2024 TEAM RUMORS

PisgahGnar
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1/29/2024 7:17am Edited Date/Time 1/29/2024 7:23am
rleumann wrote:
What's the deal with this? New rider on Pivot or something I've missed?

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What's the deal with this? New rider on Pivot or something I've missed?

faxxe wrote:
We can see some fingers, so we are in the need of a detailed hand analysis once again. Show us your magic, Enhanced Freckle Distribution Analysis...

We can see some fingers, so we are in the need of a detailed hand analysis once again. Show us your magic, Enhanced Freckle Distribution Analysis guys!

I've moved on to feet lmao, those are Jenna's shoes. 

 

Honestly the only reason I know is because I have lusted after those shoes since I saw that color come out. I am neither good enough to rock them, nor can I justify buying the exact same shoe I already own but in a different color. So the shoes caught my eye and I remembered she posted that photo of just her shoes the other day. 

 

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pheller
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1/29/2024 7:36am

So...what shoes are they?

1/29/2024 9:11am
thresh wrote:

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MTBDHdad wrote:

Looks like Fontana Gwin wasn’t in Fontana last race. Don’t know if that helps 

These photos and videos were from like 2 years ago. The wrapped frame is a Trek session he was riding .

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1/29/2024 10:19am

Moar gearboxes in the DH world, I like it!

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veefour
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1/29/2024 10:52am Edited Date/Time 1/29/2024 11:01am
thresh wrote:

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MTBDHdad wrote:

Looks like Fontana Gwin wasn’t in Fontana last race. Don’t know if that helps 

These photos and videos were from like 2 years ago. The wrapped frame is a Trek session he was riding .

These photos and videos were from like 2 years ago. The wrapped frame is a Trek session he was riding .

IMG 0186

Erm, there's an Intense Prototype sticker on that seat stay, or have I misunderstood something?

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chriskief
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1/29/2024 11:00am
MTBDHdad wrote:

Looks like Fontana Gwin wasn’t in Fontana last race. Don’t know if that helps 

These photos and videos were from like 2 years ago. The wrapped frame is a Trek session he was riding .

These photos and videos were from like 2 years ago. The wrapped frame is a Trek session he was riding .

IMG 0186

veefour wrote:

Erm, there's an Intense Prototype sticker on that seat stay, or have I misunderstood something?

That's a Session rear end. I seem to recall Gwin saying they had pieced together a bike from a couple different frames.

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veefour
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1/29/2024 11:02am
chriskief wrote:

That's a Session rear end. I seem to recall Gwin saying they had pieced together a bike from a couple different frames.

Ah, okay thanks.

1/29/2024 11:30am
faxxe wrote:
We can see some fingers, so we are in the need of a detailed hand analysis once again. Show us your magic, Enhanced Freckle Distribution Analysis...

We can see some fingers, so we are in the need of a detailed hand analysis once again. Show us your magic, Enhanced Freckle Distribution Analysis guys!

dwhere wrote:

is it just Berner playing games, and Dane Jewett or Ryan Griffin finally got their prototype?

PisgahGnar wrote:
Dane is in Cali, Ryan is in BC. That's just Bernie being a troll. It's Jenna, check the socks and shoes. 

Dane is in Cali, Ryan is in BC. That's just Bernie being a troll. It's Jenna, check the socks and shoes. 

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No need for Enhanced Freckle Distribution Analysis, MI-SOX is on the case! 

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Mtbbeta
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1/29/2024 11:43am

Danny on a bike with "2 chains" - per Ed Masters, maybe Ed is trolling in his last vid.  What other than the Pivot Proto has 2 chains?? 

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Primoz
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1/29/2024 12:24pm

G1 Zerode.

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1/29/2024 12:44pm
Mtbbeta wrote:
Danny on a bike with "2 chains" - per Ed Masters, maybe Ed is trolling in his last vid.  What other than the Pivot Proto has...

Danny on a bike with "2 chains" - per Ed Masters, maybe Ed is trolling in his last vid.  What other than the Pivot Proto has 2 chains?? 

Assume everything from Eddy is trolling 😂

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metadave
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1/29/2024 1:16pm Edited Date/Time 1/29/2024 1:17pm
Mtbbeta wrote:
Danny on a bike with "2 chains" - per Ed Masters, maybe Ed is trolling in his last vid.  What other than the Pivot Proto has...

Danny on a bike with "2 chains" - per Ed Masters, maybe Ed is trolling in his last vid.  What other than the Pivot Proto has 2 chains?? 

2 Chainz waiting for Danny to get on the bike right before Eddy posted that

 

2 chainz on his favorite 2 chained bike by nabbiebelle d7mqaih-fullview

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MikeK
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1/29/2024 1:41pm
Mtbbeta wrote:
Danny on a bike with "2 chains" - per Ed Masters, maybe Ed is trolling in his last vid.  What other than the Pivot Proto has...

Danny on a bike with "2 chains" - per Ed Masters, maybe Ed is trolling in his last vid.  What other than the Pivot Proto has 2 chains?? 

Forbidden

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Robstyle
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1/29/2024 3:10pm

Hate to disappoint, he's definitely still riding the bike everyone has mentioned a million times at this point. 

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1/29/2024 3:29pm

I heard of another BC DH racer on the WAO race bike....  

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dmanvan
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1/29/2024 4:35pm
rleumann wrote:
What's the deal with this? New rider on Pivot or something I've missed?

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What's the deal with this? New rider on Pivot or something I've missed?

That looks like girl fingers. I can't see the Adams apple to confirm... Tongue

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earleb
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1/29/2024 4:51pm

I heard of another BC DH racer on the WAO race bike....  

#dumspternews

I'd guess Mark Wallace.

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brash
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1/29/2024 5:43pm

I'd be stoked if Jackson Frew got back on a WCDH team, he's had great results in Crankworx series.

Frew/Wallace rumor for WA1 has begun.

 

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samdaman1
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1/29/2024 6:12pm

Updated list of moves and rumours. This time I separated it out into disciplines, which sadly shows how many top enduro racers are seemingly still without a team for 2024.

DOWNHILL:

Danny Hart leaves Cube Factory Racing. [Possibly on Nukeproof as a privateer]

Aaron Gwin leaves Intense Factory Racing. [Possibly on Yeti]

Brook MacDonald leaves MS Mondraker. [Probably on Forbidden]

Wyn Masters leaves GT Factory Racing. [Probably still sponsored by GT though I’d presume]

Hugo Marini leaves Commencal Muc-Off.

Dan Slack leaves Gravity School Racing. [Probably on Pole]

Tegan Cruz leaves Rockshox Trek.

Jon Mozell leaves Forbidden Synthesis 

Ollie Davis leaves Join The Union [Potentially on one of the many Commencal teams, most likely Commencal Schwalbe]

Aimi Kenyon leaves Pinkbike Racing [Currently riding a Trek, potentially on Unior Sinter]

Mark Wallace leaves Norco Factory Team [Possibly on We Are One]

Seth Sherlock leaves Intense Factory Racing [Possibly going wherever Gwin goes]

 

ENDURO:

Dan Wolfe leaves Polygon Factory Racing. [Retired from world cup racing, still sponsored by Polygon]

Cole Lucas leaves Ibis Racing. [Potentially no team secured, not racing world cups in 2024]

Katy Winton leaves GT Factory Racing. [Potentially no team secured]

Dimitri Tordo leaves Canyon. [Team secured, but currently unknown]

Bex Baraona leaves Yeti. [Potentially no team secured, has been borrowing various bikes to test, including a Scott, Nukeproof, Santa Cruz and Canyon]

Josh Carlson leaves Giant Factory Off-Road Team.

Greg Callaghan leaves Devinci Global Racing.

Evan Wall leaves Devinci Global Racing.

Matt Stuttard leaves Polygon Factory Racing.

Jack Menzies leaves Polygon Factory Racing.

Brady Stone leaves Polygon Factory Racing.

Morgane Jonnier leaves Rossignol. [Still riding Rossignol bikes and tagging them in Instagram posts though]

 

FREERIDE:

Kyle Strait leaves Vitus. [Possibly on Fezzari]

Thomas Genon leaves Canyon.

Graham Aggasiz leaves YT.

Ethan Nell leaves YT.

Ace Hayden leaves YT.

DJ Brandt leaves Nukeproof. [Potentially without frame sponsor for 2024]

 

I may still have missed a few or gotten something wrong so please chime in if that's the case!

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wadafak
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1/29/2024 6:48pm
Jackson Frew's new proto WeAreOne DH bike spotted in Thredbo

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I knew this thing looked familiar 

I knew this thing looked familiar loi%CC%88c-bruni-world-champs-bike-check-lapierre-dh-team copy

I feel you. I dumped a very similar one this morning..

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nonickname
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1/29/2024 8:04pm

Looks like tuhoto is still riding a mondraker, what’s going on there? I thought he was supposed to be on intense ?

dylanjp006
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1/29/2024 8:49pm
nonickname wrote:

Looks like tuhoto is still riding a mondraker, what’s going on there? I thought he was supposed to be on intense ?

Yeah most likely just hasn’t received all his intense bikes yet, just the main ones like dh bike

grambo
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1/29/2024 10:26pm

I heard of another BC DH racer on the WAO race bike....  

earleb wrote:

#dumspternews

I'd guess Mark Wallace.

Saw that Finn has been riding Seymour this week, wonder if Mark has been out there too? 

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1/29/2024 11:52pm
samdaman1 wrote:
Updated list of moves and rumours. This time I separated it out into disciplines, which sadly shows how many top enduro racers are seemingly still without...

Updated list of moves and rumours. This time I separated it out into disciplines, which sadly shows how many top enduro racers are seemingly still without a team for 2024.

DOWNHILL:

Danny Hart leaves Cube Factory Racing. [Possibly on Nukeproof as a privateer]

Aaron Gwin leaves Intense Factory Racing. [Possibly on Yeti]

Brook MacDonald leaves MS Mondraker. [Probably on Forbidden]

Wyn Masters leaves GT Factory Racing. [Probably still sponsored by GT though I’d presume]

Hugo Marini leaves Commencal Muc-Off.

Dan Slack leaves Gravity School Racing. [Probably on Pole]

Tegan Cruz leaves Rockshox Trek.

Jon Mozell leaves Forbidden Synthesis 

Ollie Davis leaves Join The Union [Potentially on one of the many Commencal teams, most likely Commencal Schwalbe]

Aimi Kenyon leaves Pinkbike Racing [Currently riding a Trek, potentially on Unior Sinter]

Mark Wallace leaves Norco Factory Team [Possibly on We Are One]

Seth Sherlock leaves Intense Factory Racing [Possibly going wherever Gwin goes]

 

ENDURO:

Dan Wolfe leaves Polygon Factory Racing. [Retired from world cup racing, still sponsored by Polygon]

Cole Lucas leaves Ibis Racing. [Potentially no team secured, not racing world cups in 2024]

Katy Winton leaves GT Factory Racing. [Potentially no team secured]

Dimitri Tordo leaves Canyon. [Team secured, but currently unknown]

Bex Baraona leaves Yeti. [Potentially no team secured, has been borrowing various bikes to test, including a Scott, Nukeproof, Santa Cruz and Canyon]

Josh Carlson leaves Giant Factory Off-Road Team.

Greg Callaghan leaves Devinci Global Racing.

Evan Wall leaves Devinci Global Racing.

Matt Stuttard leaves Polygon Factory Racing.

Jack Menzies leaves Polygon Factory Racing.

Brady Stone leaves Polygon Factory Racing.

Morgane Jonnier leaves Rossignol. [Still riding Rossignol bikes and tagging them in Instagram posts though]

 

FREERIDE:

Kyle Strait leaves Vitus. [Possibly on Fezzari]

Thomas Genon leaves Canyon.

Graham Aggasiz leaves YT.

Ethan Nell leaves YT.

Ace Hayden leaves YT.

DJ Brandt leaves Nukeproof. [Potentially without frame sponsor for 2024]

 

I may still have missed a few or gotten something wrong so please chime in if that's the case!

About Aggy, One of his recent stories was teasing his new ride, and the frame layout did look very much like an Evil. Probably bach to them, then.

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1/30/2024 12:49am

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1/30/2024 1:10am
samdaman1 wrote:
Updated list of moves and rumours. This time I separated it out into disciplines, which sadly shows how many top enduro racers are seemingly still without...

Updated list of moves and rumours. This time I separated it out into disciplines, which sadly shows how many top enduro racers are seemingly still without a team for 2024.

DOWNHILL:

Danny Hart leaves Cube Factory Racing. [Possibly on Nukeproof as a privateer]

Aaron Gwin leaves Intense Factory Racing. [Possibly on Yeti]

Brook MacDonald leaves MS Mondraker. [Probably on Forbidden]

Wyn Masters leaves GT Factory Racing. [Probably still sponsored by GT though I’d presume]

Hugo Marini leaves Commencal Muc-Off.

Dan Slack leaves Gravity School Racing. [Probably on Pole]

Tegan Cruz leaves Rockshox Trek.

Jon Mozell leaves Forbidden Synthesis 

Ollie Davis leaves Join The Union [Potentially on one of the many Commencal teams, most likely Commencal Schwalbe]

Aimi Kenyon leaves Pinkbike Racing [Currently riding a Trek, potentially on Unior Sinter]

Mark Wallace leaves Norco Factory Team [Possibly on We Are One]

Seth Sherlock leaves Intense Factory Racing [Possibly going wherever Gwin goes]

 

ENDURO:

Dan Wolfe leaves Polygon Factory Racing. [Retired from world cup racing, still sponsored by Polygon]

Cole Lucas leaves Ibis Racing. [Potentially no team secured, not racing world cups in 2024]

Katy Winton leaves GT Factory Racing. [Potentially no team secured]

Dimitri Tordo leaves Canyon. [Team secured, but currently unknown]

Bex Baraona leaves Yeti. [Potentially no team secured, has been borrowing various bikes to test, including a Scott, Nukeproof, Santa Cruz and Canyon]

Josh Carlson leaves Giant Factory Off-Road Team.

Greg Callaghan leaves Devinci Global Racing.

Evan Wall leaves Devinci Global Racing.

Matt Stuttard leaves Polygon Factory Racing.

Jack Menzies leaves Polygon Factory Racing.

Brady Stone leaves Polygon Factory Racing.

Morgane Jonnier leaves Rossignol. [Still riding Rossignol bikes and tagging them in Instagram posts though]

 

FREERIDE:

Kyle Strait leaves Vitus. [Possibly on Fezzari]

Thomas Genon leaves Canyon.

Graham Aggasiz leaves YT.

Ethan Nell leaves YT.

Ace Hayden leaves YT.

DJ Brandt leaves Nukeproof. [Potentially without frame sponsor for 2024]

 

I may still have missed a few or gotten something wrong so please chime in if that's the case!

Blenki and Taylor Vernon to Zerode.
Wyn has signed a new 3 year contract with GT.

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TimBud
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1/30/2024 2:28am
Nico_Hrndz wrote:
About Aggy, One of his recent stories was teasing his new ride, and the frame layout did look very much like an Evil. Probably bach to...

About Aggy, One of his recent stories was teasing his new ride, and the frame layout did look very much like an Evil. Probably bach to them, then.

He's at Darkest now, so hopefully we should see what he's riding very soon

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Mr.Nally
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1/30/2024 5:01am
Jackson Frew's new proto WeAreOne DH bike spotted in Thredbo

IMG-20240129-WA0001.jpg?VersionId=8SPEJackson Frew's new proto WeAreOne DH bike spotted in Thredbo

Expecting to see a Shark on this soon.

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kcw72
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1/30/2024 5:08am
samdaman1 wrote:
Updated list of moves and rumours. This time I separated it out into disciplines, which sadly shows how many top enduro racers are seemingly still without...

Updated list of moves and rumours. This time I separated it out into disciplines, which sadly shows how many top enduro racers are seemingly still without a team for 2024.

DOWNHILL:

Danny Hart leaves Cube Factory Racing. [Possibly on Nukeproof as a privateer]

Aaron Gwin leaves Intense Factory Racing. [Possibly on Yeti]

Brook MacDonald leaves MS Mondraker. [Probably on Forbidden]

Wyn Masters leaves GT Factory Racing. [Probably still sponsored by GT though I’d presume]

Hugo Marini leaves Commencal Muc-Off.

Dan Slack leaves Gravity School Racing. [Probably on Pole]

Tegan Cruz leaves Rockshox Trek.

Jon Mozell leaves Forbidden Synthesis 

Ollie Davis leaves Join The Union [Potentially on one of the many Commencal teams, most likely Commencal Schwalbe]

Aimi Kenyon leaves Pinkbike Racing [Currently riding a Trek, potentially on Unior Sinter]

Mark Wallace leaves Norco Factory Team [Possibly on We Are One]

Seth Sherlock leaves Intense Factory Racing [Possibly going wherever Gwin goes]

 

ENDURO:

Dan Wolfe leaves Polygon Factory Racing. [Retired from world cup racing, still sponsored by Polygon]

Cole Lucas leaves Ibis Racing. [Potentially no team secured, not racing world cups in 2024]

Katy Winton leaves GT Factory Racing. [Potentially no team secured]

Dimitri Tordo leaves Canyon. [Team secured, but currently unknown]

Bex Baraona leaves Yeti. [Potentially no team secured, has been borrowing various bikes to test, including a Scott, Nukeproof, Santa Cruz and Canyon]

Josh Carlson leaves Giant Factory Off-Road Team.

Greg Callaghan leaves Devinci Global Racing.

Evan Wall leaves Devinci Global Racing.

Matt Stuttard leaves Polygon Factory Racing.

Jack Menzies leaves Polygon Factory Racing.

Brady Stone leaves Polygon Factory Racing.

Morgane Jonnier leaves Rossignol. [Still riding Rossignol bikes and tagging them in Instagram posts though]

 

FREERIDE:

Kyle Strait leaves Vitus. [Possibly on Fezzari]

Thomas Genon leaves Canyon.

Graham Aggasiz leaves YT.

Ethan Nell leaves YT.

Ace Hayden leaves YT.

DJ Brandt leaves Nukeproof. [Potentially without frame sponsor for 2024]

 

I may still have missed a few or gotten something wrong so please chime in if that's the case!

Nico_Hrndz wrote:
About Aggy, One of his recent stories was teasing his new ride, and the frame layout did look very much like an Evil. Probably bach to...

About Aggy, One of his recent stories was teasing his new ride, and the frame layout did look very much like an Evil. Probably bach to them, then.

Looked like a forbidden to me

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