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He said Deegan....5 pages minimum.
That would be strange when AStars is coming out with a signature helmet.
And i heard on a podcast, i forget which one, that the star 250 team will be in alpinestars goggles.
The irony being that it grabbed your attention first.
Then I like your post and realize it caught mine, spurring me to write this comment.
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Brian Deegan is wearing fox gear but a stars boots on an insta post so I assume that's where this started
Saw that somewhere too. Twitter maybe. I totally see A-Stars scooping up Deegz as soon as he doesn't have to run team gear
Idk, he’s been Thor for a while. And they are shedding payroll right now it seems in the 450s maybe prepping for Deegs
At one point in the video they put out today, he was fox gear and helmet, possibly boots. Then switched back to his 6D helmet for the go pro I think. Heatwave goggles.
Biblical thread!
I know someone who works for Fox, he stopped by the offices for a meeting and they hooked the General up with some gear since he doesn't have his own gear deal. Deegs rode for both Fox and Shift in the early FMX days. From what i know this is all from it, but we all know Brian likes to stir the pot so who knows
It was said that AStars is trying to entice Deegan which is why they gave him a signature helmet before Jett, but then again Thor is giving him custom gear too.
I would have thought that jett would have gotten the custom stuff before haiden because he has more titles and been pro longer. This is interesting.
This is certainly one of the threads of all time.
You mean Megan Fox ?
How do they give Jett a custom helmet when he’s a red-bull athlete and runs their colour schemes.
You really don’t think there could be a custom Jett Lawrence AStar helmet? They could do something with his donut company and his Aussie roots. I get what you’re saying with the Red Bull deal, but I’m sure they would sell a ton of custom Jett helmets.
Swap talked about it earlier this week
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I remember those. I definitely had a Jeremy one. I think I had LaRocco, too.
Only thing is Jett would never wear it. So it would be a strange and defeat the purpose of having his own helmet. There could be something in Jett's Red Bull contract that would not allow it. As in, they may own all the branding and marketing rights to the helmet design he wears . And he may not be able to attach his name to a helmet design and not violate his Red Bull contract. It would be cool to see a Red Bull SM10.
The Jett signature goggles did not sell great the last run that came out last year VS the first year they did them. A lot of the people I sold them to that first year thought they were the Armega model since that is what Jett wears. I told them before I sold the goggles. But maybe since he would never be able to wear a signature helmet and the lower sales of the recent Donut goggles is enough reason not to make a Jett helmet right now.
To me , it makes more sense to have a signature helmet for a rider that will wear it . Even if the rider wears a different paintjob sometimes. Deegan might have pushed for it, taking less $$ in return for a piece of helmet sales? A lot goes into stuff like that. Jett might just not care for one and Deegan might have taken less money to have custom signature stuff.
They could perhaps make something like that, but since he probably couldn’t wear it in most events so it might not have much extra impact.
Cooper Webb had a custom Bell replica his last year or two on KTM and his Red Bull deal didn’t seem to stop that.
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And to be honest, I never even realized that he had a replica helmet then. Maybe it had a bigger impact than I think, but I had to google it and I don’t think I’ve ever seen one ‘in the wild’.
Different riders and teams have different deals. With Jett's Red bull deal being a personal deal and Webb's being a team deal that came and went away with the team he rode for. Do any athletes with personal Red Bull deals have signature helmets? Or maybe Alpinestars just thinks it wouldn't sell? Who knows, maybe there is one in the works?
ML may correct me but I thought all the KTM guys were Red Bull athletes. Only the ones with the chinbar decals (I.e barcia) are on team deals
Webb was a Red Bull athlete at the time.
Either way, its still a team deal. You can not ride a factory KTM without the Red Bull Helmet and logos on the gear. With Webb coming to them as part of the team deal .
Years ago a local Pro, Mike Treadwell got a single race ride with Red Bull KTM for the Southwick National. And he was covered in Red Bull logos . Funny to see him in Thor gear and a FOX helmet. It was a onetime thing and the Red Bull part came with the KTM part. Even a rider riding for a single day, that had no Red Bull relationship before , or really after either. Still had to run the Red bull stuff. I think he was wearing Fox normally .
Either way , to me it makes little sense to have a Jett signature helmet if he would never wear it. Might as well pick a helmet from their lineup and call it the Lawrence model.
You kind of just made my point “can’t ride factory KTM without the helmet” and he still had a replica from Bell…
When I said do any riders that have a personal deal I meant that was not also connected to the team they ride for. Since You can not ride for KTM without also running the Red Bull stuff.
Through a team deal though. and I imagine all contracts are different. When one is a personal deal and one is a team deal they could put things in that may not be worth it for a team deal .
Maybe its not in his contract that he couldn't have one. I'm just saying that it is possible. And that a Jett Edition helmet would be much more likely if not for the Red Bull deal.
I'm just proposing a possible reason for why they may not make one. Other than him not being able to ever wear it , or Alpinestars factoring that in and them not thinking it would be a great selling item. I guess I should say to be clear, I'm saying it is possible. Not that it is the reason. But one other rider doing it, that had a team deal that he was trying to get out of is not really proof that it is not contract related either.
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