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SH: "...It’s actually been super disappointing that many long-time sponsors that I have stayed loyal to throughout my career can’t even make an effort to reply to emails or messages." Damn, choosing to not pick up the phone/email when SH calls is a choice for sure. He's not on top of the game anymore but at least pitch him some gear ffs.

Luke Wayman riding an Atherton bike in the first round of the MTBNZ downhill series at Dunedin. Round 2 is at Coronet peak this coming weekend. With plenty of pros in town at the moment it’ll be interesting to see who shows up to race

And its so wicked to see people showing our NZ riders love on the world stage. Blenki , Wyn Eddie and Brook have been instrumental in building NZs mountain bike scene into what it is today. They always showed up and pushed our national series will be sad to see em go.

There's a thing in the UFC where old washed fighters get to throw their gloves in the centre of the octagon and retire in front of their fans . Some of them get inducted to the hall of fame after. When the likes of Brook Blenki and Wyn retire there should be something to acknowledge all they brought to the sport

david trummer spotted testing transition in maribor for the last 2 days.

With Mr. Metallier you have to think it's related to the brands not having money for it anymore rather than not wanting to continue the relationship. No idea what he's like to deal with B2B behind the scenes but as far as clicks/exposure/talking up your brand directly to an audience, he's gotta be one of the best, guy's a pro. No surprise to hear he was able to replace them in short order.

Loose dog to the big S???

Matt to Trek Factory Racing. Just waiting for the press release

Actuaaaaly, if you check aonracng on instagram profile they only follow 24 profiles, obvious ones like pb/vital/uci/gamux/manitou/hayes/ gates/reece/sleeper/... but there is also an interesting one in the form of "kdrajd", Slovenian club run by the same people who have been behind the Unior racing in all of its iterations since day 1. This is also a team Reece also used to be a part of. And considering mention of Uk-Switzerland-Slovenia rumors that makes a lot of sense.

looks like Tuhoto is riding a Zerode

Everyone should be excited for the new trek rider. We didn’t talk about this on the podcast, but there’s a previous World Cup podium contender switching to enduro as well

His buddy he frequently is excited for on the podcast, Lachlan Stevens-McNabb.

Aaron finished 12th at Mt St Anne on a body, bike, and suspension parts he hadn’t had much time on after nearly two years off DH bikes because of injury. It was wet weather for the race and he had semi-finaled 7th so I think he very much has the speed and ability to return to top step with a solid off season of weights and bike time dialing everything in for his team. He said he wasn’t back 100% and had a lot to do to be where he wants and still pulled an incredible result. I don’t see...

Its Marine...

Looks like a gamux if you ask me

Shame oisin wont be allowed 00 I imagine. Thought that was rad on his jersey

Abby Hogie is currently ranked 42nd in Women's Elite, so she can continue to race World Cups as long as she is in the top 50, according to the new rules. Seeing as she won the IXS overall last year and is planning to race the continental series this year against many of the same riders, I'd suspect she should be able to stay within the top 50 riders in UCI points. None of her points come from world cups, only 40 from world champs, and the rest are all from US nationals and IXS.

I totally forgot about the permanent numbers. Should we also track these? #NumberRumors?