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...

Ooops, Brett Did it Again...

Brett Bellchambers taming Scotland, WEMBO 2014.  Beautiful Photo Credit: Anthony Pease.  Want more beauty? Peep his jaw-dropping gallery HERE, my favorite, Seascapes Another WEMBO (World Endurance...

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...

Schralping to a City Near You... The Commute Begins

Photo Credit: James Adamson, @_james_ adamson_, dropmedia.tv It has begun, the singletrack onslaught of good times, big miles, Big Gulps, possibly Big Bites (ok, I added that one, another 7-Eleve...

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...

The Other Downieville

Photo Credit: @GusGibbs It's easy to get in somewhat of a perfect (figurative) rut in Downieville.  Camp or stay some place, wake up, un-stiffen oneself preferably through coffee, make it to the ...

WTB UK Enduro Team Bosses Local Trails

WTB UK Enduro Team - The Trail Boss from HotlinesEurope on Vimeo. Happy Friday.  Our WTB UK Enduro Team has been killing it lately.  Gary Forrest and Rob Williams eat pieces of trail like you for ...

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...

Ride WTB parts, Stellar Kona bikes, Schralparific Trails for... wait for it... FREE

Like George Washington, I sometimes cannot tell a lie.  Yes, you can freely rail singletrack to your heart's content and in the process, pun intended, ride some incredible WTB parts, free of charg...

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...

Rad Bikes of Interbike

There were many rad bikes at Interbike.  Several of them were in our booth.  BLAO!  Shameless. Pretty sure I can back up that lofty claim though.  We used four bikes to create four stories, four c...

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: 1998 Comfort Zone Press Release

We still use the Comfort Zone today and it definitely still provides soft tissue relief.  That almost sounds as though it's a cure for excessive tissue or Kleenex usage, perhaps a lotioned Kleenex...

KONA R.I.D.E. 2015 was R.A.D.

Through a very fortunate twist of events, without even any noticeable wheedling on my part, I got to go to Kona's dealer-invite new bike launch.  Speaking of launch, I got lunch... and dinner, and...

Brett Bellchambers Keeps it Real in NSW

There is something different about riding, riders, and racers in Australia.  Compared to the US, it seems like there's a lot more humor and fun infused in events that are ridiculously draining and...

Throwback Thursdays: 1999 WTB MP250 Stealth Clipless Pedal "Project"

I once met a wise man who told me he worked for WTB on the MP250 Project.  Project.  Hmmmm.  That's certainly a curious word choice.  Why not say I worked on the MP250 pedals, or the Stealth pedal...

Throwback Thursdays: 1992 WTB Trailgrips

We now call them Original Trail Grips, a head nod to the history of the Trailgrip.  That also means we still sell 'em.  Yes we do.  These are my absolute favorite grips - there is something about ...

What You Also Buy with a Handmade Bike

Photo Credit: Kris Henry / 44 Bikes It is really easy to get caught up in the calculated purchase of a carbon frame or bike.  Blah blah performance, blah blah price, blah blah stiffness, blah bla...

Throwback Thursdays: Moab First Descents, Mountain Bike, and More TV

The Trail Boss himself, shredding previously unridden lines aboard his American Breezer possibly in 1988 during the Canyonlands Fat Tire Festival on Moab's Slickrock. WTB's extended family of earl...