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Such a great sport, the mash up of personalities and the excitement of seeing everyone do well. Just amazing.
Mentioning Cathro is also a bit silly, whole PBR has been build around him so even if he will not be racing anymore he will probably stay as manager although it might be getting more difficult with 2 kids at home. The vibe of that team seems great and he is like the ever supporting father so I doubt anyone is even thinking about replacing him. Other 3 I agree, they have not had any great results this year. Kind of similar story with Trek, Loris is always a threat but the other 3 have not had much of success this year, so I would not be surprised to see a bit of teams rework, Kade maybe to freeride program? Not really sure how the contracts are right now tho...
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He came from a Saracen development program into the Madison team when he started juniors, I wouldn't be suprised if that contract only covered his junior years.
Another one is Danny Hart, 2 years on Cube, and hasn't seemed to results like he had with Giant and Mondraker.
Wyn's comment to Danny on the Track walk VDS video would make it seem like Danny Hart is on his way elsewhere
For Danny, it would make sense for Nukeproof to get him (particularly if Sam Hill is retiring) but a reunion with Giant would be nice too.
A rider's purpose is to bring attention to a brand and help it sell more bikes (or whatever the team title sponsor is selling). In my opinion, Danny has dramatically increased my estimation of Cube bikes from "fragile poorly designed bikes" to "Wow, Danny is is getting top 10s every other race".
Wyn is the only person on earth reminding me on a weekly (ish) basis that GT bikes exist.
Look at the comments under any PBR video and you will see that Cathro is hands down putting out the best content on that platform. Qualifying to race days are just his own personal goals I would say.
One name I have not seen mentionned too much is Antoine Rogge, he is riding professionally in the ebike enduro series, I would be suprised if he isn't on a DH team next year.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqtiIqj0dy0
In regards to BK and Pivot, being that he's the team manager as well as a racer, and generally seems pretty heavily invested in the brand, I'd be surprised to see him on anything else for the foreseeable future.
Grice is up for renewal or a new team. Didn't see that mentioned.
On an unrelated note of wild speculation: Gwin's been on intense for 3 years. Historically he's been a "3 year contract and move on" kinda guy. I know when he signed with them, there were rumors of Gwin being paid by taking a part ownership of intense, or something along those lines. Maybe not part ownership but there was talk of it being more of a long term thing than what he's done in the past. But that may have just been talk. I mean Gwin isn't as hot of a free agent as he was 3, or 6 years ago but he's still a pretty big fish. It'll still be interesting to see if he stays or not. Bike seems to (finally) be working for him and Dak.
Edit: Yeah, I know Gwin hasn't always chosen or wanted to move on, but he's still been on that 3 year cycle.
On the Danny Hart note, he's had a lot on his plate lately, that's obvious, and he's had down years before. He's bought Cube into the limelight so his work there is done I'd say. It was rumoured his reason for the split with Saracen was due to family issues. I think I just miss 2010-2012 Danny Hart, we was so loose and wild.
With the EWS fitness base, he could easily take a winter to do some power & kinesio work and be on the World Cup scene fully powered up by that INSANELY LATE JUNE START DATE.
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