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WTB Victorious at Old Pueblo

Team WTB took top honors at the Kona Bikes 24 Hours in the Old Pueblo (coloring contest). The Old Pueblo, celebrating its tenth anniversary this year, is known as the biggest 24-hour race in the n...

Compton and Lloyd Prepare for World Champs

WTB sponsored riders Katie Compton and Rachel Lloyd are poised for success leading into the Cyclocross World Championships next weekend. Compton won her third world cup of the season on January 18...

Team Rider McMullen Front Page News

Team WTB rider Bobby McMullen was featured on the front page of the Marin Independent Journal today. Sports writer Christine Vardaros does a fantastic job documenting the daily struggles of a comp...

Compton Wins World Cup on Silverado Saddle

WTB-sponsored racer Katie Compton claimed victory at the fourth round of the Cyclocross World Cup in Koksijde, Belgium on November 29. Compton---voted by Velo News Magazine as the North American C...

Mark Weir to Join Top Riders in Kenya

Mark Weir, WTB’s PR manager and pro athlete, is joining a select group of the world’s best mountain bikers in a race down Mt. Kenya this February. The event, named Urge Kenya, is being organized b...

Benedict Wins NMBS Series on WTB

WTB-sponsored rider Brad Benedict claimed the title of NMBS downhill series champion at the series finals in Brian Head, Utah. Although 2008 marked his first real season of racing pro, Benedict ro...

A Pleasureable Kind of Hell

These are just a few images from the Santa Cruz Hellride---Where Team WTB-riders Mark Weir, Jason Moeschler and Rachel Lloyd led eight riders on an all day epic over rugged terrain. By the end of ...

WTB Riders Out for Blood at SSWC

Mark Weir, Rachel Lloyd, Jason Moeschler. These WTB-riders aren’t single speeders. They don’t even own single speeds. But when the Single Speed World Championships came to Napa, California—Team WT...

2008 Downieville Classic Race Report

This year’s Downieville Classic saw some big changes. The event became the inaugural All-Mountain World Championships, the XC course gained two more miles of ripping singletrack and, for the first...

Tim Allen Represents USA and WTB at World Champs

Voodoo/WTB racer Tim Allen shares his experience of the U23 World Championships in Italy, where he was the top placing American. Tim was rocking WTB Raijin tires, a WTB Silverado saddle and WTB La...

Adam Craig’s World Championships Report

Adam Craig--America's great hope for a medal in the Olympic XC race--shares his experience at this year's world championships in Val di Sol, Italy. The WTB-sponsored rider had a lackluster result,...

Newspaper Writes Story About Weir

The Novato Advance newspaper recently wrote a three-part story about WTB employee and pro rider Mark Weir. His dedication and passion for cycling are making a real difference in the community of N...

BikeSkills Video with Greg Minnaar

Greg Minnaar, WTB-sponsored rider and 2005 downhill world champion, shares his tips for downhill speed in this BikeSkills video. Minnaar, and his Santa Cruz Syndicate teammates, recently dominated...

Team Update

WTB team riders have been on a roll. Brad Benedict returned from his first European world cup at Maribor, Slovenia and, five days later, took the biggest victory of his career at the NMBS downhill...

Ready for Maribor

We just received this photo from Claudio Caluori, manager of the Tomac Factory Team. The team is in Maribor, Slovenia for the first downhill world cup of the season. The Tomac team is one of many ...

Ten Reasons Why Offenburg…

Words of Adam Craig Basically any time a week of racing bikes somewhere kicks ass, I'm going to do a Ten Reasons piece. There’s just so much to tell on these perfect weeks that there would be pag...

WTB Riders on Top!

What do the top five gravity point leaders have in common? They all ride WTB Wheels, Saddles and Tires and are looking strong as the season has officially kicked off. Check out the excerpt from th...

NMBS #1, Fontana

WTB enjoyed a successful weekend in California's Inland Empire at the official NMBS season kickoff in sunny Fontana. Starting two weeks before the Sea Otter Classic, this early-season national cre...

Pua Top 10 at World Cup Marathon

photos: Ron Sawicki WTB sponsored rider Monique “Pua” Sawicki just took 7th at the first World Cup Marathon of the season in Manavgat, Turkey. With a time of 3:45.37, she was just over 17 minutes...

Plaxton and Sneddon Visit WTB

WTB-sponsored riders Max Plaxton and Kris Sneddon dropped by the office yesterday. The two Canadian XC racers got a full tour of WTB headquarters as well as a history lesson of our sport's earlier...