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Throwback Thursdays: 96 Mountain Bike Germany New Paradigm Hubs Review

1996 in Germany must have been amazing, I find nothing but stoke gracing the covers of magazine clippings we have dating back to then. Perhaps the long sleeve adorned rider was particularly enthu...

The Story of the Trailblazer

How it went from this: From: Mark Slate Sent: Saturday, October 05, 2013 12:36 PM To: Mark Slate Subject: B+ Hey, ...the idea that we could do things that have not been done before. Looking back ...

Throwback Thursdays: 1999 WTB Ti 29" Interbike Display Bike

Dave Locke's Wilderness Trail Bikes 1999 Ti 29" bike in the same configuration as it was when shown at Interbike in 1999 when WTB first showed the NanoRaptor 2.1 29" tire, the first ever 29" tire....

Throwback Thursdays: More 1985 NORBA Nats Santa Barbara

So much of WTB's history and product development is tied to racing. You can see WTB riders in white jerseys with SunTour across the chest (and WTB atop) in the right corner of this photo and the ...

Rad People Who Ride: Ian Schmitt and Kona Bicycles

A stallion of a man. Long flowing mane of sheer mulletude, the seasoned squint of hardened determination, coordination rippling from... WAIT. THIS is NOT Ian Schmitt. This is... well... This is t...

Rad People Who Ride: Chris Spilly

Duuuude, it booms, echoes, reverberates, emanates, and resounds from within Spilly. Whether it's during a ride, recounting a ride, or on the way to a ride, you're going to hear it. When I first ...

Throwback Thursdays: The Return of Drop Bars?

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 appropriate...

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 br...

Throwback Thursdays: '96 Mountain Bike Germany Pad Review

Elevated chainstays, a nice an taut elasticized cinch strap flowing in the breeze of what looks to be an epic skid... Vans sneakers - what's not to like? In 1996, people were getting pitted, sooo...

Rad People Who Ride: Jon Pritchett (Dr. P)

Mention Dr. P or Dr. Pritchett to anybody who shreds trail in the greater Nevada City area and you'll immediately elicit a smile, perhaps even a laugh. Every associated story following then see...

Throwback Thursdays: 1979 Appetite Seminar

1979 illustration by Pete Barrett, from Chalie Kelly's Hubsite, the BEST website you will ever find. This Thursday marks yet another Appetite Seminar as throngs of mountain bikers will congregate...

Throwback Thursdays: Wilderness... It's Our First Name After All...

Adventure isn't exactly something new to WTB. Getting out, exploring, taking the path less traveled, finding your own way, thinking differently... that's what WTB is all about. I found these pho...

Ooops, Brett Did it Again...

Brett Bellchambers taming Scotland, WEMBO 2014. Beautiful Photo Credit: Anthony Pease. Want more beauty? Peep his jaw-dropping gallery HERE, my favorite, Seascapes Another WEMBO (World Endurance...

Rad People Who Ride: Bill & Sue Roussel of Ashland Mountain Adventures

It happens: that blissful epiphany following the mandatory journey to get there - bike on rack, rumble of van, banter of the bike-obsessed and gravity-enthused, sway of ascending turns with dude-n...

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 an...

No Rest for the Winning, A Tribute to Marco

Marco abs-o-lutely killed it this season. It became shameless. In August, he didn't stop winning. He even won the Pro GRT in Mammoth in September during the Kamikaze Bike Games aboard his endur...

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...

Schralping to a City Near You... The Commute Begins

Photo Credit: James Adamson, @_james_ adamson_, dropmedia.tv It has begun, the singletrack onslaught of good times, big miles, Big Gulps, possibly Big Bites (ok, I added that one, another 7-Eleve...

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 created...

The Other Downieville

Photo Credit: @GusGibbs It's easy to get in somewhat of a perfect (figurative) rut in Downieville. Camp or stay some place, wake up, un-stiffen oneself preferably through coffee, make it to the ...