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Just made an account to post this but Rob Warner called out Chris Ball on his Instagram story saying that there never was a contract in place, in relation to his recent episode on the downtime podcast.
Sorry, not sure how to post photos/screenshots!
Unior-Sinter back on Trek!
Popped by here to point out the same thing. Pretty harsh words from Warner, but I can’t imagine the transition went smoothly for him.
Yeah agreed
It looks like he has taken it down now?
Hope this works, someone else posted above too (Thank you !)
But yeah it was a bit aggressive so not surprised it came down.
Chris Ball is such a shill. Fits in very well with the UCI and WB/Discovery.
Instagram stories (of which this appears to be) only have a 24hr lifespan. It being gone and it being deliberately taken down might be two different things.
It was still up for me as of now
dont think rob has any backlash to fear, especially with the public mostly being on his side after the uci sellout
Rob should really take that down since Chris Ball didn't say he had a contract place with anyone.
While it does sort of sound like Ball said, "Unfortunately, you're right, it he had a contract, didn't work out."
Chris Ball actually says, "Unfortunately, you're right, it yea the contract didn't work out."
A new privateer to Privateer Bikes?
Wasn't there an interview over on the other site with Chris claiming he had meetings with DH teams are races last year when he hadn't?
Pretty sad how low he's fallen since his protest run in underwear over 100m vertical dh race in Calgary almost 20 years ago.
Man made the coolest international race series there was. Had photographers and pros jumping there to work/ride for free cause it was exciting.
then he ruined that series making it “commercial” and ruined interest in covering and watching it. Nobody wants to watch pros race a local enduro race the whole draw was the new locations, epic days, and unreal stage lengths.
now he’s ruining dh selling out the same way. he literally states in his podcast the tracks are too long to broadcast a full run which is exactly what he is promising fans by this discovery switch.
Literally nobody cares about what’s missed in coverage if what is going to be covered instead isn’t worth watching. Mountain biking is one of the nerdiest sports that could ever exist. Stop trying to appeal to people who don’t care about extreme sports cause they will never care and extreme sports people want something exciting and cool not commercial and boring.
Chris ball is just gettin his bag tho. I’m sure 95% of people complaining would do the same if they realized how many beans they could walk away with.
exactly, people have to remind themselves that he's not doing this for the love of the sport but to secure the bag, everyone would probably do the same...
I swear I heard (or read?) an interview with him, maybe not the Downtime podcast, where he said that they talked to Rob but that because he was under contract with Red Bull going forward they couldn't work out a deal for commentating on the new series. Maybe I an misremembering.
just announced that Rob and Eliot are going to be announcing all the Crankworx dh races.
Not that Mr Warner hasn’t speculated about where certain riders are going on broadcasts before…
You are remembering correctly....but CBalls answer was so mumbly and vague, that I don't blame you for wondering if you really heard it or not.
Whistler Crankworx DH using the new 1199 track this year.
I don't think "in defence of Chris Ball, I'm also terrible" is quite as effective as some of you think it is
Enduro team announcement from Nukeproof, confirming no Sam Hill (who will be back to racing DH this year for them instead!): https://www.vitalmtb.com/news/press-release/nukeproof-sram-factory-racing-enduro-2023-team-announcement
I think this lays things out pretty well regarding whether or not you can trust the guy. http://www.easternstatescup.com/2023/01/13/ews-qualifier-update/
So this is kind of a crappy way to notice a team sponsor change, but a recent story from 555GravityRacing shows Douglas Goodwill getting a concussion while on a Commencal. They used to be 555 Raaw, right? So, is Raaw going to sponsor a team or are they putting all that money into their privateer program? I would kind of hope they sponsor a team to show off the bike this year.
That is amazingly shitty, thanks for posting it.
I'm not stoked with the whole situation but this seems like a UCI thing, not a Chris Ball thing. We can't forget that there are fat old white guys pulling strings.
As a fat old white guy, I resent that! Dam kids these days! tehe
Maybe there should now be a 2023 RACING CHIT-CHAT thread, but I'll put this here for the moment: Jackson Goldstone P1 in seeding yesterday at the mini world cup happening in Thredbo right now. Troy, Lozza, and Connor in 4, 5, and 6, Coulanges P10, Sam MFin' Hill: P14. Stacked field, 5 minute course, times are tight at the top. I wish I was going to be awake so I could refresh the results page.
https://www.thredbo.com.au/event-results/2023/cannonball-mtb-festival-presented-by-boost-mobile/?tab=final-results#0_0E3623
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