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Personally I don't care what bike or team he's on if he rides like he did in Windham last year. That run was crazy to watch! Roll on Lourdes...
http://www.mtb-mag.com/en/gwin-on-onza-tires/
Intense Cycles announces 2016 Factory Team Roster
Feb 2, 2016 - Temecula, CA: Intense Cycles announced its 2016 Factory Race Team last night at an exclusive event they hosted for select members of the media, industry, friends and family at the Hotel Laguna in Laguna Beach, CA.
The new roster includes returning team members, Jack Moir (Australia) and Luca Cometti (USA) and adds former Palmer Project junior phenom, Nik Nestoroff (USA) and top World Cup rider Dean Lucas (Australia).
In addition, former world cup downhiller and Intense Factory Racing team member, Bernat Guardia heads up the program as Team Director, and longtime IFR manager, Ivan Jimenez takes over as Technical Manager.
"We are extremely excited about the team's potential,: says Intense Cycles CEO, Andrew Herrick. "Our riders are all very young and incredibly talented. We look forward to continuing to build our Factory program with them in the years to come."
Jack Moir (22) is currently leading the Australian National series after having won both races so far this season. He first made his mark in 2014 when he took 10th place at Worlds at the young age of 19.
Luca Cometti (21) returns to Intense for his fourth year with the brand. After taking his 2nd National DS Championship last year, Luca stepped it up on the world stage, and took 26th at World Champs. Luca's outstanding improvement and dedication has earned him his return to the Factory program.
Nik Nestoroff, who recently celebrated his 16th birthday, will race the Junior World Cup series this year. Nik dominated the junior American scene last year during his time with the Palmer Project, when he took the Junior National DH title and came in 3rd junior overall in the Pro GRT series.
Rounding out the rider roster is Australian Dean Lucas (20) who joins Intense for his first year with the brand. Dean is best known for his 3rd place finish in Lenzerheide World Cup last year, his 12th overall finish in the World Cup in 2015 and his success as a Junior on the world cup circuit in 2013.
"Intense's heritage is world cup racing," says founder Jeff Steber. "We built our brand and developed our bikes on race courses throughout the 90's and early 2000's." Steber explains there came a time when he had to step away from racing, to re-direct resources toward carbon fiber development. Now, with a complete line of carbon fiber bikes, including the brand new M16c, the brand makes its return to the world cup. And Steber speaks for everyone at Intense when he says "It feels amazing to be back."
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INTENSE FACTORY RACING IS SUPPORTED BY:
SRAM, ROCK SHOX, MAXXIS, RENTHAL, DT SWISS, POC, KPSPORT
SPECIAL THANKS TO CRANKBROTHERS, SHAMAN RACING, IJRACING,
PROMOROLA, JUICE LUBES, SCORPION BIKE STANDS
"It was mentioned that another company offered more money to sign the team, but in the end the decision was made to go with Specialized. What was the reasoning behind this choice?
Laurent: It was a totally different type of project. We were supposed to be included in the whole project, but everything would have been defined for us, and it was really hard to be sure that all of our input and feedback would been truly valued and validated. Loic wanted to keep the same staff, with same possibility to work with his personal partners like 100% and One Industries, and it was also hard to find the good option matching with all the needs of this partner. We have a long time relationship in the team and with some sponsors, it was long and hard to create that, it is truly something special and we absolutely wanted to keep that. With Specialized this was all possible so the choice became obvious.
Loic: At the end of the day, these choices are always tough, but Laurent really involved all of us into the decision making and I chose the brand that made me dream. I was like a little kid, it's just insane!
Loris: For me it was easier because some negative points were involved with the other brand, not so much on the product but in the team structure. On the other hand Specialized was a respected brand and their bikes were already on the top step of the podium and we were able to retain the same structure within in the team so it really was all positive.
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Dave Mirra Dead
Start a Not a Racing Rumor Thread instead of toileting it up o'er here.
Gwin on a Toilet.
And, anyone who steps in to to PR work is only protecting cash on hand. There's no other logical explanation for this shifty stance and uneasy relationship with social media. Aaron Gwin is a greedy bastard.
Must be a Mormon.
this thread should be "non-offensive". Its all based on speculation so dont get too deep in it.
DID FABIEN BAREL TRY AND MAKE THE LAPIERRE TEAM WEAR THE BRANDS HE REPS (URGE!) AS CONDITION OF JOINING CANYON?
Just as a disclaimer, none of that was in reference to gwin.
Laurie Greenland is confirmed on MS Mondraker
It was Aaron Gwin who chose to air personal dirty laundry through any and all Forums with an Interview flatly-stating Specialized could not provide satisfactory financial compensation - and that in any 'professional' ethic is bullshit.
Cycling is not a team vs. team sport. There's no PayRoll Tax to anticipate. No Home Stadium Budget. No ticket sales It's individual sport. Gwin chose to typify it: nothing more than Money.
Instead of a wealth of other explanations to explain to us commoners why he is not riding Specialized, he takes the sleeziest of channels, plays cute on social media and even slams structured Religion in the process.
Great for Laurie Greenland. Many Juniors to watch this year.
Racing BMX and having Richie Rude's Father Richard be a fast local BITD - good for the sport on a whole. You can't buy that kind of heritage and passion for Cycling.
Posted by Alpinestars. Sun glare conveniently covers the bike.
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