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And also truck rumours?! wtf has happened

Yes they are good value (don't read as "cheap) but there must be a reason a good amount of WC Privateers are using them, They would be using the bike they believe would provide them with the best result, price not been a factor.

Or because they are cheap. I'd ink their popularity to price as opposed to race wins.

Yeesh about time to put this forum thread to bed till next year hey Palmer? Last two pages have been just hot trash bickering.

"But ahhh" 😂 Wyn is the bomb, I agree.

This. I love racing and I'll get wrapped up in the drama in the moment, but my DH racing days have been over for a while. Guys like Matt and what they're doing are what I strive for now. I'll watch every video he puts out before I worry myself about team recap vids. Except WynTV. Give me that all day.

To be honest, Bruni's winning does nothing to me wanting to buy a Specialized. They just don't make bikes that i could ever like (geometry, spec, price, etc.). Matt Hunter's 'genuine' is a different story though. Maybe i'm special. Racing is cool, but looking at the winner and thinking "this bike is cool, i have to buy it" just doesn't happen for me. The 'look at me too' social posts also do nothing to me, me quitting Instagram 2 or 3 years ago might also have a factor in this since i was tired of all this kind of posting...

Commencals recent streak with their race winning Supreme is working well on the sales front at least here. Seeing a lot of them and for good reason, it's a great bike at a great price. In the good old days with cars it was "race on sunday, sell on Monday" and that somewhat is true in the MTB industry. then you have Paul the Punter with more sponsors than the SC Syndicate and he can't bleed a set of brakes or Jump a double so what do I know lol

Jack managed to land himself in maybe the most talent rich bicycle racing manufactures line up ever, to be riding on a Canyon is the greatest opportunity ever for him and maybe get to race with MVDP that’s priceless. You have read the stories that Matthieu wants to try racing EWS and just maybe, Jack might be leading the way for that maybe, again priceless.

Take the Cody Kelley complaint club somewhere else, please.

Hope the Denim Destroyer gets picked up for factory support!

Racers are only hurting themselves, and keeping their values lowered by keeping it in the secret. This is why the companies will even have it in the contract that they can not discuss it. This is just as much a problem in the buisness world as it is in the racing world. There is no reason to keep salaries quite, except to help the companies.

and our email inboxes with 5 trillion notifications (by february, i'll finally turn them off haha)

Oh snap it’s on....

Lee Dungarees coming back to the scene in full support of Johannes von Klebelsberg aka "The Denim Destroyer"

Never missed a post since 2016! Not starting now. Bad news for work, wife and the kids.

Nina Hoffmann to Syndicate.

Yeah Noah! Thanks for the shout bud

No Doubt... to be honest winning an enduro is still like a tree falling in the woods... Cody is viable on his potential reach to fans, maybe more viable than the "winners"... put some resources into him and the impact for a brand who can support him to create content and grow his reach can be significant...

Since the inception of the EWS, there's been only 15 male winners. 6 of those have only won a single race. 6 of the 15 are retired (or at least not racing most of the calendar). So you only have 9 active winners, 6 active repeat winners. To suggest that these are the only riders people have heard of is ridiculous. Furthermore, in terms of reach, one of those active, repeat winners has less than 10k IG followers. Another has just 21k. Cody Kelley has 2.5x more IG followers than these two COMBINED. And in terms of actually selling bikes...