Mert Lawwill (Born September 25, 1940) is an American professional motorcycle racer, race team owner and mountain bike designer. He won the 1969 AMA Grand National Championship and, was one of the top competitors on the AMA national racing circuit during 1960s and 1970s.

Mert Lawwill (Born September 25, 1940) is an American professional motorcycle racer, race team owner and mountain bike designer. [1] He competed in the AMA Grand National Championship from 1962 to 1977. Lawwill is notable for winning the 1969 AMA Grand National Championship as a member of the Harley-Davidson factory racing team. [1]

Mert has played a formidable role in introducing many key suspension concepts into the world of mountain biking. He is also one of the early pioneers in the off-road world, having introduced the first production mountain bike.

2021年8月9日 · The house belonged to Mert Lawwill, a former AMA Grand National champion and mountain bike pioneer. Oh yeah, he was also one of the three main characters (along with Steve McQueen and Malcolm Smith) in Bruce Brown’s epic motorcycling movie On Any Sunday that debuted in 1971.

2021年4月29日 · Lawwill was predominantly a motorbike racer and worked with Terry Knight of Knight frames to make flat-track Harley Davidsons. Aiming to capitalize on the booming BMX trend, the pair decided to...

2005年4月1日 · Lawwill won 15 Grand National races-short-track, TT, half-mile and mile-but for mostly niggling reasons, a cable snapped or a silly spill, he never won a roadrace. He got off the bike but didn’t...

He originally called it the Lawwill Mountain Bike but, after being told by dealers that “nobody wants to ride a bicycle up a mountain,” renamed it the Pro Cruiser. The bikes sold quickly after that. Joe Lawwill pinning it on a prototype Gary Fisher frame with a Lawwill Leader fork at Mammoth Mountain, California in 1994.

2023年10月10日 · The Mountain Bike Adventure Lawwill is also credited as a pioneer in the mountain biking industry, having created, developed, and designed one of the first mountain bikes. From there, he went on to continue to innovate and improve the way that the bikes handled.

Lawwill-Knight Overview. Motorcycle racing legend Mert Lawwill and Terry Knight were convinced by Don Koski to go into making mountain bikes long before they were popular, or commercially successful. Don Koski would later who would go onto making the Koski Trailmaster.

2020年1月14日 · Shimano MTB Marketing Specialist, Joe Lawwill, was one of the first people to ride a full-suspension mountain bike. His father, the legendary motorcycle racer, Mert Lawwill, made the bike some 30 years ago.