DOWNHILL WORLD CHAMP LORIS VERGIER REVEALS HIS NEW BIKE FOR 2025
Filling in one more piece of the puzzle
Commencal Muc-Off has revealed that Loris Vergier has joined their team for 2025. The French downhill star who won the Elite Men’s UCI Downhill World Championship in 2024 was shown with his bike in the photos that accompanied the announcement, but the photos did not show the bike very well, which is probably not an accident.
We suspect that Commencal has made some changes to their drivetrain for 2025, which can’t be clearly seen in any of the photos they shared in their announcement.
In the first photo, the frame can be seen on the wall behind him, but the drivetrain is not on the frame.
In the second photo (below), a table partially blocks our view of the bike.
When we zoom in closer, we can see that the top portion of the bike’s chain is hidden behind the table.
When we zoom in even closer, we can see the change in the chainline even better.
We would guess that Commencal is waiting to reveal what Vergier’s new race bike looks like in a future news release. Companies will often do that so that they can sell off more of the past year’s model while they build enough of the new frames to have them ready to meet the demand when the new model is announced.
Commencal hasn’t said anything about that to us, though. Those are just the thoughts that MBA’s John Ker had when he checked out the photos.
It’s obvious that the chain goes up after it leaves the front chainring, but we can’t see what Commencal did to achieve that rise.
JK admits that he could be wrong, but he suspects that we’ll be seeing an announcement about a change in Commencal’s downhill bike design in the near future.
