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With the first pass of 2025 UCI team data released, let's take a look at how things are shaking out. It's rough out there kids. All data pulled from the UCI website (https://www.uci.org/riders/mountain-bike-riders-teams/1V5hGPnEvXzbIqkjU…). In past years this data hasn't been final at initial release, so things may change a little in the coming weeks. As expected the number of teams in 2025 has come down dramatically - a roughly 38% decrease across all disciplines. The UCI has not yet released which teams are elite vs standard, so for now all teams are listed as standard. The home countries listed for...

Adam Brayton will be riding Saracen bikes for 2025

That's still Ohlins

Small DIY fix for everyone wanting a better shoe contact, less metal-on-metal icy feeling on their SPD’s, for a lot cheaper than bying new pedals. Is to apply some epoxy cold metal welding glue (not sure what its actually called in rest of the world), then sand it down so that your cleat is properly in contact with the mech and your pedal with the shoe. Been testing now for a few weeks in snowy/icy Finnish conditions and its just as easy to unclip with or without the mod, but shoe/pedal contact feels awesome. Float is still there, but all...

I see your gearbox/belt/chain talk and raise you an enclosed primary chain with secondary "standard" drivetrain! This is cool: https://www.zoceli.cz/en/vysoko

I love cake.

Some more words from Atherton Racing: ------------------------------------------------------ Continental Atherton Racing Continental Atherton extends contract with 2023 World Champion Charlie Hatton and commits to the next generation of World Cup stars. Since Dan Atherton was around 12 years old and bullied Gee into investing £10 to buy his first bike the Atherton family have been passionate about progression. Gee and Rachel are unarguably two of the fastest Downhill riders the world has ever seen and they credit much of their success to Dan’s constant nurture and commitment. In 2013 with Gee and Rach already dominating the World Cup scene the Athertons...

I'm reminded of this, circa 2021, UCI website.

The common thread in all of this is the name you keep dropping, and the one that has disappeared from our lexicon: WBD and UCI. WBD is a for profit organization, they're going to try to make profit from things they spend money on. The problem is that the UCI sold DHMTB broadcast rights during a bubble as a money maker to WBD, but in reality, it was already a stone with not a lot of blood (profit) left to be squeezed from it, and certainly not the legs to become some F1 scale thing (and if you've watched much...

re: derailleur in a can, found @Dave_Camp's dc special video from 2007 or 8 maybe? (it may be blocked in some countries due to my using destiny's child or ciara or tlc or someone as the background music LOL. if no one can see it, i'll try to get rid of the music)

Check out Poirot over here! Fine detective work sir. It's not like we haven't been talking about it for the last 10 pages.

In general the comments about gearboxes themselves get comments about inefficiencies. Whichever way you spin it, there are more bearings and seals involved with a gearbox plus a plethora of gear pairs (either loaded or unloaded) which all add to additional drag. In the case of Rohloff you have planetary gears (lots and lots of bearings and gears) while Pinion is quite a lot simpler. Still in that case you have a 2-stage geared gearbox, either a 3x3, 3x4 or a 3x6 layout (for 9, 12 or 18 speed variants) where you at least have to support the input, the...

Just happened across this on Instagram. Love to see stuff like this!

From UCI website

I know he's an icon of the sport, but he has only been in one WC final since 2023, and that was at the first race in 2023. He's barely made it into the top 50 in semis most races. He's an icon, but sports progress.

And Veronica Widmann