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I hope Dak is not on gwin racing purely from a pay standpoint. Can’t imagine Aaron is in a position to offer our boy what he deserves
I agree, I hope Dak stays on a bigger team. It feels like all the testing, time in Europe and having a race engineer on Mondraker have gotten him super close to the top. Not that he couldn’t absolutely smash it on a smaller team, but with the right team more support is more support.
Saw on IG that Dak picked up the win at the US Open today.. Considering how hard his recovery has been, it was good to see him win.. Maybe give him a bit of a boost going into Lake Placid and MSA..
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DPIP3LJDkhw/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
Please not.. that new Gambler is just so ugly and Benoit seems to have a hard time adjusting to it
Mad props to Dak!
2 hot takes there. Aesthetics being subjective, I think it looks amazing.
It’s also interesting you say Benoit can’t get used to it when he was the key tester during development…
I think Daniel Ricciardo also rode Specialized bikes, he does dirt jumps and stuff
At least for this year the points are calculated at the end of October. So any rider on a team adds their entire years worth of points, which means mid season transfers count toward the new teams total.
but who keeps them if the team is no more?
I've heard that Kolb might be going to Cube, would be fitting since its a mostly german speaking team and the bike seems to be working well.
If there is no team and the rider is not signed the day the points are calculated, I assume those points just disappear from the pool of available points for the year.
Speaking of Brage... how has no one else signed him yet? He's the pinnacle of freeride mtb in the same way Loic or Jackson are the pinnacle of dh racing.
There is nothing that says small team needs to equal small pay. With the increased travel a smaller team could save a lot of money over a large organization. Say they get one or two large non industry sponsors their checkbook could be looking a lot better a lot quicker then a large factory based team where the majority of the money is coming from the bike industry.....
I'm 100% certain all of these riders have their own best interest in where they go next year 😂. So the internet certainly does not need to worry for them.
I got into a discussion on PB.. It almost seems that if a rider can't get a WC ride, putting together a deal that focuses on the US series and Crankworx coul be better financially speaking... Better prize money and still good exposure for the sponsors..
i would guess that there may be some concern about breach of contract if they signed to another team without being officially released from yt given the uncertainty of the brands future. i'm with you 100% that they've been put in an extremely poor situation not only not getting paid, but also potentially having to self fund the remainder of their season. If the rumors in the PB post shared by krabo83 are true that they are footing their own travel expenses, then it would be a really bad look for YT to leave their team in this kind of position - not paying them but also refusing to release them.
Wouldn't withholding pay, travel expenses, support, etc. be breach of contract from YT and an easy out for riders to find something new without having to be "released"?
(I get we don't have the details of the contract, however it seems like all of those things would be a given in return for a rider representing you)
one would think/hope, but given how some of the rules are written especially with the shift to a team/sponsor favored position (especially with points) i'm not sure if that's something they'd want to gamble with this late in the season.
edit: there's a clause in the UCI rules related to this, someone posted it in a thread last week (can't remember where unfortunately) but it seemed to stipulate the team would need to specifically release the riders if the team were to fold mid-season.
Yes. Contracts are bilateral - they hold both sides to the terms set out. YT failing to pay would almost certainly be a material breach of contact, terminating the agreement and freeing the riders from their oblations as defined in the contract. We've already seen Osin race in unbranded kit so at least one rider views their contract as terminated.
How is YT going to afford the lawyers to enforce any contract dispute? Also Is it possible for the riders to Lien YT?
EDIT* If they are contracted to the Mob and the mob isn't getting Paid could they go after Whitely for their missing funds and then force him to reckon with YT? I see this situation in the contracting world where Subcontractors go after the GC for funds to be paid even though the GC has a paid when paid contract with them and hasn't been paid by the owner of the project.
Vali will sign for Trek.
You heard it here first.
Longterm partner of sram, been on a trek programme previously
Trek dh haven’t had a race wining female for a while
Trek changing sponsor on kit and other items into 2026
Not that I don't believe you - but didn't she just get off Trek 2 years ago? Find it hard to believe she's going back.
She left YT for Trek and then went back to YT. So, would a return to Trek be that crazy?
If I was Markus Flossmann I'd be doing everything I could to look after the Mob riders and staff just from a public relations perspective. If he wants to rebuild the brand then being seen to have done the right thing could be a good start .
laurie and jackson looking really interested in frameworks here. 😲 from neko's insta stories
I think they are looking at the shock, with a handlebar mounted lockout/compression adjust.
Interesting Syndicate riders would not have that on some of their bikes yet, but I guess they are almost exclusively running coils.
Ah damn you got me there. Good point, I guess not so crazy. I do think Trek is going the cheap route with getting rid of Loris and signing some newer riders, not sure if Vali fits that, or maybe they decided that direction is wrong and they're gonna go all in again on the big names.
Martin Whitely doesn’t have anything to do with the current YT Mob team.
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