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Shame oisin wont be allowed 00 I imagine. Thought that was rad on his jersey

I do hope we'll see smaller teams start to form for the Continental series and those series get the attention they should. With the exception of the Americas series, which is an insane amount of traveling spread over an entire year, the Euro and Oceania series look pretty doable for smaller teams and brands with former WC and up and coming riders to tackle. I hope they are also steamed in some capacity.

I think it's been fairly clear since warner bros took over that if you were outside the top 30 come contract time it was going to be hard for a race team to justify the cost of paying for someone who isn't consistently making finals and the live broadcast. If you look at MS racing , with the notable exception of EF winning in the rain in Les Gets did they provide a decent return for their sponsors ? The riders would have known this and maybe that's what powered some of the negativity towards WB , and to be...

AK47…. The gun.

Hopefully he choses 47

So the rumor is that Ryder Lawrence is off the Intense team... anyone heard anything on where he's going to land? I'm assuming he will still ride Intense (due to his family's connection to the brand) but probably just his own program again? Maybe focus on the USDH stuff instead of the World Cup stuff? Would be cool to see some of the US brands like Intense put together some smaller domestic teams for USDH Pro Cups.

Here's the official announcement from MS Racing, moving on from Intense: https://www.vitalmtb.com/community/filmsmith/blog/01/06/2025/entry/1292….

Really makes you appreciate what Neko is doing on Frameworks with team buitl on pretty much obvious reasons, results. Angel Anna Asa It;s a really team. Everyone of them will get results - real results. It is not a marketing team, it's a race team.

Blenki is super ripped for his age, probably in better physical condition than a lot of others currently racing. On the right program/support i believe he could be competitive. Lucas has had mixed results according to Roots n Rain , he was out all last year with a broken leg. Norco might still have him under contract and buying him out and finding another rider within budget maybe wasn’t feasible.

done! - https://www.vitalmtb.com/forums/hub/2025-world-cup-rider-plate-numbers great idea.

Abby Hogie is currently ranked 42nd in Women's Elite, so she can continue to race World Cups as long as she is in the top 50, according to the new rules. Seeing as she won the IXS overall last year and is planning to race the continental series this year against many of the same riders, I'd suspect she should be able to stay within the top 50 riders in UCI points. None of her points come from world cups, only 40 from world champs, and the rest are all from US nationals and IXS.

I totally forgot about the permanent numbers. Should we also track these? #NumberRumors?

Kolb just announced he's off Atherton Bikes...

While that is true, she also liked and replied to comments suggesting it´s an Intense or even Santa Cruz. I think she just wants to engage in the guessing game. But since we see riding videos, I guess a reveal is near.

For those who didn't see the vid. If this isn't a pinion bracket...

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. 🤣🤣🤣

Dan won the 4X race, Gee DH and Rachel DH

" I’m so grateful for the people at Clif that kept the athlete program going for as long as they could" This line kind of tells that maybe everyone has been dropped, including Rheeder.

Casey Brown off Clif Bar. I find this to be a weird one, as Clif wasn't exactly bike industry, to share the same struggles. Maybe contract was up and not renewed? If so, I wonder why. Casey hasn't been anything but positive for mountainbiking since as long as I can remember. Mx