The Union Announces 2024 Roster & New Title Sponsor
Chris Hauser took his first Junior World Cup DH win last year.
Steel City Media's Union team shakes up its rider roster for 2024 and welcomes up and coming first year junior Ellie Hulsebosch of Tauranga, New Zealand to the roster alongside Chris Hauser, Lachie Stevens-Mcnab and Frida Rønning. Antoine Pierron and Oliver Davis have moved on from the program for 2024.
The Union also has a new title sponsor in Trek Bicycles.
 | Three years already?! Where did the time go? Coming into 2024 it feels like we’ve graduated high school and we’re off to college. Anxious yet excited, we’ll be on our worldwide travels again soon, feeling a little older, wiser and maybe even slightly more mature. We’ve chosen a new school, met our roommates and literally bought a cheap van to move all our stuff in. It’s going to be a hell of a summer. |
The team will be supported by Trek Bikes this season after being on Santa Cruz Bicycles last year.
| There’s nothing permanent except change, and for 2024 we’re stoked to announce our new partner in crime, Trek Bikes, as our frame and title sponsor. It’s rad to think that we’ll be included amongst their lineup of insane teams and athletes, whilst the wider brand support means we can think bigger and faster as we head into the future. We’re also so stoked to say that we’ll be spoiled by SRAM and RockShox for drivetrain, brakes and suspension. We’ve always looked up to both brands in how they support, market and develop everything from products to athletes, so being a part of that family now is a crazy-good feeling. Main bonus? Their coffee machine is way nicer than ours too. Handmade in the USA and rounding out the new partners will be ENVE wheelsets and keeping Hauser’s chainring straight will be E-Thirteen guides. Phew. |
Ellie Hulsebosch
Ellie Hulsebosch
| First up in the class of 2024 is our newest crew member and first year junior, Ellie Hulsebosch of Tauranga, New Zealand. Turning heads on the national scene, whilst balancing training, school and everything else in between is no easy feat, but we’re stoked to support this mature, young kiwi on her journey through the next few seasons. |
Lachie Stevens-Mcnab
Frida Ronning
Chris Hauser
Chris, Lachie & Frida
| We’ve managed to keep the rest of the gang mainly together, with Chris Hauser returning to light up his second year in juniors, whilst Lachie Stevens-Mcnab is healthy and ready to give Elite a proper go this time round. Our resident engineer and favorite nerd Frida Rønning, will be back splitting time between shaving off seconds on track and separating atoms in the lab. |
Ellie Hulsebosch
| Steel City Media is beyond proud to help and hustle on behalf of this crew of riders and wider staff members, with the goal of providing a legitimate not for profit, development pathway for up-coming talent on the World stage. We’re stoked that the following brands continue to share this mantra as well: Fox Racing, Maxxis Tires, Deity, Vital Mtb, Crankbrothers, Peaty’s Products, HKT Products. |
Frida Ronning
Lachie Stevens-Mcnab
Ellie Hulsebosch
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