Reece Wilson Officially Re-Signs With Trek Factory Racing

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Samuel-L-Jackson (Nov 18, 2020 at 4:19)

Thank you for opting to use the hyphen PB. The English language is rather entertaining, much like the country from which it originates. As the word resign is an auto-antonym, or if you prefer, a contronym, much confusion would have ensued from reading the headline then proceeding to peruse (also continue) the article. Fortunately, your readers are such fastidious creatures. Other examples of such magnificent poetic words are oversight, impregnable, apology, handicap and my personal favourite, bill.

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mi-bike (Nov 18, 2020 at 5:25)

Interesting. As for the hyphen, this is not really needed to understand the headline as the preposition "with" gives away the correct meaning. Had he quit, he would have resigned "from" Trek.

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Samuel-L-Jackson (Nov 18, 2020 at 5:47)

@mi-bike: That may be so and my a say how very studious of you to make this observation. It is, however, inconsequential, as your suggestion still leaves room for misinterpretation. The less astute reader may well assume that in fact BOTH Reece Wilson and Trek Factory have resigned (perhaps from the World Cup circuit). I thought your objection, good sir, would be to the real crime here, staring us in our collective face - there is no closing quotation mark in the first paragraph! Are we to assume the rest of the article is a quote? From whom? Or is this a play on the fact that his contract appears to be open ended? Who among us would take employment on such terms?

mi-bike (Nov 18, 2020 at 6:10)

@Samuel-L-Jackson: The stiff-upper-lip tone of this reply contradicts your earlier statement that the country where the English language has its humble roots is "rather entertaining". Rather, I would argue the opposite. ;-)

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sargey2003 (Nov 18, 2020 at 6:14)

@mi-bike: The nuances and tone that British people use in English often fails to travel well.

I am surprised that we have not started more wars with our humour, or perhaps that was the true origin of the British Empire; it was all just a joke, really.

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chubby5000 (Nov 18, 2020 at 6:18)

@sargey2003: FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!

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sargey2003 (Nov 18, 2020 at 6:22)

@chubby5000: Oh Canada - I can't remember if you're still part of the Empire or not.

Scottybike36 (Nov 18, 2020 at 6:31)

@sargey2003: Phillip, is that you old boy?

vjunior21 (Nov 18, 2020 at 6:51)

Is there going to be a test on this later?

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oskimtb (Nov 18, 2020 at 7:16) (Below Threshold)

@Samuel-L-Jackson: you look lost as well as very boring person... if this second lockdown is f*cking your head up, you can find plenty of help around, you should check the GOV website..and then come back to your literacy forum...

anyway..I wanted to say..congrats Reece!!!

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Samuel-L-Jackson (Nov 18, 2020 at 7:50)

@oskimtb: Ah bless you. It must be so hard when people are saying things and you don’t quite understand what they talking about.
No, your mother is boring. I’d get her to explain only unlike you, she has manners and knows not to talk with her mouth full. Now shut the hell up and turn your frowny face into smilie face.

jgainey (Nov 18, 2020 at 8:05)

While I appreciate you're extrapolation, I'll bet my mistakes in this sentence will drive your Grammar Police personality mad.

oskimtb (Nov 18, 2020 at 10:26) (Below Threshold)

@Samuel-L-Jackson: my mum is a very nice bloke, and probably could help you with your mental issues and lack of confidence..but she has no manners at all..unlike you, who seems to have all of them along with a superior intelligence by the looks of it..and you probably never gonna be able to fill her mouth, even when you grow up kid, I´ve seen what she can take.
then, I do understand you, believe me, and for that reason you are officially invited to get in touch privately to meet my mum again (I´ll pay for this one) and shut me up big boy...
if not, you proved enough yourself as a bad ass mofo in this forum doing mum jokes with an alias name..you can go back to the literacy forum
big kiss

ridestuff (Nov 18, 2020 at 11:04)

@sargey2003: NOT!

danielstutt (Nov 18, 2020 at 13:32)

@chubby5000: look what you did, you made two poms fight. Usually ends up with something like, "put your fists up old boy" "tally ho" or some other nonsense like that.

SimonVD (Nov 18, 2020 at 14:26)

@oskimtb: you sound like a right bellend. Step away from the Internet ........

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enduroNZ (Nov 18, 2020 at 2:26)

On hearing he was resigned with trek Reece went for a session but eventually had to stop to go for a slash, just the remedy to get back to his session

T4THH (Nov 18, 2020 at 5:40)

After that he'll surely want some Fuel

Corinthian (Nov 18, 2020 at 5:55)

@T4THH: You lot need to work on the quality of your puns in order to get ‘em up to the top level, the Procaliber...

vjunior21 (Nov 18, 2020 at 6:52)

@T4THH:
That's the Ticket

Shiny-side-up (Nov 18, 2020 at 9:07)

He must've used tons of Diesel on his journey to Worlds

cougar797 (Nov 18, 2020 at 11:42)

@Shiny-side-up: The reference age and obscurity of that pun was of Supercaliber. Bravo.

suspended-flesh (Nov 18, 2020 at 12:18)

.....and that was his Waterloo

Corinthian (Nov 18, 2020 at 12:31)

@cougar797: I was going to come back with a derogatory reply to your comment but then I thought, “Y-Foil it for everyone else?”

borisimobike (Nov 18, 2020 at 19:42)

Just don’t drag my EX into this.... she was such a pre-Madone

optimumnotmaximum (Nov 18, 2020 at 2:21)

Glad to see the timing worked out so nicely for him. DH riders are way underpayed, glad to see one of the upcoming riders getting (assumingly) a good deal.

GumptionZA (Nov 18, 2020 at 2:08)

that cushcore video of him on a slash at innerleithen was sick

ryys (Nov 18, 2020 at 2:34)

Is he the first guy to ride for both Trek and Giant at the same time?

vjunior21 (Nov 18, 2020 at 6:54)

Shhhhhhhhh!

Jaib06 (Nov 18, 2020 at 9:09)

Am I missing something here? He rides for Trek no?

tstaudte (Nov 18, 2020 at 10:26)

@Jaib06: People keep mistaking him for Reece Wallace

leon-forfar (Nov 18, 2020 at 10:30)

@Jaib06: There were some postings on social media after Reece Wilson won worlds where he was accidentally tagged as Reece Wallce.

Jaib06 (Nov 20, 2020 at 8:14)

@leon-forfar: oh lolllllllll

excavator666 (Nov 18, 2020 at 2:42)

I glance read the headline as resigns! I was like, waaaaat!

Thirty3 (Nov 18, 2020 at 3:07)

I saw that too. Intentionally perhaps for suspense?

fedfox (Nov 18, 2020 at 15:56)

Super stock for Reece, well deserved!! Does this means Loris will stay with SC??

BMXrad (Nov 18, 2020 at 2:04)

Keep on Trekking

AK48161 (Nov 18, 2020 at 2:08)

Looks like he is on a Session

Jacquers (Nov 18, 2020 at 3:24)

Re-signing is better than resigning, in this case anyway

martin737 (Nov 18, 2020 at 8:53)

Imagine if AG re-signed With Trek...

rrsport (Nov 18, 2020 at 12:01)

Disappointing new bike though... could have done something far nicer than just white with a rainbow collar...

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Chridel (Nov 18, 2020 at 2:41)

Funny they keep the Factory programm since they barley have DH Bikes in their 2021 Lineup. Same with Giant btw...Sad

BiNARYBiKE (Nov 18, 2020 at 3:14)

Of course they will, just like they’ll keep slopestyle riders on bikes they hardly sell. No different than an auto manufacturer having a Formula 1 or NASCAR team. Making specialized tools for athletes and events at the pinnacle of the sport sells “normal” products that make more sense to the masses.

Chridel (Nov 18, 2020 at 3:56)

@BiNARYBiKE: A DH bike is a bit closer to the market than an F1 car.

clemson (Nov 18, 2020 at 9:11)

@Chridel: if you look at sales number its not where you make big profit .... especially nowadays with all the good enduro bikes .... and if you look at most bike parks nowadays .... no need for a pure dh rig .. but don t get me wrong they are fun to ride and maybe a new session is in the pipeline ....

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Endurip (Nov 18, 2020 at 4:17)

Oh no! Was hoping for him to jump to a cool bike company, but as long as he is happy!