bruh, there’s an overly expensive and nla tool to squirt their proprietary grease into the bb…
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did you post it because Marley is interviewed in it, or was that just a happy accident?
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Both. Plus she’s on the cover of the latest print edition.
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What a trip this whole thing has been. https://www.bicycleretailer.com/opinion-analysis/2023/02/08/blonsky-blazes-trail-heavier-riders#.Y-QZ-y-B2L0
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Ah nuts Parlee is done. They made really really good road forks, I guess I need to treasure the ones I have.
Custom carbon specialist Parlee files for bankruptcy
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Great article Marley!
I haven’t read all of your interviews but I feel like that one got across some especially good points.
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Too bad this is happening to them, it’s always nice to have smaller players on the scene. I almost forgot that Parlee was so close to Boston. They didn’t seem that involved in local bike advocacy or promotion.
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I believe that Mr. Parlee was a racing sailboat developer / engineer before heading to bikes (which, weird, people usually go the other way). Bikes were a second career.
They made bikes that were probaby pretty great if they worked as well as their forks, but they didn’t really find a dedicated audience for them - aesthetically they were Trek But Not Trek, and there weren’t a ton of fucntional features that set them off. Similarly, yeah, they seemed as if they were trying to run a mature venture without doing the community enagement work that needs to happen for five or ten years before you get there.
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It was always weird that there were 2 high end USA carbon bike makers Parlee and Calfee.
Like, come on guys. Everybody wants their name on the downtube, but y’alls sound too alike. And they were both just like, staid roadie marquees.
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I interviewed at Parlee. Their full custom Z0 road bikes were a trip, everything made in house there in Beverly
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Tarcklebee nom for '23 (possibly should be a nom nom nom once they’ve been though the autoclave)
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A note of appreciation for another excellently in-depth article from Bikepacking.
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goddamnit I’ve waxed a chain on one bike and now I think I’m a convert.
Is it insane to buy like 3 chains and wax them all at once so I can rotate my chains without having to faff with the ultrasonic thing at once?
This sucks I wish I was ok with a dirty chain still.
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yes
not a bike blog, but I think people here were talking about PFAS and other ecologically questionable materials used in outdoors clothing. A news report on them:
Waxing is good for any bike you’re gonna ride in gross east-coast off-road conditions! But also I rode a waxed chain for Huracan and it only lasted like 1.5 days so ymmv.
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