It’s been five years since Crankworx added a new stop to its World Tour (Innsbruck joined the party in 2017). Today, a new fourth stop will be unveiled. Starting in 2022, the ultimate experience in mountain biking will have a new home in Cairns, Australia. We have been working with the team in Cairns since 2018 to make this happen. To see all the pieces of the puzzle come together, and to start working with the team on the ground to plan a new World Tour festival, is such a dream. Cairns is one-of-a-kind, with the Wet Tropics Rainforest and…
Author: Tomas
We at WTB are constantly working towards reducing the enviromental impact of how our products are manufactured, packaged, shipped and recycled. While these are crucial steps towards reducing the overall carbon footprint of our products, they alone do not provide the key to climate stability. Offseting carbon – one click at a time By partnering with Neutrl, we now provide our customers an option to offset the carbon footprint of webstore purchases by directly and proportionally supporting projects dedicated to carbon capture technology. Help end the climate crisis Every year, the world adds 51 billion tons of greenhouse gases to…
Bob Marley once sang, “The sun is shining, the weather is sweet, yeah.” Indeed: The days are getting longer, the temperatures are rising and the birds are chirping louder. Which means one thing: spring is here! This news will make trail shredders and downhill riders feel a tingling under the skin because the beginning of spring also means that the bike park season is here. Good news for mountain biker riders who want to pursue their favorite hobby without restrains or borders: Europe’s largest bike park flat rate, the Gravity Card, has added two new bike parks to their network; Lienz and…
Ever since enduro bikes emerged on the mountain biking horizon, the hunt for a compromise between downhill capability and uphill efficiency has been on. The geometry, suspension layouts, lockout shocks, remotes… Also the incredible growth of racing, with its bespoke requirements laid before the engineers, trying to come up with the latest and greatest of this new all-in-one discipline, new niches to fill, just like in the golden age of downhill racing domination. The answer to whether mountain bikes have matured into their ultimate form has been unclear so far. Woodsprite is the antidote to the chaos happening in the…
Galfer Bike launches its innovative fixed version of the Disc Shark®, the most complete MTB brake disc available today. Its innovative manufacturing process uses laser cutting to create the optimal design geometry and achieve the best possible performance. In 2021 Galfer Bike started to develop the prototype of its new brake disc for “gravity” disciplines (DH/Enduro), which was used by the riders of the UCI DH Commencal Muc-Off team last season. This disc, together with Galfer Pro brake pads, helped Myriam Nicole win the World Championship, and brought several World Cup victories and podiums for Amaury Pierron and Thibaut Dapréla.…
Mountain bikers of all levels will be able to push their performance to new limits from today, as Continental announces its all-new Gravity Range of MTB tires. With a wide-ranging portfolio engineered from the ground up to meet the demands of every rider, the range is designed to instil maximum confidence on every type of trail. Three years of development by Continental’s category-leading R&D team has led to the creation of five unique tread patterns designed to suit dry hardpack, loose terrain, mud, and everything in between. To complement these five new tread patterns, Continental has developed three casing and…
Alpinestars today announced its latest short video, “Desert Blossoms,” a shoot filmed in the Utah desert with three new team athletes and a look at some of the latest mountain bike clothing, gear, and protection from the Spring 2022 line. The Team expands for 2022, introducing Freeride riders Ryan McNulty, brothers Aidan Howe and Asa Howe, and Dakoda Osusky. Inspired by the company’s namesake, the perennial Alpine star flower, “Desert Blossoms” celebrates the launch of the Spring 2022 Mountain Bike line and three of the four athletes. The video was shot in southern Utah, the home base for Ryan and Dakoda. Aidan…
As the last of the snow melts, the Pinzgau bike paradise will soon be conquered again by mountain bike enthusiasts. On 7 May 2022, the Epic Bikepark Leogang will open its gates for the season, looking forward to a promising mountain bike-filled calendar with top-class events and specials. The Mercedes-Benz UCI Mountain Bike World Cup will once again be held as a double header promising another year of tight Downhill and Cross-Country racing, with the latter including both Short Track and Olympic distance. Later this year, the bike community will once again come together for the BIKE Festival in September,…
After two decades as one of the World’s best riders, 2022 marks the first year of Maja’s retirement from professional racing. “For me it’s actually the beginning. Now I can ride whenever I want, wherever I want, however I want on which bike I want”, she says. We are extremely proud to say that that bike is a NS. With two Olympic medals, World Championship titles, World Cup wins and more Polish National Championship titles than we have fingers for, Maja comes with an impressive collection of medals and an even greater bank of experience. Maja has been a leading…
The Kings and Queens of mountain bike. Slopestyle’s elite. Up-and-comers, amateurs, junior and teeny-tiny shredders. The media, industry, and top brands in the sport. 11 weeks from now, they’ll all be making tracks to the first Crankworx World Tour stop of the season in Innsbruck, Austria, June 15-19. One additional core group will be joining the crusade to Crankworx Innsbruck this year: the fans. For the first time in three years, Crankworx will be welcoming back fans in full capacity to get up close to all the action. Crowd has been misse. I hope they still remember how to go…
Spectators on-site as well as online who closely followed the first Mountain Bike Downhill World Cup in Lourdes a couple of days ago might have spotted a new brand on Greg Minnaar’s helmet. This season, the GOAT will be sporting a helmet designed in collaboration with Mous and Fox. Greg deliberately chose his new helmet branding partner because he really believes in the product and wanted to advocate for an exciting, innovative young brand. To celebrate the new partnership, the reigning World Champ took the new helmet out to Greg’s home turf South Africa. The resulting edit of Greg racing…
The expansive NS Bikes family tree was recently struck by lightning, and a new electrifiedmodel grew from that bolt of energy. We named it E-fine, following the grain of our Definemodels with their gravity geo that’s poised to party or race all day long. This full-powered branch didn’t sprout simply because every other bike company now has anelectric arm. Over the years we have tested a lot of ebikes without finding one that truly stoleour team’s heart. It took us a while to figure out what kind of ebike we wanted. We askourselves what truly makes an e-bike great? If…
ABUS is expanding its mountain bike helmet portfolio with a new all-round model, the MODROP, which impresses with high-quality features, protection and light weight. Designed to keep you safe and comfortable, whether family rides or cross-mountain adventures, the ABUS MODROP is the perfect choice for any adventure. ABUS offers the MODROP in eight design options, catering to a wide variety of tastes. The two-shell-in-mold construction makes the helmet robust and safe and thanks to the Zoom-Ace system, the sizing of the helmet is individually adjustable, ensuring a stable and locked-in fit. The Ponytail Outlet, a gap between the adjustment system and the lower edge of the helmet, means…
Pivot’s latest trailbike is designed from the ground up to deliver maximum confidence and fun per pedal stroke. Rolling a whole new look and name in the Pivot line, the Shadowcat carries forward the exceptional heritage of the Mach 5.5, with a completely new feather-weight chassis, combining progressive geometry and incredible suspension. The result is a bike that twists the fun dial all the way to the loudest setting and breaks it off. Our goal with the Shadowcat was to build the best bike for having fun. The combination of ultra-lightweight, suspension tuning and geometry results in a bike that…