Race seasons are immortalized in Mondraker’s hall of fame as photos, videos, medals, and bikes (many of them prototypes). Living reminders of every time we reached the podium, as well as every time we bit the dirt. That’s what competition is: highs and lows, getting back up again and never giving in. Season after season. The 2025 DH and XC World Cups are now a part of that history.
Soon enough it’ll be time to look forward to the 2026 season, but for now let’s take a look back at 2025.
Numbers do lie. Well, maybe we got that cliché slightly wrong, but in competition, numbers sometimes mislead, and when they do, it can feel pretty harsh. In 10 World Cups, plus World and National Championships, there are plenty of numbers to track: seconds, podiums, qualifiers, points, medals… The ones that matter the most are always accompanied by champagne.
The ones that hurt the most are perhaps the ones that leave you just shy of the top spots despite all the hard work. Dak broke his hip 6 months before Mont-Saint-Anne yet still finished 4th in that very last race of the season. Off the podium, yes, but it’s a result that felt like more like a win than anything else considering what a huge comeback it’s been.
Numbers do lie, because not being at the top of the ranking doesn’t mean you didn’t give it your all, risk everything and lay it all down on the line. Ryan came fifth in that same race: His first top 5 result in the Elite Men’s category, and that sure felt like a win for us too.
In our 2025 DH and XC World Cup seasons, we’ve had both the highs and the lows. The ‘Hell yeah!’ moments when Rónán and Mona took the top step of the podium in Les Gets and Nové Město, and when they took to the podium once again with their bronze medals at the World Championships in Valais, Switzerland; and then there was Tamara’s fifth places in Araxá and Leogang… she didn’t get to uncork the champagne those times, but boy was she close.
Our riders, and the team and factory behind them, gave it their all in every single race, on or off the podium, inside or outside the top 10. Their all, when injuries benched riders for weeks or months like Rónán and Dak, when they fought their way back to WC pace as if nothing had happened. Their all, when they crashed live on camera but kept fighting like Sebastian Fini at the Danish Nationals, or when they won the Italian champion’s jersey for the sixth time like Vero, or when they took home the Stars and Stripes like Pinky in the USA.
After so many years in competition, at Mondraker we know a season isn’t defined solely by numbers or effort. What defines it most is commitment, from those who wear the number on their back to those who work behind the scenes to make it all possible; staff, riders and factory united with a single goal.
We’d like to say goodbye to the 2025 season by thanking everyone who wore the “commitment jersey” to every race of the year:
Mona, Tamara, Sebastian, Nadir, Alex and Luke in XC
Rónán, Dak, Ryan, Vero, Greg, Oriol, Azbe, and Nacho in DH.
Thank you all, because we didn’t expect numbers from you, we expected commitment. And you delivered it in every race of the year.
The 2025 season may be over, but at Mondraker...
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