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You’re on crack cocaine dude. I’ll put up my own 100 grand if Dan Atherton got on a World Cup downhill podium in 2025. I’ll even grandfather in a five-man podium…he did it once, 20 years ago, so yeah. Freebase rock crack cocaine ice meth pcp

Dan was never on a level with Gee and Rach when he was 25, nevermind now

Dan wouldn’t even be able to qualify for a final. Being a fast rider at your own bike park you ride everyday is completely different from racing world cups.

Rachel Atherton is coming out of retirement for the 100k lol, the bike is being built, and she's probably the most capable between men and women on taking it. Sure it been awhile since she's raced, but I'm guessing she could still be first on race day if she put her mind to it.

He goes too big to ride such poorly made bikes

He has consistently said awful things about certain demographics. I personally don’t really care or judge anyone till I meet them a few times but it doesn’t look great to most

I would not like to see T-Mac on Zino bike. Bad advertisement for him (T-Mac) to be linked to such a person. Hopefully a cool brand will be interested like Transition, Atherton or ?

Danny was doing a meet and greet thing at the bikepark I worked when he was at Saracen......which they spectacularly failed to advertise. So I basically spent all day being his personal chaffeur/hang out. He has possibly the driest wit of anyone I've ever met, super down to earth and does not tolerate bs. Top lad.

Eh, I have a feeling that two veterans in the sport realize they aren't about to coach each other. Based on how Danny managed on his own with the GT last year via his family in a camper.. Hes probably just looking for a paycheck, a bit of support, and a bike to race. But thats just like, my opinion, man.

Several Push shocks have been at Rampage already. Sorge and/or Aggy had one on their Evil.

Specially since Worlds DH 2025 are in Champery... Hart attack

When was this canyon drop? was this pre sam pilgrim? who were their " influencers”? We know they are going to take a massive Hit from the Ebike battery drama and there was 2 posts on insta where people had lost garages from the fires, which were taken down shortly before the announcement. The Exploding seat stays on the torque and spectral ebikes seem to have caused issues aswell - as a heap of those posts are gone aswell. I'd happily see canyon as a brand take a big loss, They are part responsible for Headset routing when they worked...

Now that it’s no longer an anniversary year for fox can teams finally ditch those gold lowers?

Vital MTB

Exactly right. Popping the piston out during the piston massage basically proves they're not paying attention to the correct setup procedure and invalidates their review. 1/6 working correctly is an insane stat and would be costing SRAM millions if this was playing out across all customers. Clearly it isn't, which unfortunately points the finger back at the guys reviewing them.

You’re not posting rumours. You’re just gossiping and stirring. Either post something useful and insightful or don’t bother. The “I’ve got a secret but I’m not telling anyone” is just a bit pathetic and more than childish. It’s fine if you can’t say anything, but if that’s the case just be a adult and shush. This thread is clogged up enough as it is. Lets face it, every major player is working on something so we can all post that quite easily!

To answer some of you : it's a dual crown, and it's not EXT or anyone else who currently makes a USD fork.

The highest compliment a topic can get: a stern insistence the conversation be moved out of the Tech Rumors discussion and into its own thread. I feel like I just watched Bearings grow up, go to college, and get accepted to medical school. You'll do great, kid! We're proud of ya'!

The decades long cycle of USD forks being good for mtbs, only to have manufacturers completely 180 their narrative continues. Wonder if it’ll stick this time…

I mean Norco could have just said fuck it, the team are 90% of our entire marketing budget. Marketing budgets are huge. They can also work into rider contracts that they have to do x amount of photo/video shoots for product. With everything going on with wb and all the team stuff, maybe they are “buying the dip” and saying fuck it, everyone else is getting out, let’s go all in and that will be our marketing plan. As for canyon, yea they are hurting. They also dropped all their “influencers” and told them all they had to send all...