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Pretty sure not hitting your goal of world domination due to injury but still keeping it in the top 5 whilst holding back and testing new equipment is nothing any company would consider something worth cutting from their budget given the fact there´s really no valid alternative. Not many podium regulars are up for grabs and even if they were, injury can strike any time. I´m not a Gwin fanboy or anything but come on, he is injured once and doesn´t deliver runs that devastate the competition anymore and people think he´s done for? I don´t believe that. I´m pretty...

Ok guys, please stop discussing shocks, wheel sizes, what's on Loris' sandwich and all sorts of irrelevant crap on this thread. Start a new thread. It's getting old having to wade through all these posts trying to find RACING RUMOURS. Rant over. About Gwin. I'm all for guys getting paid what they are worth. It's the same in any business. If a sales guy brings in the sales and hits his targets he is entitled to his bonus. For sure Gwin didn't hit his targets in 2018. Maybe that's made everyone financing the team take a step back and reconsider.

Thanks for posting this spomer (and Brendog put it in his Insta story between run 1/2). I'm so pissed off about this... great Rampage overall but Brendog had by far the most unique line and was the most FREERIDE which is what they are claiming the event is, back tot he roots... the rock drop, GNARLY chute, canyon gap etc. Did he deserve to win? No, but that score should have easily been high 70's. You could tell by his reaction he was shocked by it. Glad Rheeder won but they are still overweighting jumps and features with massive highway...

I recall AG joining Martin on the Mob as partners rather than as athlete and manager, you get the impression Aaron learned a lot in his years away from Trek and probably doesn’t need a manager.

taken from Reece Wilson's Instagram story.

Anyone ever mentioned AG to Intense or Spesh in here... ;-)

Can we please keep it to team rumours.... the amount of bike posts is becoming silly.... Just stop it.

Please move this discussion to the "pedaling sucks" forum. This one is for team rumors and not uphill alpine sking.

The vast majority of complaints arise when speaking specifically about DH courses that involve pedaling. Yes, sometimes riders bitch about climbing (like normal people do) but they still all ride trail bikes and train on road. They mainly complain about pedaling in a sport that is totally focused with going downhill. Therefore the best tracks are 100% downhill. Introducing flat or even uphill sections in a DH race is not a good thing. Same goes for alpine ski racing. When there are flat, slow sections it sucks. And ski racers complain about it. Skiing through flat sections is totally doable...

My $$ would be on an end of season clear out. We see the pros's do the same thing here in Australia at the end of each year.

Is it ok if I set up a booth , in the comment section, and sell tissues?

Make an e-bike. Go for it. But using an iconic name from your history of race bred machines? I think the program managers made a bit of a poor choice there for a pun name? Haaaaa. I'm going to go ahead and guess there are some salty employees/designers/engineers at Intense on this one.

Possibly because they are primarily Downhill riders on a Downhill team?? Seems unlikely that Pivot and Norco would commit to a team entry (I imagine it comes at a sum of money) when not every rider (or any at all) is competing in every round. With relation to Rat, it should be noted that Sam Dale isn't listed within a team either, since neither or on the actual Santa Cruz enduro team, a la Josh Lewis, Mark Scott and Iago Garay.

i thumbs-upped the waste of time comment. isn't that the whole point of the internet?

all 'Muricans LISTEN UP, This is your chance... y'all better turn up to Snowshoe in droves, stay at their accom, buy their food, drink their beer, and coffee. ONE chance to show American resorts that bidding, and hosting a WC is actually worth it. GET THERE AND SPEND MONEY if you want to see the big show return