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Fresh gear moves for freeriders Talus Turk and Hannah Bergemann, as they pick up support from ION: https://www.vitalmtb.com/videos/member/welcome-ion-team-talus-turk-and-….
Also Tuhoto Ariki Pene is listed as Rotorua Mountain Bike Club, not an industry team.
Looks like Lachlan and Tyler (who both belong to big teams) are also listed under their local cycling club. Dunno what this means for Tuhoto’s case, or what it means at all, actually. Any 🥝’s wanna chime in and tell us how race registration works down there?
it's normal in Aus/NZ cycling to just include your feeder/development club rather than sponsors. Just a federation thing.
Greg Callahgan riding an ibis with Sram/rockshox and hayes brakes. Also still in his Red Bull helmet. I imagine Ronan will have one waiting for him when he gets home from Tasmania.
He certainly gave them a nice plug in the interview after his race run.
Im going to up my redbull game prior to next race run. Apparently ive been too conservative!
Have to be part of a local MTB “Club” in order to register to race at nationals is all. Doesn’t mean much at all
You will find that most UCI inscribed races that download inscription data from the UCI database list a rider’s club or “local association” instead of the sponsor the riders filled in. The NZ cycling database also likely attributes riders to clubs based on where they list their home adress. In the US, depending on how annoying the UCI commisare is on site and how adamant the timers and race directors are, we have seen UCI ref’s list what historical road racing district a rider is from in the sponsor field- i’m sure you can find plenty of historical domestic UCI results where a Shaw Bro or Chris Grice are listed as racing for Carolina’s Cycling Association, or a Mullaly racing for Pennsylvania Cycling Association, for example. Pretty annoying for the athletes, and at least in America it’s a useless gesture.
Cycling isn’t supposed to function without clubs and local associations, yet we stumble on. In some countries(including America before 2003)you can’t register a “team” unless it attached to a “club”, and your team also must promote at least one race for your club…
That’s how cycling historically has always survived, mutual support organizations that pool resources across a community to create opportunities for national and international level competition.
Rocky Race Face team off Shimano and onto SRAM. Wonder if it's no longer Race Face?
Rocky SRAM Enduro Team?
Nigel Page getting a different sponsor? That's major though if you ask me, Rocky, Ibis and Pivot are the Shimano/Fox brands, hardly any Sram components in their production bikes, let alone race teams.
Wow, amazing story. Thanks for sharing! Gutted for Pagey and everyone involved with Nukeproof.
Pretty awesome that he paid Brent Foes a visit while on his family vacation & took the fam along.
I think it will still be Rocky Race Face, but SRAM must have made them an offer they couldn't refuse.
Race Face is owned by Fox, the suspension company. And Race Face makes cockpit and drivetrain components. Both companies are in direct competition with Sram.
Race Face makes cranks and chainrings, but no shifters, cassettes, chains or derailleurs. It's possible that the team could be running SRAM drivetrain [except the cranks], suspension and droppers, while keeping grip/bar/stem/crank/wheel as RF. We'll find out shortly...
What is up with the Transition Factory Race team? I see they lost their elite men's rider, and now I heard a rumor they are about to lose their youngest and fastest rider Aletha as well... Can anyone confirm this, or know what's going on?
Hmm?
The bigger issue is they are straight up owned by fox. And all of the brands are tied together. So if your sponsored by RF your also on Fox stuff as well.
I think the team in continuing with the juniors(?) AIetha posted not too long about the team for 2024.
That said, I wouldn't be surprised if they slashed budgets... Transition is likely short on cashflow (like many brands). Note how they're fire-sale'ing their bikes to generate cashflow. Next thing to do is cut race team to pay employees/creditors. Might not be that bad for them yet though.
nukeproof out of racing, big bummer. Glad to hear they have a different frame sponsor lined up though.
It's not Goodbye to the Team at least.
Sucks seeing riders lose sponsors but she puts this into perspective that a lot of people are losing jobs too.
Jorge Gomes was on the Gravity Coop podcast at the beginning of February. I don't remember him saying anything about altered plans or such for the year. Everything seemed good at that time, if I remember the interview correctly.
So does that mean hart actually won’t be racing a nukeproof frame after all?😂
I think we have a Thread Winner!
Looks like Rocky combined their NA and European teams
DHI? Does that mean they're going to race the Slayer or are they gonna bring back the Maiden?
So weird to put all that effort into the announcement and fail to list the riders in the text but only in the photos
I know it says Jorge is some sort of team manager, but if these rumors are all true he might want to start looking for new home as well. Cant imagine a team owner being stoked on loosing all their top riders and being ok with it. Unless it is the owners that are the ones making these riders want to leave. Is the transition team owned by Tranistion Bikes or is it a thing like Aaron Gwinn had going with Intense?
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