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Ricco'

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glassmoon said:
for over a half year at least... there were no secrets about that unlike the teams' signings ;)
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I've been competely out of the loop regarding MTB for the past year.

Have just found out that Nino Schurter and Malene Degn are now a couple, that surprised me the most.

No more Nino & Nina and Malene and Loic Bruni I guess (although I think the latter breakup happened a long time ago).
 
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Ricco' said:
I've been competely out of the loop regarding MTB for the past year.

Have just found out that Nino Schurter and Malene Degn are now a couple, that surprised me the most.

No more Nino & Nina and Malene and Loic Bruni I guess (although I think the latter breakup happened a long time ago).
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well... Nino and Nina separated back in early 2023 I believe... but I also didn't know that until recently as I rarely pay any attention to such stuff... I only knew about Jenny and Simon because it was pretty obvious from Jenny's Instagram which I have been occasionally visiting since she vanished from the WC few years ago and I wanted to know how is she doing and hope she'll come back eventually.
 
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Back to "transfers", Kate Courtney will ride with her foundation name on her jersey, riding her own program.

Rumor have her riding with Allied Bikes next season.
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I also heard that she was riding with the Atherton crew so maybe they are going to make an XC bike? Its also possible that they all just hooked up for a winter ride together.

EDIT: nothing on their site...yet:
alliedcycleworks.com

MTB Trail Racing Bike - BC40 - Allied Cycle Works

Inspired by the finest singletrack in America. Premium singletrack performance, made for flying up climbs, racing on descents, and getting rowdy on flow trails. Speed. Party. One bike.
alliedcycleworks.com alliedcycleworks.com
 
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yeah... she was rumored to be in cahoots with them and even to bump up gravel racing in US for them (as it was their main portfolio till now). let's see... she showed a promising return to previous form during this season and it would be shame to not continue.
she was/is also a redbull sponsored rider so i'd say they would like to see her to continue on international stage
 
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Axel Hangleck said:
Yeah, it constantly boggles the mind, waiting until the team presentation to unveil new riders.
Announce the riders before the team presentation - that's how the Road teams do it........

All this secrecy/ dropping hints in mystical social media posts isn't smart, or even clever........it's actually just poor PR.
I even saw a comment from Kate thanking a rider for not mentioning what she was riding - it's January.....it should have been announced.
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We need a public pressure campaign to get MTB to figure this out! It is silly. It is the new year, the riders are on their new contract year. Why be so silly?

As you say, it is actually a negative PR move and just looks amateurish
 
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Axel Hangleck said:
Kate is revealing her sponsors one by one; first Rivian, now Rapha.......
I know on the other forum people think she's playing it cool, clever and winning the PR battle - but I'm not sure......
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In October I read that Rivian was broke, bleeding money, and had no replacement parts for its vehicles. I guess if they pay her, none of that is her concern.

A quick Google AI search supports that: losing money, burning cash, stock down, but assistance from VW (another struggling company, but bigger).
 
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Wins for Tamara Wiedmann (Mondraker Factory Racing) ahead of Bec Henderson & Jolanda Neff. In the men's it was Sam Gaze (Alpecin-Deceuninck) followed by Max Brandl, and David Valero Serrano. Gaze put in an attack his team mate would be proud of - and seems to be now using a dropper post.

Another big weekend of racing in Spain, with Chelva Internacionales race. Trek-Pirelli will be there, and Specialized as well, as Koreztky has won there numerous times.
 
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Chelva HC race in Spain this weekend; and no live stream of the Elite races........I never fail to understand the people running this sport. It's 2025, it's a HC race.......What are they doing???

The sport doesn't help itself at times.......
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Albert Withen Philipsen was leading the U23 race somewhat comfortably, but then I presumed crashed and never posted a time again, resulting in a DNF. Sad.
 
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We know Philipsen has the engine, and was obviously beating a lot of decent riders - no idea what happened; if it was a crash, then there's work to be done on the technical side.

Some of the results of the racing;

www.xcodata.com

Internacionales Chelva + UCI XCO Junior Series (HC) - Chelva | XCODATA

Internacionales Chelva + UCI XCO Junior Series - Chelva is a mountainbike race in the UCI HC category, held on 15 - 16 Feb 2025 in Chelva (ESP).
www.xcodata.com www.xcodata.com

It is interesting to see the U23 women's race with some from the CX Worlds racing so soon on the MTB; and a different result, with Lopez de San Roman beating Spesna and Maclean-Howell, in her first race with Trinity.

Similarly, Rissveds won her first race for Canyon-CLLCTV.

The men's was won by Charlie Aldridge for Cannondale; I expect big things from him this season, I wonder if a first World Cup win is possible.
 
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Axel Hangleck said:
We know Philipsen has the engine, and was obviously beating a lot of decent riders - no idea what happened; if it was a crash, then there's work to be done on the technical side.

Some of the results of the racing;

www.xcodata.com

Internacionales Chelva + UCI XCO Junior Series (HC) - Chelva | XCODATA

Internacionales Chelva + UCI XCO Junior Series - Chelva is a mountainbike race in the UCI HC category, held on 15 - 16 Feb 2025 in Chelva (ESP).
www.xcodata.com www.xcodata.com

It is interesting to see the U23 women's race with some from the CX Worlds racing so soon on the MTB; and a different result, with Lopez de San Roman beating Spesna and Maclean-Howell, in her first race with Trinity.

Similarly, Rissveds won her first race for Canyon-CLLCTV.

The men's was won by Charlie Aldridge for Cannondale; I expect big things from him this season, I wonder if a first World Cup win is possible.
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Big gap from Jenny to the rest! nice to see Jolanda getting some early season races in her legs (this is what, # 2 or #3?)

Cannondale with 1st, 4th and 10th. Not too shabby!!
 
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