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This guy seems like he has some inside industry knowledge 🤔

That's the Canyon Factory Enduro team decimated to Jesse Melamed at the moment. Wondering who will join?

I am really hoping for a barrage of announcements of good hearted riders on good hearted teams. After all of the 'goodbye" posts, I just really want that.

Just ...spent all our money on some old folks?

I am not. Guessing he will be part of MS Intense. We will find out soon enough.

Happy 2024 to all of you

Looks like Brook is also without a team for next year.

She's 65, pretty sure she is enjoying retirement in SoCal with the other sun baked grandmas dressing like they think they are still 18.

Think they were only intended to last a few seasons, self-described as a "talent incubator". The goal was to get some up-and-comers, document their rise, and get them on factory race teams. Despite the level of publicity garnered, PBR seems a relatively low-budget team. Cathro seems pretty done racing and Aimi has proved herself for a factory ride. T-bo just dropped a solo edit with no mention of the team, think he's marketing himself as a jack-of-all-trades racer, someone who can do style, freeride, & speed. If they're back next season I'd expect the roster to look pretty different, still...

That's all good and well but lets face some facts here - Cube bikes are junk (I worked closely with the brand at a distribution level), the kinematics were average at best and the frame failure rate we saw was out of control, more than 50% of carbon bikes sold came back with cracked frames and they were horrendously slow with turnaround time on replacement frames, always looking for excuses. Saracen is a walmart/whatever brand so no matter the caliber of the rider you'll never get results riding a piece of crap down the hill. Personality or not, Danny Hart...

So with that logic he should retire for been a quiet lad and had 1 average season. The guy is a top 10 rider and podium threat on his day. Did he not put that cube into second at Leogang last year and pretty sure it's their best ever result as a team. He's one of the most followed racers on insta and has as much followers if not more than a lot of the "influencers" so I'm not sure what you mean. Maybe some of his 230K followers are going to be watching him and wanting to copy his...

They're twins. One of them is going to be on Muc-Off, the other will be on another Commencal team. This is idle speculation, but I'd put money on Till riding for Muc-Off and Max joining Estaque, Frix & Co.

RE Spomer's thought that maybe Canyon opening budget for XC since it's an Olympic year: -Don't think this is the case. They're not currently hiring new racers for just this year. That cake and budget is already baked. Big money signings (to get people on their roster for Olympics) would have taken place 1-2 years in the past and salaries would randomly increase this year because it's the Olympics.

Vid Persak won't be riding for Orbea bikes next season:

re: canyon (and possibly other big brands)? it's an XC olympic year. could the big dumps and a brand like canyon be for XC talent at the olympic level? i have no insight or idea, but have to imagine olympics are at the forefront of budget talks for brands w/ an xc bike. re: danny - as mentioned above, he has a very solid social and youtube presence. to say he's "kinda invisible" speaks to the way the system works IMO. he's not an over-the-top personality on camera or vlogger with click-baity/controversial subject matter, so he's not recommended by the...

Hart and Brayton would be a great combo and create great content. However, if the best racers can't compete due to lack of sponsorship related to non-racing social media obligations, what's the point?

Bummer. Always liked his style and clean bike builds. Still kind of expected. Did not see much of him lately, plus no Rampage this year. Aggy and Ace off YT too. Putting money aside for that new DH mob I hope

If you are a sponsor and you have a suspicion that racing might get more difficult to view in the future than investing is riders who can produce their own content seems like a logical direction.

Multiple World Champion and WC winner Danny Hart with no ride is just bonkers.