It's getting to that time of year again and theres a couple individual threads already so thourght i'd start the anual who the hell are they and why are they riding for them thread


Matti on MS Intense but with a spine injury 2 days into it

Lopes has been dropped by GT

What else is going on in the race world?

but whos Mason riding for??

Now that would be a real surprise, but it does seem rather false. Especially as she runs one of the fastest updated sites on the web you think she'd pop something up on there?

Or maybe that iirc her contrack from this season runs till the next....(dont quote me but I'm pretty sure I remember reading that).

Guys if your really gonna start pushing round rumors as big as that about people something to back em up would be nice!

Mason? is that Liam Mason? or am i totally out of it?!

Claudio Caluori rumoured to be off Intense.

Yeah he coulda asked for more and they said no, but this is what was posted on brianlopes.com by him.

Many of you have asked "Is it true?", regarding the rumors flying around about GT and Brian parting ways. In short "yes", it is true!

After seven years of a mutually successful partnership that produced:

Four World Championship titles
Three World Cup Overall titles
One National Championship
GT Bicycles has decided to take their legendary "race-inspired" brand in a "new direction".
Which leads me to question what the "new direction" is, since Brian has been supplying them "wins" from the get-go. It is clear to me that the only "direction" to go is down, specially after this year's World Championship win. With that said, I don't wish for that to happen, since we have been fortunate enough to meet some great people through GT, but I do whole-heartedly question the thinking and strategy behind it this "new direction" set forth by corporate.

Bryn Atkinson perhaps??? 

Mop Head the riders stalker!