Athletes and Ambassadors
Martha Gill
Rebecca Rusch
Discipline: Enduro, Downhill
Favorite product: Vigilante / Trail Boss
Discipline: XC / Endurance
Favorite product: Koda saddle
Anita and Caro Gehrig
Discipline: Enduro, Downhill
Favorite product: Vigilante / Trail Boss
Mark Weir
Discipline: Enduro
Favorite product: Verdict / Judge
"WTB delivers a great range of tires that cover me for all the diverse terrain we have to race at the Enduro World Series. For me all the parts that are direct contact points to the ground like the tire are super important so I'm glad I can trust WTB tires to bring me to the finish line fast and safe. With the comfortable Womens specific saddles like the DEVA the long long days in the saddle are no problem to handle." - Caro Gehrig
Marco Osborne
Discipline: Enduro
Favorite product: Vigilante / Trail Boss
3T Explorers
Discipline: Enduro, Downhill
Favorite product: Vigilante / Trail Boss
Atherton Racing
Discipline: Gravel, CX
Favorite product: Riddler 45 / Resolute 42
“XPDTN3 Club rider and photographer Marc Gasch was already loving the BYWAY tires, but when he tried the new VENTURE he fell in love with the new model for the 3-day fast and light bikepacking trips around the world they do on their Exploro bikes. The perfect all around fast gravel tire!”
Dan Wolfe
Discipline: Downhill, Enduro
Favorite product: High Tail saddle
Jerome Clementz
Discipline: Enduro
Favorite product: Verdict / Judge
Discipline: Enduro
Favorite product: SL8 saddle / Commander grip
Last name: CLEMENTZ
First name : Jérôme
Nickname: Loizo Rider ou Jey
Nationality: French
Passion: Metallica, Skiing (xc and downhill and mostly powder fan), travelling, spending times with friends
3 words to describe: passionnable, happy and like simple things in life
Best book: « Les arcanes du Chaos » from Maxime Chattam
Best film: Usual suspects or Into the Wild
MTB best film: Beetween the tape and Sprung 5
Best Live concert:Metallica in Vancouver
Best trip : Bolivie
Wish to do: Visit Japan, the artic and Alaska
10 songs :
- Suicide and redemption Metallica
- Mistake de Jaya the cat
- Astronomy de Blue Oyster cult
- The game de Smokey Joe and the kids
- Tarantula de Smashing pumkins
- Stop thinking de Millencolin
- Civil War de The gun’s and Roses
- The tempest de Pendulum
- Mother de Danzig
- hallowed be the name de Iron Maiden
Saddle SL8: The best saddle to fit my style of riding without limiting my movement. I ride a lot on the front of the saddle and like to move a lot on the downhill so the SL8 suit the best for me.
Commander Padloc grip: Since I've tried I can't ride grips with external lock on anymore.
Nikki Whiles
Mariusz Bryja
Discipline: Enduro
Favorite product: Vigilante / Trail Boss
Giromagny Enduro Team
Discipline: Enduro
Favorite product: Verdict / Verdict Wet and Vigilante 2.5
2018:
Polish Championships August 26, 2018 - 3rd place (Masters)
Lechnica MTB Tour Enduro 02/09/2018 - 2nd place OPEN
2019:
Joy Ride Enduro Kluszkowce 18.05.2019 – 1st place (Masters)
EWS100 Canazei 29.06.2019 – 2nd place (Masters)
EWS100 Les Orres 06,07.07.2019 – 1st place (Masters)
Movies:
Path Finder https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7aDcQ-9M74
Edity: Strange Ride: https://www.pinkbike.com/video/488623/
A ride into the mountain: https://www.pinkbike.com/video/459852/
Soil: https://www.pinkbike.com/video/417915/
Mariusz Brian Bryja joins Kross Team: https://www.pinkbike.com/video/343726/
Miranda Racing Team
Discipline: Enduro
Favorite product: Vigilante / Trail Boss
Our team is composed of 7 riders : Thomas Prenez, Julien Prenez, Paul Malissard, Pierre Luc Vaxelaire, Corentin Althusser, Marco Party and Pierre Henni.
We mostly now focus on good quality travels and mtb adventures with media coverage. We also organise every year the well known WTB Enduro de Giromagny (350 participants in 2019)
Home spot is Vosges and Northern French Alps around Annecy.
The quote is : Bicyclettes, Montagnes and Camaraderies - Which means Bikes, Mountains and Friends that's all that matters.
Discipline: Enduro
Favorite product: Vigilante / Trail Boss
Jeff Kendall-Weed
Yuri Hauswald
Discipline: Enduro, Downhill
Favorite product: Vigilante / Trail Boss
My name is Jeff, and I’ve been living the two-wheeled lifestyle for my entire life!
I started racing BMX at 10 years old, then soon began riding cross country mountain bikes. Growing up in the Santa Cruz mountains, my first MTB riding spot was the Soquel State Demonstration Forest. While attending university, I got super into downhill racing, competing at many collegiate events, then moved onto the NORBA national circuit, going pro in 2005. I raced DH until around 2008, then during the “dark ages” of USA downhill racing, I took a bit of a break from racing until enduro hit the USA scene in 2012. I spent about 4 years racing enduro quite heavily.
In addition to racing, I worked at Ibis Cycles from 2008 to 2015, then spent 3 wonderful years managing international sales at WTB. I then transitioned to content creation, which is what I still do today.
I LOVE the WTB Vigilante 2.5 tire up front, and the WTB Judge 2.4 rear tire has amazed me with its traction for braking, cornering, and technical climbing. I really like the Silverado saddle for my low-handlebar cockpit set ups, and on my more upright bikes, I love the Pure saddle. I use WTB Technical Trail clamp on grips, and enjoy the thin diameter combined with the soft rubber compound.
Discipline: Gravel
Favorite product: Nano 40, Exposure 30
As for my go-to WTB tires, particularly when it comes to gravel, it’s all about the Nano 40s for me. Also, being that I spend so much time on the road training, the Exposure 30s, set up tubeless, are dreamy for Sonoma County’s pot hole filled roads.
Rocky Mountain Team
Discipline: Enduro, Downhill
Favorite product: Vigilante / Trail Boss
Kona XC/Gravel Adventure Team
Discipline: XC
Favorite product: Silverado / Wafel Grips / SL8
ALN "The WTB Deva is on every single of my bikes. The comfort and reliability of this saddle makes it one of my favorite pieces of equipment. It’s a no-brainer, from road bike to DH bike."
Bradyn Lange "This WTB saddle is rad, super comfy for those long days on the bike and the design on it is just icing on the cake. Definitely recommending this saddle any chance I get."
Pivot Cycles
Discipline: Gravel, CX
Favorite product: Riddler 45 / Resolute 42
Barry Wicks has been riding and racing mountain bikes since 1996. After ten seasons chasing the World Cup XC circuit around the globe, he now focuses his energy on Gravel Road Racing, and producing cool stories with Kona Adventure Team. Barry's favorite WTB products include the Venture 700x50c Gravel racing tire, which he claims make his gravel bike more capable than his XC race bike from 2003, and his Silverado Team carbon saddle, which has been on every single one of his bikes since his first season with Kona in 2002.
Dan Chiang
Discipline: Downhill, Enduro
Favorite product: High Tail / Koda / Silverado
Eddie Masters:
‘I run the Silverado on my train bike because it's cool, light and keeps my botty comfy for long rides’
Bernard Kerr:
‘I Like the koda seat for dirt jumping, its the most fun bike to ride in the down time between races and the seat is rad’
Emilie Siegenthaler:
‘My favourite seat is the WTB high tail! As a short rider I can run the seat as low as I want and due to the high tail’s shape it doesn’t hit the tyre while riding. I get to my setup prefect and it looks sick and is light!’
Lupato Brothers
Discipline: Enduro, Downhill
Favorite product: Judge / Verdict
My favourite saddle is High Tail because not only it looks super cool but feels very comfortable ,especially in enduro race.
Vigilante is most used tire in my EWS rounds. It offers incredible grip and can deal with all kinds surface conditions, but when it gets wet and muddy, it excels even more. I truly believe WTB is made for competition. "
Discipline: Enduro, Downhill
Favorite product: Volt saddle / Commander grips
“We love the Vigilante 2.5 - tough/high grip in the front because it’s a great tire in every trail condition, from dry to wet and you can push hard in all the situations. In the rear we usually use the Judge 2.4 - tough/fast rolling because we think that is a good mix between the rolling and the grip with a great braking power!”
CTM Racing Team
Discipline: Enduro
Favorite product: High Tail saddle
Thibaut Ruffin, COMMENCAL/VALLNORD Team Owner and Manager: (I thought it might be good to have one in the behalf of the team)
"As a World Cup Downhill Team, we need saddles than we can trust and abuse, the WTB High Tail Team is our choice. This saddle offers a lightweight product and an optimal design with the perfect clearance to avoid the rear wheel "BRRRRRRR" contact noise when bottoming out as it has always been before we use the High Tail, and having a quiet bike in every situation is priceless! Moreover, in 2 years of use, we never bent any single Titanium Rail from WTB or broke any shell, so our trust is limitless!"
Amaury Pierron:
"I'm Amaury Pierron, 23 yo, I live in Vieille Brioude in the center of France and I'm the 2018 UCI DH World Cup Overall winner. I ride the WTB High Tail Team on my COMMENCAL Supreme DH and Silverado Team on my COMMENCAL META AM, TRAIL and POWER and I couldn't hope for better saddles on my bikes! They are strong, light, stylish, and so comfortable, what else can we ask for!?"
Myriam Nicole:
"My name is Myriam Nicole aka "Pompon", I live in Clermont l'Hérault near Montpellier, France, I'm 29 years old. I have won 4 World Cups in my career as well as the UCI DH World Cup overall in 2017. I'm currently injured with a broken foot sustained 2 months and a half ago. I had multiple breaks in my foot and I'm working hard to get back on my bike very soon. I ride for WTB since 2018 with the COMMENCAL/VALLNORD Team and I like having those saddles on my bikes! As a girl in DH, I have to run a lower seat height on my bikes compare to the boys, and the shape of the High Tail allows me to set it up the way I want without having to care about the tire clearance, this is an important asset for me.
Vitus
Discipline: Enduro
Favorite product: Vigilante / Trail Boss
Vojta Bláha
Discipline: Enduro
Favorite product: Vigilante / Trail Boss
Discipline: Enduro
Favorite product: Vigilante / Trail Boss
Josh Ibbett
Rocky Mountain Enduro Team
Discipline: Enduro
Favorite product: Exposure 30 / Riddler 45
I always choose Wtb tyres for bikepacking and ultra events. For road I love the Exposure 30c for the perfect combination of comfort and speed and the Riddler for off road gravel rides. This year I completed the Tour Divide on the classic WTB Nano 2.1 mtb tyre. If you want a fast rolling tyre with a load of grip the Nano is the one to go for.
Discipline: Enduro
Favorite product: Volt / Silverado
“The Silverado is awesome! Comfy ride and the Canadian theme goes so well with the paint scheme of my bikes” - Carter Woods @carterwoods14
"I have been using the Silverado Saddle for the last 4 years and my butt has been happy for it the entire time. My saddle isn’t something I even notice anymore! Its also pretty nice when the saddle matches the bike so well!" - Remi Gauvin @remi.the.semi
"Saddles are very important for comfort on a bike, I've been on the WTB Silverado for years and have no complaints!"
"Saddles are an important piece and it can be hard to find the right one, thankfully I found the WTB Silverado many years ago and haven't had to look any further!" - Jesse Melamed @jessemelamed
"Our custom WTB saddles are one of the most head turning parts on my bikes. From the quality, comfort, and the custom artwork, the WTB Silverado saddle may be one of my favourite components." - Quinn Moberg @quinnmoberg
"WTB saddles have been part of my riding experience for as long as I can remember, it's an essential part of every successful race or adventure!
When everything on your bike works and you are enabled to fly down a trail at mach-schnell, it's because every well designed part is doing exactly what it was meant to do. I never even think about my butt on my WTB saddle, it's happy, what more can I say, braappp!
A seat is like a throne, with the weight of kingdom on your shoulders you need to have one awesome throne, that's how I see my WTB saddle!
When it time to smash laps, climb hills and fly down trails, one of the last things I ever worry about is my WTB saddle." - Andreas Hestler @ahestler -Olympian and Co-founder of BC Bike Race
"WTB has us riding in style with comfortable, reliable, and sleek looking saddles to complete the perfect Rocky Moutain build." - Peter Ostroski @Peter Ostroski
"The WTB Silverado saddle is the cherry on top of our adventure/race rigs. It keeps our bikes light weight yet keeps our bums comfortable on those epic days. On long climbs, the Silverado allows me to comfortably sit closer to the cockpit and keep my weight over the front. It's the only saddle I have tried that let's me do that without feeling like I have a massive wedgie. WTB has gone above and beyond for us too, stitching custom designs that match our bikes. It's all around a great product and brand to ride with." - Felix Burke @Felix Burke