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Jill and Bryn
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Whats with GT dumping all of their good riders, do they have a trick up their sleeve? First Lopes and now this... Not impressive.
Maybe Sam wants a Carbon bike......... Yes I had to go there, the door was wide open.:biggrin:
Why did GT even have a mtb race team to begin with.......who even buys GT bikes nowadays....?....
People at Walmart who liked the GT color better than the NEXT color.
I just read that on Jill's blog and was about to post it up.
She won an Olympic medal which is huge and they drop her? From a marketing sense dropping her is dumb. They should have built and entire ad campaign around her and Mike Day at BMX tracks around the county and shops that carry BMX bikes. Imagine the number of girls that would love to ride what Jill rides. I guess GT really doesn't care about equity in their brand.
Maybe Mike Day is next?
She won an Olympic medal which is huge and they drop her? From a marketing sense dropping her is dumb. They should have built and entire ad campaign around her and Mike Day at BMX tracks around the county and shops that carry BMX bikes. Imagine the number of girls that would love to ride what Jill rides. I guess GT really doesn't care about equity in their brand.
Maybe Mike Day is next?
Another angle....perhaps Jill and Bryn come as a package and GT didn't want to support a mid pack DH'er.
Yeah, not sure I understand the move of dropping Kintner and Bryn either. Quite surprised by it actually, as they are/were very good ambassadors to the brand. However, given the current economic conditions in the US right now, I'm not surprised that any company is cutting back on all fronts.
I can agree with that, if you're not representing like Sam, Greg or Peaty, it may not be financially worth it to companies (especially the big ones), so they will be cutting back some of their race promotions.
I know. I just thought it would be funny to say!!!!
bummer that sux... oh well... on to better things!!! Goodluck jill and bryn
Hard to say what's going on. Both the XC guys are going over to specialized also.
As far as the BMX they still have plenty of fire power there.
As far as the BMX they still have plenty of fire power there.
Well it's gotta be said, we still don't know for sure that Sam is going to Specialized do we? GT certainly have the money if they wanted to play ball.... that'd be awesome, although it would mean that suddenly every monkey would have an iDrive DH bike, I'd rather keep it a relatively unknown secret!
is it official that Sam and Brendog are on specialized?
not sure the reasoning... i agree, i though bryn & jill were great ambassadors for the brand. granted, jill didn't have much competition out ther, she was still rolling victory billboard for the brand. & with bryn. he's still a great rider! these past couple of years have been up & down for him. but he's such a great personality, i wouldn't care how well he did, he represents the brands & sport tremendously. he can still be a top 10 caliber rider, just needs to resort a few things & he'll be ripping it up again.
but GT will still have racers. they've been actively looking for gravity racers... but i thought it was to make a more powerful team, not to replace riders. should be exciting/interesting to see who they pick up!
but GT will still have racers. they've been actively looking for gravity racers... but i thought it was to make a more powerful team, not to replace riders. should be exciting/interesting to see who they pick up!
the official announcement...whatever team it may be
is apparently suppose to be at Interbike, so officially i guess it'll be next week
http://gtcatchandrelease.com/
This is their grassroots program. Not sure of the details - just heard about it today.
Bummer about Bryn and Jill though. They seem like great representatives.
Stupid Pacific. Next thing will be EC getting booted from Mongoose...
on the other hand 23 degrees and Trek are heading up new team.
i heard it was to have a 1.2m budget (edit, thats probably not that much for a whole teams expenses)
"grass roots" just means they can sell direct to consumers/amateurs and still make the same amount of money per frame as they would if they went through a distributor or local shop.
all this talk of downhilling "hitting the big time" is bad news. it just means there is no loyalty except to that of the dollar. whoever has the most money flying about can buy whomever they want.
downhilling/gravity biking isn't a commodity, it's a way of life and that's how it will remain to those who actually give a sh!t about it.
Well it depends if they run a grassroots program like they did in the 90s that would mean hooking ams up with free rigs. GT was probably the biggest company for this back in the day.©2001;3055292 said:
GT only wants to live out their destiny by having their bikes only available at high quality places like walmart, target, dicks, rei, etc....
GT is getting Peaty back. It's that simple!
Stupid Cannondale.
And it worked out for them quite well.
Spec rep told me a couple weeks ago that Hill has already signed a contract.
It worked for them just fine. They had every racer out there drooling over Zaskars and LTS. Just because the people that bought them drove it into the ground has nothing to do with what happened previous to that.And it worked out for them quite well.
It would be amazing.....Back to old days.
About new teams annoucements...after Interbike or Red Bull Rampage ?????