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Let's not pretend mountain bikers are any better. The number of people I've had to assist trailside who had no clue what a barrel adjuster was or how to put a tire back on a rim is kind of nuts.

I don't know exactly what kind of injury Gwin had, but I've had an elbow injury myself. Fell awkwardly at the end of the season, threw my hand out by reflex and had my arm facing the wrong way. Immediately tucked it back and began running and screaming. End of the radius was shattered plus the ligaments. Had surgery beginning of December, then a lot of painful rehab and I was playing basketball come march and I was back on the bike in May. The nice titanium screw is still a keeper. Of course injuries differ and no rehab matches...

Time to dust off an old favorite... #teamrumors2011

Much like the current bike market, it is a buyers market for sponsored athletes as well. Rumored that Danny Hart took a 50-60% pay cut from Cube to Nukeproof. Neko spoke about it also, you can get fast/talented riders for cheap this season.

On a positive note, we will get to see Frotha go racing again this year. Signed up under RAW Fusion Racing.

Oook so gentlemen, this has been a nice couple of months following this thread, we had good fun. So at this point of the conversation I guess I'll see myself out to avoid any new nonsense comment about Katy or any other women. Grow up, FFS.

“ MoscoOne wrote: Katy couldnt fill in her forms properly.“ Making fun of a rider for having dyslexia, particularly when they have very recently addressed publicly that it’s a hard thing for them to be open about due to teasing and bullying, is just truly low behaviour and is not appropriate on this forum or anywhere else. If this is something you would do, or think is acceptable, please fuck off.

For the same reason “no one wants”: Danny Hart, Cole Lucas, Greg Callaghan, Bex Baroana, the list goes on… The sport is struggling at the moment, kicking riders whilst they’re down is a weird hill to die on

was this ever confirmed? DIMITRI TORDO: COMMENCAL ENDURO PROJECT we like dat sheet!

New "BNC Racing" team with a load of privateer Brits - presumably a joint effort to form an elite team?

Gwin has no 2024 team listed.

Hart

I haven't heard much about him lately. Someone said Raaw a while back? Maybe that's still possible but they are waiting for the V3 frames to show up and he is riding other bikes in the winter.

Greg Callaghan on Ibis, on the Morgane Charre insta

Looking at the comments on his post it seems like the team is continuing, but I'm surprised given their financial troubles. Hopefully they sort everything out, because from everything I've seen online they seem like one of the nicest groups of people in the industry and they have a super cool brand image.

Here is the YouTube video from the press release and quotes from Tegan and Fabien! We are really happy to welcome the young “Canadian Cowboy” Tegan Cruz to the UR Team. Tegan has shown speed during his junior years and we are ready to support him as he deserves for his first year elite in 2024. Tegan just got his DH NS Bikes Fuzz built up and went straight to shoot this video on the North Shore and as you’ll see for his first ride on the new bike and he already feels at home. “Here it is! I am...

Superboost for sure, good wheels are expensive and there are many bikes I won't even consider because my nice wheels won't transfer easily.

SO HARD TO PICK Headset cable routing dies forever. Passing a law that all stems and handlebars have to be two-piece on new bikes (you can buy your stupid one-piece bar/stem combos aftermarket if you want them so bad). All mountain bikes run a 73mm BSA BB. Downhill bike engineers, see next bulletpoint if you're worried about chainlines. One front and rear axle standard for all mountain bikes. It could be 15x110 and 12x148 and it would be amazing. It's easy to build downhill forks with too much torsional stiffness (see: OG Fox 40), so you don't really need a...