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hogfly Added a reply to 2024 TEAM RUMORS
1/3/2024 10:12am I don't think Gwin will bow out of racing this coming year (I imagine he's going to want the cash flow from a salary while taking over a new business if nothing else). That being said, I think you're onto something with the Club MX comparison. Dak said that very thing on the B-Practice Podcast, talking about how MTB doesn't...
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drakefan705 Liked a reply to forum topic 2024 TEAM RUMORS
1/3/2024 10:07am
I appreciate the hope you all have for frameworks but I think a lot of you are holding it up to be the next syndicate-esque mega team or something. This is literally a passion project that Neko started very recently. He’s accomplished a lot but let’s not start assuming every big name is headed there.
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JamesR_2026 Liked a reply to forum topic 2024 TEAM RUMORS
1/3/2024 3:04am
A lot of confused people posting in this thread. IFR for the last few years has been owned by Aaron and run by Todd Schumlick. Intense is no longer sponsoring the team, but the team will likely continue with a new headline sponsor. This will not be Frameworks. Neko has Martin Whiteley on board to run Frameworks team with Neko, Angel and Asa signed. Dak is on a new team, not with Aaron. This may be MS Intense, which used to be MS Mondraker.
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funktekk Liked a reply to forum topic 2024 Racing Talk
12/31/2023 11:27pm
Professional mountain bike racing exists as a marketing tool for bicycle related business and adjacents. The largest market for mountain bike riders is in North America, but yet I would venture interest in professional racing per rider is the lowest in North America. That means huge amounts of potential growth. The UCI/ESO/WB has shown little interest in developing this market so of course someone else has stepped in. It has been well established mtb racing is not a prize money venture, so riders will go where they are told to go… which will be where the most amount of eyes...
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hogfly Added a reply to 2024 Racing Talk
12/31/2023 9:20am I’m definitely not into US ethnocentrism, but the current state of affairs with regards to US and North American races isn’t doing a whole lot to encourage me to think globally, either.
hogfly Added a reply to 2024 Racing Talk
12/30/2023 4:52pm They keep throwing around 10k prize purses like at the US Open, and you might see some of “the best” riders prioritize the series.
hogfly Added a reply to 2024 TEAM RUMORS
12/30/2023 4:22pm Union to GT. Jack on the Numbers podcast said his team was working on GT as a frame sponsor but then it fell through. GT athletes also recently received an email about some new, exciting announcements coming up about new partnerships with athletes in Europe.
Domo-Kun Liked a reply to forum topic 2024 TEAM RUMORS
12/29/2023 8:23pm
So with that logic he should retire for been a quiet lad and had 1 average season. The guy is a top 10 rider and podium threat on his day. Did he not put that cube into second at Leogang last year and pretty sure it's their best ever result as a team. He's one of the most followed racers on insta and has as much followers if not more than a lot of the "influencers" so I'm not sure what you mean. Maybe some of his 230K followers are going to be watching him and wanting to copy his...
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maximumradness Liked a reply to forum topic 2024 Racing Talk
12/14/2023 9:54am
No one watches. no one pays. no one knows that racing rules. and then my kids choose to play soccer we should bring NORBA venues back, make a national circuit, fill it with privateers and cover it with a vital broadcast. Raw preferred. there I said it
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hogfly Added a reply to 2024 Racing Talk
12/14/2023 8:56am What a bummer. I have Max (I can't even remember why, now.. I think to watch Last of Us and Game of Thrones... then I've kept it waiting to see if it was going to allow for WC viewing. Since it's not... I'll likely cancel, now. Not going to pay an additional fee for a service I hardly use already).
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12/14/2023 6:05am
Came for the cheap bike talk, stayed for the excellent second half discussion about all kinds of random topics.
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hogfly Added a reply to 2024 TEAM RUMORS
12/4/2023 10:04am Syndicate just posted a "farewell to Greg" post on Instagram.
hogfly Added a reply to All Things Rampage 2023
11/29/2023 7:43am Not to resuscitate a dead horse: but Olly Wilkins weighed in on the Battleship "controversy" on the most recent Ride Companion. To paraphrase: biggest kook move ever. The rider knows it was a kook move. He believes anyone who rides or digs at Rampage would say the same, but it's the world we live in now.
hogfly Added a reply to What the future of Enduro is looking like.
11/28/2023 12:06pm We also talked about that Morzine plan. B-practice pod talked about that being a better use of money than chasing regional races all over the United States. Right now, we all love traveling to races and such together, but we could easily send him alone to Europe for the summer for the amount of money we spend traveling regionally as...
hogfly Added a reply to 2024 TEAM RUMORS
11/28/2023 10:45am I really hope that Dak and Pinky aren't going to Mondraker. No one has really seemed to kill it on their bikes in a while. I'm hoping that the MS Intense rumors are true for Dak. In his Downtime Podcast appearance, he kept talking about "consistency" being key to his success. If you listen closely, he's not talking about his...
hogfly Added a reply to What the future of Enduro is looking like.
11/28/2023 8:29am My son (just turned 16) and I have been having similar conversations. He's won a BME age-category. Podiumed at nationals. Raced and did well in "pro" in our regional races. He's very focused and very talented on the bike. His goal has always been to get a ride to Europe by the time he's 18, and he's feeling like it's...
hogfly Added a reply to Sunny winter riding in the USA
11/23/2023 8:22am Tucson is great at that time of year. Mt Lemmon can be a little hit or miss in the upper sections, but there are lots of other places to ride as well. Food is also amazing in Tucson. There’s also a really good indoor there called Premises Park if you ride bmx or dj, on the off chance that weather...
hogfly Added a reply to 2024 TEAM RUMORS
11/20/2023 5:38am Yeah. I can’t remember which podcast it was on (maybe Making up the numbers?), but they implied that she would have a ride but not on a factory World Cup race team because she has a lot of interests outside of just racing downhill (freeride, crankworx, etc).
hogfly Added a reply to GCN App and GCN+ no more?
11/15/2023 7:04am Yep. I get Discovery+ through my MAX sub. No cycling to be found. Just a bunch of crappy reality shows.
hogfly Started a new thread GCN App and GCN+ no more?
11/15/2023 4:22am A friend just posted a screenshot from his inbox that was a message from GCN saying the services were doing away December 19. Also had a bunch of info about refunds and such. Anyone know the story? Seems like it could have big implications (unless it’s all just bundling into Discovery+?)
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