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Luca having his best season in years, his Stonks are high. I get the impression that him and troy get along good too.

Huh? He had a bad preseason injury a few years back I witnessed that was gnarly that cost home most of the 2022 season. Vital has the video. Last 2 years 13 World Cups Made every semi & final 2 Podiums 8 Top 10 Finishes Finished outside top 20 twice (Loudenvielle & Les Gets cluster Fokk this year) Hasn’t been outside Top 30 a single time. And that’s with switching from every single component of Santa Cruz/Shimano/Fox to Canyon/Sram/RockShox.

Nah, dude gets solid results, good coverage from media because he is universally well liked. Good racer to sponsor Edit this was suppose to respond to the Luca comment

bro I'd wash the truck and make Loic dinner every night if I got a shot on the Factory Specialized team. It's pretty surreal to see Finn grow up before our eyes into the beast he is today, I remember watching Youtube video's of him on LaPierre and he looked like he would have been 30kg ringing wet, then all the sudden he's winning Crankworx whip off, nekminute he's a grown ass man! Fuck I'm old.

#2 on Specialized Gravity seems bigger than #1 anywhere else…

I couldnt find a gif that had four

They also seemed very close in the WynTV video.....

cam is on the way to trek factory

Not quite sure the team manager would approve ha!

While I somewhat agree, these are things that are going to weigh heavily on the next 2-3 years of contracts and what teams exist moving forward. If a team isn't sure they have a place in a game, are they going to sign people for more than a year going into this season? Will they already be trimming heavily? Will another broadcaster finally pick up on smaller regional or national feeder series and make them something where people can eat and support racing locally which will actually increase competition? I think that the conversation above will have a very heavy...

5 real reasons dh will not be the next f1/supercross 1). Riding bikes in the woods is for nerds and hicks 2). F1/supercross was broadcast on tv world wide before a production mtb was ever sold. Main thing that introduces a kid to something is their parents or their friend’s parents by proxy. 3). Not head 2 head racing. But speaking part of the reason dh is so god damn fun is because you race the clock/track instead of your opponent I very much hope that never changes. But head 2 head is so much viewer friendly than watching 20...

There is a Big Old "S" on that jersey

WD-40 is getting into the mtb game, too? I bet their E-bike is going to be slick! j/k

I'll once again do my semi annual dad voice "this thread is for fun" posts. This isn't the 2025 team facts thread so let people have fun with it and don't be a dick. If someone wants to allude and drop bread crumbs through the season, let them and have fun with it. Pry, guess, whatever. Just don't call them out like they hurt you when they're trying to participate and haven't done anything wrong.

Troy Lee coming to the shelves of Walmart soon!

And bring back Dialed!

I agree with the last two posts... Trek are not going to fire Shandro over Loris. I also don't think Loris is leaving just because of Shandro. Again, I don't think he's getting the full F1 treatment he wants. Like getting custom parts made for the bike, ability to design bike the he wants, Rockshox doing 100% custom damper technology for him, etc. Trek knows that firing Shandro is not going to necessarily keep Loris around and it's not worth losing Andrew in that case.

Agree, and he's been w/ Trek since dinosaurs ruled the earth...

Shandro seems to be very well connected and is quite prominent in the North American gravity scene, so I think Loris would get the boot first if there is conflict there. I doubt they’re actively trying to get rid of him though. It makes sense that he would want a change of scenery since it hasn’t gone well lately.

Here's a great chart of the move to Trek. It's about streaks if you compare Loris & Loic Like shooters in basketball...they get on hot streaks Has podiumed this year. Results over span of 4 different teams since 2015 have gotten more consistent. He's less "Checkers or Wreckers". Last 2 World Cups have been anomolies for everyone with the complete switch of conditions for the race itself. When Loic comes across fist pumping over a salvage run, it's an anamoly.