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The plot is certainly thickening on the Gwin front.
Richie's been beating up a murdered SB6 for off-season DH duties, so I don't see Yeti putting together a WC DH team let alone releasing the SB platform as an SB8, yet- Yeti have been in a nice pasture the last 3-4yrs thanks to their XC & trail bikes (SB series) so they'd been consolidating & looking to build on the company's development to maintain/if not retain a foothold after losing Jared Graves (way beyond the help of the warm n fuzzy the Yeti tribe cult following, Jared was the ultimate marketing tool & shifted unit for Yeti). As a small company Yeti need to be making hay while the sun's shining to recoup their investment in frame making technologies, patents & R&D- not pissing it away on a WC DH team/campaign. Either way Yeti will be having to get another high caliber rider to join Richie on the EWS/enduro circuit, so it's not like it's a case f hving freed up a swag of money with Jared's departure. No way in hell Gwin's going to Yeti, & there's a sweet splinter's chance of Yeti supplying one-off, never to be released proto frames as they did with Jared 2013 carbon rig. Richie'll bash out the (barely) handful of races he enters for 2016 on an SB6. An SB8 on the horizon? Sure, maybe.
Infinitely higher likelihood of a YT/KTM, Trek/Godspeed, Mondraker GodHart team.
A bit more credence to the Loic/Specialized connection after someone picking up on him wearing Specialized shoes in a recent photo.
Richie's been beating up a murdered SB6 for off-season DH duties, so I don't see Yeti putting together a WC DH team let alone releasing the SB platform as an SB8, yet- Yeti have been in a nice pasture the last 3-4yrs thanks to their XC & trail bikes (SB series) so they'd been consolidating & looking to build on the company's development to maintain/if not retain a foothold after losing Jared Graves (way beyond the help of the warm n fuzzy the Yeti tribe cult following, Jared was the ultimate marketing tool & shifted unit for Yeti). As a small company Yeti need to be making hay while the sun's shining to recoup their investment in frame making technologies, patents & R&D- not pissing it away on a WC DH team/campaign. Either way Yeti will be having to get another high caliber rider to join Richie on the EWS/enduro circuit, so it's not like it's a case f hving freed up a swag of money with Jared's departure. No way in hell Gwin's going to Yeti, & there's a sweet splinter's chance of Yeti supplying one-off, never to be released proto frames as they did with Jared 2013 carbon rig. Richie'll bash out the (barely) handful of races he enters for 2016 on an SB6. An SB8 on the horizon? Sure, maybe.
Infinitely higher likelihood of a YT/KTM, Trek/Godspeed, Mondraker GodHart team.
A bit more credence to the Loic/Specialized connection after someone picking up on him wearing Specialized shoes in a recent photo.
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