WeiTien Ho’s Ultimate Summer Workout: Mountain Biking to Freeride World Tour Domination

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You know what they say: “If winter’s your season, summer’s your secret weapon”. Some athletes, like WeiTien Ho, take this to another level. Ho spends the longer days ripping up berms and charging technical descents on the professional enduro circuit. The bike is just another weapon in his arsenal of hard-charging tools that sharpen his instincts, push his limits and keep the stoke alive year round. 

After putting down a winning run at Yeti Xtreme Verbier on the Freeride World Tour this past March, Ho came out of the winter firing on all cylinders. Following a broken ankle in October 2024, he wasn’t even sure he would be able to compete on the FWT at all. “With every comp that I didn’t win, it became harder and harder to believe that I could actually win,” expresses Ho. “Winning Verbier meant I now have proof I actually can do what I always believed I could do.”

The parallels between downhill mountain biking and skiing seem to be apparent, but each discipline demands full attention to progress at the professional level. Both sports are extremely physically demanding, as well as mentally challenging. Still, Ho pushes to be at the top of both competition pools. “Each of the two types of competition have elements that I love,” says Ho.

“In skiing you will travel the world and spend so much time preparing for one run…In enduro mountain biking, it’s similar, but it’s over a full day of racing, sometimes two, so there are many other aspects that factor in such as managing nutrition and mechanicals.”

Having grown up in the adrenaline-hotbed of Whistler, BC, Ho craves the high-octane energy of these gravity sports. “They each give me purpose for different reasons,” he expressed.  “Without the two together I feel I would need to fill a missing link in my life.”

For Ho, the summer and the winter aren’t separate entities, they’re two halves of one constant season of grit, determination and gravity.