Mike Sinyard

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Mike Sinyard is the founder of Specialized Bicycle Components, an American manufacturer of bicycles and cycling components.

Sinyard's passion for bicycles developed while attending San Jose State University and commuting to class by bicycle. After graduating from SJSU in 1974, at the age of 24, Sinyard began importing European cycling components to the United States, supplying these rare and sought-after parts to West-coast bike shops and frame builders. This lead to him founding Specialized Bicycle Components and over the years developing the company into one of the most respected bicycle manufactures in the world.

Sinyard is best known for introducing the Stumpjumper, the first mass produced mountain bike, in 1981. The Stumpjumper was very similar to the first purpose-built mountain bikes, but at $750, cost about half as much as anything that had come before.

Sinyard was inducted to the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame in 1988. The Stumpjumper mountain bike was added to the Smithsonian National Museum of American History's collection in 1994.