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And if Rachel does what she did last year and only does a couple of races, the investment isn't that big to build a couple of gearbox bikes. It's a much smaller investment than moving the whole team over for the full season.

We have entered the part of silly season where people float (and debate!) wild speculation that a 42 year old Dan Atherton returns to downhill (last result was 57th at Crankworx in 2018) on a new rubber band bike to chase a $100k podium. Perhaps we need an award for most ridiculous rumor every year. 🤣🤣🤣

Dan won the 4X race, Gee DH and Rachel DH

Bingo.. Dan is definitely no slouch compared to us normal people, but top tier WC riders are on a whole different level..

Okay, I've been thoroughly educated. I've seen Dan kick it with world cup riders on vlogs etc but I guess they have another gear when they're not filming content.

I was just going to say, what if that’s where fmd ends up. Would be pretty sick!

Zerode announcing their (temporary?) departure from the world cups. https://www.instagram.com/p/DEabGjwTGh-/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Coming back as a frame sponsor maybe? That last sentence gives that vibe.

She's been in North America for a while now, she's dating Magnus Manson , she's been spotted riding an Intense in Vancouver Island.

Oli was riding in Thredbo last week with Frotha. Broke a finger apparently. I did see his girlfriend wheeling away an Orbea ebike....

Dan was never on a level with Gee and Rach when he was 25, nevermind now

Dan wouldn’t even be able to qualify for a final. Being a fast rider at your own bike park you ride everyday is completely different from racing world cups.

He goes too big to ride such poorly made bikes

I would not like to see T-Mac on Zino bike. Bad advertisement for him (T-Mac) to be linked to such a person. Hopefully a cool brand will be interested like Transition, Atherton or ?

He has consistently said awful things about certain demographics. I personally don’t really care or judge anyone till I meet them a few times but it doesn’t look great to most

For the last 2 years of my bike shop ownership for me in Wellington, the Orbeas were my biggest selling brand by a long way.

Believe it or not, I think the last minutes of this video reveal the FMD thing and what I think is that Kate Courtney will be racing for Orbea. The man is Ibon Zugasti, founding member of the Orbea Factory XC when it was a marketing strategy with several amateurs or semi pro riders in Spain. He has himself won XC and gravel masters worlds in his category. They also had Tomi Misser, a former DH WC racer from Spain, that won XC and DH world's masters on the same year. They sold a TON of bikes with this strategy...

Reece on Orbea 😂