The Lapierre Racing Unity team is strengthening its ranks with five new riders. The new additions include the two Germans Nina Graf and Max Brandl, the Italian Chiara Teocchi and the Dane Tobias Lillelund as well as the New Zealander Anton Cooper. The only constant in the team remains Noëlle Buri from Switzerland, who has been on board with Lapierre since 2024.

Loris Vergier celebrated his greatest success to date at the Downhill World Championships in Andorra. Now the reigning world champion has entered into a promising partnership and signed with the Commençal-Muc-Off team, whose bikes come from Andorra. Vergier strengthens the team, which already includes Amaury Pierron and Myriam Nicole.

The Orbea Fox Factory Team is completely revamping its team and saying goodbye to Anne Tauber, Chiara Teocchi, David Campos and Luca Martin. In the 2025 season, the Spanish racing team will compete as the "Orbea Fox Factory Team" with increased involvement from Fox. The athletes who carry the team name to the outside world are all the more spectacular: Belgian Pierre de Froidmont, the only remaining member of the old team, is joined by Simon Andreassen (DEN), Rebecca Henderson (AUS) and Jennifer Jackson (CAN). The team will be led by Fran Perez, who managed the Primaflor-Mondraker team until the end of 2024.

Raphaela Richter, the reigning German downhill and enduro champion, is focusing on bikes and equipment that are produced as locally as possible in the 2025 season. This includes CrossWorx bikes from Thuringia and the parts manufacturer Intend from Freiburg. To mark this news, we have produced a video with her as a foretaste of the upcoming season.