Whether you follow professional mountain bike racing or not, you likely know of Wyn Masters. The New Zealand native keeps up an entertaining social media presence with his weekly wheelie and manual display, and countless YouTube videos of riding and interviewing fellow athletes while holding makeshift microphone props far too close to their faces. He’s a character whose smiling jovial presence seems appreciated by everyone around him, and we were stoked to get to know him a bit better over email.
In 2019 Wyn started a Go Fund Me campaign to raise cash for privateer racers on the EWS and World Cup circuits, handing out a chunk of the donated funds to the top unsponsored rider after each round. He was able to give the fastest women’s and men’s privateer €1000 after the World Cup and EWS rounds he attended last season, which is a nice chunk of funding for athletes trying to compete against folks with full team support.
Wyn finished 22nd out of the 283 competitors in the 2019 EWS overall, placing a respectable 17th at the dusty Italian round in Val di Fassa, 7th in Rotorua, and 12th at the event in Tasmania. Competition is steep back home in New Zealand, where he earned 4th at the DH National Champs race in 2019, and 2nd in the UCI Oceania Continental Championships in 2018.
Long story short, Wyn Masters is as fast as he is creative, and he’s crafted a unique gravity career with various pans in the fire. Let’s dig into the questions.
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