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Thanks for all the love Vital! My goal is to continue a career that allows me to contribute to another 1000 pages of the tech rumour thread.

Four teams running Sram-Rockshox isn't a lot when you look at the number of Fox teams. Sram/RS seems to have a bigger foothold in XC, or at least wins more races, 12 of 20 elite race wins Downhill 2025: Fox 12 teams - 14 wins, Rockshox 3 - 4 wins 2026: Fox 10 teams (8 Shimano), Rockshox 4. Fox: Continental Atherton, Cube, Frameworks, Giant, Norco, Orbea, Pivot, Santa Cruz, Scott, Yeti SRAM/RS: Commencal Mucoff, Commencal Schwalbe, Canyon, Mondraker

Bigger news is somehow they are still running e.thirteen wheels 😂. Another big factory team on SRAM is wild though. They have both commençal teams, canyon, Mondraker and Trek Factory. That's a lot of factory

Awesome for Nukeproof to get started with a team that can help them hit the ground running, who were all climbing the ranks through last season. I do really think it would be amazing for Hill to show up at hardline on a Nukeproof DH bike.

If he's training at home, I know a friend visited the area and rode Ronan's local park and ran into him there. The trails are pretty short, but apparently great. Where I grew up the trails were a similar distance and me, who did absolutely no training other than taking advantage of the afternoon 2 for $5 beers at the hill's pub, could get 15 laps a day easy for 2-3 days in a row. So for someone who's fit and not slamming pints for half the afternoon, 23 a day isn't impossible.

They were already on Mavens last season, as said above Commencal did similar a few years back.

Not surprised, commencal muc-off did the same thing not very long ago. They also put mavens on with fox suspension for a season, can't remember if they used a SRAM drivetrain. Knew they were going to move to rockshox when I saw them running the other sram stuff this year.

Didn't Dak confirm at the beginning of last season that the team would be on the full SRAM/RockShox suite of parts for 2026? I thought that was semi-openly acknowledged long ago. Regardless, 69 runs in 3 days... Hope Dunne doesn't injure himself or burn out with that kind of pre-season intensity. Looking forward to seeing what kind of pace he brings to the World Cups.

Not just RockShox but also Sram brakes and drivetrain

MFR to rockshox suspension

Elite enduro rider Simona Kuchyñková got a RB helmet, maybe enduro is not totally dead.

💯 percent and also great to see a brand like Mondraker wanting to make that commitment to their DH team too

Yeah. This Boy is a rocket. Very nice! Now just add Oli C., and this team will burn so hard.

Pinky with a long term deal is great deal for both sides.. Ryan is young with a lot of potential and 3 years will let everyone grow together.. It will be fun to watch him progress..

I hope the Trek stores will carry the concentrated tablets as well:

Pinky has just signed another three years with Mondraker! Does that mean we will hear from Dak soon? https://www.instagram.com/p/DSaJLaZFN6D/?utm_source=ig_web_button_share…

WD40’s sport marketing efforts are managed by former World Cup 4x pro Robin Baloochi. It’s kinda an endemic non-endemic sponsorship- WD does have that whole line of bikeshop oriented product…

WD40 is a pretty big company that have a history in MTB. I believe Frameworks and TFR were sponsored last season as teams and individual riders such as Danny Hart and Rebecca Rusch have been sponsored in the not too distant past.

Axess and Nukeproof seem pretty obvious by now.