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Rachel Atherton is coming out of retirement for the 100k lol, the bike is being built, and she's probably the most capable between men and women on taking it. Sure it been awhile since she's raced, but I'm guessing she could still be first on race day if she put her mind to it.

Apparently 100% is only going to specialize in eyewear in the future. According to rumours, the sale of helmets, protectors and clothing will be minimized or even discontinued.

Believe it or not, I think the last minutes of this video reveal the FMD thing and what I think is that Kate Courtney will be racing for Orbea. The man is Ibon Zugasti, founding member of the Orbea Factory XC when it was a marketing strategy with several amateurs or semi pro riders in Spain. He has himself won XC and gravel masters worlds in his category. They also had Tomi Misser, a former DH WC racer from Spain, that won XC and DH world's masters on the same year. They sold a TON of bikes with this strategy...

I don’t believe Canyon are hurting much. They have a stacked field of roadies who are several times more expensive then anyone in MTB. Might just be a change of strategy to focus on a few big names, similar like YT did a while ago

I think the Athertons are pretty satisfied with how the Robotbike/Atherton turned out. Gold and Silver at the Worlds, plus a few WC wins is not exactly shite….

Y'a plus rien qui va bordel could be translated to everything is going to shit.

It must be hard for athletes who have to be outwardly “stoked” on their new sponsor when they are forced to give up a bike that offered a competitive advantage. Tahnee going from that new Canyon to a bike that doesn’t even exist yet must be painful. It would be cool to hear a podcast on the ones that got away - thinking Gwin and his intense, Athertons with Trek, Greg with Honda and Sam Hill and his Iron Horse 😢

There are a few factors: - Norco is owned by LTP, which is a distributor of other brands in Canada. Norco has long been financially floated by the relative profitability of LTP - At one time Norco had a solid XC team, a DH team, sponsored the Gehrigs for Enduro and had Jill Kintner and Bryn Atkinson, and a bunch of others at the same time not too long ago. They dropped everyone else. - They just split with their CEO with "no plans to replace him". The company was flying him in from California to BC every week as...

sure hope kirk gets to race if he wants to! his story was one of the most interesting in '24 IMO.

What a team, could easily dominate, especially the women's field

norco team is official - danny hart, erice van leuven, gracey hemstreet, lucas cruz, bodhi kuhn and lina frener full PR here - https://www.vitalmtb.com/news/press-release/norco-race-division-unveils…

Few rumor things I picked up on recently. No mention of Martin Whitely in the frameworks press release. Is he gone? No thank you or good-bye from Canyon to FMD, only to Tahnee. Strange. Most of the big teams (if not all) now have more than one women, that's cool. Norco even have three. I imagine more teams will do the same, given the new rules. Mille and Louise Ferguson on Intense? Where is Monika Hrastnik going? Commencal will go from five WC DH teams to two? Will Trek and Mondraker sign elite or junior females?

Going to be fun reading wireless/electronic aficionados rationalizing an expensive, cumbersome and fugly axs dropper over a cabled version.

Given that it was probably SRAM's lawyers that were responsible for 5dev discontinuing the udh mod kit, ordering the biggie kit sooner rather than later is probably a good plan if you think you might want one.

Wheelbased just shared more pictured of the new Reverb AXS (off a Bjorn Riley story)

Fox working on a new Float X2 👀 post from frameworks racing

Live that guy. He has very few problems with designing a prototype and testing it. His main holdup is the added complexity of getting a sellable batch made. It's why he's stuck with small CNC machining. Also saw his Psalm 150 on display at the EXT tent at sea otter. It's a little bit of aluminum art.

Anyone who follows Ministry bikes on insta will testify to the tribulations in trying to bring an idea to market as a small operation.

Ah, yes, I’ve been concerned there aren’t enough choices in the stem category.

Asa, Anna, Angel: Triple-A grade DH Team. Forget a draft, what if UCI teams were beef? Who’s on your wagyu dream team? #whatiftheywerebeef