Episode 221 - Jesse Melamed on Rivalries, His Reasons for Leaving Rocky & the Unwritten Rules of Racing

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4.6 • 743 Ratings

🗓️ 18 January 2024

⏱️ 100 minutes

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In a chat that felt like it could go on for twice as long, Jesse really lifts the veil to talk about so much of what goes into being a pro enduro racer, the risk of moving away from a successful team as well as breaking down some of his highest moments and discussing where enduro sits when compared to other disciplines. Plus, Henry, Christina, Sarah and Matt tune in with the latest news.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Pink Bike podcast. My name is Henry and this week I'm joined by
0:16.5	Matt, Christina and Sarah. Now, if you want to skip past the news preamble, please skip the 12 minute mark.
0:23.5	So Sarah, big news this week for racing fans, at least, is the very exciting news, very, very
0:29.3	exciting, of more team name change semantics.
0:32.9	So it was no longer, it was MS Mondraker.
0:36.1	It is now Mondraker Factory. Mondraker, it is now Mondraker Factory?
0:39.3	Mondraker Factory Racing, I'm pretty sure.
0:41.3	Or Mondraker DH Factory Racing?
0:43.3	Oh, now I'm not exactly sure.
0:45.3	MFR.
0:46.3	MFR.
0:47.3	Yeah.
0:48.3	Acronomes for sure.
0:49.3	I mean, it is interesting, you know, we did see the sort of demise of intense factory racing
0:54.6	only to be born from its ashes in intense factory racing.
0:58.9	The exact same name.
1:01.8	Can you finish in a bit with what's going on with Mondraker?
1:05.2	Yeah, so Mondraker, like you said, they're no longer sponsoring, or they're no longer
1:09.2	the title sponsor, the bike sponsor for MS Mondraker. But they have their own team 100% Mondraker. They have three athletes, which they are going to trickle out in social media releases next week. So we don't actually know who those three riders are, but there's going to be three riders.
1:28.3	And I think they said nine support staff. So it sounds like a pretty big investment on their
1:33.8	behalf to be the entire bill is going to be Mondrager, basically.
1:37.9	I heard they're going to have the biggest budget of any down one single downhill team next year.
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