Atherton Racing and Trek end partnership

Athertons, Charlie Hatton and Trek part ways after three years

Where are the Athertons off next?

Alex Evans

Published: January 8, 2019 at 3:50 pm

With three World Championship titles, 11 World Cup wins and two overall World Cup victories, Trek and Atherton Racing are now parting ways.

Atherton Racing is also saying goodbye to Kade Edwards, its rookie rider who's proven his worth on the Junior World Cup scene, taking 2018's downhill World Championship title in Lenzerheide, Switzerland.

However, Rachel, Gee and Dan Atherton, and Charlie Hatton will all be staying on with Atherton Racing for 2019, but with a different title sponsor.

The rumours have been rife, of course, with people suggesting that the Athertons will join Cube, Merida or even Norco. The cat isn't out of the bag just yet, but we're keen to find out!

Senior technical editor

Alex Evans is BikeRadar’s senior mountain bike technical editor. He started racing downhill at the tender age of 11 before going on to compete across Europe. Alex moved to Morzine in the French Alps at 19 to pursue a career as a bike bum and clocked up an enormous amount of riding. Hitting those famous tracks day in, day out for eight years, he broke more bikes than he can remember. Alex then moved back to the UK and put his vast knowledge of mountain biking to good use by landing a job working for MBUK magazine as features editor. Since working for MBUK, Alex’s focus has moved to bike tech. He’s one of BikeRadar’s lead testers and knows how to push bikes and products to the limit, searching out the equipment that represents the best value for money. Alex is also a dedicated eMTB rider, and still dabbles in racing of a sort, doing his best to top the Strava leaderboard on the steepest, gnarliest and twistiest trails the Tweed Valley has to offer – just for fun, of course. Alex is also a regular on the BikeRadar YouTube channel and BikeRadar podcast.