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moonsaballoon Added a reply to 2025 Team Rumors
9/24/2024 4:14am Possibly a bit early for looking for missing Instagram tags . There is still one world cup to go and contracts normally run until the new calendar year . This thread started so early this year so it's going to be an extra long wait for announcements .
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moonsaballoon Added a reply to 2025 Team Rumors
9/22/2024 4:03pm 👏👏👏👏👏👏
moonsaballoon Added a reply to 2025 Team Rumors
9/22/2024 3:33pm Just listened to the MUTN podcast with Vali Holl . No new rumors but when asked Vali said she was very happy which I guess is in reference to Andi kolb joining YT . I assume Atherton will want to replace him with a fairly accomplished rider .
moonsaballoon Added a reply to 2025 Team Rumors
9/21/2024 4:36pm It can work out really well for people , Greg Callaghan has had his best year in ages on his own set up .
moonsaballoon Added a reply to 2025 Team Rumors
9/14/2024 3:09pm I listened to a podcast with Martin Maes a couple of months ago , might of been the pink bike one I think . He made is sound like when he signed for Orbea part of the deal that they would have a proper downhill bike for him within a couple of seasons and that the converted ebike was just...
gibbon Liked a reply to forum topic 2025 Team Rumors
9/14/2024 12:00pm
Waaaaaaaaasup guuuuuuuuuuuuys, It's me Matt Jones and I'm going to be racing a World Cup Downhill race.......but with 24" wheels, it's going to be so lit, i'm feeling very demuure hahahahahah I'm amazing...... but wait for it.......I'm driving there in my Lamborghini.......I know craaaaazy right.Smash that like button and please for the love of god I've got 5 kids to feed now, buy my merch.
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moonsaballoon Added a reply to 2025 Team Rumors
9/13/2024 2:33pm Blimey that's quite the read . Have I understood that right ? teams can have up to 10 riders but they can only enter 4 in the race ? If so I'd like to volunteer my services as the 10th rider , free bike and kit without the pressure of actually racing . The Scott Carson of mountain biking...
moonsaballoon Added a reply to 2025 Team Rumors
9/12/2024 12:05am Easy there comrade 😜 I totally agree that that's the case for the majority of people in the world , especially these days . But that post was specifically about Chris Ball who all things considered, I believe, has done pretty well for himself over the last few years. So if someone who can afford to say NO to his...
moonsaballoon Added a reply to 2025 Team Rumors
9/11/2024 4:03pm But you can put on an event that people want to attend . The crowds at Maydena prove that , I remember taking my boy round the pits at a tweed valley round on the Thursday and he had a great time getting stickers and swag , to this day his favorite bike brand is YT because they gave him...
moonsaballoon Added a reply to 2025 Team Rumors
9/11/2024 2:43pm I understand where you're coming from but he's a grown man with his own views I'm sure . If an MBA at your work tells you that you now have to do your job standing on your head you have 2 options , you either do it or you don't . Without wanting to get all godwins law about it...
moonsaballoon Added a reply to 2025 Team Rumors
9/11/2024 2:03pm I am admittedly a bit of a lefty socialist but that makes him sound like a right ruthless b******
moonsaballoon Added a reply to 2025 Team Rumors
9/11/2024 1:35pm Enduro budgets and e-bikes gone . How much of this is a result of the running of the series by ESO/WB/EWS and how much is it just a result of the reality of the lack of money in the sport. Chris Ball must of realized that for an increased DH season and effectively forcing DH teams to have more riders...
moonsaballoon Added a reply to 2025 Team Rumors
9/9/2024 10:36pm FMD is an interesting one as I could imagine nearly every brand would want Tahnee but not necessarily the whole FMD program. Kolb to YT purely because he's Austrian although I'm hoping that Atherton are staying at the races .
moonsaballoon Added a reply to 2025 Team Rumors
9/8/2024 10:36pm I hope the Atherton rumors aren't true . If a brand like that with a name so associated with world cup downhill pulls out then that really doesn't give me confidence in the future of the sport. WB/ESO might not be keen on privateers but next season could see some of them being fairly recent world champions and world cup...
moonsaballoon Added a reply to 2025 Team Rumors
9/4/2024 12:42am Any thoughts where Matt Walker could end up ? Not very often a world cup overall and world cup winner is available , 2nd at the European champs and a good worlds show he's still got the pace and he's still pretty young.
moonsaballoon Added a reply to 2025 Team Rumors
9/1/2024 1:35pm Misspent summers post race notes says 3 of the 6 elite podium riders likely to be on different bikes . So Coulanges definitely , Loris seems probably. So who's the other . Has to be Tahnee doesn't it ? Can't see finn , myriam or vali changing teams .
moonsaballoon Added a reply to UCI grant Discovery WC rights from 2023 to 2030
8/23/2024 11:21pm I think their version of growing the sport is 20 percent of the people currently making a living from the racing industry make more money and the other 80 percent have to go and do something else entirely. I really feel for riders like Matt Walker and the Dorval riders , they're world class racers and at any point in...
moonsaballoon Added a reply to 2025 Team Rumors
7/25/2024 7:09pm Definitely worth keeping around I reckon . He's shown he can win and looked fairly good at the start of this season . Just needs a clear run of being free from injury and he's a top ten contender . He's still relatively young as well I think . Comes across as a good bloke as well so it would...
moonsaballoon Added a reply to Fort William World Cup Downhill 2024
5/5/2024 12:40am I really hope that's the case as a last chance qualifier could be really exciting, if they broadcast it . Even if it doesn't fit on a broadcast length TV show then at least a live stream on you tube is surely doable. I watched the first couple of semis last year but even for a fairly dedicated fan I...
moonsaballoon Added a reply to 2024 TEAM RUMORS
3/27/2024 7:11pm I don't know the bloke at all but from what you see on social media he looks like he's committed to his kids racing rather than his and fair enough...he's got nothing left to prove to anyone . The level at world cup DH is so high now and with the format that unless you have some chance of making...