Hello Vital MTB Visitor,
We’re conducting a survey and would appreciate your input. Your answers will help Vital and the MTB industry better understand what riders like you want. Survey results will be used to recognize top brands. Make your voice heard!
Five lucky people will be selected at random to win a Vital MTB t-shirt.
Thanks in advance,
The Vital MTB Crew
Looks like Jess Blewitt is on a trek e-bike in one of Brook’s stories. Could be a loaner…could be?
Yep its a rental bike, they are rentals at the redwoods in rotorua.
RedBull helmet and no team, what has the world came to...
Eight vertice, twelve edges
Still trying to work that one out... Wedge, Parallelepiped, Rhomboid?
Some sort of prism...
Diamond(back) ?
Both Polygon and Jess Blewitt are managed by Martin at 23 Degrees Sports.
https://23degrees-sports.com/
A rhombohedron? It sounds like that's the (special) case.
Almost looks like the shape of a dumpster...
Eight vertices and twelve edges is a cube BTW
Didn't they say she had a ride on the latest MUTN podcast?
Danny back to mondraker 😳
Aaron Gwin to Kubota.
Heard it here first.
Any known changes in the Pivot Factory Team ? Hope not, they are killing it like that ! And BK with Jenna are just the cutest!
It Reminds me of the Pat Barry and Rose Namajunas situation... I'll leave it at that
I heard BK is taking up a new career in dog grooming
I'm not sure Brook even has a ride for 2024. But I believe it's already been discussed that MS is parting ways with Mondraker and then the rumours were that MS Intense would be the new team and that's where Dak Norton was going.
And if you are reading these and shouldn't be for your mental health Dak.... Get off vital forums and go work on your pit bike track lol.
Bex Barona follows Transition bikes.
Transition already has a Danger list of fast girls why not add another and start an Enduro team? Who else might be headed to a theoretical Transition Enduro team!?
Marco Osborne already races enduro for Transition, he hasn't been doing EWS but maybe he's going to step it up next season?
The transition spire is one hell of an enduro bike so it could make sense them getting into it
Transition is fire sale'ing bikes now (like everyone else). They haven't had a full blown EWS/EDR team in the past. Doubt they will be doing something in 2024 with money running dry. Might partially sponsor Bex though, since she's a single rider. But I wouldn't base that on her following them on Instagram.
Transition also sponsors Amy Morrison.
Big news from GT today:
--------------------------------------
GT - Switching Gears for 2024 In MTB Racing
Few brands are born into racing, but when Gary Turner welded the first GT BMX frame in his SoCal garage for his son in 1972, that’s exactly how GT came to exist.
In the last fifty years, GT has raced everything and everywhere; from BMX to XC, Slalom to Downhill, Enduro to road. Heck, GT even created the ‘96 Atlanta Superbike project for the USA National Track team. On this journey, we’ve won Olympic medals, World titles, World Cups, National and European Championships all in a style unique to our brand.
For the last eight years, our GT Factory Racing Team (GTFR) has competed at the highest level in the UCI Downhill World Cup series and EDR races, with an extended family of riders including: Wyn Masters, Rachel Strait, Anneke Beerten, Martin Maes, Sam Dale, Brook McDonald, Jackson Frew, George Brannigan, Joey Foresta, Johannes ‘Denim Destroyer’ Vonklebelsberg, Noga Korem, Ethan Craik, Katy Winton, Jess Blewitt and Ryan ‘Pinky’ Pinkerton.
The team has achieved an incredible forty-one WC/EDR podiums, eleven WC/EDR wins, two World Cup overall titles and two World Championship podiums. We couldn’t be prouder of these talented athletes and to have the opportunity to support Wyn’s Privateer Project and our Junior Development teams, all helping the next generation to reach the top.
During this time, GTFR has been supported by some of the World's leading brands, including Continental, Shimano, FSA, Fox Suspension, Alpinestars, Stans, Krush, Rimpact, EThirteen, Prologo, GoPro, ODI, Bell, Sombrio, FiveTen, WTB, Skullcandy, Schwalbe, Michelin and Vittoria
The GTFR team finished this season on a huge high as Ethan stood on his first World Cup podium in MSA and Pinky won the World Cup Junior title overall, but 2023 marks the last season of the current edition of the GTFR program. It may be the end of the chapter, but this is not the end of the story. For 2024, our race presence will come in the form of bolstering regional teams and grass roots programs - where future champions are born.
See you at the races in 2024 and beyond.
--------------------------------------------------------
This is interesting, especially the final paragraph. Theres a really quick young dh racer from nz (jonty Williamson) whos a local to the same park as me, was talking with him the other week and he mentioned that he might have a sponsorship lined up with GT bikes for some kind of gravity team. Lines up with what gt said in the final paragraph
I believe there was rumblings Dorval was folding.
A former turquoise rider soon to transitioning to a new team.
Aaah, I love beer from Bremen too, man!
Post a reply to: 2024 TEAM RUMORS