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Mark Scott new bike.
One, although I don't have first hand experience of it, I imagine MW's contact book stretches far and wide. He's very good at bringing sponsors together to back his teams. Two, although he's used (and on the Enduro side, appears to still be using) Trek frames before, he's not completely tied in and could conceivably use any frame for a DH team he put together? ...and Three, it's been 3yrs since Gwin and Martin parted ways. That's a fair amount of water under the bridge. There's nothing to say that all/any differences have been settled and put to bed months ago?
Anyway, all this talk of Gwin becoming part of some semi independent "super team" would make far more sense to me if you were to factor MW in at the head of it.
(the article is in German - did not found an English one)
http://www.mtb-news.de/news/2016/01/04/fischi-interview/
Radon has quite a team there: Nick Beer, Benni Strasser, Fischi, Figaret... all guys that are likely to crack the Top 20 and maybe Top 10 next season and will produce top 30 finishes at worst.
They say they want to get more international (Radon is about as big as Canyon or YT in Germany), so I'm excited to see what they pull off the next few years.
YT is a marketing powerhouse who basically has three bikes on offer. They appear a lot bigger than they are since they sponsor riders that are famous among forum users/insiders and benefit a lot from rampage covering.
sales for canyon 2013/2014 combined (they always have two years in their statement) are about 120 million euro
sales for radon 2013 are about 90 million euro
which one is bigger?
please don´t get me wrong - yt is pure marketing and canyon has a very different way of selling their bikes. radon (at least for me) was not well known and is slowly getting momentum during the last years
Oh yeah, and they will all be required to compete in DH ski racing in the off season as well..
BMW should, according to the common logic, also put their money into dh.
They sponsor skiracers and events.
I think the idea Audi sponsoring dh is not going to work.
Interesting to see Radon is worth that much, would not have thought that.
If its a frame of his choosing, I have to think he'll be on a demo. He's jiving on it pretty well right now.
Been a long time since I've posted here! Some entertaining comments on here.......
Looking forward to seeing things unfold in 2016!
For the record, I no longer handle Gwin's business deals as of 12/31/15.
I'm still on his program and helping with other duties related to his program.
Should be some good racing in 2016!
http://www.vitalmtb.com/news/press-release/Developing-Trek-Wants-Aaron-…
I highly doubt those two would enter into another business relationship together.
http://www.23degrees-sports.com/athletes/
Check out the link to "black betty" on Whitely's site
Because Specialized wouldn't offer him the deal he wanted, he is going to have no frame sponsor, and instead rep them for free.
I can continue if the inanity of this hasn't set in yet.
So where is all the YT rumors coming from? I think I watched an interview last year and the CEO said they weren't interested in racing cred. Money aside, "good times" fits their branding more than racing... Either YT has changed course and want a world cup racer and people are spilling the beans or they have jumped into the speculation to get some free publicity out of it and play a good joke on us.
In any case the speculation is fun...
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