Crankworx…just send it!

By Bobby McMullen / Photos Courtesy of Mathew Mallory For the 7th consecutive year I made my annual trek to British Columbia in order to ride and race at Whistler’s Crankworx Mountain Bike Festiva...

WTB goes to Dealer Camp in Deer Valley Utah

The WTB Sales and Marketing crew headed out to Deer Valley Utah last week for the 2nd annual Dealer Camp. Perfect trail conditions prevailed allowing over 1000 bicycle shop dealers to ride the lat...

BC Bike Race–One for the Bucket List!

BCBR - Day 1 in Cumberland. Photo courtesy of Dave Silver. Ever imagine you and a buddy riding the most pristine singletrack between Vancouver and Whistler? If your answer is yes, but… Imagine your...

Team WTB - Ben Cruz

Photo courtesy of Jen Burt. Hometown: Novato, California, USA Age: 21 Team: WTB/Cannondale/Shimano/Fox Racing Shox Discipline: Downhill, Endurance DH, Super D, XC Ben Cruz is the most recent additi...

Come Hell or High Water (in this case snow) the 2011 Downieville Classic Prevails !

Like the famous saying in the movie The Field of Dreams, "if you build it they will come", the 2011 motto for the Downieville Classic was, "if we remove the snow they will come." That is exactly wh...

Viva La French Enduro Series !

Congrats to Jérôme Clementz, WTB-sponsored rider and top finisher of last weekend’s Tribe 10000—the third event in the 2011 French Enduro Series. Read more about this talented rider in the latest ...

All Hands on Deck…

This just in from our pals over at the Sierra Buttes Trail Stewardship in regards to getting the course ready for the Downieville Classic: "Mother Nature has dealt us a tough hand with all the sno...

Trannsylvania Epic… suffering at it’s finest

Ben Cruz takes a break “We’re almost to the top and it’s going to be uphill all the way down”, Mark Weir said, referring to the nonstop pedaling downhills, as he crested the final climb of the 201...

More than Just a Race…

Joey Peterson keeping it real : Photo courtesy Bike Monkey Magazine Once in a while we need to get the band together to help the sport we love so much. Our good friends over at Bike Monkey Magazin...

Team Profile - Mark Weir

Photo courtesy of Urge Cabo Verde. Team WTB/Fox Racing Shox/Cannondale/Shimano Described as a well-rounded rider who specializes in suffering, Mark Weir, 38, has remained a successful and dominant...

Expect the Unexpected at the Ashland Spring Thaw

Weir's 29er race debut at the 2011 Ashland Spring Thaw XC. Photo courtesy of LM. The 2011 Ashland Spring Thaw was full of surprises complete with teeth-chattering temperatures and snow levels so hi...

A Little Slice of Sicily…

This just in from Jérôme Clementz who has been shredding Sicily on WTB Bronson TCS tires: "It was the first time we went in Sicily and we discover an all year MTB destination. Lots of different...

BAREL is back on track!

After 10 months off the start gate, the French men were back on track this weekend in Barcelona. The Mondraker Factory Team was in San Andreu de la Barca to race the open of Spain. It was a succes...

Weir Talks Candidly about Team WTB’s New Direction and Increased Commitment to Future Mountain Bikers

After a great deal of consideration and some heavy soul searching, Mark Weir made the call to change Team WTB’s bicycle frame sponsor from Santa Cruz to Cannondale. “It was a long process and invo...

Urge Cabo Verde Update from Weir

The 2011 Urge Cabo Verde event has become more than a race to its participants. As Weir puts it, it's a chance "to become a better person and friend to everyone." Some of the experiences were defi...

Weir off the Coast of Africa for Humanitarian Race

Weir in Kenya for the 2009 Urge event. After a 12-hour commute sandwiched in the center seat aboard a 747 headed from SFO to Paris, France, Mark Weir is approaching his final destination–the Urge...

Living the Dream with WTB

WTB makes good bike parts, and has for some time. There are a lot of reasons for this but mostly because of the people who, for one reason or another, have chosen a path that led them to the bicycl...

NICA, Hemp Slippers, and Bronsons

Last Friday we had a meeting with Nat From NICA, (pronounced n-y-k-ah: National Interscholastic Cycling Association) which is officially the best thing to happen to our sport since the invention o...

TCS Stryker Demo is a hit at 2010 Interbike Show

Travis McMaster, normally a mild-mannered WTB Tech Rep by day, took Team Stryker Force to the next level with his mad Stryker "skeels" (demonstrated here) at the 2010 Interbike Outdoor Dirt Demo....

WTB’s Enduro Race-Winning Combo

Jérôme Clementz, riding the Bronson/Wolverine combo to victory last weekend in the Enduro du Mercantour, France. Who needs the jab-cross when you can have a one-two combo like the new Bronson 2.3 ...