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She’s down in Utah or Arizona right now too so that lines up with a visit to Intense in Temecula or wherever they are. Separately - I can barely believe they are funding a race team.

MS Racing with Zerode bikes? 🤔

When you think of a week in Vital time.....

Do people forget there was an unblurred photo of Reece with a Gamux posted here a week ago??

Looks like a gamux if you ask me

https://youtu.be/67csiwy53ZY?si=CwYg6cKdN--fj9sA March 2020 to be exact 🙂 I also remember a video of Loic giving a right breakdown and over the year he made "about a million bucks".

The way I read it, it's MS that wants to go the gearbox route, not Intense but they built MS an M1 Pinion frame.

Who says this was all their decision? Joe Breeden started the new Factiry Team and got that worked out. Without him, I am sure they wouldn’t have had a new IFR. For the MS team, they were a frame supplier. Aside from EF’s surprise win, I would say it was a pretty lackluster year for that team (though Tuhoto represented well in outside events). Perhaps MS was asking for more this year than they could give or, perhaps, MS wanted to go a different direction. Point is, Intense may not have been the one to make that call. The whole...

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.

I mean, obviously they will try to market/show Kolb as much as possible, since he's the newest recruit. I wouldnt read too much into it.

shouldn't vali be in front?

Blenki might not have had a WC result for a while but he’s winning at something. For better or worse the Warner Bros deal really feels like it’s ushering in the end of a classic era for DH.

I think it's been fairly clear since warner bros took over that if you were outside the top 30 come contract time it was going to be hard for a race team to justify the cost of paying for someone who isn't consistently making finals and the live broadcast. If you look at MS racing , with the notable exception of EF winning in the rain in Les Gets did they provide a decent return for their sponsors ? The riders would have known this and maybe that's what powered some of the negativity towards WB , and to be...

And the battle for 69 begins...

Really makes you appreciate what Neko is doing on Frameworks with team buitl on pretty much obvious reasons, results. Angel Anna Asa It;s a really team. Everyone of them will get results - real results. It is not a marketing team, it's a race team.

I think she’ll be with Intense Factory Racing …