Phenomenal editing in there. Finally the fruit of Redbull sponsoring MTB. Please don't stifle the small independent producers that also enhance the sport greatly for the fans
I don't think they are underpaid... It's the football that pays too much to the athletes... Why I say this? Well, how many engineers/doctors and others that have high responsibility jobs (that are responsible for peoples life's and safety or even for people's jobs...) are earning +1million? Still, for some of these professionals, if something goes rong, they may just lose their freedom (prison) or at least their job FOR LIFE. Plus, most of them had to invest a lot in their education and spend a lot of time studying to become what they dream to be while these athletes were already living their job/dream (instead of going through a very long and demanding process to finally start to race...) You can say there are only a few athletes with this level and for that reason they should be valued... Sure but more than those professionals that are responsible for your life or your job? The pressure these athletes feel is only regarding their career, not others lifes or for instance, if their brand goes bankrupt... ;)
Ernest Frigelj so premiership footballers deserve 6+ million a year when at times they might not even pay nor perform. My issue really is that many sports are way ahead in terms of pay and they are not putting themselves in the line of fire every week. It’s more that the other sports over earn but MTB definitely deserves to be on par it’s a huge industry with high cost products
It really all depends on what the industry dictates and how much money there is to go around you cant really say that downhillers and football players should be payed the same American football is a 15 billion dollar industry and cycling is nowhere close to that just less money to go around is all
Apart from Gwin nobody actually answered the question- the title of the video is misleading. The title should have been ‘how much time can you waste watching a video that doesn’t give the answers it promised’. And the answer is about 15 minutes.
All these riders are phenomenol athletes and brand ambassadors. Given the risks and their short-lived careers, they deserved be paid a lot of money. Also, most MTB riders I know are awesome people!
I wanna be a pro motocross rider and a pro bike rider, and i know what its like to simply obtain a wheelie or a stoppie, and a world championship win could be the best feeling! I want to obtain that and i have really big motivation for this. My friends say that with my bike i could race because my technique is good and with that motivation i have i can be a champion one time. Thats the dream of my life! But in my country this sport is really in the background and you cant really show what you have in your pocket. But im gonna take my every bit of power and put it into the sport, and hope for the best! And these videos always remembering me to never give up on my dreams! Thank you!
it's a great philosophy but just remember very few of people make it. I would recommend not quitting education/jobs/highschool (depending on your scenario) and focusing on education until you are truly good enough. Maybe a better mindset is to just enjoy the sport, want to get better at it not for the chance of becoming pro but because you love the sport in general.
Yeah and I for sure believe that the company /companies involved in this sport (and many other sports) are making big sums out of the athletes performance. It's sad indeed.
How come it's always Men's DH and Women's XCO that redbull covers the most when making MTB content? Are their biggest riders in these disciplines? Are these the disciplines that get the most views? I feel like I know nothing about the state of men's XCO and women's DH lol
@Scott Martin Perhaps you should stop using 'click bait' to get folks to watch your videos. The reality is that you could have given estimates for salaries and not posted names...
13:20 wasn't Pierron supposed to be 3rd in Val Di Sole. Look at the the timer and when he crosses the finish line. Also did that whip cost him the ovr??
Definitely lost some time with that whip but I don’t think it was enough for the overall title.........I think he lost the overall with his dab right bfor the flat out pedal section at snowshoe. That’s why dany hart was like .8 of a second behind amuray before that spot and then he suddenly gained a whole second right after it.
Awesome. Good to see the top guys and girls starting to feel comfortable talking about money. That's the only way the sport will set it's value and see some proper influx of investment from outside sponsors, in line with other sports. As they say "Love don't pay the bills".
X Games and US Postal Service brought corporate money from across the globe into mountain biking because it was the crossover sport for extreme sports and big money TdF (lot of XC racers were on road teams). It was insanity. That money is still out there....
Speaking as an ex pro race weeks were the days of, as well as travel, other than that in order to be the best you have to be prepared to train everyday even on Christmas day in 4ft of snow or 2 ft of rain water with winds that are so cold the dirt off the road freezes to you, when not on the bike you go to gym or whatever your routine is, finally you make sure that your machine fits and responds like an extra body part or all of the above is nearly pointless.
There just like sales reps at the end of the day they have a base and if you win you get a bonus or you come in to 10 you get a percentage it’s up to the rest of your sponsors to make up the salary you want
@@misterlove6225 Exactly. It is not only how good and awesome they are. It is about the money involved in the sport A.K.A, how big is the audience and therefore how valuable is that platform for sponsors.
Not sure why you would hate a sport just because it generates more revenue than mountain biking. The market decides how much these riders get paid. If a ton of people watch mountain biking, then the riders would get paid more. It's as simple as that.
I love how the title question takes more than 14 minutes and still no definite answer. Try and tell this "information" to the tax man next time you see him, I dare you.
Apart from Gwin, did they say how much the XC riders get? or anyone else for that matter. They all deserve what they get and probably more. Just would like to know.
When you look beneath the money, glamour and fame, these people are really just being used by companies to get their returns and even sad that just one fall is all it takes to end all this. You give it your all and you lose it all, it's all you. It's a bittersweet livery to live with. Hmmm...
Aaron Gwin once said he made 1m per year including all sponsorships. I would guess Minnar makes half or so, Bruni and other top 5 riders maybe around 100-200k, top 20 I would say somewhere between 30k and 100k. All guesses except Gwin.
@@arman3656 No problem m8. There is a interview with Mick Hannah where he says that top 10 riders make between 50 and 300k, so its in the range from my answer above
Hmm how much? No real anser in this movie But I did hear that van der Poel also got an offer from Red Bull.... his anser whas, did you forget a 0 Compared to other sports mtb/cyling doesn't pay that well
Forget how much they make, the real question is how much do their parents have to make for their kids to become MTB stars in the first place? Kate grew up in a $6 million Marin estate. How else did she end up where she is now?
I'm genuinely surprised how little money Gwinn makes, one of the very best in the world and takes home 1 million with all his sponsers combined. Thats like 2 or 3 weeks pay for some sportsman that arent even the very best in there sport. Imagine what the main stream bike manufacturers make in a year.
Gwinn makes a great sum of money for how tiny and niche the sport is. The audience for DH racing is super small so there is less products to advertise and sell (not to mention their cost). Not many people are going to watch a race and then go spend 10k on a bike to be like Gwinn. The barrier to entry is high and really is dependent on where you live so it makes getting new blood in the sport harder. For those of us in the sport - we see it as much larger than it is and because we know how risky the sport is we tend to think it should be valued more but that often doesn't come across to those who aren't involved. Also there are a ton of players across the major league sports making under a million a year.
@@LuisGerstner We learned how much Gwinn earns, but that's not necessarily typical or representative of other pro riders. The title of the video is still erroneous imho.
They told you most of it is incentive based or base salary! If you read between the lines, base pay for most is probably low. Loíc said “ in the beginning he was making less then 30k a season” There’s our base reference, for a rider of his caliber in rookie season. If you google it, most of the top racers are 100K-1M!
we also heard someone in the vid say $30k starting out. I have a first-hand report of a UCI XC mid pack competitor making roughly $40k usd(early into their pro career). The amount of sacrifice and work they have put in, is in my opinion, on par with a cream of the crop grad student(who would be roughly the same age), most of whom get 6 figure jobs straight out of grad programs. its a bummer for sure, but mtb is relatively niche
Suspected the title "How much are the top MTBers actually worth?" was offering more than the video could deliver, but I also expected Red Bull not to stoop to this level of click bate. There's some interesting stuff in this video, that I haven't heard before in 20+ years following and being part of the sport, you just didn't need that title Red Bull, shame on you! ;-)
What about women's DH like rachel atherton? She literally won every single race including worlds one year and wins damn near every race and over all. What's she paid compared to her brothers lol
I would imagine a family organization like Atherton Racing isn't set up like most outfits. They come as a package deal to sponsors and they pay themselves.
@Scott Martin that jives with everything i've ever heard or read. it's honestly probably a bit high, especially given that W's field prize purses are often in the 10-20% range of what the men get.
I can see XC MTB athletes getting top dollars. However for me downhills athletes don’t deserve top money. The reason for it is it because downhill it is one sided. I for one don’t care about only downhill, for me I give respect to athletes go go up and also down as they show endurance NA big effort which comes from 100 miles of training.
