In 2026 DeFeet continues an important partnership with the Trek - Unbroken team. With a focus on the highest level mountain bike cross country events globally, Trek - Unbroken puts DeFeet product right where it's most comfortable: The most uncomfortable situations.
Team Trek - Unbroken does that beautifully with a roster that includes multi-time World & British National Champion Evie Richards, former US U23 National Champion & XCC World Cup winner Gwendalyn Gibson, Olympian and 2025 US XCO National Champion Riley Amos, multi-time World Cup podium finisher Vlad Dascalu, and Nina Graf, German Elite National Champion.
Evie Richards skyrocketed to the top of the XC world in 2021, winning a World Championship and two World Cup races in the final month of the season. In 2024, she won the rainbow stripes once again, this time in short track, as part of a season that included 10 World Cup Top 10 finishes, including a short track win in Mairiporã and a fifth place finish at the Paris Olympics. In 2025, she won the overall World Cup short track title, solidifying herself as one of the best to ever compete in the discipline. Evie is only scratching the surface of her potential, and it'll be fascinating to see where her journey takes her next. One thing's for certain: No one else will be enjoying themselves more out on the course.
Hailing from Durango, Colo., Riley Amos cut his teeth on big-time racing with the Bear Development National Team. In 2021, he raced a joint program with Bear and Trek Factory Racing, and broke through with a win in Leogang in just his third-ever U23 World Cup start. Fast forward to 2024 when he dominated the U23 circuit, racking up nine World Cup wins on his way to XCO and short track overall titles, a U23 short track World Championship, and a seventh place finish at the Paris Olympics -- the best ever by an American men's mountain biker. He's looking forward to climbing more podiums as an elite rider, and inspiring the next generation of American XC racers in the process.
Nina Graf, Trek-Unbroken XC’s newest rider, is on a perpetual quest of self-improvement. She finds motivation in everything: the good days, the bad days, the well-defined accomplishments — top 10s, podiums, wins — and the more nebulous ones. She just had the best season of her career at 27 years old, taking three World Cup top 10s including a personal-best seventh-place in Andorra, finishing ninth at World Championships, and winning the first Elite German national championship of her career.
Gwendalyn Gibson had a breakout season in 2022, roaring back from a midseason injury to win her first ever World Cup race in short track in Snowshoe. She went on to take second in Mont-Sainte-Anne and third at World Championships. Since joining TFR in 2023, she has kept the good times rolling with eight top 10 World Cup finishes, and excellent World Championships showings, finishing eighth in XCO and fourth in short track in '23, and fifth in short track in '24. Gwendalyn is also inspiring a new generation of American riders to find their passion in mountain biking through organizations like NICA.
Vlad Dascalu is a racer, through and through. In his first season with TFR, he stood on nine World Cup podiums, and then added two third-place World Cup finishes and a European Championship in 2023. He's itching for that first World Cup win. Watch out when Vlad is on course and kicking into full gear.
Follow Evie Richards through every high, low, and electric moment of her 2025 World Cup short track title season in this video — from a blazing start in Brazil to mid-season illness to a fireworks finale in Mont-Sainte-Anne. You've never seen the two-time World Champ like this.
DeFeet DeZign allows you the flexibility to personalize your own custom socks. Choose between any combination of four available sock models, including the EVO Mont Ventoux worn by TREK-Unbroken riders. DeFeet custom prints your designs on demand, no long wait times, and no minimum orders.
In the video below, DeFeet founder Shane Cooper visits Trek Factory Racing at their team bus in Denia, Spain in January 2025. Since the early 90's mountain bike team collaborations have been a critical part of DeFeet product development specifically for off road riding.
Input from riders like these athletes on Trek Factory Racing makes it way into what we craft at DeFeet. Even better, these Trek Factory Racing riders go above and beyond with their contributions to cycling with ambassadorships in programs like NICA. That goes a long way with DeFeet, too.
