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Sad news for Alex Fayolle View this post on Instagram 🇫🇷 Salut à tous ! Ce n’est pas vraiment une bonne nouvelle que je vais vous donner ... Mon avenir est très incertain a ce moment. Je ne roulerai plus pour UR team en 2020 et je n’ai pas trouvé de projet qui me corresponde pour continuer ce sport a haut niveau. Les deux dernières années ont étaient très mauvaise pour moi sportivement , et encore plus mentalement depuis ma victoire volée de Lourdes ... Ce qui est sur c’est que je ne participerai pas a l’intégralité de la coupe...

Checked it, apparently it's the exclusivity OEM deal that's behind it all, so clearly not the same as in motorsport. https://www.pinkbike.com/news/from-the-top-ohlins-racing-ceo-henrik-joh… "What is your approach to sponsorship? I had heard you don’t sponsor teams or riders in terms of money or product? We never sponsor anything I would say… Apart from maybe a charity. For our race teams, our racing partners, they would always pay the cost for the product and service they like to use. Then it’s not a profitable business, but we try to get back our cost. The idea is to have a plus and minus zero...

I thought Ohlins doesnt sponsor athletes? Do they sponsor racing teams?

Eddie Masters confirmed as "just being Eddie Masters".

Do you turn your audio off for vital raw?

Because punters put wheels thru the rigors of top WC racers, right? At this point those e*thirteen rims under Gwin for so many years with no issues are looking pretty good.

Damien Oton to Orbea https://www.instagram.com/p/B63JabooF6U/?igshid=sdfb5cwiaisj https://m.vitalmtb.com/news/press-release/Orbea-Announces-2020-Enduro-T…

Boom

Content creation is not what it used to be for young, white, tatted-up bro's riding bikes. Too many of those guys all doing the same thing. It's diluted and tired. The 'gram is all boomers now. Do you even tiktok bro?

InSync closing downhill team... https://singletrackworld.com/2020/01/breaking-insync-leaves-world-cup-d…

You mean the CushCore valve?

You mean the CushCore valve?

View this post on Instagram Excited to finally be in 2020 and let my ‘new me’ attitude come to live #sendit #girlscanTOO (creative director: @loicbruni29 ) // shout out to @jolandaneff and @kateplusfate , lots of love 💃😍 A post shared by Malene Degn - MTB Rider (@malene_degn) on Jan 1, 2020 at 9:40am PST Bruni on a new program in 2020?!

CONFIRMED: Kilian Bron to Commencal The Love Boat

Sam Gaze is heavily reported to have joined Mathieu Van der Pol's Corendon-Circus team.

Legitimate in what way? He isn't a certified winner? He is a certified DRUGS CHEAT. Just like GRAVES is. Is Yeti destining to become the US Postal of Mountain biking? It sure does seem like it. Dirty cheats glossed over by the EWS as they don't want the smear.

You don't want to know

Yeti must be clearing cap space. Some of their ambassadors are leaving. Anne Galyean said she is leaving, Dee Tidwell says former trainer of the Yeti squad. Hoping that Grubby comes back for a year or two. Enve is no longer a sponsor of the Orbea team Ibis has cut Lew, Evan G and Julie Duvert this week. Next week should be LIT!

Among others, yeah. Now these female athletes need to be models and riders, it seems? I don't think it's just a cycling problem, of course. I mean, the cheesecake magazine spreads at least didn't put daily pressure on these athletes to organize photo shoots. Just an outsider's perspective, of course. In a sport where eating disorders aren't uncommon (thinking XC, male and female), I'm not sure the social media piece is entirely healthy.

Deep pockets are definitely needed...leaves us with a small number of possible brands.