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There have been talk about some dh specific tires so we might see a team on them soon.
As for the WTB tyres, he may well have just borrowed someone else's tyres for the prime Scottish conditions if he was travelling light. He's moving to a new team so wasn't too worried about riding some other tyres, and didn't expect the internet nerds to be zooming into the last pixel so see what knobs he's running.
Although if you really want your imagination to run wild, the Cannondale team use WTB, so they're obviously returning to DH with a new bike and a double lefty.And they've probably signed Gracia, Lopes and Myles Rockwell too.
By the way, I'm pumped to see how Mick does next year. He was so close to the top in 2013, shame he got hurt last year
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Might be okay for EWS, but there are a lot of locals and privateers trying themselves in these events and that makes them too hard. You more or less need to live for EWS to be able to train enough for a no lift assist enduro event. It's because of this (and people not having time and finances to do 2+ day events) that Slovenia got a 4-fun series in 2015. Single day events, where there's only one or two stages, riden many times, so you do the training or better yet trail scouting together with the racing itself.
Adding more riders would be difficult I think as there seem to be very limited places anywa, hence the lottery system they've put in place for 2016
"ll good things must come to an end. It’s with that bittersweet sentiment that we announce Jared Graves will be leaving the Yeti / Fox team at the end of 2015. After just over a decade of kicking ass on our bikes, all of us here at Yeti Cycles wish him the best future success.
It’s not an exaggeration to say Jared is one of the best bike racers of all time. He’s won world championship titles in 4x and enduro, competed in the Olympics in BMX, won a bronze medal in downhill at the World Championships (on a 6” bike even!), won an Australian national round or two in cross-country, and even beat up on unsuspecting roadies at local pro road races. He’s a machine in turquoise.
He was instrumental in the development of our most recognizable products: the 303 DH, 4x, SB66c, SB5c, and, most recently, the SB6c. When he wasn’t helping us develop products, he was helping us develop talent. Many of our best athletes have benefited from his guidance along the way, including the enormously talented current EWS World Champion, Richie Rude.
Thanks for the good times, Grubby. You’re going to another team, but we all know you still bleed turquoise."
Special Ed would surely tell you they had the invaluable help of Graves when designing their ultimate enduro mashing mashine, but it's just pure marketing BS.
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