Wilderness Trail Bikes

Wilderness Trail Bikes (usually shortened to WTB) is a privately owned company based in Marin County, California, USA.

Steve Potts, who was already building bike frames in Mill Valley[5][6] in 1980, teamed up with Mark Slate to help meet demand.

[2] Steve Potts, Charlie Cunningham and Mark Slate worked together informally from 1980 on limited production components, almost exclusively for the bicycles that they produced individually.

Examples of technology developed by WTB that were produced under license include designs for tires made by Specialized Bicycle Components, the Blackburn B-52 water bottle cage, geometry for the 1987 Trek Bicycle Corporation mountain bike line and the use of Greaseguard in the top-end Suntour XC Pro component group.

[1] Wilderness Trail Bikes also runs a Community-Based Organization (CBO) called Transportation Alternatives for Marin (TAM).