Commencal/100% Race Team Disbands After 9 Years

 Exactly, they are the largest presence in the paddock. They are scaling down not getting out of racing.

 Commencal good and smart/ Specialized evil and greedy.
Lol.

 My spider senses thinking this will just be a rename in 2023 of sorts. Same riders.

 There's 99 now I think

 Someone told me that the Commencal riders have to buy their own bikes at 20% off list price.

 @jaame: it would an interesting cost and expense spreadsheet experiment to guesstimate the fully loaded privateer rider event participation expenses for maybe 2 EWS locations. I wonder what that budget estimate would look like?

 no we have to yell inflation isn't real and corporate companies bad, you know, standard npc crap

 @SnowshoeRider4Life: THE PUTIN PRICE HIKE AND GREEDY COMPANIES ARE AT FAULT
OUR COOKED CPI NUMBERS SHOW A SLIGHTLY LOWER YoY INFLATION, INFLATION IS OVER!!!
STRONG ECONOMY
COMPANIES...DO THE RIGHT THING!!!

 @Bro-LanDog: juice ain't worth the squeeze.

frix frix has one of the best tabes in the game and deserves a new team.

 @SnowshoeRider4Life: *transitory lol

 @SnowshoeRider4Life: Birds aren't real!

 @Bro-LanDog: 1) The original comment was about increased fees and mentioned nothing about corporations. The response was a political hit about inflation. 2) Most on Pinkbike agree that corporations are bad and inflation isn't the cause of the bike industry as much as Covid artificially inflated bike purchases for 2 years. I work for a corporation and we are getting smoked by small independent companies that value customers. Corporations created inflation to prop up profits. Corporations shut down manufacturing plants to artificially increase prices. Also, Oil companies kept prices inflated until after midterms in the US so that the liberals would get squeezed out as corporations favor conservative run governments. If this isn't true, why did gas prices go down right after the US elections? It is all money related. Corporations don't see people, they see ebitda. Private companies see people. I have lived through it. There is no evil intent. It's just the complete extraction of emotions.

 @mexicant: Sorry but corporations didn't "invent" inflation, its been around since ancient times the concept of inflation. Most of the inflation today is caused by government printing fiat money at rates never before seen in history! price inflation has been caused by all this new money in the market and demand spiking. If anything Government caused this inflation as a tax on the middle class. Read some econ books Speculators cause oils prices to spike and no its not because they only want conservative governments. Historically it doesn't matter who is in office prices of oil swings on speculation. I get the whole all big corps are evil trope but it isn't the boogeyman that most people want to believe it is.

 @VicSandrin: you get it.

 @VicSandrin: Government doesn't print

Government doesn't print money at least not here in the USA. only the federal reserve can print money. and federal reserve is as federal as fedex is. It was given to the banks during the Great Depression in exchange for the banks to bail the country out which they artificially caused themselves to get their hands on the federal reserve. Then they sold off all the gold the money represented. and just printed money as needed, Thats what causes inflation. where there isn't any gold to back up the money. Hence the term the gold standard. There is no longer a gold standard. The inflation so to seek we seen the past few years was all artificially made up by the greed first from oil companies after the shutdown then other corporations riding the wave the oil companies created. When we have true inflation from printing money which causes the value of the dollar to go down and then you need more dollars to get back to the value you had before the dollar looses its value against other currencies. that has not happened. so no true inflation happened here. It was just greed. there is a reason wall street claimed the biggest profit margins in history these past two years. If the value of the dollar went down that wouldn't be the case.

 @consularship: you from Pittsburgh by chance?

 @Diesel2007: you truly believe the value of the dollar hasn't gone done? LOL

 MIllie and Angel had both already announced at the end of last year that they were leaving the team, so I'm not sure why Ed makes it sound like they are suddenly without a plan.

 Mille already has a new team, announcement is just around the corner according to her Instagram story

 @i-like-toytles: It's the drama

 @Tandaman: I dont know… Im pretty deep into finance, and I will say, big companies are going to really need to cut back to survive this one out. Its going to be a very long, and rough ride for them. Unfortunately, for a majority of the world, things will begin to look worse than 2008.

 @chillrider199: Worse than 2008? Yikes. No economy ‘soft landing’ for 2023 then. Gonna wait till 2024 to get that Yeti frame at 40% discount. Lol

 @chillrider199: do you have “7 Moves to make right now”?

 @Law-MTB: Id give it middle of this year haha. But yeah, no soft landing as promised.

 @chillrider199: the era of free $ was quite the ride!

 @samdeatley: "The banks hate him for this one simple trick"

 I'm rolling the dice..........reserved my hotel room for Snowshoe 2023....

 It was 100% a Commencal team.

 @i-like-toytles: badum tsssssss

 top 30 only make qualifications and the final....don't need as many riders anymore.... It'll be interesting to see how many privateer riders throw in the towel, as there's little point in racing with negligible support or even prize money which DIDN'T increase along with the Entry Fees. Oh WC downhill, you're not looking so good right now.....

 oh it leaves them plenty time, from now to the first race is longer than most „normal“ off seasons…sad

 @skintightleather: fair point… June, right? Still though some annual budgets are already closed etc etc.

 If by IHSR you mean "Internal HeadSeat Routing", well, this bike doesn't have it...

 @Voxran: was referring to the tempo. Most teams don't race to sell DH bikes...