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Lacanuck24 Added a reply to 2026 Team Rumors
9/24/2025 4:16am If this is true of Vali, good on her for securing something so quickly. She, along with the rest of the Mob, is probably on the hook for the last two rounds unless they can get something else sorted. YT already stopped paying for a bunch of stuff, much to the Mob's surprise.
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phillemaistre Liked a reply to forum topic 2025 World Cup - Lenzerheide, Switzerland
9/20/2025 10:51pm
Not getting the real dirt from the Wynterviews at this round is a huge loss. The stories! The drama! Who’s gonna fly Wyn around next year?? Continental, make some room in the budget, for crying out loud!
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Lacanuck24 Added a reply to 2025 Race Talk
9/20/2025 10:50pm Hopefully, there's a flood of last-minute elites. Looking thin on the World Cup participants right now, Brosnan but no Shaw? Didn't Greg Minaar say he was going to race this one? On another note, life at the YT Mob seems to be getting worse behind the scenes. Sounding like riders are potentially going to need some help in the pits...
Lacanuck24 Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
9/18/2025 7:07am Nino doesn't ride no S1000! 🤣 But to be serious. The Transmission derailleurs' design language has changed since GX. The entire XPLR line of derailleurs has the same battery orientation. So this looks like the direction they're going moving forward. Blackbox already after only what... two years. An update/revision release after barely three years?
Lacanuck24 Added a reply to 2026 Team Rumors
9/18/2025 3:15am My bad, some lazy Google-fu on my part. Vali joining Commencal Mucoff would be hilarious. Imagine adding her along with the Alran's to their Elite rosters. Jeez. I wonder how connected the Mucoff and Schwalbe teams are. Some roster swapping? The wildcard's gotta be an all new team structured around Vali. The Red Bull idea, can never say never. They...
Lacanuck24 Added a reply to 2026 Team Rumors
9/16/2025 6:59pm Giant Factory, Rogue Racing, and Scott Factory are only men. From what I've been told, Giant won't add an elite woman to their roster for DH. That's on brand with how they handle XC with separate LIV and Giant Factory teams. Apparently, there's no interest in starting a LIV DH team... until now??? Three Red Bull helmets is a good...
Lacanuck24 Added a reply to 2026 Team Rumors
9/13/2025 8:48pm My understanding is that Mondraker won't be on Sram next year. Apparently, it won't be like how Commencal Muc-Off had a transition year to full kit. Find out for sure at Hardline Tasmania or while Ronan does 900 laps in New Zealand. The final team standings will make for some potentially really interesting moves come October. Some big names are...
Lacanuck24 Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
9/12/2025 7:40am They are, especially from non-traditional companies. What is it now, two years in a row that a German automotive company has released a full-power motor that is almost half the size of others. The form factors across the industry seem just different enough to warrant not needing a universal mount. Then there's the whole "optimization" of the system that may...
Buckets Up Liked a reply to forum topic 2025 Race Talk
9/12/2025 5:43am
Everyone will have individual preferences for the athletes they are drawn to as fans. But I also think it’s comical that there is so much discussion about who to root for/against. How lucky are we as a sport that our two titans at the moment are Bruni and Jackson. Both seem like incredibly rad humans who are humble and genuine. Hell, nearly everyone in our sport seems awesome (I can only think of one egregious potential bad apple and a second sour one). Have a personal favorite, but acknowledge they are all pretty damn awesome.
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Lacanuck24 Added a reply to 2026 Team Rumors
9/10/2025 8:25pm Sometimes a name change is just a sponsor change, but sometimes it's an ownership change. You have to dig into it a tiny bit. Team Sky wasn't just a sponsor change. The team was sold to the owner of Ineos. Red Bull Bora-Hansgrohe is a situation where Red Bull came in as a sponsor for Bora-Hansgrohe and then became a...
Lacanuck24 Added a reply to 2026 Team Rumors
9/10/2025 5:29am Buying a World Tour team gives you the UCI points, ranking, and status. Katusha became Israel-Premier Tech, CCC became Intermarche, and Sky became Ineos, just to name a few. If that weren't the case, then yeah, it wouldn't be worth buying a team. Unfortunately for mountain bike teams, it's not 2024 anymore, and the 2025 game of musical chairs is...
Lacanuck24 Added a reply to 2025 Race Talk
9/9/2025 2:40am I'm pretty sure Rampage and Hardline are actual Red Bull events, along with the Cerro Abajo. Crankworx is its own entity with Redbull as a title sponsor. Hardline and Cerro Abajo seem to be picking up steam with each event, so probably no danger there. Rampage is a ratings juggernaut, just needing some fresh ground for a venue.
Lacanuck24 Added a reply to 2026 Team Rumors
9/9/2025 12:37am There are definitely many growing mountain bike scenes across Asia. Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines, like you said. Singapore has a huge community, while Thailand and has some amazing trails. I've heard unfortunate rumblings that I hope aren't true, that MTB is in decline in Japan. To get back on track with team rumors, it turns out Korea will get...
Lacanuck24 Added a reply to 2026 Team Rumors
9/8/2025 8:46am There is a growing scene here. While things were regressing about 12-15 years ago, the last 7+ have seen major growth. We went from zero bike parks to five (two government-funded), loads of trail centers, a few "official," but most not so official, and government-funded pump tracks. The number of riders has been increasing, yet the mountain bike race scene...
Lacanuck24 Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
9/4/2025 1:11am I don't think it was meant to be a direct comparison of a Focus to a GT40. It's more about an affordable vs halo product. They'll sell most of them, just like how Yeti sells most of their special editions. People sure are talking about though, and that's the biggest takeaway. Specialized is on everyone's mind. That's the world. The...
ebikepartyshirt Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
9/3/2025 6:52pm
I don’t understand this sentiment. Spec still makes a bike at a price point for you, now they add a bike that means they will actually make money and can continue making the bike you want. But then they are lame for that. Imagine driving a Ford Focus and then you start shitting on ford because they build the GT40? Or maybe this would be more equivalent to driving an f150 XL then you whine because they build an F150 Lariat
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Lacanuck24 Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
9/2/2025 6:43am Just a World's thing. Jesse Melamad also had a custom two-tone caliper with the flag and name on his red levers. So we should expect to see similar stuff on the DH bikes!
Lacanuck24 Added a reply to 2026 Team Rumors
8/28/2025 3:41am Time to eat my words cause I jumped the gun. I just found out there should be some cool news locally, hopefully in the next few days but might be another week or two. The embargo is real.
MJT420 Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 Team Rumors
8/27/2025 5:59am
That's good news at least, MSA is definitely one of the best venues even if it has been raced for 30 years. Whistler will be great but Canada deserves more rounds than 1. Also may as well pin this thread and unpin 2025 so there's less confusion about which one is the active one.
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Lacanuck24 Added a reply to 2026 Team Rumors
8/27/2025 5:59am In this current format of team/rider eligibility, no chance of locals racing year one. IF someone is inspired and has deep enough pockets to go get some UCI points, then maybe in year three, a slim chance at year two. There's little to no support for local riders. I'd put my money on one of two local juniors if they...