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Sure, people like to root for the underdog, for the kid who came from nothing (or worse than nothing) and overcame all that. And there's a lot to be said about people who just don't excel at school but are otherwise intelligent, hard-working, caring, or any other positive character trait you want. We like those stories because they are rare. A race team is a business, and that means team managers are looking for people who have a high chance of meeting their goals. Having a high GPA (which is one of the few ways someone this age can show...

Grade point average. It’s a four point scale so these kids are doing well.

I like that they're still encouraging the kids to excel at school at the same time (listing their GPAs). Way to lead by example Neko & FW.

Future Frameworks Development Team Announced The Future is bright. Frameworks Bicycles is proud to announce Future Frameworks: our UCI development team. We are excited to welcome Zanna Logar (USA) and Jack Mccreddie (CAN) as first year juniors, as well as Lucas DeDora (USA) and Benny de Vall (CAN), who are joining the team for their second season in the junior category. For 2025, UCI MTB World Series Teams can link a development team and bring up riders to compete in any World Cup race with a limit of 4 per category / 10 riders total. Through Frameworks Racing / 5DEV...

Small piece of advice, take it or leave it, but there are more generous ways to say "hey, I found something too!" As I’ve mentioned a few times, this thread feels more like a collaborative 6th grade social studies project than high-level buy-side analysis. People generally give each other the benefit of the doubt, and the usual passive-aggressive Reddit snark tends to stay out of the room. Of course, do as you wish. I just like to believe there are better ways to engage. @CascadeComponents this was exactly what I was curious about. Thanks for the thoughtful context. In the...

15-year-old's journey into making his own full suspension frame

Downhill Southeast Race Replay video

Link to blog post (too long to post here). I did this really fast and will clean it up in the morning. Long story short, Fox is in worse shape than I thought, but I do not believe they'll be the next Pierer Mobility or similar. In fact, this appears to be a case study in good management, with a team making adjustments as the underlying market dynamics move and shift. As a side point, I wanted to contrast the company against others in the space or what we might call "good" but there really wasn't anything appropriate. I'm confident...

Both companies still make money. While I don't love the streaming business model for a lot of reasons, I think its a lot more complicated than we're boiling it down to here. Ignoring Disney for a second, WBD is kicking off over $5B in free cash flow per year, and adjusted EBIDTA of over $2B. Not saying all their moves are genius, and I'm pretty indifferent to the WC coverage, but its worth noting that not all leverage is bad leverage.

Looks like Yeti signed Jonty Williams, fast Junior out of NZ but doesn’t bring many points with him. Lucas Dedora is listed with Frameworks. I don’t believe that’s been mention here so would be a boost to their points.

We have entered the part of silly season where people float (and debate!) wild speculation that a 42 year old Dan Atherton returns to downhill (last result was 57th at Crankworx in 2018) on a new rubber band bike to chase a $100k podium. Perhaps we need an award for most ridiculous rumor every year. 🤣🤣🤣

how you gonna go and get comment of the year on January 2? 🤣 so good!

Personally I'd say most of us subscribed to this thread do. If you find his posts too long winded then fair enough, don't read them, but for me Jeff brings great insight and knowledge to the thread, he's certainly given me a better understanding of the financial side of the bike world.

Or maybe there could be a South American continental series and a North American continental series. South American can be November to march and North American can be march to September. Better yet make it so the 5 qualifier spots can only go to you for racing your home continent.

I could care less. But dating a girl who was 17 when she joined your team shortly after she becomes legal, while she still is a part of the team, is pretty questionable and wouldn’t fly in a lot of businesses. Hell plenty of companies would not let you date an employee as a manager if they were 10 years older than you. The age gap just increases the power imbalance. Ultimately if they are happy and stay happy good for them. But there are a lot of young women who get used by irresponsible men making false promises who...

brendan's skill is so out-of-this-world. to sit there in the trackstand, so focused and then nail that line? he's already won regardless of result. the vibe with olly and deakin is so rad too. and clay on the dadcam HAHAHA, so rad! what an event!

someone sent over this rad 4-up overlay of runs from dak, loris, loic and coulanges. for forum fans only.

so i guess the only point in qualifying was narrowing the field from 65 to 60?