Rounding out this week’s mountain bike team news, professional downhill mountain biker Marine Cabirou has landed at Canyon following a successful run riding for Scott. Cabirou notched three podium finishes on the World Cup circuit in 2024, good enough for a second place finish to Valentina Höll in the overall points standing for the year. The French rider joins Canyon CLLCTV DH team mentor Fabien Barel who says he’s “stoked to have Marine with us, this partnership will raise the bar for both her and the team in 2025.”
After saying goodbye to Trek, Swiss rider Jolanda Neff is joining Cannondale Factory Racing (CFR) for the 2025 race season. In a release announcing the move, Cannondale says “With Jolanda joining the ranks, the squad takes on a whole new dimension this year. The pioneering performance structure developed by team boss Phil Dixon is now supporting Jolanda in the next chapter of her racing career. CFR were the first XC-racing team to have both a dedicated performance director and a technical coach in-house.”
It’s unclear from the release what the “next chapter” will look like exactly for the 13-time XCO World Cup race winner and six-time Swiss National champion. Neff struggled to make the podium on the World Cup circuit last year, though she came close with a fourth place finish at the MTB Marathon World Championships in Showshoe, West Virginia.
FMD and Orbea consolidate DH race teams, and Brett Rheeder teases new MTB company
In other news, FMD Racing and Orbea are teaming up for the 2025 World Cup DH race season. With various pro race programs cutting back or pausing operations, the move to consolidate could mean one less team in the pits this year.
Finally, ICYMI Brett Rheeder is starting a mountain bike company which he plans to launch this year. We covered this in our email newsletter, which you can preview right here. Sign up for the Singletracks email list to get exclusive content like this, plus all the top articles of the week, delivered to your inbox.
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