{"id":389674,"date":"2026-01-03T20:33:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T20:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/389674\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T20:33:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T20:33:09","slug":"tegan-cruz-leaves-kenda-ns-bikes-ur-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/389674\/","title":{"rendered":"Tegan Cruz leaves Kenda NS Bikes UR Team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After two years with the team, Tegan Cruz is splitting with Kenda NS Bikes UR Team.<\/p>\n<p>Along with World Cup racing, the Pemberton, B.C. racer was the runner up in 2025 King of Crankworx competition. He ended the 2025 season with a win at the inaugural Hard MTB League, a <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclingmagazine.ca\/sections\/news\/last-call-hard-mtb-league-closes-2026-applications-this-week\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">new competition that is the brain child of Braydon Bringhurs in Boise, Idaho<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Closer to home, Cruz landed wins at the Canada Cup at SilverStar (also a UCI Continental event), NW Cup in Idaho, and Whistler\u2019s B.C. Cup. Cruz <a href=\"https:\/\/cyclingmagazine.ca\/mtb\/tegan-cruz-joins-ns-bikes-ur-team-for-2024\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">joined UR in 2024.<\/a>\u00a0That came after a strong year of junior racing and a 2022 season were he won the junior Canadian national downhill championships. The year before, he was the U17 downhill national champ.<\/p>\n<p>It sounds like the Pemberton shredder already has plans for 2026. We\u2019re stoked to see who Cruz will be racing with when the season starts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After two years with the team, Tegan Cruz is splitting with Kenda NS Bikes UR Team. Along with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[208643,131204,64,63,784,3188,208644,117138,85,208645],"class_list":{"0":"post-389674","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-murica","9":"tag-2026-world-cup","10":"tag-au","11":"tag-australia","12":"tag-cycling","13":"tag-downhill","14":"tag-kenda-ns-bikes-ur-team","15":"tag-mtb-news","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-tegan-cruz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}