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Official Intense Factory Racing team announcement and a "prototype everything" bike for Gwin: https://www.vitalmtb.com/news/press-release/Intense-Factory-Racing-Team…

I love how you are extremely biased and make general assumptions about everything. Therefore my take between the lines are that your screwing up the general vibe of this forum and are obviously a primadonna poster who thinks highly of himself.

Yeesh about time to put this forum thread to bed till next year hey Palmer? Last two pages have been just hot trash bickering.

Take the Cody Kelley complaint club somewhere else, please.

Since the inception of the EWS, there's been only 15 male winners. 6 of those have only won a single race. 6 of the 15 are retired (or at least not racing most of the calendar). So you only have 9 active winners, 6 active repeat winners. To suggest that these are the only riders people have heard of is ridiculous. Furthermore, in terms of reach, one of those active, repeat winners has less than 10k IG followers. Another has just 21k. Cody Kelley has 2.5x more IG followers than these two COMBINED. And in terms of actually selling bikes...

Kudos to the people who made the "Jack to EWS" call early on. I though that was a bunch of BS

And Cody has a picture or more in each race report because he is so stilysh. That also counts. I think Specialized did well. Also, them having a reputation of beeing rather uptight and uncool, it is good if they have some cool talent on the rooster.

Very well-thought out perspective.

A couple of thoughts on the Santa Cruz/ Nina situation.. At this level, adding another rider doesn't just happen.. All the team sponsors also have to willing to step up with additional support... Maybe since 3 riders is the comfort zone for Santa Cruz. and Greg is going to consider retirement at some point, the plan is to keep Nina on some sort support ride until a spot opens up... Now, if someone offers her a ride before they have a spot for her, do they let her go or do they get things in place for a 4th rider?

Wouldn't be listed on the Canyon Factory Team if he was doing his own thing, I think its more likely he's getting factory support but probably without the factory pay check.

I remember Kathy said she would hire Nina in one of the videos at the end of the season but that she is not the (only) decision maker. Can't remember if it was a Syndicate video, or a Cathro or what else, but I remember she was pretty enthusiastic about Nina. Too bad, because I am pretty disappointed that girls like Nina are not picked up by a factory team. Nina seems to be a good fit and pretty marketable in my book. Not bashing on SC specifically, I can think of a few other powerhouses which could/should step up...

I fixed the copy-paste error...as for the dentist question, we were going to, but then we were afraid the lawyers would feel left out.

If I’m not mistaken she said they’d only hire one that fit them and no one currently does. Maybe marine caribou in a few years. She’s got that syndicate swagger and seems to be getting close in terms of results

Anyone know where Isabeau Courdurier landed? How about Bruce Klein? I know he is still riding and advertising Commencal bikes but I never saw a team announcement.

Still waiting for Cody Kelley, right?

It’s a new 7iDP/7 Protection helmet. ‘Project 23’