Race Team Merry-go-round, Vergier and Neff leave Trek

Trek seem to be the first team to announce changes for 2025, and Neff and Vergier have gone. Looks like they’re ‘pausing’ their Enduro team next year as well. I predict they won’t be the last.

Reece Wilson and Bodhi Kuhn leaving as well

Looks like they’re ‘pausing’ their Enduro team

I do wonder if many teams will race Enduro this year…

It seemed pretty obvious that Neff would be departing when Trek released the end of season film a few weeks back and she wasn’t mentioned in it. In fact, I think the only time she was in it was a quick glance of her warming up at one race.

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Hattie Harnden gone from Trek too. Victim of the Enduro pause presumably.

Orbea gone too

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/orbea-announces-the-end-of-its-enduro-race-team.html

Vergier is rumoured to be off to commencal muck off. FMD are switching to Orbea and adding Martin maes to the team. It’s that time of year when it’s ll the leaving news before the new contracts kick in January and we get all the announcements as to where people are for the new season

From https://xcomtb.com/2025-xc-mtb-team-rumours-changes/

Jolanda Neff

Jolanda leaves TREK Factory Racing, we’ve seen rumours she could be moving to Cannondale Factory Racing

Anton Cooper

Anton leaves TREK Factory Racing – Confirmed

Gunnar Holmgren

Gunnar joins the Trek Factory Racing team for 2025.

Tom Schellekens

Tom joins Bart Brentjens KMC Ridley MTB Team for 2025, he leaves Team Visma’s road team to concentrate on MTB for 2025 – Confirmed

Thomus Maxon

Thomus Maxon has announced they will continue their partnership for the next Olympic 4-year cycle.

Luca Schaetti

Luca joins the Bixs Performance Race Team for 2025 – Confirmed

Yana Belomoyna

Yana will leave Bart Brentjens KMC Ridley MTB Team – Confirmed

Alan Hatherly

Alan will move to team Jayco AlUla to race on the road in 2025 & 2026 – Confirmed

Santa Cruz RockShox

The Santa Cruz RockShox team will no longer exist next year, which means Martina Berta, Luca Braidot, Nadir Colledani will be looking for a new team for 2025.

Jenny Rissveds

Jenny is rumoured to be joining Canyon for 2025, could she be Loana Lecomte’s replacement if she leaves Canyon? – Unconfirmed

SCOTT-SRAM

Nino Schurter, Kate Courtney, Fillipo Colombo & Andri Frischknecht’s contracts all end at the end of 2024, with no confirmation yet on who will or won’t continue into 2025 with them. We are however sure Nino will continue with SCOTT-SRAM. An announcement should be coming soon from them! – Unconfirmed

Ella Maclean-Howell

Ella joins the Cube Factory Racing XC Team for 2025 after a stellar performance in 2024 including racing for Team GB at the Paris Olympics this is well deserved! – Confirmed

Maxime Marotte & Mathis Azzaro

Maxime could start his own MTB team in 2025 with his first signing rumoured to be Mathis Azzaro – Unconfirmed

Loana Lecomte

Loana is rumoured to be moving from Canyon CLLCTV to team BMC for 2025 – Unconfirmed

Savilia Blunk

Savilia Blunk has extended her contract with Decathlon Ford until 2026 – Confirmed

Trek Future Racing

Bjorn Riley, Emily Johnston & Tobia Lilleund will leave Trek Future Racing as they will be moving upto the Elite ranks – Confirmed

David Valero

Has signed with BH Coloma team for a further 2 years until 2026 – Confirmed

Has Ronan Dunne just let something slip?

That looks like Charlie Hatton……

Wow. Ronan, Dak & Charlie would be a hell of a line-up.

As would Amaury, Myriam & Loris obvs.

I guess we’ll see more “super teams” like this with the rule changes meaning fewer teams overall.

Hope that Hattie has landed somewhere safely, she doesn’t get the credit or profile she deserves as currently the UK’s most successful MTBer.

Has Ronan Dunne just let something slip?

I always did wonder about excessive consumption of energy drinks and bowel movements…

I do wonder if many teams will race Enduro this year…

I’m guessing that a good few teams, specifically those that have spent a lot of time and money developing enduro bikes with upwards of 160mm of travel, will be pretty p****d off at the recent rule changes. Racing is a way of promoting a brands bikes in the hope of increasing sales and to exclude major brands flagship models from being used to do what they were designed for is a major own goal from the uci

Except the UCI doesn’t care about volume of bikes sold, they are purely interested in racing and making the racing as standard as possible so it is down to the rider on the day…
The fact the companies marketing departments keep pushing all new and all changing stuff to encourage people to buy makes not a blind bit of difference for the UCI.
They’ll have looked at this as a means of making sure it is the rider that makes the difference and not some perceived (or actual) mechanical advantage.
With that kind of thinking, a number of rule changes make a bit more sense…whether it is right or wrong/good or bad doesn’t seem to make any difference to the UCI.