Name: Nathaniel Roberts
Location: London, United Kingdom
Discipline: Road & Gravel
Favorite: CZR i23 Carbon Wheels (700c)
About Me: Full of energy and good vibes, I started gravel riding in May 2021, exploring new routes, meeting new people and having fun.
Social Media: @unclenatecycling
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Name: Kofi Kyei
Location: London (South)
Discipline: Road & Gravel
Favorite: Too many to choose just one!!! The Venture tyres are my go too. The versatility they have allows me to feel confident on any type of terrain my adventures throw up. I have used them for everything from racing to commuting and they do it all for me. Next up the CZR i23 700c wheels! They have proved bombproof and hella versatile too. Super light and stiff but forgiving too. Have totally changed the feel on my Diverge adding these products. Last but not least I've been converted by the super WTB sealant!! No more inner tubes for me. Not sure I'm going back to tubes ever!
About Me: I'd class myself as an enthusiast, in cycling and in life. If it looks good and feels good I will try it! Started off ride bikes on the road back in 2005 and haven't looked back. Lock down saw me reach for the dirt and hit the gravel scene and it is definitely stealing my heart. I love the freedom to explore and the party vibes that come with the scene. The perfect tonic to lockdown lows.
I've taken my passion for cycling to another dimension to establish @ride4unity which has become a global community for people who love bikes from all over the world. We don't care what you look like, what you wear, what your gender or what your political / religious persuasion is... if you love bikes and believe in being a decent human you are in!
Personal goals for 2024 is to race more seriously in a fun way. I've got a coach now and we are targeting some TTs and gravel events internationally. I've got one shot so I'm down to shoot it!! See you up the trail!
Social Media: @kofi.chay @ride4unity
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Name: ‘Rapid Rich’ Stoodley
Location: Sheffield, UK
Discipline: MTB / Gravel
Rider Type: Road, MTB and Gravel Long Distance
Favorite WTB Product: Nano Tyres, but I think I am going to get a lot of use out of the Devo Saddle with Pick Up !!
About Me: Everyone calls me ‘Rapid’ but that’s another story (Motorsport related), and to be honest, for me, it’s the taking part and involvement and aiming to achieve my own goals that is what drives me. I always love a good story, and hopefully my adventures inspire others to push themselves further, or attempt something they otherwise thought they could not do.
I am not fast, never in the running for the Win …. but I will never stop trying !
At 63 and only been riding a bike for the last 11 years, I’m probably the most surprising of the WTB Ambassadors. I struggle with fitness, have asthma and always fighting my weight and still learning bike skills … but I make up any shortfall in ability with my sheer determination.
I show, that with tenacity you can overcome age, fears and do whatever you put your mind to.
In the UK I race HillClimbs, short steep full gas time trials but now have expanded to ultra bike-packing events and long distance riding
To me, choosing quality reliable and able equipment and meticulous preparation is key. I can then push myself to MY limit and if I fail … it’s then all down to me.
2024 will see me contest the Atlas Mountain Race and I’m already planning a truly epic long distance ride – watch this space.
Riding WTB Since: 1998. Associated since 2023
Instagram Handle: @rapid_rich
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Name: Derek Hines
Location: New Hampshire
Discipline: Mountain Bike
Rider Type: Freeride, Adventure, Enduro
Favorite WTB Product: Vigilante, Judge
About Me: I’m a 24 year old from the granite state who enjoys big adventure hike a bikes in the white mountains and I enjoy riding everything! Mountains, Freeride, dirt jumps, or skateparks I’m all in! Ride fast and stay loose!
Instagram Handle: @derekhines647
]]>Name: Tricky Moore
Location: South Wales and The Cotswolds, England
Discipline: MTB/Gravity
Rider Type: DH, Freeride, Slalom
Favorite WTB Product: Vigilante 2.5” Tough/High-complete Grip Monsters and the most versatile tyre out there!
About Me: MTB racer, Dad, Thrill Seeker and Metal Head! Mountain Biking has been feeding my need for speed since 1992, where life started as a Cross Country racer in the South Wales Valleys…It didn’t take long to realise that DH racing and Freeride style riding suited me better, and my lifestyle has centred around that ever since.
Riding and music are how I express myself, where drawing and painting otherwise used to…I’m always thinking about alternative lines, harder cornering, sending lips, and how to best avoid pedalling at all costs (!!). Ultimately, riding for me is about sheer speed and focus and using WTB components since 1998 (with the classic SST98 Ltd Ed. Ti saddle and the original Velociraptor F&R tyre combo!) allows the speed I want to be achieved, and the focus required to achieve it by using components that I can rely on to function perfectly underneath me.
Regularly found in the start hut at British National Series DH races and at as many International and Regional rounds as I can fit in (even chilly Winter ones-brrrr!).
‘Specialist topic’ has evolved into Hardtail Downhill over the last few years…I don’t know why – It just seems to be what comes most naturally to me 😊
Riding WTB Since: 1998. Associated since 2023
Instagram Handle: @trkymoore
]]>Name: Katrina Strand
Location: Whistler BC
Discipline: Everything!
Favorite WTB Product: Vigilante!
About Me: Katrina comes from a highly educated and experienced background coaching riders of all levels and abilities since 2002. She spent over a decade racing and riding as a professional mountain bike athlete competing on the international stage at World Cup DH, World Championships DH, EWS and many multi stage events such as the BC Bike Race and Trans-Provence. During this time, she always set aside time to build up other riders and athletes. Katrina is all about collaboration, connection and building strong resilient minds and bodies on and off the bike.
Once dubbed one of the 'most influential people in mountain biking', Katrina continues to spread her passion through ambassador roles and as a world-reknowned coach. She has a particular thirst for off the beaten path adventures and is truly versatile which is evident with her humble capabilities to tackle the most challenging features.
Name: Israel Carrillo
Location: Guanajuato, Mexico
Discipline: MTB
Rider Type: Freeride, DH, and Enduro Racing
Favorite WTB Product: The CZR wheels- Trail Boss tires combo are my obvious choice here.
About Me: Have you had that feeling that you are in the wrong place in the world? And I don't mean geographically, but that you don't find your place in the world, it happened to me very often, by coincidence and luck the trails and mountain bikes presented themselves to me and I discovered that going downhill on my bike is my place.
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Name: Pedro Salido ( better known as Peter Salido )
Location: Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico
Discipline: MTB
Rider Type: Freeride, Dh, and Enduro Racing
Favorite WTB Product: Vigilante 2.5
About Me: For me its all about having fun, on any bike i ride i'm just having the time of my life, for me Freeride Fiesta is a very special event in my career and definitely my favorite one. My main riding goal no doubt is going to hard line.
]]>Name: Brooke Goudy
Location: Boulder, CO
Discipline: Gravel, Coaching, Endurance and All Things Bikes.
Rider Type: Racer & Ambassador
Favorite WTB Product: Raddler Tires
About Me: Brooke Goudy is a co-leader of Black Girls Do Bike Denver and a high school mountain bike coach at Boulder HS. As an ambassador for VIDA, she co-leads an Impact committee that works to eliminate barriers to make mountain biking more inclusive, equitable, and diverse. This summer, she rode the Great Divide Mountain Bike Route, from the Canadian border to the Mexican border, a course with more than 2,600 miles and over 190,000 feet of elevation gain.
Social Media: Instagram
Riding WTB Since: 2021
]]>Name: Mike Giese
Location: Salt Lake City
Discipline: Freeride
Rider Type: Ambassador
Favorite WTB Product: Vigilante 2.5 and SL8 saddle
About Me: After growing up racing motocross and making it to the pro ranks by the age of 16, A laundry list of injuries burnt me out on the sport. In 2013, I made the switch to mountain bikes and instantly fell in love. The freedom and self expression while riding a mountain bike is second to none. Fast forward 9 years, I am enjoying mountain bikes more than ever and don't see that changing any time soon! Along side riding, I am an Industrial Designer at Evil Bikes. There is no bigger pleasure than seeing your work come to life, then being able to show a leg over it and go for a ride. Let the good times roll!
Social Media: Instagram
Riding WTB Since: 2022
]]>Name: Zack Allison
Location: Fort Collins, ColoRADo
Discipline: Gravel
Rider Type: Racer & Ambassador
Favorite WTB Product: Tires - Nano, Vulpine, Resolute, Byway, not in any order. AND SEALANT
About Me: Hello, I'm Zack and I like to go fast. Drop bar technical riding is a really weird thing to be good at but at least I've got something. I've been racing road and gravel professionally off and on for nearly 10 years. We're out here now, with Bike Sports, training and racing and enjoying all the new stuff coming out that makes mixed terrain riding more fast and fun!
Social Media: Instagram
Riding WTB Since: Random tires and parts off and on for 12 years but just started a relationship for 2022.
]]>Name: Whitney Allison
Location: Fort Collins, CO
Discipline: Gravel
Rider Type: Racer & Ambassador
Favorite WTB Product: Vulpine
About Me: I love that bikes can be consumed in a million ways, are an adventure tool, and bring people together. I truly am living my dream: racing lots of gravel and doing fun bike things with Bike Sports and hosting FoCo Fondo. Let's ride!
Social Media: Instagram
Riding WTB Since: 2022! No time like the present!
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Name: Amy Morrison
Location: Carson City, NV
Discipline: Enduro & Downhill
Rider Type: Racer & Ambassador
Favorite WTB Product: Vigilante 2.5 and Trail boss 2.4
About Me: I am a high school health education teacher and race bikes in the summer and when I can during the school year! I am proud of my two US national enduro titles and EWS stage win at Northstar. I started a mountain bike club at my high school in 2020 and really enjoy getting out with the kids after school. They have so much fun riding and it really bring the stoke back after racing all summer long. This 2022 season I'd like to repeat as National champ, race some EWS races and make the US Trophy of Nation team. Fun facts: I was a barefoot water skier growing up and my dream was to live on a private lake in Florida :P I ended up getting into mountain biking when I moved to Northern California late 2012. I started racing a few xc races, but quickly found enduro and never looked back!
Social Media: Instagram
Riding WTB Since: 2013 (the beginning!)
]]>Name: Todge Cooper
Location: Colorado
Discipline: Enduro & Downhill
Rider Type: Ambassador & Racer
Favorite WTB Product: Judge
Social Media: Instagram
Riding WTB Since: 2022
]]>Name: Cody Wilkins
Location: Bellingham, WA or anywhere that needs a trail built
Discipline: Enduro & Downhill
Rider Type: Freeride & Trail Building
Favorite WTB Product: The Vigilante and Trail Boss, that combo means I’m going to ride somewhere fast!
About Me: I balance a career building trail with every second of free time spent playing in the woods. I love running an excavator almost as much as roosting a corner. I’d love to manage my own bike park one day.
Social Media: Instagram
Riding WTB Since: 2018
]]>Name: Erik Henrickson
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Discipline: Freeride
Rider Type: Ambassador
Favorite WTB Product: Vigilante 2.5
About Me: I'm a skier, mountain biker, and speed pilot. My favorite thing to do on a bike is manual #lovesbackwheel. Excited to get out and push myself in the mountains!
Social Media: Instagram
Riding WTB Since: 2020
]]>Name: Ashley Jambor
Location: Bellingham, WA
Discipline: Mountain
Rider Type: Ambassador
Favorite WTB Product: Vigilante 2.6! Stable and predictable in every condition I've come across both at home and traveling around the country.
About Me: I'm the designer and part-owner of a (trying to be) inclusive, USA made, mountain bike apparel company, Cosmic Dirt. I'm currently spending all my time trying to shift the world's perception of an athlete through humor and pushing my body's boundaries every day. Also a downhill skier, beginner gravel cyclist, proudly annoying dog mom, amateur chef & sports nutrition nerd, former massage therapist, creative side hustle addict.
Social Media: Instagram Cosmic Dirt Instagram
Riding WTB Since: 2021!
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Name: Ari Soto
Location: Nederland, Colorado
Discipline: Enduro & Downhill
Rider Type: Racer & Ambassador
Favorite WTB Product: Volt Women's Saddle
About Me: I am a gravity athlete originally from a little town in Colorado. I am currently attending Colorado Mesa University in Grand Junction and perusing a degree in Biochemistry as well as riding for their cycling team. I love riding bikes in whatever form I can, whether that means racing Enduro, Downhill, Freeriding, or just going out for a fun ride with friends! In the future I hope to continue racing and riding as well as one day having a career in medicine. At the end of the day, I am just super grateful to be able to get outside and have a blast on two wheels!
Social Media: Instagram
Riding WTB Since: 2018
]]>Name: Naresh Kumar
Location: St. Louis, USA
Discipline: Gravel & Touring
Rider Type: Ambassador
Favorite WTB Product: Byway, Resolute, TCS Tubeless Valves
About Me:Solo and human powered adventurer who lives small and adventure lots. My journeys are fueled by kindness of strangers and lots of peanut butter. My most fun adventure was when I rode a tandem from India to Germany inviting random strangers to join me and pedal with me. I am planning in a similar ride across USA and around the world.
Social Media: Instagram
Riding WTB Since: 2015
]]>Name: Erin Bixler
Location: Auburn, California but temporarily Sandy, Oregon
Discipline: Enduro & Enduro
Rider Type: Racer & Ambassador
Favorite WTB Product: I love the vigilante / judge duo on my enduro bikes!
About Me: I like to snowboard and backcountry ski as alternate training options to biking. I really like photography and i’m learning how to mess with my camera and become better. I hope to race EWS as a top contender for the elite womens field, big goal haha. For this season, Im hoping to win all of the BME races along with the overall and be consistent.
Social Media: Instagram
Riding WTB Since: 2018
]]>Name: Ryan Gardner
Location: Oakland, California
Discipline: Enduro, Downhill, Gravel, and Epic Rides
Rider Type: Racer & Ambassador
Favorite WTB Product: Verdict, Judge, Raddler
About Me: I like to ride a bit of everything, but these days I am digging big days on the bike whether its connecting all the east bay goods on my trail bike or linking up the best dirt in the Bay on drop bars. This year I'm looking forward to getting back to some international multi-day riding and racing!
Social Media: Instagram
Riding WTB Since: 2015!
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Name: Myles Morgan
Location: Bellingham, WA
Discipline: Enduro & Downhill
Rider Type: Racer & Ambassador
Favorite WTB Product: Verdict 2.5 Tough, Vigilante 2.5 Tough
About Me: Having fun is priority number one! Whether that's racing enduro or an all day backcountry mission, it's always good. Grateful to experience different cultures racing my bike!
Social Media: Instagram
Riding WTB Since: 2016
]]>Name: Marco Osborne
Location: Truckee California, Hometown- Novato
Discipline: Enduro
Rider Type: Racer
Favourite WTB Product: Vigilante 2.5 HG tough
About Me: You can call me Randy! or rick. All about having a good time in the mountains, getting rowdy, living life to the fullest and keeping things light and fun. Moto, jetski, surfing, snowboarding,sledding, fishing and camping, lets do it all. Happy be apart of the WTB family for so many years and continue to chase my dreams and enjoy riding and racing bikes! Forever grateful for this... Thank YOU!
Social Media: Instagram
Riding WTB Since 2013
]]>Name: Veronique Sandler
Location: Oswestry, Wales
Discipline: Freeride
Rider Type: Full Sender
Favourite WTB Product: Waffle grips!
About Me: I like to ride my bike the most, but building trails is a close second! Fun fact: my best party trick is riding a unicycle whilst playing the violin
Social Media: Instagram - Facebook
Riding WTB Since 2019
]]>Name: Nehemiah Brown
Location:San Francisco CA
Rider Type: Racer
Favorite WTB Product: Nano
About Me: Nehemiah Brown leads a busy life in San Francisco, California, balancing his day job at a Silicon Valley start-up with dawn patrol rides and weekend road trips. He loves all types of riding, as long as it includes a healthy dose of dirt and adventure. At the center of everything Nehemiah does, is his commitment to promoting racial equity. He is constantly working towards achieving more diversity in cycling by advising brands on how to be more inclusive, and how break down barriers by creating experiences so members of underprivileged communities can enjoy cycling. “I’m an activist, and I love riding bikes. Cyclists know the power of working together, and we can all take part in making the sport more accessible and inclusive to all participants.” “I want to achieve more diversity in cycling, and that starts by inviting new people to join the fun.”
Social Media: Instagram
Riding WTB Since 2015!
]]>Name: Mark Weir
Location: Northern California
Discipline: All Mountain, all the mountains!
Rider type: Hero of dirt
Favourite WTB Product: Verdict & Verdict Wet
About me: Coming soon!
Social Media: Coming soon!
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Name: Brandon Hopkins
Location: Raleigh, NC
Rider Type: Ambassador
Favorite WTB Product: Judge/Vigilante tires and my WTB zip up hoodie!
About Me: I enjoy shredding anything on two wheels. All the bikes all the fun ! I grew up racing BMX and raced professionally later in my career. I got into mountain bikes when I was in college and raced dual slalom/down hill/4x at the collegiate level at Lindsey Wilson College. I spend most of my time outdoors with my wife and kids. I’m really enjoying bike adventures with our kids whether it’s the local pump track, dirt jumps, or single track. It’s awesome to see them out in nature and seeing them have fun on bikes.
Social Media: Instagram
Riding WTB 2021 baby!
]]>Name: Canyon Wilcox
Location: Bend, Oregon
Rider Type: Ambassador
Favorite WTB Product: One of my favorite all around tires has to be the Vigilante! And the Silverado seat has always been the comfiest!
About Me: I grew up in a mtb household with a pumptrack in my backyard since the day I was born, and have been riding since the age of 2. My goals for the near future is to put in the effort training, and get some solid results from some of the pacific NW race series. My goal for the distant future is to be able to travel the world and get to do what I love most, ride bikes!
Social Media: Instagram
Riding WTB Since: I’ve basically been riding WTB products my whole life. I’ve always had at least something WTB on everyone of my bikes. But I’ve officially been on the team since the beginning of this year 2021, and I’m so stoked about it!
]]>Name: Bowie Edwards
Location: Bentonville, Arkansas, United States
Discipline: Enduro
Rider Type: Racer
Favourite WTB Product:I’m digging the Vigilante/Judge as a front/rear tire combo
About Me: Well, I started riding quite a while ago with my dad—just taking me on little rides at the local trails. Around 4 years ago though, I started really getting into bikes and joined NICA. Fast forward a bit and now I’ve moved on to the enduro side of things and I’m loving hitting all the gnarly trails I can! I enjoy riding everything from a quick rip around the local trails to a full day enduro race or single-track adventure. Bikes are my absolute favorite, but I enjoy any method of getting lost in the woods! This year, my focus is getting faster and just pulling together some clean and smooth race runs.
Social Media: Instagram
Riding WTB Since 2020!
]]>Name: Marat Anaev
Location: Reims, FRANCE
Rider Type: Ambassador
Favorite: Venture 700x50 / Riddler 700x45 / Raddler 700x44
About Me: Not really into the competitive side of cycling. Just riding Gravel & MTB, making photos and videos, never skipping a coffee stop. Goals for 2021 : Bikepacking & exploring new regions in France :)
Social Media: Instagram
Riding WTB Since 2020.
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