Updated: The Almost Complete Guide to the 2021 EWS Teams

The Canyon Collective return for the 2021 season with plenty of familiar faces as well as a new signing. This year Jose Borges makes the move from Miranda Factory Racing to the Canyon team. Jose Borges has seen plenty of success on the EWS circuit with 2nd place in Madeira during the 2019 season and some top finishes in the EWS-E series last year.

There are no changes with the CRC Nukeproof team for this year but hopefully, we will see Sam Hill back between the tape after he sat out last years racing because of the pandemic and travel restrictions.

After some very successful years racing in the Junior category, 2021 sees Antoine Vidal step up to Elite where we expected him to shake up the top riders if he can continue on the same form. Elsewhere in the team lineup is Alex Rudeau who made some big moves in 2020 with multiple top 15 results. This year they have also brought on the young riders of Jack Piercy and Alizée Lassus.

Devinci keep their three-rider line-up of Greg Callaghan, Keegan Wright and Georgia Astle. For 2021, Devinci has dropped its Downhill World Cup team in favour of their enduro and Crankworx focused Devinci Global Racing team.

The GT Factory Racing team remains unchanged for another year. With all three riders capable of being a podium threat the GT team is a strong contender for one of the fastest teams. All three riders are also signed up to the downhill team too so we are likely to see them cross over between disciplines again this year.

The Kona team loses Rhys Verner but Miranda Miller, Connor Fearon and Shelly Flood remain alongside Noah Hoffman and Spanish ripper Carlos Laangelan. The Kona team seems to be shifting their focus towards enduro racing so it will be interesting to see what they can do this year.

This year the Ibis team welcomes back Zakarias Blom Johansen who will be racing alongside last year's addition of Cole Lucas and longtime team member Bex Baraona and Robin Wallner.

The Lapierre Zipp Collective saw plenty of success in the short season of 2020 but they will be looking for even more if we get a full season of events this summer. While the team stays mostly the same they have brought on the young Lisandru Bertini who is already looking like a future talent in enduro racing.

The Gehrig sisters are still heading up the Norco team this year but interestingly the brand's DH riders (Sam Blenkinsop, Lucas Cruz, Elliot Jamieson and Henry Fitzgerald) have been included in the lineup which means we may be seeing some dual discipline racing from Norco's riders.

The Orbea team looks to build upon a strong 2020 with Damien Oton and Vid Persak leading the team. This year does bring two new riders into the fold with Laura Charles making the move to Orbea after securing plenty of top finishes in past seasons. Also after winning the Pinkbike Academy, Evan Wall will be getting a chance to prove himself on the EWS circuit board a factory racing team.

Pivot Factory Racing have seen plenty of success in the past few seasons and, with that in mind, they have kept the same lineup of riders into the new year of racing. Hopefully, we will see more from Ed Masters who recently broke his pelvis at the New Zealand DH National Champs.

No change for the Rocky Mountain/Race Face Enduro Team and after a great few years, you can't blame them. Last year saw Jesse Melamed unofficially take the 2020 title after he won two out of the three races and he will have his eyes set on taking more top results this year.

The Sunn team sees a complete changeup for 2021 with just Theo Galy staying put from 2020. With the shakeup comes the introduction of Louis Jeandel, Guillaume Larbeyou, Quentin Arnaud and Lucas Frigout to the line up making it a pretty stacked team.

The only big change for the Trek team this year is the departure of Katy Winton who has still not revealed her plans for 2021. Florian Nicolai has recently suffered a major crash while at team testing so we hope he will have a quick recovery and we see him back between the tape this year.

Despite not being announced alongside the rest of the teams it looks like there will be no change for the Yeti / Fox Factory Team as both Richie Rude and Shawn Neer stay for another year of EWS racing. The pair will be kicking off their race season at the Tennessee National where Richie Rude will even be trying his hand at Downhill racing on the SB165. The Yeti / FOX National and Devo Teams will also be keeping their riders from last year as Jubal Davis, Quinn Reece, Warren Kniss and Lauren Bingham return for 2021.