Throwback Thursdays: Bike Fit- Mark Slate’s Timeless Advice from 1986

Bike Fit: Then and Now—Mark Slate’s Timeless Advice from 1986 Cycling today is a world of watts, cadence, Strava segments, pre-ride warmups, mid-ride fuel, post-ride recovery, and data-driven optim...

The ICELAND DIVIDE With Fabio Barboni

  north to south Aukureyri  to Vik  After a long period of quiet due to the Covid pandemic that made it impossible first and then difficult to plan trips to distant lands, with a lot of persevera...

Gene Torno Rides The Alabama Hills And Death Valley

Gene Torno documents his ride through the Alabama Hills and Death Valley. The result? A dreamy photo book that will make you want to plan your next gravel adventure.Check out more of Gene's photos...

Graveliers: Bikepacking The Great Divide Mountain Bike Route

As the summertime bikepacking season is impending, I hope everyone is feeling excited about planning a trip right now. I hope people are getting excited about something (about anything really). Si...

Throwback Thursdays: 96 Mountain Bike Germany New Paradigm Hubs Review

1996 in Germany must have been amazing, I find nothing but stoke gracing the covers of magazine clippings we have dating back to then.  Perhaps the long sleeve adorned rider was particularly enthu...

Throwback Thursdays: More 1985 NORBA Nats Santa Barbara

So much of WTB's history and product development is tied to racing.  You can see WTB riders in white jerseys with SunTour across the chest (and WTB atop) in the right corner of this photo and the ...

Throwback Thursdays: The Return of Drop Bars?

Todd DeAngelis leading Joey Peterson, roughly 1985. I recently went on a singletrack fest group ride and encountered a curious situation.  Strewn about were different people's takes on appropriate...

Flashback Fridays: Early 90s Dirt Touring & Bikepacking

It's no secret that people have been loading their bikes with overnight gear and heading into the wilderness for quite some time.  Just take a look at this Pearl Pass post here and you see that br...

Throwback Thursdays: '96 Mountain Bike Germany Pad Review

Elevated chainstays, a nice an taut elasticized cinch strap flowing in the breeze of what looks to be an epic skid... Vans sneakers - what's not to like?  In 1996, people were getting pitted, sooo...

Throwback Thursdays: 1979 Appetite Seminar

 1979 illustration by Pete Barrett, from Chalie Kelly's Hubsite, the BEST website you will ever find. This Thursday marks yet another Appetite Seminar as throngs of mountain bikers will congregate...

Throwback Thursdays: Wilderness... It's Our First Name After All...

Adventure isn't exactly something new to WTB.  Getting out, exploring, taking the path less traveled, finding your own way, thinking differently... that's what WTB is all about.  I found these pho...

Throwback Thursdays: 2003 Interwolf 38/38

Many people clung to remaining InterWolfs with a sense of worth akin to cigarettes within prison - one's wealth could be measured in hoarded InterWolfs.  They were a tire before their time.  Fast r...

Throwback Thursdays: 2002 Gravel, errr... Monster Cross, ahhem... Mutano 44

Mutano Raptor 44/44 700c tires had the same beautiful wolf head logo stamping on their side knobs as their bigger casing, smaller diameter, 26" siblings. There are many things that WTB has created...

Throwback Thursdays: Driftin' in '93

This might as well be a how-to on old school drifting.  Step 1, put foot out.  Step 2, drift.  Step 3, regain composure.  If that's not savage enough for you, peep this line: Big cloud, real dude...

Throwback Thursdays: 1997 New Tire Standard

Everybody is frumpy about tire standards these days.  Too many sizes, too many standards.  Guess what, that's happened before.  In 1997, WTB sought to revolutionize tire size standards with GMS, w...

Throwback Thursdays: 1990 Black Specialized Hardpack 2.2 Tires

 The 1998 Specialized (Designed by WTB for Specialized) Hardpack 2.2 tires came with tan sidewalls.  It's it, that's that.  However, a small batch, 8 total, of black Specialized Hardpack 2.2 tires...

Throwback Thursdays: Mountain Shredders Gone Road (not Rogue)

It's Tour de France time, people are excited, some even mountain bikers - focus is perhaps even shifting from the 2014 FIFA World Cup.  So what's up with our favorite leg shavers?  Where are they,...