{"id":102918,"date":"2019-01-25T16:19:01","date_gmt":"2019-01-25T09:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.polygonbikes.com\/2019-polygon-ur-team-never-too-old-to-have-fun-send-it\/"},"modified":"2019-01-25T16:19:01","modified_gmt":"2019-01-25T09:19:01","slug":"2019-polygon-ur-team-never-too-old-to-have-fun-send-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.polygonbikes.com\/ca\/2019-polygon-ur-team-never-too-old-to-have-fun-send-it\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 POLYGON UR TEAM: NEVER TOO OLD TO HAVE FUN &#038; SEND IT"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>PRESS RELEASE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygonbikes.com\/ca\/\">Polygon<\/a> UR MTB Team<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In a world of standardized<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> team announcements where rider X is stoked to ride for brand Z, here at the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygonbikes.com\/ca\/\"><b>Polygon<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> UR MTB Team, we are trying to keep things fun to announce our 2019 roster and to celebrate our 10th-year anniversary.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>10 years is a long time and you will see that for our oldest riders we start to notice their age but luckily they are not feeling old yet when on the bike, enjoy!<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-responsive-container\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><iframe style=\"width: 100%;height: 450px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/G-WeuF_4L_c\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Our core top DH riders remain the same with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3><strong>Sick Mick Hannah \/ 8th year on the team<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"quotes-medium\">&#8220;I&#8217;m coming into 2019 more motivated than ever! I&#8217;m feeling strong and mentally fresh. We&#8217;ve also got another year in on the new bike so we&#8217;re really starting to get the most out if it. We have a great team with great partners so we&#8217;re set up for a successful season!&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"quotes-author-medium\"><span class=\"quotes-author-dash\">\u2014<\/span>Mick\u00a0Hannah<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3><strong>Tracey Hannah \/ 8th year on the team\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;I am really looking forward to this season. I had a few setbacks last season which made me really rethink my goals and what I wanted my off-season to look like. My training has been revamped and my motivation rebooted, the team is like my family we have been having heaps of fun already and I can&#8217;t wait to start racing&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Tracey Hannah<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3><strong>Alexandre Fayolle \/ 4th year on the team<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;2018 has been a complicated year for me but I am super motivated for 2019! I hope to be back on my top level but most of all I want to enjoy the ride. We are working hard this winter to get the bike all set up and I couldn\u2019t be more excited to start racing!<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Alexandre Fayolle<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3><strong>Simon Chapelet \/ 1st year on the team<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Our young gun Simon Chapelet goes from the development team to join our 3 DH riders as his first year racing the World Cup circuit in the junior category.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is a dream come through to start my first year of World Cup racing with the support of a team like UR. I have been working very hard and can\u2019t wait to hit up the circuit!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Simon Chapelet<\/p>\n<p>On the freeride side, Polygon UR MTB Team will still have a strong team with:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3><strong>Sam Reynolds \/ 6th year on the team<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;This year I want to go big! I&#8217;m in South Africa right now building Darkfest bigger than ever and can\u2019t wait for the rest of the FEST series, especially the return of LooseFest again! I&#8217;m also excited to be involved with Audi Nines once again, as well as the full Crankworx Speed and Style world tour after my 2nd place overall last year!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Sam Reynolds<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3><strong><span class=\"bold\">Loic Esteve \/ 5th year on the team<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Loic Esteve will be doing some cool video projects showing his crazy moves.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With couple video projects in mind and the work I have been doing building trails in a new bike park near my home. I couldn\u2019t be more excited about 2019!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Loic Esteve<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3><strong><span class=\"bold\">Tim Bringer \/ 1st year on the team<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Polygon UR Team comes from a BMX background and is promoted to the official team. We hope to show you more of him as he is a crazy machine!<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; I\u2019m super stoked to have the support of a team behind me in the reach of my goal to make it on the FMB World Tour!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Tim Bringer<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h3><strong>Fabien Cousini\u00e9 \/ 10th year on the team<\/strong><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>From the Enduro side, our team owner Fabien Cousini\u00e9 will be racing selected Enduro <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygonbikes.com\/ca\/mountain-bikes-ca\/\"><strong>MTB<\/strong><\/a> events and Crankworx. He also will take us around the world on a new trail travel web series.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Being able to manage the team, race and travel the world exploring trails is really the dream lifestyle and I\u2019m planning to make the most of it and hopefully get some people excited to ride their bikes along the way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Fabien Cousini\u00e9<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><strong>Polygon UR MTB Team: Bike Line-ups<\/strong><\/h2>\n<h3><strong><span class=\"bold\">Polygon XQUARONE DH9 MTB<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>This is the standard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygonbikes.com\/ca\/\"><b>Polygon<\/b><\/a> XQUARONE DH9 that we are going to use in most situations.<\/p>\n<h3><strong><span class=\"bold\">Polygon XQUARONE DH9 29 front &#8211; 27.5 rear MTB<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As the UCI regulation changed, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">this is a special XQUARONE DH9 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygonbikes.com\/ca\/mountain-bikes-ca\/\"><b>mountain bike<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that some of our racers will use<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. It has a 27.5 rear wheel and a 29 front wheel with a steeper head angle.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><strong>Polygon Siskiu N9 Mountain Bike<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For enduro riding and racing in 2019, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the team has chosen to use the new <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygonbikes.com\/siskiu-n9-2019\/\"><b>Polygon Siskiu N9<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in both 27 and 29-wheeled sizes.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Polygon Trid ZZ Dirt Jump Bike<\/b><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For slopestyle, speed, and style, the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygonbikes.com\/trid-zz-2020\/\"><b>Trid ZZ Dirt Jump bike<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> will be our main weapon of choice.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Finally, as far as schedule you will find us at all World Cups, all Crankworx, selected Enduros races, selected festivals, selected <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">FMB events,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and as much on our <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygonbikes.com\/ca\/mountain-bikes-ca\/\"><b>mountain bikes<\/b><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as possible!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Living from our passion takes a lot so we would like to thanks again all our partners, fans, friends, families, and also the strangers that we meet on the road, thanks for helping us chase our dreams.<\/p>\n\n    <div class=\"xs_social_share_widget xs_share_url after_content \t\tmain_content  wslu-style-1 wslu-share-box-shaped wslu-fill-colored wslu-none wslu-share-horizontal wslu-theme-font-no wslu-main_content\">\n\n\t\t\n        <ul>\n\t\t\t        <\/ul>\n    <\/div> \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PRESS RELEASE: Polygon UR MTB Team In a world of standardized team announcements where rider X is stoked to ride for brand Z, here at the Polygon UR MTB Team,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":102919,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_editorskit_title_hidden":false,"_editorskit_reading_time":0,"_editorskit_is_block_options_detached":false,"_editorskit_block_options_position":"{}","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6618],"tags":[6660,6662,6712,6715,6645],"acf":[],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polygonbikes.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102918"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polygonbikes.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polygonbikes.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polygonbikes.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polygonbikes.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.polygonbikes.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102918\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polygonbikes.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polygonbikes.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polygonbikes.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polygonbikes.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}