Rad People Who Ride: Noah Bodman
Hailing from the Northeast, residing in the true West, and riding everywhere in between, Noah Bodman can't avoid mountain bikes. He lives and breathes them despite "growing up," attending grad sc...
Read moreRad People Who Ride: Josh Tonnissen and Hank & Frank Bicycles, Lafayette
Josh loves trails and is always hungry for more. Talking to him after a weekend is always a guessing game as to where Josh had ridden - was it the Lakes Basin near Downieville, Downieville proper...
Read moreMongolia Bike Challenge Update: Day 4 Dominated by Silverados
Day four of the Mongolia Bike Challenge went well for WTB-sponsored athletes with first place, third place, and the overall lead secured by those perched atop comfortable yet power transfer friend...
Read moreMongolia Bike Challenge Starts Today!
One of the world's most spectacular and most grueling mountain bike stage races kicks off today, the 7-day, 850km (528 miles) Genco Mongolia Bike Challenge! WTB teamed up with Cannondale to send ...
Read moreRad People Who Ride: Trystan Cobbett and his carbon cargo bike
Trystan Cobbett knows carbon. Who else would be brave enough to set out to create a carbon cargo bike with his own hands? Having spent time working at Softride in Bellingham, Washington, Trystan l...
Read moreBig Race Weekend for WTB Athletes
Kyle Warner, Ben Cruz, and Marco Osborne had a very strong showing at the Bidwell Bump Race this past weekend, netting 2nd, 3rd, and 4th place respectively in the All Mountain Challenge while Jero...
Read moreThe Velociraptor is a tire that has stood the test of time. Paddle wheel belts of tread, hunks of incisor side knob rubber, and tall tread height make for a tire that lasts forever and loves to d...
Read moreRad People Who Ride: Jude Kirstein and Sugar Wheel Works
Wheel building, the last mythical art of bicycle mechanics that still seems to elicit the highest level of respect, regarded by many as the zenith of mastery. You don’t take your sweet hoops, hu...
Read moreJerome Clementz Sets New Megavalanche Course Record
Not only did Jerome Clementz win the Megavalanche ahead of Remy Absalon and Dan Atherton, he set the course record. The fastest recorded time down snow, rock, rut and mud-infested Alp d’Huez has ...
Read moreLeo Finishes 7th in Tour Divide on Nano 2.1 29" TCS tires and Silverado SLT!
All done! At 9:45am on July 2nd, Leo Pershall crossed the US / Mexico border, having started in Banff, Alberta June 14th. 18 days, 1 hour 45 minutes. That’s how long it took Leo to ride 2,859 mi...
Read moreWTB Athlete and Employee Kenny Burt stands aside Levi Leipheimer on Podium
WTB Athlete and Northwest Tech Rep, Kenny Burt, took third place this past weekend at the Lake Sonoma Ricochet Race – 90% singletrack always seems to lure WTB athletes. In instances like these, i...
Read moreWTB Volt Team Saddle: Quick Review
from our friends at twentynineinches.com Bike saddles are something very personal – every rider has his/her individual physiology, seating position and riding style, so there simply cannot be “one“...
Read more1 year later, lone gray wolf still prowling California
Richard Shinn / California Dept. of Fish and Game As you may have noticed from our company logo, we at WTB have a very strong connection with the wolf. This is why we consider OR-7 (pictured above...
Read moreJeff Herbertson Rims: Frequency TCS i23 Saddle: Volt Team Tires: Wolverine 2.2 Jay Petervary Tires: Nano 2.1 29" TCS Saddle: Rocket V Kyle Warner Rims: Frequency ...
Read moreThe rules were simple, the caption with the most "likes" wins. Here are the winning captions from the Black Friday Caption Contest hosted on Facebook. “I thought he said pass but he meant I’m abou...
Read moreHot off the press from our friends at factoryjackson.com! The very nature of riding 150mm travel ‘all mountain’ style bikes is that they allow you to ascend trails, to then descend them in a manne...
Read moreTeam Kona Continues to Dominate in the Mongolia Bike Challenge
img src="https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0202/9884/t/3/assets/blog_stagesix1.jpg?548" alt="" title="stagesix1" width="685" class="alignleft size-full wp-image-2977" /> Cheers to Team Kona for ...
Read moreA fast day through the desert for the fifth stage of the 2012 Mongolia Bike Challenge presented by Orbea. Leaving from the Ongi River Camp, racers rode through the African Savanna-like landscape t...
Read moreMore Awesomeness from the Mongolia Bike Challenge
WTB-Orbea rider Arnold Zhang on Stryker wheels and Nano TCS tires. Stage three of the 2012 Mongolia Bike Challenge presented by Orbea proved to be another exciting day of racing. The sun shone bri...
Read moreFrom Marin to Mongolia--The Mongolia Bike Challenge that is...
The 2012 Mongolia Bike Challenge presented by Orbea is already well underway. The first day began in the capital of Ulaanbaatar where riders battled heavy rains in the 119km stage. Team Kona rode t...
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