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Taking this a bit off topic, but I thought I'd chime in about the first point. Obviously everyone's channel has a different audience, but as an example, here's a breakdown of my YouTube channel's audience by by age. Instagram is about the same. Now I've never checked, but I assume TikTok viewership trends much younger.

early o chain prototype?

The recently published UCI lists confirm Continental is definitely sponsoring the GT Factory Team, among others.

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I didn't read your post but I get my wife to trim my mullet, looks pretty good.

A winning setup doesn't last forever...I made the choice that I thought would bring me success for many years to come. Canyon has a bigger commitment to racing and winning and I've always felt I wanted a little extra help to go even faster. I recorded a podcast with Downtime last week so that should be out soon and explain some more.

A fatter pay cheque that has been well earned.

Lars from Transition Bikes here. Troydon (Crestline) lives about 3 minutes away from our headquarters. He's a super nice guy and joins a lot of group rides from Transition HQ. Stoked to see this, and stoked for Blenki to be partnered with someone so genuine and into bikes! Troydon is a ripper and rides a LOT. Super rad to see what he's doing, it's a massive undertaking to launch a bike company these days in such a competitive market. Also stoked to see Blenki around here, I'm sure he's bound to pay some visits.

The actual question is: Why would a champion let YOU (- as in: the team he came up with) go? Especially if the combination of rider, bike and teammates works this well. This is obviously pure speculation, but I bet it comes down to money. RM isn't a big brand, they don't sell that many bikes in the grand scheme of things. I don't think they can afford to pay him a big salary. The ugly reality of it probably is that Jesse has been doing it long enough just for the love doing it. He's probably at a stage...

Despite having huge respect for Gee and Rach (how could you not?!?!), I was never a huge fanboy. But something about those bikes and that team just has me really cheering for em and hoping they continue to crush!! Stoked to see they are keeping the band together.

Upgrading Trailforks Pro users to also have access to Outside+ is not a tactic to somehow covertly increase the price of existing TF Pro subscribers. There are no plans to change the subscription price for these existing subscriptions, early adoptors included, they are valuable users to the community. Technically none of that would be required to increase the price of a subscription though, there is no legal hurdle. However on Apple and Google if the increase is more than a small amount, the user has to opt-in to the price change. So it's a very risky business move to increase...