Following an announcement by Honda at the end of the final JCF race series in Japan at the weekend, it can be confirmed that Team G Cross Honda will not be continuing.
23 Degrees Sports Management, the company hired by the Honda Racing Corporation to manage the international mountain bike race activities for the company, confirms today that the program will have no future beyond 2007.
As a motorcycle manufacturer, Honda had achieved the approach of this challenge by applying its technology which has been cultivated by its motorcycle development, and getting some feedback to its motorcycle technology is one of the purposes of its entry into the downhill mountain bike racing activity. The original "RN01" technology for example, frame and suspension, was designed utilizing off road motorcycle technology, including a very special centrally mounted gearbox that is able to change shift at any time; these were improved repeatedly, and were completed as Honda expected and hoped it would when they started this project back in 2000. The correctness of direction, and its approach, has been validated by the fact that they have been the number one international team for the past 2 years, and proven by the race results including acquisition of the NORBA title (2004) and UCI World Cup title (2005).
Again, Honda wish to express its gratitude to all team members and persons related to this project, and want all members of the team to continue aiming at success in all the challenges that lay before them. Honda deeply appreciate the cooperation and warm guidance they received as a company from both the race scene and the bicycle industry, allowing its to learn a lot over these years.
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