editing makes me nauseous
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You know, I’m usually pretty good at this stuff, but I saw this video someplace else before, and my first thought was “wow this guy actually kinda knows how bikes are put together”. Then, “There’s no way you could actually sit on this thing”. I missed where they started cutting back and forth with a real bike at the end…
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that guy is a wizard and he seems genuinely nice
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amaury is amazing, a true wizard.
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The giant banana one is good
One of the oldest of local oldheads with an interesting strava bike list. I too have a lot of miles on seemingly random assortment of bikes
Also lollin’ that the guy was a coach with a junior team and like 2 kids who raced and still couldn’t get many miles on the tandem
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This guy puts more miles on his bikes than I put on my cars
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high mileage steve!
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Both the national carriers in Aussie and NZ have stopped sending parcels to the US.
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america first (and only) baybeeeeee
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looking at this article, looking at bike out in the driveway
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Makes me wonder what the dealers are going to do. I don’t think there are many R&M only dealers, if any, but R&M had to be pretty high margin. Guess they can still do service until they decide they can import bikes again?
They can’t be selling many $9-15,000 ebikes in the states, so it’s probably an easy decision to hold off until things calm down.
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Guessing that anyone close to buying a new R&M probably did so before the tariffs kicked in and that their customer base probably skews very liberal and the libs don’t have much confidence in The Economy right now (along with a lot of other folks) to be dropping that much money on a bike at retail when other options are available. I’m curious though about how much pre-tariff inventory they’re sitting on and if any of that is being sold for pre-tariff prices. When Tern did a ~10% price increase back in April REI upped their prices to match even on existing stock.
The various R&M Culture models that Upway had seemed to sell well enough even though their discount prices were as much as most other brand’s retail prices.
From what I understand there is very little US inventory outside of what is already owned by dealers. It’ll be up to the dealers if they’re charging pre or post tariff pricing. I do FIFO pricing, so would keep pre-tariff until those models sell.
I did see 3 R&Ms around the city over the weekend, so people are apparently buying them.
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I was eyeballing a bunch of Packsters that ended up on Upway. Most were very lightly used and were bought “from a business” so I dunno if that is R&M demo bikes or what. As you way, a “used” Packster was still as much or more than a new Urban Arrow so the R&M premium remains steep. I had been sort of open-minded to snagging one if I found one for a crazy price but now I’m a little worried about how repairs
Hopefully repairs will be fine other than just more expensive for parts but who knows with * gestures wildly *
Not much proprietary stuff on mine and very little of it is stuff that I’d expect to fail.