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Sometime these deals are like a lease or dealer vehicle. A high profile person gets it for free, drives it around, splashes the brand out in public, then the dealer swaps them a newer vehicle and the process continues. Looks like Vali has had 2 Minis from the same dealer, looks like this could be the situation here.

While the rumors here are mostly focused on the gravity scene, here are some from XCO: Kerschbaumer and Sarou to Specialized Luca Braidot and Marotte to Santa Cruz, apparently new XC bike is also in the works Ferand-Prevot to Absalon

Cam's rise has been pretty fast. Gonna be a fun season next year with Tahnee and Myriam fit, Nina and Cam firing on all cylinders, Vali finally making her entry into elites... not to forget defending champ Marine and hopefully Rachel. Regarding Jamie Edmonson, would be cool to see Nukeproof step up with factory support, or maybe even do a Brayton type "own programm" support? Ah who are we kidding, we want the Cathro Racing Brigade as a team, don't we?

Loris is the natural #1 of the SCS going into the future, Minnaar is the 'daddy' of the team, but performance wise, regardless of Minnaar's excellent results in Lousa, it's Loris that's the future top dog. Plus, like it was mentioned, all the experience in Greg and Steve. There are tons of Santa Cruz bikes out there as noted (I've been noticing it too) and I don't think them going electric 'this late' is an issue. They are part of a group that does cover electric bikes as well (Focus) so honestly it was kinda weird to me to even...

Therefore why Devinci again? Or if it's a resigning or anything like that, where is Jure? As for Loris, it might as well just be psychological, bouncing ideas off someone you trust. Which is what Jordi has hinted at quite a few times. And World cup level and knowing what the knobs do, do you think motorsports guys do that? That has gotten to such a high level engineers set up the cars through simulations (numerical) and simulator running with only minute adjustments at the track, with the drivers often being pushed towards the 'ideal' setup because of multiple reasons...

Good piece, but it barely scratches the surface of this idea. I realize this is a mountain bike website, not a medical journal. Still, a few ways this could have been more betterer. Though the clock isn't the only objective measure of how well your suspension is working, I feel its a "must" for something like this. I can't tell you how many times I've said "wow, this feels a lot better" only to see my times go backwards. I've also said the opposite to see my times get faster. The other measure is how much you are crashing or...

I will barge in with a slice of my personal experience in this regard, not sure how much it helps. Context is this: I live in an area where most trails are difficult, we used to ride our DH bikes much more in the past, at some point we lost shuttling options, enduro bikes came as a natural savior and they stayed, even now, when the shuttle is back and better than ever. DH bikes are mostly ridden by kids who are into the gnar, follow World Cup riders on social media and try to emulate them and probably are...