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He saw the writing on the wall before last season started. Knew no teams were going to sign riders going forward for good salaries. He was 'forced' into retirement. If YT offered him another $250k/yr for 3 more years, he'd still continue racing. Just like all these guys and gals that are 'retiring'. ...totally understandable that they don't want to grind and want to 'move on' with their lives when they're only being offered tiny salaries or bro hookups. But that's all that's on the table anymore for Enduro.

Jacks announcement took a few of us by surprise last night. It's sad that one of the best riders in the world, arguably the most charismatic too is unable to secure a ride for next year and in some ways, coerced into retirement. I hope he finds a role somewhere, he would be a fantastic "face" of a company. The content would be top level. Jack is majorly responsible for MTB in Australia spreading so far, his influence on youngsters and his personal approach to grassroots racing that I have seen first hand is commendable. He truly is one of...

He clearly did not leave by choice. Hope Mondraker forever regrets letting him go. Really hope he finds a company that will provide him with a great bike that is already "finished" and not another team developing for years just to drop out when the Bike is finally done. But more than that I hope he gets Paid! and I really hope has a great season.

dak > scott > michelin = a new tire, the wild dak'r!

And Frameworks is Conti, Gwin is E-Thirteen. I think Neko is committed to Conti. But tire sponsors can change for 2026. Hopefully Dak tells us what's up in a few days. Although if he plays us for a month or so it would be funny. 😄

I mean this in the ultimately nicest and most sincere way possible without sounding sexist or misogynistic. Cam may be a national level player from swiss, but if the lads have any significant time on the ice, I'd still wager they would be more talented than her. I've seen random pond hockey by a small university have multiple players that could pull things off that would be seen as world level 20 years ago. In short I still think average Canadian player > Swiss womens National level player in most instances. The level of competition here is nuts.

He ain’t on trek, I saw the whole trek team testing at my local trails a couple weeks ago. And Greenland wasn’t one of em. They all had matching gear and bikes and were doing a lot of photography and video. I doubt they would be doing all that missing a key rider, plus there were already 4 elites there. Osin, Lachy, Walker and Ollie.

Would you rather a lorry full of cubes or a cube full of Laurie’s?

Greenland to Frameworks?

Not correlated! I know that Alan, who's in charge of Enduro, is very committed. He is doing a lot of work behind the scenes to make changes that will help Enduro, I am excited for what he has in store. Excited enough to come out of retirement for a race or two in the future. Masters class is only a few years away for me.

This is what we've been waiting for!

Cat is finally out of the bag so here is the rest of that shoe pic...

My guess would be Tarmo Ryynänen since his current team, Simplon Trailblazers, is closing its doors. Silhouette looks a bit like him and Cube works with brands he is already familiar with (Schwalbe, Abus, Fox, …)

Thanks for all the love Vital! My goal is to continue a career that allows me to contribute to another 1000 pages of the tech rumour thread.

Lol I did feel this needed to be broken out to its own thread - Neko Mullaly did a great video on weight here and came to the same ind of conclusion I did - There is a certain minimun weight of wheel/tyre/brakes etc most people need to run for the bike to ride well, and the only way to drop any significant amount of unsprung weight from those parts would impact performance far worse than anything you gained. As long as you have good tyres, wheels that are stiff and strong enough for you then you can try to...

They'll be going for a certain handbag is all I know

I did some science. Found him.