2025 Team Rumors

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Mwood
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1/9/2025 5:33pm Edited Date/Time 1/9/2025 5:33pm
Enough about belts. My pants ain't falling down. Trek is very much not spending what they had the previous years and coming in with only 3 younger...

Enough about belts. My pants ain't falling down. 

Trek is very much not spending what they had the previous years and coming in with only 3 younger riders is a bit risky with the new points system... But! What if they called up the father, the son and the Holy Gwin to come take their team to the promise land!

There's some chatter about there being a prototype session and we know Gwin loves to product develop.

And with an uptick in American soil races this year withe monster energy events having an American rider to possibly race those alongside world cups and get folks stoked on your new bike with captain America piloting the bike some easy marketing 

Rumours baby!

Dak was getting LIVELY on the B team podcast about not spilling beans on who the new Trek rider going to be. I didn't care, until I did. 

Got to be someone close to Dak for him to care so much.....

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adamdigby
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1/9/2025 5:43pm Edited Date/Time 1/9/2025 5:46pm
Enough about belts. My pants ain't falling down. Trek is very much not spending what they had the previous years and coming in with only 3 younger...

Enough about belts. My pants ain't falling down. 

Trek is very much not spending what they had the previous years and coming in with only 3 younger riders is a bit risky with the new points system... But! What if they called up the father, the son and the Holy Gwin to come take their team to the promise land!

There's some chatter about there being a prototype session and we know Gwin loves to product develop.

And with an uptick in American soil races this year withe monster energy events having an American rider to possibly race those alongside world cups and get folks stoked on your new bike with captain America piloting the bike some easy marketing 

Rumours baby!

chriskief wrote:
This is almost as good as Dan Atherton coming back to chase the belt cash bag.Excellent try for the most ridiculous rumor award. I applaud you...

This is almost as good as Dan Atherton coming back to chase the belt cash bag.

Excellent try for the most ridiculous rumor award. I applaud you sir.

Aaron finished 12th at Mt St Anne on a body, bike, and suspension parts he hadn’t had much time on after nearly two years off DH bikes because of injury. It was wet weather for the race and he had semi-finaled 7th so I think he very much has the speed and ability to return to top step with a solid off season of weights and bike time dialing everything in for his team. He said he wasn’t back 100% and had a lot to do to be where he wants and still pulled an incredible result. I don’t see any validity to Aaron ending Gwin Racing with Crestline but I can’t abide reading anything hinting at him not being capable of a top performance.*Disclaimer I might be the biggest Aaron fanboy there is.

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adamdigby
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1/9/2025 5:47pm
Enough about belts. My pants ain't falling down. Trek is very much not spending what they had the previous years and coming in with only 3 younger...

Enough about belts. My pants ain't falling down. 

Trek is very much not spending what they had the previous years and coming in with only 3 younger riders is a bit risky with the new points system... But! What if they called up the father, the son and the Holy Gwin to come take their team to the promise land!

There's some chatter about there being a prototype session and we know Gwin loves to product develop.

And with an uptick in American soil races this year withe monster energy events having an American rider to possibly race those alongside world cups and get folks stoked on your new bike with captain America piloting the bike some easy marketing 

Rumours baby!

Mwood wrote:
Dak was getting LIVELY on the B team podcast about not spilling beans on who the new Trek rider going to be. I didn't care, until...

Dak was getting LIVELY on the B team podcast about not spilling beans on who the new Trek rider going to be. I didn't care, until I did. 

Got to be someone close to Dak for him to care so much.....

His buddy he frequently is excited for on the podcast, Lachlan Stevens-McNabb.

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Eisma
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1/9/2025 5:56pm
adamdigby wrote:

His buddy he frequently is excited for on the podcast, Lachlan Stevens-McNabb.

True, but IIRC they already had him confirmed to Trek and then Dak had an additional (or two) people

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tstep
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1/9/2025 9:58pm Edited Date/Time 1/9/2025 9:58pm
adamdigby wrote:

His buddy he frequently is excited for on the podcast, Lachlan Stevens-McNabb.

Eisma wrote:

True, but IIRC they already had him confirmed to Trek and then Dak had an additional (or two) people

Everyone should be excited for the new trek rider.

We didn’t talk about this on the podcast, but there’s a previous World Cup podium contender switching to enduro as well 

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mnp6
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1/9/2025 11:45pm
Enough about belts. My pants ain't falling down. Trek is very much not spending what they had the previous years and coming in with only 3 younger...

Enough about belts. My pants ain't falling down. 

Trek is very much not spending what they had the previous years and coming in with only 3 younger riders is a bit risky with the new points system... But! What if they called up the father, the son and the Holy Gwin to come take their team to the promise land!

There's some chatter about there being a prototype session and we know Gwin loves to product develop.

And with an uptick in American soil races this year withe monster energy events having an American rider to possibly race those alongside world cups and get folks stoked on your new bike with captain America piloting the bike some easy marketing 

Rumours baby!

Aaron just bought into Crestline bikes. Don't think he's going back to race for Trek at this point. Also, Gwin would still want/command a large salary given...

Aaron just bought into Crestline bikes. Don't think he's going back to race for Trek at this point. 
Also, Gwin would still want/command a large salary given his recent lack of results and Trek is clearly cutting costs where ever it can with it's race teams. So double no. 

To add fuel to this fire, I would not be so sure Aaron will continue with Crestline bikes. Just because he recently bought in doesn’t mean he needs to stay with them. Trailhead chats I’ve had indicate a different team for him this season, but nothing confirmed, just some question marks as of earlier this winter.

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Karabuka
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1/10/2025 12:34am
Reece Wilson must have put together a few bigish names in order to get the points to go racing . Interested to see who else is...

Reece Wilson must have put together a few bigish names in order to get the points to go racing . Interested to see who else is on that team .

Actuaaaaly, if you check aonracng on instagram profile they only follow 24 profiles, obvious ones like pb/vital/uci/gamux/manitou/hayes/ gates/reece/sleeper/... but there is also an interesting one in the form of "kdrajd", Slovenian club run by the same people who have been behind the Unior racing in all of its iterations since day 1. This is also a team Reece also used to be a part of. And considering mention of Uk-Switzerland-Slovenia rumors that makes a lot of sense.

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1/10/2025 1:35am
Reece Wilson must have put together a few bigish names in order to get the points to go racing . Interested to see who else is...

Reece Wilson must have put together a few bigish names in order to get the points to go racing . Interested to see who else is on that team .

Karabuka wrote:
Actuaaaaly, if you check aonracng on instagram profile they only follow 24 profiles, obvious ones like pb/vital/uci/gamux/manitou/hayes/ gates/reece/sleeper/... but there is also an interesting one in...

Actuaaaaly, if you check aonracng on instagram profile they only follow 24 profiles, obvious ones like pb/vital/uci/gamux/manitou/hayes/ gates/reece/sleeper/... but there is also an interesting one in the form of "kdrajd", Slovenian club run by the same people who have been behind the Unior racing in all of its iterations since day 1. This is also a team Reece also used to be a part of. And considering mention of Uk-Switzerland-Slovenia rumors that makes a lot of sense.

yes, I read somewhere that the leftover from Unior-Sinter is part of the team

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1/10/2025 1:54am

Rachel Atherton in an Evie Richards IG post from a Red Bull training camp would suggest she might be racing?

I think she is on a mission to win a World cup race once again, and snatch 100K in the process... It would be great to help with some house renovating expenses haha.

And I believe she will achieve it also

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1/10/2025 2:23am

Is Charlie Harrison  coming back to world cups?

good guess... has been on a wc podium a few times. Maybe on Ari Factory Racing?

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1/10/2025 2:26am
Reece Wilson must have put together a few bigish names in order to get the points to go racing . Interested to see who else is...

Reece Wilson must have put together a few bigish names in order to get the points to go racing . Interested to see who else is on that team .

Karabuka wrote:
Actuaaaaly, if you check aonracng on instagram profile they only follow 24 profiles, obvious ones like pb/vital/uci/gamux/manitou/hayes/ gates/reece/sleeper/... but there is also an interesting one in...

Actuaaaaly, if you check aonracng on instagram profile they only follow 24 profiles, obvious ones like pb/vital/uci/gamux/manitou/hayes/ gates/reece/sleeper/... but there is also an interesting one in the form of "kdrajd", Slovenian club run by the same people who have been behind the Unior racing in all of its iterations since day 1. This is also a team Reece also used to be a part of. And considering mention of Uk-Switzerland-Slovenia rumors that makes a lot of sense.

Jamie Edmondson is still not signed, right?

He could be a great asset to a starting team, UK based and plenty of speed on tap.

 

Also, my fellow spaniard Dani Castellanos would be fire for a team like AON. Young, fast and great with social media... Haha Reece I know you read this, make it happen please!

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tripo19
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1/10/2025 4:07am
brash wrote:
Using my brain (dangerous I know)Who has half a shot at winning a race on a belt, I'm thinking Charlie Hatton and Reece Wilson are the...

Using my brain (dangerous I know)

Who has half a shot at winning a race on a belt, I'm thinking Charlie Hatton and Reece Wilson are the best bets if Atherton/Gamux thing is confirmed. Anyone I'm missing?

Statistically, most wins come from past winners, with majority not on belt bikes this year. Charlie won worlds, and I think Reece was snowshoe. 

Charlie won worlds at home and rain, I mean he's a talented rider, but after that win he hasn't showed the same pace as the first 5 guys...

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1/10/2025 4:09am
brash wrote:
Using my brain (dangerous I know)Who has half a shot at winning a race on a belt, I'm thinking Charlie Hatton and Reece Wilson are the...

Using my brain (dangerous I know)

Who has half a shot at winning a race on a belt, I'm thinking Charlie Hatton and Reece Wilson are the best bets if Atherton/Gamux thing is confirmed. Anyone I'm missing?

Statistically, most wins come from past winners, with majority not on belt bikes this year. Charlie won worlds, and I think Reece was snowshoe. 

tripo19 wrote:
Charlie won worlds at home and rain, I mean he's a talented rider, but after that win he hasn't showed the same pace as the first...

Charlie won worlds at home and rain, I mean he's a talented rider, but after that win he hasn't showed the same pace as the first 5 guys...

Curse of the Rainbow jersey?

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jofish
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1/10/2025 4:21am

Any news on the the Madison/Saracen lads? Wouldn’t be shocked to see Greg Williamson on a Gamux with Reece, he had some good points from last year. Haven’t heard anything about Matt Walker though?

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tripo19
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1/10/2025 4:21am
brash wrote:
Using my brain (dangerous I know)Who has half a shot at winning a race on a belt, I'm thinking Charlie Hatton and Reece Wilson are the...

Using my brain (dangerous I know)

Who has half a shot at winning a race on a belt, I'm thinking Charlie Hatton and Reece Wilson are the best bets if Atherton/Gamux thing is confirmed. Anyone I'm missing?

Statistically, most wins come from past winners, with majority not on belt bikes this year. Charlie won worlds, and I think Reece was snowshoe. 

tripo19 wrote:
Charlie won worlds at home and rain, I mean he's a talented rider, but after that win he hasn't showed the same pace as the first...

Charlie won worlds at home and rain, I mean he's a talented rider, but after that win he hasn't showed the same pace as the first 5 guys...

dirkpitt74 wrote:

Curse of the Rainbow jersey?

exactly, Fort william 2023. 

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rEs
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1/10/2025 4:23am Edited Date/Time 1/10/2025 4:23am
brash wrote:
Using my brain (dangerous I know)Who has half a shot at winning a race on a belt, I'm thinking Charlie Hatton and Reece Wilson are the...

Using my brain (dangerous I know)

Who has half a shot at winning a race on a belt, I'm thinking Charlie Hatton and Reece Wilson are the best bets if Atherton/Gamux thing is confirmed. Anyone I'm missing?

Statistically, most wins come from past winners, with majority not on belt bikes this year. Charlie won worlds, and I think Reece was snowshoe. 

tripo19 wrote:
Charlie won worlds at home and rain, I mean he's a talented rider, but after that win he hasn't showed the same pace as the first...

Charlie won worlds at home and rain, I mean he's a talented rider, but after that win he hasn't showed the same pace as the first 5 guys...

dirkpitt74 wrote:

Curse of the Rainbow jersey?

Injury (was on broadcast in a arm cast?)

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oliewood
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1/10/2025 5:37am
jofish wrote:
Any news on the the Madison/Saracen lads? Wouldn’t be shocked to see Greg Williamson on a Gamux with Reece, he had some good points from last...

Any news on the the Madison/Saracen lads? Wouldn’t be shocked to see Greg Williamson on a Gamux with Reece, he had some good points from last year. Haven’t heard anything about Matt Walker though?

Matt to Trek Factory Racing. Just waiting for the press release

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jofish
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1/10/2025 5:58am

That would be sweet. That guy just doesn’t get the recognition he deserves. Hopefully he gets more media coverage on trek. 

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hwizzle32
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1/10/2025 6:27am

Is Charlie Harrison  coming back to world cups?

He has been riding a nice ARI enduro bike lately

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Savdog1
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1/10/2025 7:11am
brash wrote:
Using my brain (dangerous I know)Who has half a shot at winning a race on a belt, I'm thinking Charlie Hatton and Reece Wilson are the...

Using my brain (dangerous I know)

Who has half a shot at winning a race on a belt, I'm thinking Charlie Hatton and Reece Wilson are the best bets if Atherton/Gamux thing is confirmed. Anyone I'm missing?

Statistically, most wins come from past winners, with majority not on belt bikes this year. Charlie won worlds, and I think Reece was snowshoe. 

tripo19 wrote:
Charlie won worlds at home and rain, I mean he's a talented rider, but after that win he hasn't showed the same pace as the first...

Charlie won worlds at home and rain, I mean he's a talented rider, but after that win he hasn't showed the same pace as the first 5 guys...

I think he was just lucky 

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dolface
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1/10/2025 7:33am
Endurhevia wrote:
Loose dog to the big S???

Loose dog to the big S???IMG 0038.png?VersionId=

DH jib bike? I don't see a rear brake hose and that wheel looks small...

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