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It's only knockoff if it comes from China. Otherwise its just sparkling IP theft.

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Hardly fair to imply the OneUp post falls into the cheap but unreliable category. You'll find outliers that have replaced a number of cartridges, others who occasionally service them, and yet others still who've more or less never had to service them. Other than cleaning the collar and adding slick honey to the seal head, I've never had to do a take-apart service of any of my oneup posts after years of use. Where were you for the first 5 years of dropper posts? Maybe you've moved the goalposts since but 90% of the stuff from that era is going...

According to the OTB podcast, Atherton is going to be riding a belt drive bike next season to chase the Gates purse. Also an unnamed Kiwi junior is joining the team. Does Luke Wayman have another year of juniors? There's been a rumor of him joining for a while.

And here most of us thought the drama ended with an appearance on that UK debt collection show.

I mean he irritates me on Youtube so imagine him as your boss.

Dating someone on the team you own and manage is bad enough, but the fact that he first met Jenna when she was an underage junior racer on his team is beyond creepy. They conveniently started dating the first year she was in Elite. It is an overused term nowadays but that is the definition of "grooming".

I know a couple Junior riders who spent years on the circuit around B-Kiddy and he seems to be the most hated rider out there and it’s not really close. Obviously I don’t know him personally but judging by the general sentiment towards him and the fact that he’s dating his employee w an age gap that wide, it’s probably safe to say he’s a mega questionable dude.

Bernard Kerr, Pivot factory racing team owner and manager is dating Jenna Hastings, female rider on his team, who is more than 10 years younger (iirc he is 33, she is around 20)

If you knew the story of how he ripped apart and absolutely destroyed his previous partners life, you'd never look at the weasel the same again. Absolute scum.

I could care less. But dating a girl who was 17 when she joined your team shortly after she becomes legal, while she still is a part of the team, is pretty questionable and wouldn’t fly in a lot of businesses. Hell plenty of companies would not let you date an employee as a manager if they were 10 years older than you. The age gap just increases the power imbalance. Ultimately if they are happy and stay happy good for them. But there are a lot of young women who get used by irresponsible men making false promises who...

Don’t think he’s that bad, buttttttt, I wouldn’t be the most comfortable around a man in his thirties dating a just turned 20 year old

As he should, he had some really good races last year! Great to see after all he went through

I think GT had great stuff on the late 90s and long after Richard passed away as well. Still in the 90s, STS and Zaskar that had a ton of success, 2000's the i-drive, late 2014+s the Sanctions beast that shaped enduro, Forces and Sensors that won so many races, not to mentioned the released of the gravel Grade 10 years ago (!!!) - latest version was bike of the year 2024 on a couple of magazines. Even the GT Factory Team/Barj/Phill and Wyn + his projects have helped it kept relevant in MTB. King is dead long live the...

Some people said GT actually went away when Richard Long passed in 1997, as he was the heart and soul and driving force of the company, who shaped it into what it was in its glory days. I tend to agree, even if the last part of the 90's was pretty good rider-wise and bike-wise, with good results and good innovation. Apparently one thing that made GT different to other brands was the fact that Richard Long, the head honcho, would travel all year long across the country and talk to the dealers, learn from their needs and take notes...

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Danny and Minnaar working together should be good. I doubt they’ll mesh.

Is Bernard Kerr the UK version of our P Diddy, looks like it. Is his new nickname going to be B Kiddy??

What is Jakob too old for him now?

The new pivot bike looks amazing but I wouldn’t want to join a team where there’s potential for the manager to try and fuck me