Nano 40

Red Dirt: Land Run 100

WTB Tires and Saddles Flood NAHBS 2018

Skull 120: America’s Gnarliest Gravel Grind

TI, or, Trans I.O.U. Some Deep Respect

Flashback Fridays: Early 90s Dirt Touring & Bikepacking

It's no secret that people have been loading their bikes with overnight gear and heading into the wilderness for quite some time.  Just take a look at this Pearl Pass post here and you see that b...

Throwback Thursdays: 2001 Nano Raptor 1.85 (44/40)

Tempting as it may be to read the above as a 700 x 44 Nano of 2001, lovely as that sounds, it was a relatively narrow, speed demon of a 26" tread.  This doesn't mean that ideas of various sizes a...

Throwback Thursdays: 2003 Interwolf 38/38

Many people clung to remaining InterWolfs with a sense of worth akin to cigarettes within prison - one's wealth could be measured in hoarded InterWolfs.  They were a tire before their time.  Fast r...

Throwback Thursdays: 2002 Gravel, errr... Monster Cross, ahhem... Mutano 44

Mutano Raptor 44/44 700c tires had the same beautiful wolf head logo stamping on their side knobs as their bigger casing, smaller diameter, 26" siblings. There are many things that WTB has c...

Rodeo Labs Rocks the Nano 40 in Lost Park CO

Our friends at Rodeo Labs kept it real this past weekend.  People wonder what's up with the Nano 40.  I'll tell you what's up, you can really ride everything with it as Stephen Fitzgerald kindly ...

Rad Bikes of Interbike

There were many rad bikes at Interbike.  Several of them were in our booth.  BLAO!  Shameless. Pretty sure I can back up that lofty claim though.  We used four bikes to create four stories, four...

What You Also Buy with a Handmade Bike

Photo Credit: Kris Henry / 44 Bikes It is really easy to get caught up in the calculated purchase of a carbon frame or bike.  Blah blah performance, blah blah price, blah blah stiffness, blah blah ...

You've Lost & Found that Lovin' Feelin'

Maybe racers from this past weekend's inaugural SBTS (Sierra Buttes Trail Stewardship) gravel ride/race didn't find that lovin' feel n'.  Yup, the Righteous Brothers were onto something.  It could ...

Why Trans Iowa is Rad

Photo Credit: Guitar Ted Productions, TI v10 start line,  First off, it's free.  Yes, somehow that makes a huge difference.  You can cross states, spend hundreds upon hundreds of dollars on fool...

Smart Dudes Speak the Truth

Two guys smart and savvy enough to have killed it in any industry or potentially lucrative venture chose bikes.  Why?  Because they get it.  This is what they love.  They could've made money, lots....

Rad People Who Ride: Andy Stockman

Andy Stockman shreds.  He’s also one of the nicest guys you’ll ever meet.  When I first stopped by Sunshine Bicycle Center in Fairfax, en-route by bike shaking sample tires at unsuspecting ...