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But we heard it on here first, a month ago. Vital team rumours still way ahead of the curve.
The question is are they adding a new junior to the roster now that Falquet steps up to elite?
Rowan Cross (Chamonix valley shredder) perhaps?
The other site seems to be confident in several rumors. https://www.pinkbike.com/news/racing-rumours-anna-newkirk-to-frameworks-loris-vergier-to-commencal-fmd-on-orbea.html
they just went through the 40 pages of rumors here and sent it 🤣
Their own comment section even calls it out:
A 🚗 🚀 is definitely riding a bike designed by a 🐐.
Cohen is 09, But maybe the Mallen twins and Nick Frazier are stupid fast and 08.
So Danny Hart is the World champ of Norco, is gonna be interesting to see him in Champery World champs..
that's my red website username :D giving the credits where it's due
It did seem like that to me previously, even before someone mentioned "world champ to Norco."
The GT/Continental that he was on was definitely going away, Norco wants results and Danny's always a sliver off the top and could have a great race any day of any year, and if he can keep his mechanic (whose name I can't remember because I'm a dumb person) that bike's going to get better and everyone in the pits is going to get better learning by osmosis.
If their goal is to have a great bike they can sell, Danny and his mechanic contributing to that bike will speed it along that path.
Somebody with tech skills please do a screen grab of the mystery rider at the end of the video Neko just put out
Looks like Anna Newkirk, or another medium height woman with brown hair. That would check out. Although it could have theoretically been Callie Horwath, Neko's gf. Anna would make more sense from a marketing and team hype perspective though.
I haven't listened to the episode but Sam Blenkinsop is on the stay on your bike podcast saying he's stopping riding world cups but still racing other events which I would assume to be hardline and crankworx .
I reckon there will be a fair few riders making similar plans for next year .
It will be interesting to see how much support from the industry riders with a high profile but whose world cup days are behind them get .
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DDJcIHuOvu6/?igsh=cW12a283YWc2b3o4
Sadly, another agresion happened on 2023 enduro World séries on Forestal rider Ares Masip, who's bravely standing UP and talking about it #METOO
Sam isn't racing his closest Hardline in Tasmania so i doubt he is racing them.
Could this be case which was mentioned few pages back with rider that got fired from 2 teams and was riding privateer last year? Timing would match.
That case allegedly took place in Fort William last year. The acuser was involved/working for Muc Off
That was another rider, Thibault daprela, fired from commençal muc-off and canyon and going privateer..
In this case, we don't know the name yet..
not DH related but noteworthy (i believe it was previously mentioned as a rumor) but pidcock is officially off Ineos Grenadiers
No that was a DH racer, other site has a quote stating that in this instance "he's a loved and respected person in the enduro world"
Whilst I'm well aware of the allegations, that's the first time I'd heard that the incident happened in Fort William. If so, I'm wondering if it occured during the national series weekend?
I’m really of two minds on looking for who it could be. On the one hand, I want to know so that “justice” or “retribution” can be enacted, but on the other hand, I feel like doing the sleuthing to figure out who it was takes power away from Ares and that she should have the right to name the accused in her own time.
Let the legal systems sort it out. If it's information that is not meant to be public yet, it won't be. To respect her privacy as well as allow legal systems to follow their course we shouldn't dig. Digging for team rumors and staff/personnel changes are one thing, this is something else.
I would be willing to bet we'll know the name at some point anyways.
Matt Walker (english) to Trek Factory Racing. Per OTB podcast. Could be a good fit
What if it's a world cup winning junior girl moving up to elite and being picked up by mondraker?
https://www.wideopenmountainbike.com/2024/12/orbea-announce-the-end-of-the-orbea-enduro-team-after-over-a-decade-of-racing
Enduro exodus starts
Would she happen to be Scottish by any chance? That would be a very very good move if so.
Confirmed!!...well kinda. Anna Newkirk selling her Contra on a used bike website in Switzerland..she's going somewhere thats for sure.https://traildevils.ch/Market/Contra-BR200-a19eb18f9963c66a4a3a08dd1523b0ff
In most other media, it was announced as Pidcock is leaving Ineos. However, the MTB world, uses the word off - any reason why?
So a completely restart of Trek Factory Racing? Sounds good for me.
Abby Hogie you mean?!
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