Lives in:
NZ
Member Since:
11/15/2023
Recent Activity
All
moonsaballoon Added a reply to 2026 Team Rumors
8/31/2025 2:29pm I wonder how many people are at end of contract this season ? With all the mad rush for points last season would all those signings been on 2 year at least contracts ? Might be that there's not too many spots available unless teams can find extra budget , especially as I'm assuming the YT riders will be some...
More »
moonsaballoon Added a reply to 2026 Team Rumors
8/24/2025 6:34pm Interesting if you look at the team rankings for this year . Scott , Giant and Pivot jump out as teams who you would possibly expect to be a bit higher in the rankings if they want one of the guaranteed spots for next year . Having said that it's 15 teams plus 5 wildcards so I'd imagine every team...
moonsaballoon Added a reply to 2025 Team Rumors
8/24/2025 3:08pm Probably for the inevitable 2026 thread but an interview with Clive gosling on pinkbike sounds like there will be a Nukeproof team in DH and maybe enduro next year . Will be interesting to see how starting a new factory team from scratch works now in terms of the teams owning this season's points .
moonsaballoon Added a reply to 2025 Team Rumors
8/19/2025 2:49pm I wouldn't read to much into it , he probably has just had enough. He's been on the circuit a long time and had some pretty big injuries and maybe he just wants a change . What ever happens this season is imagine PFR will be racing next year on wildcards at least . People seem to have taken against...
moonsaballoon Added a reply to 2025 Race Talk
8/11/2025 6:53pm I'm not sure he does get ignored unless there is a result. This is all feeling and I haven't gone back to check but it felt like for the first part of last year he was ignored, not on Wyn TV , not mentioned on post race podcasts , not on photo reports . Then this year it seemed it...
moonsaballoon Added a reply to 2025 Team Rumors
7/30/2025 8:17pm That's the thing , once you're not racing you're competing for sponsorship with all the other non racers , ambassadors, you tubers , influencers etc etc and being a good racer doesn't necessarily mean your going to be any good at that stuff and in any case , hasn't the YouTube sponsorship stuff dried up now to a certain extent...
moonsaballoon Added a reply to 2025 Team Rumors
7/29/2025 4:10pm I think I remember from the post Tasmania hardline OTB podcast that Brook was having issues with the Ari holding up on the jumps , possibly shock mount hardware issues . I would have thought that would of been a relatively easy fix but if he's not confident in the bike and has ended a deal to ride something he's...
moonsaballoon Added a reply to 2025 Team Rumors
2/13/2025 5:09pm Latest OTB podcast with Wyn . Still with GT and Dom Platt on the privateer programme. They also mention Ronan saying there is a rumour he's done something to his pelvis . Hopefully nothing major 🤞
moonsaballoon Added a reply to 2025 Team Rumors
2/6/2025 4:45pm Is that it then ? Nothing else to hear about now ? That was fun ...see you in a few months for the 2026 thread 👍👍
DontWorryImAPilot Liked a reply to forum topic 2025 Team Rumors
1/20/2025 1:38pm
Jenna won as many races as Jake Jewett last year. ...and she won the Women's Elite New Zealand Continental Series race this last weekend beating Sascha Earnest who by many accounts is a podium threat for this upcoming women's World Cup season. It's fun to pretend she's only around because her and BK are together, but I think a tough couple seasons for injuries made us forget that she's actually pretty fast and was a Junior World Champ.
This forum topic has 3512 replies.
moonsaballoon Added a reply to 2025 Team Rumors
1/20/2025 12:59pm Totally, the Enduro side of the team is pretty successful . Morganne is a race winner , Matt walker is a race winner and consistently top 10 and Eddie has had some bad luck with injury's but is certainly capable of good results if he can stay fit . If Pivot are still supporting the Enduro side then given the...
moonsaballoon Added a reply to 2025 Team Rumors
1/20/2025 11:41am Just went back to look at the options for teams to qualify and if I've read it right there will 5 teams with season long wildcard entries with the selection criteria being - UCI team ranking, current and previous season - Profile of any individual riders - UCI Team composition (multi-category, multi-gender) - Profile of team sponsors (out of industry...
moonsaballoon Added a reply to 2025 Team Rumors
1/14/2025 12:46pm Yep the 18 year old would definitely deserve his shot because otherwise what's the point of the continental series . But whilst I've not always been Gwins biggest fan I love a comeback story and I'm of an age where I've started rooting for older riders as a way of convincing myself I'm not to old to keep riding and...
moonsaballoon Added a reply to 2025 Team Rumors
1/14/2025 12:08pm I'd imagine Rude and Gwin will definitely fit the wildcard entry criteria based on their profile if nothing else . The issue as I remember it was that you had to reapply for wildcard entrys for each individual race which makes it really hard to plan for a season . Say Gwin has a rubbish first couple of races and...
moonsaballoon Added a reply to 2025 Team Rumors
1/10/2025 4:46pm I'm sure normally Wyn wouldn't have any trouble finding a brand to work with for whatever it is he was wanting to do , but if the GT thing was last minute it might be a lot harder as all the brands will have their budgets allocated.
moonsaballoon Added a reply to 2025 Team Rumors
1/10/2025 2:20pm handy chart from the other site . A few there that people seem to have pretty strong rumors on but still a few with decent points to be picked up .
moonsaballoon Added a reply to 2025 Team Rumors
1/9/2025 10:37am Reece Wilson must have put together a few bigish names in order to get the points to go racing . Interested to see who else is on that team .
moonsaballoon Added a reply to 2025 Team Rumors
1/6/2025 6:34pm But the formats that WB have introduced have made it a lot harder . In the red bull days you could qualify 60th and finish 20th in the finals and if you did that in 4 or 5 races you'd be top 20 in the rankings without ever being on the live broadcast. I'm not saying that the red bull...
moonsaballoon Added a reply to 2025 Team Rumors
1/6/2025 5:45pm I think it's been fairly clear since warner bros took over that if you were outside the top 30 come contract time it was going to be hard for a race team to justify the cost of paying for someone who isn't consistently making finals and the live broadcast. If you look at MS racing , with the notable exception...
moonsaballoon Added a reply to 2025 Team Rumors
1/2/2025 10:02pm I think it was on a downtime podcast where Martin Maes kind of hinted that when he'd signed with Orbea they had promised him a downhill bike within a certain time frame that hadn't materialized . I don't doubt Orbea can make a good DH bike , all their other bikes get pretty good reviews so I don't see why...
