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Team rumours rule 16.2E: An athlete using a bike during an offseason training ride shall not be strong indicator of sponsorship changes. If the bike is not from the category of the athlete's chosen discipline or if the athlete is travelling, it will not constitute a rumour. Team rumours rule 24.6B: The liking and following between brands on social media does not constitute a rumour.

Am I the only one here who has ever ridden toe clips? I feel old. I am old I guess. I used to ride my toe clip pedals in soccer cleats with rubber spikes for better foot retention. Nice and tight in the chunder on my fully rigid bike but soft enough to be able to rip them out when in need.

I would love to see Izabela joining the gravity team but I’m still not sure if she can train after that horrible car crash that she had.

Guys won Hardline a few times and gotten podiums for Pivot and got Eddie Masters on the team who' has won an EWS for them but I assume you think he's a bad look for them because of who he's dating. Everyone is entitled to their opinion but if someone isn't committing a crime or causing offence to someone shouldn't we just mind our own business

Two observations: 1. UCI could just increase the team total to 20 and 5 alternates, and this would probably accomplish getting those 30 people with points in on some team. 2. At the least, they should have an automatic exemption rule for anyone who's won a World Cup (or world championship) before. Or been top 3 multiple times, for instance. Have one generic team that has an "open" roster, and doesn't need to pay fees to catch these exemptions. The list of folks who could be on such a team isn't that large, and it really shouldn't be a dispute...

Not a team rumour, apologies but it’s only 26 days until Hardline in Tasmania and I’m excited 🤘 enjoy your Monday everyone

Here's a better picture. I downloaded this in September and I have no idea where I got it. I made a whole post about it yesterday but I deleted it because my speculation was based upon the rocker looking like the Wild. This is likely an aluminium mule.

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Good find! The income statement alone doesn’t tell the whole story, and we really need more context to piece together what went wrong. Unfortunately, some of the key financials I was itching to see are “sealed” in the full document. That said, there’s still plenty of useful information in the PDF—and yes, I did wear my Patagonia vest today. Profitability Rocky wasn’t particularly profitable even in 2022, and things fell apart in 2023 and beyond (as shown by net income, which doesn’t give the full picture but is telling). This is surprising, considering 2020–2022 were peak COVID years. For context...

Personally I'd say most of us subscribed to this thread do. If you find his posts too long winded then fair enough, don't read them, but for me Jeff brings great insight and knowledge to the thread, he's certainly given me a better understanding of the financial side of the bike world.

https://bicycleretailer.com/industry-news/2024/12/17/gt-bicycles-pausin… Some of this contradicts what Phil, Skills With claimed in his video. I wonder where the truth lies.

Correct, basically just reposting an ad by a Chinese company, with no 3rd party assessment. Maybe it’s a great product, but I thought vital was more of a review site, rather than an advertising platform. Simple things like there are no 14 speed cassettes yet, and no real way to set the indexing between sram and shimano standards (although very small) and the obvious name of “GX” coincidentally the same letters SRAM uses for their lower end wireless drivetrain, make seem like another low effort Chinese product with a lot more refining to be done before brought to market.

that's my red website username :D giving the credits where it's due