement, Singletracks’ report on the inductees and the Golden Arrows ceremony, and Canadian Cycling Magazine’s coverage of the announcement.