Heard about this Saturday and figured I’d wait to see how Chase and Shadow wanted to break the news, but Chase posted about it on his Q&A thread so I guess that means it’s official:
“this is a bit of a random post, but i’m not trying to make a big deal of it and figure the people who pay attention to this are who care. but after 2 years i decided to step off the shadow pro team, this isn’t due to any bad blood or anything of that, i respect shadow and appreciate everything they have done for me, i was just seeing myself not giving the effort i should of been torwards them, so i figured it was only fair i step off and let someone else be in my possition, i felt i should be moving on if i wasn’t going to give full focus to them. i’m saying thanks to ron and everyone at shadow, thanks for all the good times and help, i’m sure i’ll be hanging with you soon!”
Doesn’t sound like there’s any hard feelings there. I bugged Chase for new sponsor info and he says he currently doesn’t have any plans.
UPDATE: Ronnie B (owner of Shadow) reached out to me regarding this:
“First and foremost, Chase and Shadow are cool and by no means is this a split fueled by anger or discontent. It’s merely Chase wanting to focus his energy on Cult.
We are still down and Chase still plans to run the Shadow parts he has on his ride now and or ones that his other sponsor does not make.
Some times in life changes are difficult to swallow, but I really respect Chase and consider him a friend. If he needs to make this moveto better himself, we 110% support him.”
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