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Huh, interesting, I seem to recall he way even an investor into the Forestal project...

Unfortunately but incredibly I do not like what they are doing with EWS. Shortening the competition - not so long ago they had 6-8 sections each and two days of fighting. True endurance. Locations becoming more and more bike park-like, more and more hard-paved heavily artificial trails. What follows is less natural. I bet access to videos and photos, reports, etc. will be severely limited. And if you want it, pay dearly. I'm not saying it will be bad but there will probably be exorbitant payment for something that will be nothing special. Not to mention this reduction in the...

Man made the coolest international race series there was. Had photographers and pros jumping there to work/ride for free cause it was exciting. then he ruined that series making it “commercial” and ruined interest in covering and watching it. Nobody wants to watch pros race a local enduro race the whole draw was the new locations, epic days, and unreal stage lengths. now he’s ruining dh selling out the same way. he literally states in his podcast the tracks are too long to broadcast a full run which is exactly what he is promising fans by this discovery switch. Literally...

Pretty sad how low he's fallen since his protest run in underwear over 100m vertical dh race in Calgary almost 20 years ago.

Wasn't there an interview over on the other site with Chris claiming he had meetings with DH teams are races last year when he hadn't?

Chris Ball is such a shill. Fits in very well with the UCI and WB/Discovery.

My guess is you’re talking about Lew Buchanan…. Notably, he hasn’t tagged Norco in any of his posts since announcing his OnlyFans sponsorship/relationship. Also has alluded to being “lonely” on his “journey to doing something different.” Possibly a reference to being left by a major sponsor. If so, he seems to have quite the knack for bumming out sponsors after relatively protracted relationships. He kind of seems like a twat.

I wonder if only fans approached Lewis or if he approached them. If only fans decided they wanted a mountain biker I’d bet they made offers to a lot of higher profile racers/youtubers and were declined before Lewis. No offence to Lewis.

Unless something has changed, Benoit is on Dorval. Not MucOff. Different teams

It was the Commencal '21 team manager. Muc-off pulled their sponsorship immediately and the team ended up dissolving after the 2021 season. Thats how Angel Suarez ended up on Commencal/100%.

Is Vali Holl not female?

Remember when each brand simply wanted the fastest racers, and Vital(littermag) would make the raddest slideshows about the World Cups that made you feel like you were actually there.. Simpler times perhaps, if only we knew how good we had it back then.

Truth be told: If people like Sam Pilgrim (social media clowns) would just vanish off the internet overnight, I wouldn't miss them. Not even a little. Kinda unfortunate that a guy this talented frequently resorts to putting out clickbait bullcrap.

Yep, it’s pretty common knowledge that Will Longden is ‘difficult’ to work with. There has been numerous near punch ups in their setup over the years.

Oh, jeez, yes indeed: https://www.facebook.com/ManaSalazar/ I hope she has all the support and help she needs.

The news item about this on PB features a comment section with Dave Trumpore licking some UCI boots. He's straight pumped about the potential to two high-quality downhill series. Little gaslighting by saying he's not going to be negative, so if you're at all skeptical or critical of the UCI's plans for downhill, you're just not as worldly as Trumpore. Another hot take from one of New England's own DH Bros.

this is the ESO's rodeo now. UCI just signing off the rule book.