Edmund ("Ned") Overend (born August 20, 1955) is an American former professional cross-country mountain bike racer.

[1][2] The son of an American diplomat, Overend was born in Taipei, Taiwan and raised in Ethiopia and Iran.

[3] He then signed a contract to race for Specialized Bicycles and went on to win the NORBA Mountain Biking National Championship in 1989, 1990, 1991 and 1992.

[5] During his professional mountain biking career, Overend earned the nicknames "Deadly Nedly" and "The Lung", because he was very difficult to beat and for his exceptional aerobic endurance at altitude (especially so for a man of his age), respectively.

[6] Overend also appears in competition sequences of "The Sun Valley Mountain Bike Challenge," a video chronicle of that year's NORBA Championships also released in 1988.