Obviously bigger is better.  I came across this lovely illustration while digging for material.  In August of 1989, it was certainly known that a larger contact patch is superior to a smaller con...

Todd DeAngelis leading Joey Peterson, roughly 1985. I recently went on a singletrack fest group ride and encountered a curious situation.  Strewn about were different people's takes on appropria...

The Grease Guard Tandem hubs were available with a double threaded design, mirroring one drive side from another potential drive side.  So, what does that actually mean?  It means that back in th...

While some might not think chainstay protectors are necessarily the most exciting thing going, WTB's 1988 Chainstay Protectors were pretty sweet.  For one thing, they were some of the first and the...

The lovely copy above from post 1986 and pre 1994 pretty much sums up what the early origins of WTB were all about - taking what was being used for what people at the time called mountain biking, ...

Not to be confused with Disney's Lady and the Tramp, The Rider & the Wolf is a movie about Mike Rust, a Hall-of-Fame mountain biker who disappeared without a trace.  It is a historical movie t...

Brake squeal: you hate it, I hate it, we all hate it.  We thought we left brake squeal behind when we moved from rim brakes to disc brakes but instead, we just embraced it and brought along many o...