any team rumours nonsense this year

Mo(n)arch · Jan 17, 2014

Yeah, bikes are excellent, so is the team too.
Great for them. They are doing things right :thumb:

http://www.yt-industries.com/de/bikes/new-tues-gravity-line/

yd35 · Jan 17, 2014

csermonet said:
pbike press release has yt stating that is the intention

I hope the kickass prices remain intact

jonKranked · Jan 17, 2014

Mo(n)arch said:
That dude still surprises me in not being able to keep his frame sponsors...
Or YT is planing to get in the american market.

part of me secretly think cam has a secret goal of being sponsored by as many frame companies as possible during his career. :rofl:

what's the list standing at now?

Mo(n)arch · Jan 17, 2014

Haha, yes, mabe it's that

So let's start the listing:

Felt bikes
Corsair
Evil (still on a Corsair Slopestyle bike)
Hyper (still on a Corsair Slopestyle bike until last year's Crankworx)
YT

What was before that?

I hope the kickass prices remain intact

Prices for next year's Tues vary between 3.200€ and 2.200€.
That raw and green frames are reallyreally good looking :think:

jonKranked · Jan 17, 2014

i know he had at least 1 or 2 sponsors prior to felt, drawing a blank though.

jonKranked · Jan 17, 2014

he placed 7th in the '04 rampage.... if someone has shots or footage from back then we could probably figure it out

Dogboy · Jan 17, 2014

jonKranked said:
i know he had at least 1 or 2 sponsors prior to felt, drawing a blank though.

Syndicate.

jonKranked · Jan 17, 2014

Dogboy said:
Syndicate.

i knew it was one of the larger sponsors, but that wasn't one that crossed my mind.

thom9719 · Jan 17, 2014

Haro.

trib · Jan 17, 2014

He was an original on the Syndicate with Kirt Voreis.

I don't mind people changing sponsors, especially if it allows them to get a better standard of life for risking their necks day in day out.

however the endless. "I'm so glad to be on _________, they're the best bikes and the team is the best in the game" is unbearable.

SuspectDevice · Jan 17, 2014

jonKranked said:
i know he had at least 1 or 2 sponsors prior to felt, drawing a blank though.

Kid was on The Syndicate for a coupla years.

mattmatt86 · Jan 17, 2014

He won Crankworx on a Haro one year, it was in one of the NWD movies. Fun fact, for a period of time I owned Cam's Santa Cruz Chameleon, back when Diety had just popped up and White bikes were all the rage. Even as he was trying to sell me the bike he couldn't help but talk about how crappy of a company it was

atrokz · Jan 17, 2014

Diety or SC? I can totally understand the former.

mattmatt86 · Jan 17, 2014

atrokz said:
Diety or SC? I can totally understand the former.

Neither. I was making a bad joke about him talking Sh!t about all his former sponsors.

atrokz · Jan 17, 2014

mattmatt86 said:
Neither. I was making a bad joke about him talking Sh!t about all his former sponsors.

Gotcha.

I now await negative props because I bashed someone's favorite crappy clone 3 pc chromo crank company. The 5 C's.

richardbigman · Jan 17, 2014

http://www.vitalmtb.com/news/press-release/Team-W-Racing-Joins-hlins-Suspension-and-Specialized-Bicycles,946?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=spotlight

Ohlins testing dampers in a Suntour chassis???

trib · Jan 18, 2014

Biggest team transfer news you're likely to hear this year:

Real American hero Charlie Sponsel has made the departure from DH sponsor Diamondback to ride Enduro for Felt.

Shame he didn't make it on a worlds DH level, would be refreshing to have someone who calls people's bull**** on a larger stage.

Verskis · Jan 18, 2014

richardbigman said:
Ohlins testing dampers in a Suntour chassis???

That is an X Fusion fork.

trib · Jan 18, 2014

The better news there is that the Wallners have a proper frame sponsor again, it wasn't pretty seeing them on Da Bomb frames last year

demo 9 · Jan 18, 2014

trib said:
Biggest team transfer news you're likely to hear this year:

Real American hero Charlie Sponsel has made the departure from DH sponsor Diamondback to ride Enduro for Felt.

Shame he didn't make it on a worlds DH level, would be refreshing to have someone who calls people's bull**** on a larger stage.

never really heard of the fellow? Is he a good rider? (roots and rain wasnt that impressive)

tabletop84 · Jan 18, 2014

sometimes he's funny: http://theteamrobot.blogspot.de/

ritche · Jan 19, 2014

biggest team transfer of all, fox racing shox, mtb to transfer to taiwan, 2014-2015.

OBB · Jan 19, 2014

ritche said:
biggest team transfer of all, fox racing shox, mtb to transfer to taiwan, 2014-2015.

That doesn't even make sense. Do you know what you're talking about?

bikerpunk98199 · Jan 19, 2014

demo 9 said:
never really heard of the fellow? Is he a good rider? (roots and rain wasnt that impressive)

You live on the wrong coast to know him. He probably even wrote a blog piece about you.

boogenman · Jan 19, 2014

Sink was with the syndicate back in 2003, 2004 and maybe 2005? then haro.
I had the pleasure of walking down half of the track at snowshoe with him when both of our bikes were so caked with mud they wouldn't roll no matter how steep the hill was.

gnarbar · Jan 19, 2014

supercow said:
Pretty sure it means Gwin is a decent human being, who visits someone who he's close to when they are in the hospital with serious medical issues.

^ Good judge of character right there.

TGR · Jan 20, 2014

apparently cole will be on commencal...

schwaaa31 · Jan 20, 2014

IMO, this is beyond lame. Does this mean no DH for Rude this year? Just trenduro for him? Its a shame to see a company with as deep of DH roots go this route.
http://www.pinkbike.com/news/Yeti-Cycles-Going-Full-Enduro-For-2014.html

trib · Jan 20, 2014

Graves is drinking up all the Yeti DH money. Would be a real shame for Yeti to lose Graves, but an even bigger shame that yeti are losing their DH presence.

Sucks for Rude too, surprised he went to Enduro - I wonder if he looked for other DH sponsors?

'size · Jan 20, 2014

schwaaa31 said:
IMO, this is beyond lame. Does this mean no DH for Rude this year? Just trenduro for him? Its a shame to see a company with as deep of DH roots go this route.
http://www.pinkbike.com/news/Yeti-Cycles-Going-Full-Enduro-For-2014.html

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jtpentecost on pinkbike said:
We gave Richie a few choices, and he chose to focus solely on enduro for this season. Who knows what the future will bring, but I for one am excited to see a young guy with that much horsepower take on the best enduro racers in the world. Can't wait for the 2014 EWS to start!!

demo 9 · Jan 20, 2014

Rude is an animal, probably could win the tour de france with those legs

SuspectDevice · Jan 20, 2014

Notice the Yeti PR says Yeti not Yeti-Fox like the last few years?

RayB · Jan 20, 2014

Graves to the higher-ups after this past season: "Pay me."

IH8Rice · Jan 20, 2014

usually when their dh riders do well, they move on...gwin, cole, blenki..

'size · Jan 20, 2014

RayB said:
Graves to the higher-ups after this past season: "Pay me."

and yeti to themselves, "how can we sell more bikes, and which bikes are we most likely to sell?"

trail/enduro is the market ($) these days, makes perfect sense to focus your race program there.

Mo(n)arch · Jan 21, 2014

trib said:
The better news there is that the Wallners have a proper frame sponsor again, it wasn't pretty seeing them on Da Bomb frames last year

Meh, chainstays too short.

jonKranked · Jan 21, 2014

trib said:
Graves is drinking up all the Yeti DH money. Would be a real shame for Yeti to lose Graves, but an even bigger shame that yeti are losing their DH presence.

Sucks for Rude too, surprised he went to Enduro - I wonder if he looked for other DH sponsors?

yeti has been really good to him since he joined them. and richie has a really diverse riding & racing background, he used to race BMX, and did pretty good from what i've heard.

that being said, you gotta read between the lines in the PR speak. They said they are focusing on enduro. They did not say they are focusing solely on enduro. Which doesn't preclude an appearance at a DH event, if the scheduling works in its favor I reckon.

Mo(n)arch · Jan 21, 2014

Well Jon, they have:

For the 2014 racing season, Yeti Cycles will focus their international race efforts solely on the Enduro World Series with a fully supported team that includes 2013 EWS 2nd Place Overall and DH World Championship Bronze medalist Jared Graves and 2013 Junior DH World Champion Richie Rude.

Sad but true.

jonKranked · Jan 21, 2014

Mo(n)arch said:
Well Jon, they have:

Sad but true.

too early, not enough coffee.

also. it says international race efforts.

Dogboy · Jan 21, 2014

jonKranked said:
that being said, you gotta read between the lines in the PR speak. They said they are focusing on enduro. They did not say they are focusing solely on enduro. Which doesn't preclude an appearance at a DH event, if the scheduling works in its favor I reckon.

Yes, Graves has already said he's racing the Cairns World Cup and on a DH bike.

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