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Ed masters retiring

Scrap all the rest of the team rumours, this is the only one that matters. Need to get Gofundme together to buy the rights and launch the team.

i think it's time that you guys start a new dedicated "i hate BK" thread. would spare us all of that nonsense, thx

This just in.... Jack Moir, Laurie Greenland and Remi Meier- Smith set to create their own adventure team knocking off epic bike and surf spots around the globe!

Well, considered yourself lucky that PFR did not reach out to you for you to be part of their team nor does the manager wants to sleep with you. Besides, they been together for 2 or 3 years at this point. You would think that if it was as predatory as you are making it out to be he would have dumped her pretty quick. To be clear, I was also questioning the whole thing early on when they kind of went public, but I reserved my judgment because I have no clue how the whole thing came to be...

Although the PFR team looks more relaxed than other factory teams, it does not make them a bad team. Sure, it is not a big factory team with a big budget, but they have their system that works for them and had some pretty good seasons in the past - 2023 and 2024 were pretty good. I think the addition of Dylan and a fired up Roger Viera is going to elevate this team and make them more competitive. Dylan is going to do great at PFR!

There’s a pattern to what Gwin has done after he left the last big team he rode for and it’s not been any good let’s hope he doesn’t ruin Frameworks just as things are going so well.

Dispite all pessimistic personal opinions I miss positive ones. I see the development not that deep-black. Even though a loss of popularity, in my opinion enduro racing will stay. It may be that its destiny develops like 4-cross racing, dual slalom, etc. but enduro racing will stay. Possibly a movement away from the UCI banner would do good. May soon enduro racings Gandolf show-up.

I loved racing enduro... but, I always thought it was a participation sport. Much like the local 5k that gets 2,000 entries and no one cares about finishing time except maybe 15% of the entries, only media is how much it raised for whatever fund raising it was set up for. I will agree with Lee Trumpore, it did advance the bikes we ride today. Enduro is true mountain biking to me, pedal everywhere and have fun. I do not think e-bikes had anything to do with its demise but it is fun to blame them.

Think this is what attracted us: seeing remote places with dream trails… Mexico, Rotorua, Madeira, and so many others. "PLACES EWS was a holiday agency with ads for bike holiday destinations and for new Enduro-related bike tech, with some racing involved. They then sold it not to a travel company, but to a TV company." And the coverage was great — done by riders on their social media pages, Pinkbike and Vital, with world-leading photographers all present, bike checks, raw videos, etc. It was pure and real. With Discovery and the media restrictions, all that was taken away, and the...

THE BIKE CATEGORY and the INDUSTRY People who love to ride downhill now tend to ride an Ebike instead of pedal up an equally heavy enduro bike. So it´s not the race close to what most do as everyday riding. Finale Ligure f.ex. is now mainly home to midaged Germans and Italians on Ebikes who maybe do a single uplift and then pedal to the gelato and coffee spots, not to motivated aspiring racers training full day for their next full race season. Newcomers to the sport tend to be motorized and tend not to be interested in training and...

Enduro used to be seen as the "just like us riding" discipline, athletes riding around on rad trails, socializing, then ripping the downhill. They had bikes like us. Now, to compete, even as an amateur, requires an enduro bike - which after years of marketing/media hype telling everyone they need one, most have discovered enduro bikes are great at very fast and steep trail, and are compromised everywhere else. The enduro courses are now designed to the edge of the enduro bike capability and the pro athlete's capability - near DH tracks. The "riding just like us" connection is broken...

at the time it appeared to me like the whole EWS to EDR was just a big pump and dump by CB, time seems to have reinforced that perspective to me.

As someone who was there from the very beginning (okay EWS #2), I think the story arc of EWS/EDR is a bit more complex that people think, and that Chis Ball is not the boogie man some make him out to be. EWS was not just Chis Ball, it was a run by a board, with Chis as the most public facing member of the organization. Keep in mind that in 2013 enduro racing was seen as an exciting new sport (yes I know, it wasn't new in France and Italy) and the timing was perfect with new wheel sizes...

Regurgitated post from another thread but this EDR grieving thread seems appropriate... EWS/EDR is mostly directly supported by the COMMUNITY of riders that are actively participating in Enduro racing, not random bored YouTube and HBO algorithm drifters. At least to me the most successful period of EWS was when there was a well promoted international web of qualifier events and 100/80 events along side the Elite races. People could actually aspire to racing an elite event and the pathway was clearly defined. Or there was the option to race an 80 to justify the trip out to watch elites Sunday...

Dak liked a picture of my dog on IG, so he's good in my book.

God I love you nerds...