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Ooh this could get real interesting as the is also the older of the Alran bros moving up, rumors are that he'll be in Commençal MucOff and both of them are already posting times at national rounds to beat current WC racer, juniors will be amazing next year!

José Borges off Canyon Collective.

I think you're pretty much dead on, except point 1 should say something about added synergy and removed redundancies. Why pay the money to support a whole another streaming service when you can, dissolve it and roll it into your "flagship" streaming services? Think of all the money you can save by laying off the tech and support staff, the content editors, and all the supporting roles of a streaming platform and just keep the brands and a few names people know. Oh and would you look at that, we now have a bump in subscribers! Synergy up, redundancies down...

Okay, I've given it some thought, and here's the play (if WBD execs are as cynical as I think they are): 1. Kill GCN, thereby eliminating easy subscription/cheap access to cycling-only sports viewership. Blame it on "economic headwinds" or whatever. 2. Force cycling viewers to get an expensive, full meal deal Discovery+Sports membership if they want to view any cycling content at all. 3. Most people won't go for the Discovery+ membership, so cycling will see enormous hits to viewership across all sports and platforms. However, the cycling members who did stay on and sign up for a Discovery+ membership...

Thanks for sharing your insightful opinions on the nationhood of Wales and Scotland, however I feel they're wasted on the Team Rumors forum. Have you considered a speaking tour of Wales and Scotland? That way you could re-educate the locals and correct their misunderstandings. I'm sure you'd receive a warm welcome.

Could be something but probably not, the person who basically runs the whole deviate cycles brand in New Zealand is the same person who is incharge of dvo suspension in nz, brady used to ride for dvo nz. You see that deviate account liking posts from heaps of nz riders sponsored by other brands

Liked by Devitate cycles…. Interesting

On the left is Elliot Jamieson riding what appears to be a Commencal after riding for Norco since he was a Junior DH racer. More Norco exits.

But isn't Danny Hart the exact example of how the world (and bikes) spins so differently compared to let's say 10-20 years ago when racing was just enough but that is simply not enough today? (Unless there is something else that makes you special – such as G.M.). He (Danny) is a kinda invisible guy in the sense that there is really not so much around besides him racing. And that might start to be a hard position for companies even if you are a top dog under the clock. More folks are realizing that they need to up their...

Interesting that he tags Martin Whitely but no one else...

Brady stone announcing his departure from polygon. Got something lined up for 2024 so that’ll be interesting to see what he’s got going on

I think that might be Ollie Davis

Bummer. Always liked his style and clean bike builds. Still kind of expected. Did not see much of him lately, plus no Rampage this year. Aggy and Ace off YT too. Putting money aside for that new DH mob I hope

If you are a sponsor and you have a suspicion that racing might get more difficult to view in the future than investing is riders who can produce their own content seems like a logical direction.

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…

Also a very real possibility that they aren’t picking up Greg and are just hurting as a company with the current state of affairs.

A representative from Norco Factory Racing at MSA mentioned a pause in new bikes for 2024 as they move through inventory with plans to update models with technology from the race program in 2025. Haven’t heard anything about layoffs at Norco recently Funny though, found a PinkBike article about Norco shutting down DH and XC teams in 2023, and as we all now that never happened. Who else is itching for race season to start? Lol

This no new bikes notion is false, but more of a discussion for the Tech Rumours thread than this one. Norco did end its XC race team in 2023, they had rising stars, or at least contenders, in Gwen Gibson and Carter Woods and just let it die...