After two years on the World Cup circuit, Unno is winding down its race team and has announced it won't be competing in the 2020 season. With Greg Williamson behind the bars providing consistent top 20 finishes, Cesar Rojo's frame enjoyed a successful spell on the circuit and finished with its first World Cup top 10 in Snowshoe.
It sounds like Cesar and the team used the World Cup team primarily for testing and will now apply those lessons to the production version of the Ever downhill frame. Their statement is below:
 | It has been a fantastic two years racing the UCI DH WC with Greg Williamson. We have learnt a lot from him and the team and we want to thank them for all their passion and professionalism. It has been a real pleasure working with these guys. Having our bikes at the most demanding downhill tracks in the world racing alongside the fastest downhill riders in the circuit has generated an incredible input that has allowed us to refine and strengthen even more the uniqueness of our bikes. So yes, we can say that our bikes are now better because of what we learnt from racing during the last seasons. But now it is time to say bye to the racing scene and move forward. |
We reached out to Greg Williamson to see what it means for his future and he told us that he will be stepping back from a team management role to concentrate more on his riding. He has a UCI team move lined up and we can expect to hear more about it soon.
| So grateful to have worked with some of the most influential and successful people/teams/company’s in the MTB industry - Unno is no doubt one of those. I'm super happy with my time at Unno, I'll miss those guys a lot. It has been a crazy 2 years! Had an absolute blast, learnt so much from so many people. I'm super excited for 2020 and will let you guys know what's happening as soon as I'm allowed. |
Update - 6 Jan 2020
Unno supplied us with the following comment to clarify their decision and position on racing
| Unno is currently focused on a long term strategy in order to enhance and improve our product portfolio investing heavily in new machinery to bring our production to the next level and building up and growing our human team, making all this happen while we keep one of our distinctive hallmarks: having all our operation in Barcelona under the same one roof and making everything happen in house. Our plans will bring Unno and our bikes to a new whole different dimension in terms of design, performance, quality and attention to detail keeping Unno's uniqueness not only intact but strengthened. The reason behind why we went in 2018 into the UCI DH WC with our Eevr was validation. We wanted to bring our DH product which had been fully developed by our designers and engineers to the toughest race tracks in the world and making it race against the fastest riders in the DH global scene in order to double check that our bike was as tough and well performing as we thought it was. We hugely succeeded reaching our goals. Not only we were able to hit consistently many top 20s but even got into a top 10 this last year. And all this was achieved having our main rider, Greg Williamson, racing and training 80% of the time with the same one frame. This single frame was every certain time revised and getting custom paint jobs at Unno but most of the time Greg was riding the same frame which says a lot of the manufacturing quality and efficiency of its design and as far as we know this is something unique at the DH racing professional scene. With this we just wanted to share with you guys that our goals taking part of the UCI DH WC were more than accomplished and now we have to focus in our next priorities as mentioned above. This 2020 we will be out of the races but who knows what will happen down the road later on! |
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most people just don't get what they are trying to do, and it is OK.
UNNO is not about making the best riding bike out there. It is alot more than that.
If you want a bike that rides similar to a UNNO, get a Mondraker. It is designed by the very same guy.
Unno seems to be about going as LOCAL as you can when you are purchasing a frame.
If thats what you want, then you gotta pay for it. .
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They could EASILY get 5000 frames a year made in Overseas and bring the price down significantly, but they are not about that.
Exclusivity has a price.
On the other sides, some distributors are the worst ; for example the distributor for Fox products in France, to just name one
Funny, we also love our local Fox distributor
It's been a bit of a rose tinted train wreck when it comes to that stuff with Devinci ever since the passing of Steve smith
You don't get it..
Or just don't want to.
Devinci did not start out as a quebec designed, engineered, sourced, employed,company 4 years ago.
Unno is only 4-5 years old. Making ONLY high end mountain bikes.
Devinci makes bikes for city bike share programs all over the world..
Do the math....
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