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Polygon, or Ari?
Which makes me hope Gate ups the ante after someone takes the win and allocates &500k to a $1mil to someone who wins an overall on a gearbox. For men and women.
Mondraker?
Bruni on bronze Mavens and no Renthal cockpit. Just a borrowed bike or component switch? Can’t see fork or shock brand to see if Öhlins
That’s just a stock bike
Wearing a Deity T-shirt
Deity t-shirt and cockpit ??
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Somebody wants to talk to you.
I'm guessing he's still in the California. He attended San Diego Supercross, and I assume the 100% event for their new building.
Guessing it's not his personal bike. 🤷♂️
that pic is in Laguna.
"I find this really interesting as I can't remember that any biking athlete rode for 2 teams at the same time competitively."
It's not super common any more, but two that come immediately to mind are John Tomac (#bitd) and Thibault Nys right now.
I think we can expect to see big things from Mitterwallner in the future!
So it is written in the book of Spomer
Littermag?
for 2025 pidcock is racing scott road bikes for the q.36.5 team, but will be racing pinarello bikes from mtb (xco/xcc).
edit to add some context - in this particular instance, the owner of the q36.5 team also has a controlling stake in pinarello.
It’s a little more common on the road and cyclocross side of things. At least in the case of Thibau he’s on the same frame brand so it’s a relatively easy transition.
Mondraker’s XC bike is the Podium RR a pretty standard looking top tube… Orbea Oiz?
Surprised I'm not seeing anyone mention SRAM's post regarding Commencal/Muc-off's full roster. Nice to see Maples still on there and the Alran's. Commencal saying PomPom, Maury and Loris are on fresh 3 year deals. Stacked team
Looks like Sam Blenkinsop is running a bunch of personal sponsors including Zerode bikes. Probably means he's not in a team as such. Suspect Bulldog is doing a similar thing based on his posts. We know George Brannigan is not doing World Cups and instead doing a selection of races including Crankworks and Hardline. I wonder if Blenki and Bulldog might follow the same schedule?
Question: Can privateers with good support from personal sponsors even do World Cups this year (assuming they haven't earned the right via top 5s in local races)? Or is it strictly teams only that they'll let in.
Brook trolling with that chain?
Only one brake rotor visible in bulldogs bike build post on Instagram, potential switch to unicycle team? What NZ based unicycle brands are there?
He’s got the chain, an Ochain, MRP chain guide. All with fresh bolts ready to go for them. It’s not unheard of to go heavy on the trolling, but he’d have to go buy some of that stuff just to post this photo. I’m going to say my Zerode guess might be wrong and maybe he’s on Ari.
Bulldog posted this clip this morning , riding a forbidden?
Probably still just using his old bikes, he and forbidden have already confirmed they’re parting ways.
Loic posted this on his insta. Is he moving to Sellotape, 3M, Gorilla tape? Wild!
The industry is hurting hard. He has traded in the Porsche and invested in the adhesive tape game
Muc-Off in the pic. Other than Commencal who do they sponsor.
Not necessarily trolling, the X01 DH cassette (CS-XG-795-A1) works with 11s chains
None of you tech-sleuths can enhance/superzoom the fitment details scribbled on that rear axle, and backwards translate it into what frame it's for?
You all got high Freckle-gate standards to live up to.
The TR11 has a similar layout, too. The Joshy Frotha Transition deal in that corner of the world made me think about it.
Looks like a Maxle stealth to me...
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