Rad People Who Ride: Claire Mechtly, Rafael Millán, and Subculture Cyclery

True.  In one word, that's how I'd describe Claire Mechtly, Rafael Millán and the real people of Subculture Cyclery.  Who else would state, "the more I ride, the more I want to ride"?  Man, that's...

Laura O'Meara Takes 6th Place at XTerra World Champs in Maui on Nanos, Frequency i19s, & TechTrails

Laura O'Meara, featured recently  on WTB's Rad People Who Ride Series, just stormed her way to a 6th place finish at the XTerra World Championships in Maui, Hawaii.  She swam, mountain biked, and ...

Rad People Who Ride: Kris Olsen of KRD Imports

Kris Olsen works hard and rides hard. That may sound clichéd when first looking at it but when you consider that he works in the bike industry for KRD Imports LTD based in Christchurch, New Zealan...

Brett Bellchambers Pedals 253 miles in 24 hours to the Solo Singlespeed World Champ 24 Hour Title

Brett Bellchambers, a 40 year old Australian with a beautiful, self-deprecating sense of humor, marvelous beard, and a fancy for pain and suffering just won the Single Speed category of the World ...

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...

Rad 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...

Mongolia 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...

Mongolia 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 ...

Rad 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...

Big 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...

Throwback Thursdays: WTB Velociraptor Rear Tire at the 1994 Reebok Eliminator (Kamikaze) at Mammoth Mountain

The 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...

Rad 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...

Jerome 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 ...

Leo 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...

WTB 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...

WTB 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“...

1 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...

All I want for Christmas...

is a new WTB saddle! Duma - The saddle eating dog.

Videos of the Week

Jeff 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 ...

Winning Black Friday Captions

The 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...

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Review: WTB Bronson TCS Tyres

Hot 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...