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Every time a kenda tire goes on a rim, a racer loses their wings...

Shout out big privilege, he's a good dude. Always up at mountain creek, just a normal dude that likes riding bikes (with a rap career). I love that it he brings representation for a minority in our sport.

More people should smoke weed in this industry. People would be less stuck up and probably calmer

Weird the article got taken down. But big props to Dunbar and Rob Venables for their long time support for Canadian DH racing. Great shop and group of guys, worth stopping by to see some legendary DH bikes/memorabilia if you find yourself in Vancouver.

Team rumours rule 16.2E: An athlete using a bike during an offseason training ride shall not be strong indicator of sponsorship changes. If the bike is not from the category of the athlete's chosen discipline or if the athlete is travelling, it will not constitute a rumour. Team rumours rule 24.6B: The liking and following between brands on social media does not constitute a rumour.

Thank you for posting this. Too many people are using a racing rumors thread to talk crap on Kerr. It's also pretty sexist and BS that people are talking crap on Jenna when she works incredibly hard at her craft and has the speed. Can we move on from this please?

Easy to come 3rd in the women's Elite when there are only 3 riders (correction 4) in the Elite female field. Bailey came 12th overall in the female field with 7 x U19 and 2 x U17 riders in front.

Does anyone have insight on additional financial support for all these teams switching to belt drives? It doesn't seem like the low (and further decreasing) probability of winning a mere $100,000 would move the needle any meaningful amount. The most plausible reasons would be additional sponsorship funds from the belt associated brands or hoping to take advantage of the seemingly disproportionate publicity about the $100,000 prize. Additional sponsorship seems most likely, wondering if that's documented anywhere.

And I thought the #99 was a Gretzky-thing...

Curious if how that relationship ended. Did he really communicate with them his plans towards the end of last contract? What was the negotiations like as it was ended. If he left them with a sour taste and now you want our help again. Not saying it's that but sometimes athletes have false sense of worth when they bring less and less to the table.

I'm not convinced SC is doing this - if you've held any of the SC copy frames in your hands, it's clear they aren't coming out of SC molds (and I've held more DTC chinese frames in my hands than most, as it would happen, including 3 of the SC copy frames for various reasons). The frame shapes are different enough that its clear they're built as a knockoff rather than a "wait 5 years and sell the same thing with different hardware". I'm not just talking poorer tolerances, worn out mold stuff - like actually different frame shapes, etc...

Yes, tooling costs on a carbon frame are super high (molds are sometimes hundreds of thousands of dollars), but tooling is considered a fixed cost, aka buy it once. Boozed was referring to marginal costs, which refers to the costs specific to each additional frame you build, aka raw materials and labor for that frame alone, not including tools, cost of R&D, overhead, etc. I'm also not sure the marginal cost of an aluminum frame can be 10x that of a carbon frame. I think of carbon frames as being very labor intensive, thus the move of many carbon layup...

If Rachel is on the belt drive, I'd put my money on her.. Especially if she is already training..

Anyone else think Intense is a bit of a chaotic loose organisation. Seem all over the place. Start a factory team developed a bike with tons of different mules end that team. Start another team think it's not owned by them. Supply MS for a season end that. Now they want a gearbox bike. Hard to keep up.

Red bull only broadcasted the top 30 as well so you can’t say it’s a warner brothers thing.

I assumed everyone would be back on orange, the gold was a 50th anniversary thing I thought

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.

There are a few factors: - Norco is owned by LTP, which is a distributor of other brands in Canada. Norco has long been financially floated by the relative profitability of LTP - At one time Norco had a solid XC team, a DH team, sponsored the Gehrigs for Enduro and had Jill Kintner and Bryn Atkinson, and a bunch of others at the same time not too long ago. They dropped everyone else. - They just split with their CEO with "no plans to replace him". The company was flying him in from California to BC every week as...

Visited a bike shop up in Killington and the owner said Norco bikes generally sell really fast; another bit of anecdotal evidence is when I visited Squamish this past summer there was a shop there that exclusively had the older gen Sights (not the high pivots) as their longer travel rental fleet(the head mechanic there commented it was easy to service and hard to trash). While I have seen deep discounts on the outgoing Range and a couple other older models they also seem to be holding a relatively stable price too (as compared to the companies in trouble -...

I’ve been listening to his biography on audio book when walking the dog, he’s just signed full factory for GT in California after leaving Team MBUK so I’ve no idea what Santa Cruz are doing poaching him from there.