{"id":4550,"date":"2014-09-11T08:00:30","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T15:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.livetoplaysports.com\/news-press\/?p=4550"},"modified":"2015-06-11T16:12:06","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T23:12:06","slug":"wtb-vigilante-finds-a-treasured-home-in-bike-rumors-tire-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/livetoplaysports.com\/news-press\/2014\/09\/wtb-vigilante-finds-a-treasured-home-in-bike-rumors-tire-farm\/","title":{"rendered":"WTB Vigilante finds a treasured home in Bike Rumor\u2019s tire farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4551\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"\/\/www.livetoplaysports.com\/news-press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/WTB-Vigilante-650B-Tire-Tread-1-600x400.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4551\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4551\" src=\"\/\/www.livetoplaysports.com\/news-press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/WTB-Vigilante-650B-Tire-Tread-1-600x400-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Photo from bikerumor.com\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/livetoplaysports.com\/news-press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/WTB-Vigilante-650B-Tire-Tread-1-600x400-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/livetoplaysports.com\/news-press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/WTB-Vigilante-650B-Tire-Tread-1-600x400-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/livetoplaysports.com\/news-press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/WTB-Vigilante-650B-Tire-Tread-1-600x400.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4551\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo from bikerumor.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In the mountain bike tire world, there\u2019s a constant battle between weight, grip, and durability. Just like the saying in the business world \u2018it can be fast, good, or cheap.\u2019 \u2013 you can generally only pick two. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Enter the <a href=\"\/\/www.wtb.com\/products\/vigilante\" target=\"_blank\">WTB Vigilante<\/a> All Mountain Tire, where they\u2019ve balanced great traction, rolling resistance, and a long lasting compound. A sort of tire trifecta.<\/p>\n<p>Available in all three wheel sizes at 2.3\u201d wide, casings include the standard Dual DNA and Gravity DNA (Team Issue), and feature WTB\u2019s Tubeless Compatible System.<\/p>\n<p>Bike Rumor tested the Vigilantes long term and had this to say:\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cDue to superb traction, stiff sidewalls, and mid pack rolling resistance, the WTB Vigilante tire has found itself a treasured home in our tire farm. On bikes with 5\u2033+ of travel, it offers a great balance between performance and wear life. Heavier riders in rocky terrain who are looking for the utmost in reliability might want to consider the burlier sidewalls and sticker compound of the Team Edition tire, but everyone else should find something to love about the base level TCS version.\u201d &#8211; Bikerumor.com<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"\/\/www.bikerumor.com\/2014\/08\/07\/review-wtb-vigilante\/#more-83382\" target=\"_blank\">Read the whole review,<\/a> or learn more at <a href=\"\/\/www.wtb.com\/products\/vigilante\" target=\"_blank\">wtb.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the mountain bike tire world, there\u2019s a constant battle between weight, grip, and durability. Just like the saying in the business world \u2018it can be fast, good, or cheap.\u2019 \u2013 you can generally only pick two. \u00a0 Enter the&#8230;..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[103,199,327,542],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/livetoplaysports.com\/news-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4550"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/livetoplaysports.com\/news-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/livetoplaysports.com\/news-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livetoplaysports.com\/news-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livetoplaysports.com\/news-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4550"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/livetoplaysports.com\/news-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4550\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5809,"href":"https:\/\/livetoplaysports.com\/news-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4550\/revisions\/5809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/livetoplaysports.com\/news-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livetoplaysports.com\/news-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/livetoplaysports.com\/news-press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}