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