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Vans have already tried to push into MTB in the early to mid 2010’s. Google “Vans Warner clipless shoe”. I vividly remember D-Riff and Brad Benny running them in the Chumba/Giant Nerd team days.

Eddie with the comedy as always

Trying to save weight on brakes and rotors is just plain stupid. I have never finished a ride and thought if only i had bought those xc 2pots I could have saved 200 grams and shaved 2.5 seconds of my climb.

So it doesn't then?

Is that a Session?

Frameworks has a trail bike...

Is Ryders father Randy Lawrence? The pro moto super trainer. Makes sense to see Todd Schumlick leave then. Dad's got it sorted. He's also handy on a bike.

reading is hard. my name is right under the homepage post.

if intense factory racing isn't intense factory racing because intense isn't a sponsor, that means intense factory racing is shutdown/dissolved/whatever you want to call it. even if there is a team w/ the same management/players, it won't be called intense factory racing therefore intense factory racing ceases to exist, right?

Seems the European Union have done a great marketing job as many people seem to forget Europe is a region and continent 😂😂😂

Good argument/advise for a racer in 2021, not currently. Being fast and having good race results is not enough anymore - see the criteria in PB Academy season 3 for reference. Also, notice how the racers that are being dropped from their sponsors are ones with very little social media presence, not a coincidence. I also wished it was different, but it is not. Btw, wtf with that comment about the UK. That's the most Texas comment ever.

i put this in the racing talk forum too, but hooray for #USDH! https://www.vitalmtb.com/news/press-release/monster-energy-pro-downhill…

I don’t see why reducing entry numbers would have an impact on what the riders do or don’t get paid from the TV revenue? I imagine the cost of running the event is the same for 30 or 100 riders and more “sacrificial” riders bring in more entry fees. I really don’t see the problem with the red bull format of running 60 riders for finals and televising the top 30? Pay those top 30 guys a cut and everyone’s happy. What am I missing?

The USA has a National Downhill Series - Monster Energy Pro Downhill https://www.vitalmtb.com/news/press-release/monster-energy-pro-downhill…

How can one guy put together an hour plus mash up of racing around the world but no one can do anything like this for the EDR? https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&si=lkly5uGi1BFhRM_7&v=cFom5AX… I have no clue how he is funded or if teams pay him for his content but this is an absurd amount of coverage on races most people have never heard of

Starting to think this is Chris Ball's account

"But expecting WDBsports to deliver on their side of that in year one is a bit dumb. If they don't deliver by year 3-4 then I'd start to have issues. But expecting it before they've even had a season under their belt is nonsensical" WDBsports taking over the broadcast and distro rights WITHOUT a plan to to deliver in the first year is nonsensical. In order to get this funded they had to sell a plan to make it work/financially viable to their board, so somewhere there's a plan with metrics they expect to hit.

Two different disciplines but one could learn from the other.

There is a maximum of ten riders for uci elite teams at world cup mtb and there is an overall team ranking for all disciplines. It's been like that for many years