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roost66 Liked a reply to forum topic 2025 Team Rumors
8/22/2024 8:53pm
She left TFR along with Taylor earlier this year. Has been riding a trek since, but seems like experimenting with sender now.
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casey79 Added a reply to 2025 Team Rumors
8/22/2024 7:33pm Aletha Ostgaard is on a Canyon at Snow Summit while she was previously on Transition.
casey79 Added a reply to 2024 UCI Mountain Bike Downhill World Championships
8/22/2024 6:07pm To race a DH world Cup you need to have obtained at least 40 UCI points in the UCI DHI individual reference ranking, national federations may enter a maximum of 3 supplementary riders per category (these riders must wear national team clothing) or belong to a UCI ELITE MTB TEAM or a UCI MTB TEAM. Jesse has 60 UCI points...
casey79 Added a reply to 2024 Racing Talk
8/22/2024 4:54pm USA had 7 make elite riders in their participation quota, and have only sent 6 male.
casey79 Added a reply to 2024 UCI Mountain Bike Downhill World Championships
8/21/2024 10:05pm SBS has the Australian rights for the World Champs. Free and on demand. https://www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/sports-series/cycling-uci-mtb-world-cha…
casey79 Added a reply to 2024 Racing Talk
8/20/2024 5:16pm
casey79 Added a reply to 2025 Team Rumors
8/20/2024 4:51pm There are 24 rounds of F1 not 14.
George Thompson Liked a reply to forum topic 2025 Team Rumors
8/16/2024 5:15am
Hey guys, Sorry, only just discovered this thread! We decided not to broadcast the team rumours as we thought it was too soon. The last thing we want is to damage a rider's current season or a future opportunity. Before we broke the Minnaar to Norco story last year I spoke with Greg to check that if we published it wasn't going to **** it up for him. I think once the season's finished it should be cool. Apologies for the volume of the beeps, everything goes through a compressor so I thought they shouldn't be too loud 
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casey79 Added a reply to The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
8/16/2024 2:46am Specialized Gravity is owned and run by Laurent Delorme who owns Pure Agency SAS. Team Lapierre Gravity Republic was the 1st team, when Lapierre pulled the sponsorship he approached Specialized and the rest is history. Downtime Podcast had an interesting interview earlier this year with Laurent. Listen HERE
casey79 Added a reply to The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
8/15/2024 11:55pm There are very few " factory teams" run by the brand. Many brands pay an agency / private team owner to run their "factory" team. Commencal Muc-off is owned and run by the Ruffin brothers, Gaëtan and Thibaut (Riding Addiction), who manage the team and riders.
DontWorryImAPilot Liked a reply to forum topic 2024 Racing Talk
8/15/2024 6:49am
4. Odds that YouTube users - especially mtb video watchers - click on an attractive lady: 95% 5. Odds that YouTube's algorithm prefers/promotes videos with thumbnails of people's faces more than products thumbnails: 100% Just wanted to also add those in there.
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Sonofbovril2 Liked a reply to forum topic 2025 Race Talk
8/12/2024 3:13am
LCQ yes please! a qualifier worth watching live again
Fixed team colors with 2 special outfits for worlds/home race - cool Fixed number boards for top dogs - Like! Continental series, this has a lot of potential to be awesome and provide more viewing, but could also be a let down if not given the support and recognition it will require - This could be the answer to everyone's "we want more races" without stressing the current scene too much. MORE IMPORTANTLY - give us a reliable and decent WORLDWIDE streaming platform to actually watch the races please!
Fixed team colors with 2 special outfits for worlds/home race - cool Fixed number boards for top dogs - Like! Continental series, this has a lot of potential to be awesome and provide more viewing, but could also be a let down if not given the support and recognition it will require - This could be the answer to everyone's "we want more races" without stressing the current scene too much. MORE IMPORTANTLY - give us a reliable and decent WORLDWIDE streaming platform to actually watch the races please!
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casey79 Added a reply to 2025 Race Talk
8/11/2024 11:05pm Current Elite Gravity MTB Teams DH CANYON CLLCTV FACTORY TEAM CANYON CLLCTV FMD CANYON CLLCTV PIRELLI COMMENCAL LES ORRES COMMENCAL/MUC-OFF BY RIDING ADDICTION CONTINENTAL ATHERTON CONTINENTAL GT RACING DORVAL AM COMMENCAL FORBIDDEN SYNTHESIS TEAM also EDR GIANT FACTORY OFF-ROAD TEAM - DH LAPIERRE ZIPP COLLECTIVE also EDR / EDR-E MADISON SARACEN FACTORY TEAM already announced folding at the end of...
amaranth Liked a reply to forum topic 2025 Race Talk
8/11/2024 10:39pm
Went to read the current rules and highlighted them below. Nothing about the team stuff has changed - it has been 15+5, and will continue to be. Rest your pitchforks on that. Protected riders going away good or bad, I don't know, I suppose the current top riders will have to put a bit more effort into qualies? The team kit color stuff has always excluded DH teams, guess they added DH back in. Nothing else really, Top 50 or National winner or continential top 3 whatever can compete makes sense - they want only the top athletes competing in...
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veefour Liked a reply to forum topic 2025 Race Talk
8/11/2024 10:38pm
I think it's WBD that are behind these changes, rather than the UCI (although I guess you can hold them responsible for handing over the reins).
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veefour Liked a reply to forum topic 2024 Racing Talk
7/29/2024 9:13pm
I dunno, maybe it's not a bad idea to stay off of forums where people discuss racing until you've watched the race. It's a strategy that's always worked for me.😉
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iceman2058 Liked a reply to forum topic 2024 Racing Talk
7/25/2024 7:34pm
I don't know what the consensus is regarding the Paris XCO track, but two things to say: 1. It's rad that MTB is represented in the Olympics 2. XC is becoming bad ass - this is such a sick shot!
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casey79 Added a reply to "What Can Downhill Mountain Bike Racing Learn from the Tour de France?" from Substack/ IG page live_laugh_loam
7/18/2024 8:46pm Makes a few interesting points however conclusion of "It would be hard to believe that the UCI would willingly give up control of the broadcast" is exactly what the UCI did when they partnered with WB/Discovery. The UCI signed an eight-year partnership with Warner Bros Discovery to organise, promote and hold the broadcast rights of the Mountain Bike World Cup...
dolface Liked a reply to forum topic 2025 Team Rumors
7/18/2024 3:02pm
Per Sven on the Downtime it's going to be more like 10 next season because teams need time to find additional funding to support the additional costs new rounds.
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casey79 Added a reply to 2025 Team Rumors
7/18/2024 3:03pm Downtime podcast with Sven this week discussed the number of rounds next year. Sounds like WB/Disco proposed 13 rounds plus world champs around the world to the teams, however team budgets are still tight and the teams said that while this may be ideal it’s not feasible next year so it looks like a EU centric season with 9 rounds...