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good history with trek? have we forgotten the debacle of how he left? remember the letter of intent?

Shameless promotion time. I sat down with Alan Milway (coach and Norco team manager) last week to chat about all the DH team moves and get this thoughts on them. Podcast version is live now here https://www.downtimepodcast.com/team-moves-2024/ YouTube version premieres at 6pm GMT today if anyone fancies joining us here https://youtu.be/9kXXLt4lsuI

how about NO?

that video is so cringe but didn‘t expect anything else from the YT marketing department. hope vali‘s gonna dominate and is well paid while doing so so, pretty much only gwin left of the big names without any clue what he‘s gonna do.

Dude, I just realised that you are one of the Parkin brothers and I just want to say DirtTV was the best shit ever and thank you for all the good stuff throughout the years. I tip my hat to you guys! Parkin Bros. Gold forever! Mx

Ronan to Mondraker. it's a Dunne deal.

bro's recognizing peoples hands now.... this thread is getting so good and weird at the same time. When someone knows what someones toes looks like I'll bow out. Carry on.

I dont know anything about Dak, but Ryan has gotten his fastest times ever on the bike on runs he knows very well and can make good comparisons. Mondraker is keen to make the bike fast and and is making that a priority. So I think whomever is on the bike will do well.

Refreshingly SMART, not strange. The last thing the industry needs right now is somebody making a product that already exists in overabundance just because they can. Why waste any time, effort, and resources on making a DJ frame when you can source it as part of the deal with Spesh and get paid for riding it instead. We should applaud Neko's focus on what's essential here and actually providing some value to the market (the DH bike, in other words), otherwise they'll just turn into the 1547th "by riders for riders" company churning out generic flat pedals and handlebars...

hey all, please discuss site issues here so they can be seen - https://www.vitalmtb.com/forums/about-vital-mtb-support/vital-mtb-site-… - no need to fill up tech or team rumors threads. thanks for looking out with it, too!!!

greg minnaar on norco official. here's our interview w/ him yesterday. a bit more info here - https://www.vitalmtb.com/features/greg-minnaar-norco-bicycles-inside-li…

Well that’s a coincidence, because every time someone posts something even remotely interesting in this thread, I hear the X-Files theme song in my head…

That is flat out dissregarding what and who probably (amongst a very few others) paved the way to what you froth arround today. Go play some minecraft now..

reading is hard. my name is right under the homepage post.

if intense factory racing isn't intense factory racing because intense isn't a sponsor, that means intense factory racing is shutdown/dissolved/whatever you want to call it. even if there is a team w/ the same management/players, it won't be called intense factory racing therefore intense factory racing ceases to exist, right?

More like I finally have the option of a downhill bike so I want to see what all the hype is about. I am plenty happy with Enduro and from what I've heard internally, contrary to rumours, Enduro isn't going anywhere. But just wait till you see my latest bike, new year new me.

That's all good and well but lets face some facts here - Cube bikes are junk (I worked closely with the brand at a distribution level), the kinematics were average at best and the frame failure rate we saw was out of control, more than 50% of carbon bikes sold came back with cracked frames and they were horrendously slow with turnaround time on replacement frames, always looking for excuses. Saracen is a walmart/whatever brand so no matter the caliber of the rider you'll never get results riding a piece of crap down the hill. Personality or not, Danny Hart...

i put this in the racing talk forum too, but hooray for #USDH! https://www.vitalmtb.com/news/press-release/monster-energy-pro-downhill…