Bike blerg thread

[anon24974279]

@Shamp

Yeah and not enough people are touching it

Sad

[Timarchylime]

@Alvz

@teepz

this is a bummer considering most of the folks who bought these bikes likely won’t be able to maintain them should electronics fail

turns out it’s hard to make money in the bike industry. who knew

I’m not too worried about the people around Seattle who’ve bought them. It’s mostly tech folks who have plenty of money to go out and buy whatever the next web-hyped thing is.

[Dr_Shart_Attack_PhD]

@Alvz

this is a bummer considering most of the folks who bought these bikes likely won’t be able to maintain them should electronics fail

We should open a Van Moof Hacking subforum to get ahead of the next cycling trend!

[Alvz]

@Timarchylime

I’m not too worried about the people around Seattle who’ve bought them. It’s mostly tech folks who have plenty of money to go out and buy whatever the next web-hyped thing is.

yeah, i think the bikes have largely gone to tech-centric folks all over the place. they knew their market!

my friend bought one without consulting me, it broke, he couldn’t get it fixed, and has largely sworn off getting another bike because “it’s just gonna break again.” small sample size but i’d love for everyone to enjoy riding bikes if they can

[EndpointBraden]

The latest scuttlebutt I’ve heard from a few reps now is that a certain top-4 brand is now cash up front with Shimano. The doomsday clock countdown to the buyout by the Waltons may have started.

[Horse_Mafia]

@lox

the first time I made an account here I posted a picture of me in the new person thread doing a trackstand on my bike that had an aerospoke front wheel and got heavily bullied. tbh I deserved it. I didn’t come back for like 5 years.

So maybe we just keep doing that?

my friend @jizzsocks was bullied off the forum and we haven’t talked in nearly a decade now, but at least I’m not a regular Reddit poster!

[EuroJorch]

@EndpointBraden

I’ve heard from a few reps now

“Customers are liars, reps are spies” one of my lbs boss guys.

[EndpointBraden]

He’s not wrong. Some of the best intel I’ve received is from reps. Industry schadenfreude is a thing.

[wickedwagon]

@chazzwazzer

I bet you could—but I think the redditor angle is smugly needing to have more obscure reasoning that bucks mainstream consumerism while staying inside an “opulent” budget

My old road bike was a univega made from some nice stuff, really cool lugged dropouts. I think ant had something similar. Maybe it was the lower pressure 28s, but it was buttery.

[chazzwazzer]

Arguably the best fork I ever rode was on a Davidson steel crit bike. It wasn’t until I read a post from @tarckeemoon about how Davidson did forks that I even realized how much suspension it provided. I just knew it felt great.

[Jacobell]

@EndpointBraden

The latest scuttlebutt I’ve heard from a few reps now is that a certain top-4 brand is now cash up front with Shimano. The doomsday clock countdown to the buyout by the Waltons may have started.

I’ve been hearing this special rumor through the rep mill too. Although one version of it involved a qbp takeover.

[Master_Stabby]

top 4 brands are trek specialized and a bunch of also-rans so who are the top two also-rans?

[EndpointBraden]

@Jacobell

@EndpointBraden

The latest scuttlebutt I’ve heard from a few reps now is that a certain top-4 brand is now cash up front with Shimano. The doomsday clock countdown to the buyout by the Waltons may have started.

I’ve been hearing this special rumor through the rep mill too. Although one version of it involved a qbp takeover.

I don’t get the impression that either is in a position to take over the other.

[frank_doktor]

Giant and cannondale would probably round it out. Though the largest in the world, a few reports of giant not paying or delaying their bills in the last year. Figured Cannondale was better off recently, plus the whole Pon deal.

[EndpointBraden]

@frank_doktor

Giant and cannondale would probably round it out. Though the largest in the world, a few reports of giant not paying or delaying their bills in the last year. Figured Cannondale was better off recently, plus the whole Pon deal.

I hear PON is doing just fine across the board. I know some model revisions in their portfolio are getting held back until inventory levels in the USA drop a bit, but that’s more so they don’t have to take any deep discounts to move current stuff.

There’s word that some of the shops that were purchased during the pandemic bidding wars are underperforming too and a certain brand is trying to off load store fronts to a major east coast chain that they were previously bidding against.

[Shamp]

@EndpointBraden

There’s word that some of the shops that were purchased during the pandemic bidding wars are underperforming too and a certain brand is trying to off load store fronts to a major east coast chain that they were previously bidding against.

PLS BE TREK PLS BE TREK PLS BE TREK

[frank_doktor]

Given how a brand that did that seemingly demonstrated no knowledge of how to scale up that quickly, it isn’t surprising. And if they’d allowed me to ep another bike or two I could help free their shelves of some bikes.

But former owner def got out at best time. At least for our place they don’t own the building. But did stupid shit like changing some security stuff, duplicating keys when they weren’t supposed to.

[emory]

I got mtb

[Unknown.Gnome]

No animal print? WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT HAVE YOU DONE WITH @emory?!

[emory]

just you wait. I’m hoping a dropper King Cage will allow for a frame bag