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I’ve got a spare straight Flow EX 29 hanging on the wall just in case. Spokes were toast and a friend needed a 100 front hub for cheap.
I wonder if trek catches wind of this thread and contacts the powers that be here..
blog post with the embargo went up on the 10th only, bikes appeared way before that with no instructions on any embargo
Boo this man.
Well, the last time they tried to do a huge launch - where they properly kept everything under wraps on the dealer side, put a countdown on the website, and said something along the lines of "the biggest innovation in bikes since carbon fiber".... it turned out to be wavecell.
So maybe they're just happy soft launching dealer side and then doing a proper launch a bit later without too much fuss.
If I were in that meeting I'd have suggested the electric versions of our existing range got an "ER" designation for "enhanced ride" or "extended range," then you'd have the SlashER, FuelER, and SessionER. Kinda falls apart for the SupercaliberER, however. 😂
I mentioned it in the Powerplay SL review, but Dyname, Rocky Mountain’s in house motor company, is seeking to get involved with additional bike companies.
”As we enter a new era, we're thrilled to announce that we're now open for business and eager to help new bike brands develop their electric lineups. While we'll continue our valued collaboration with Rocky Mountain, our exclusive partnership has evolved to this exciting new stage.”
https://www.dyname.ca
They aren't in house. They used to share an ownership group, and now they don't.
I get it the confusion they're both owned by Quebecois but they don't all look the same.
The information available was on the site was vague but what lead me to the conclusion of being the same company is that Dyname and Rocky share the same address in Quebec. Too bad the old version of Dyname’s website is gone.
Funny thing is that they are a private owned company. They can't even blame 'market pressure' for every sh1tty penny pinching anti competition decision they make.
It's just Dick Burke being a douch canoe.
Full disclosure.....I chuffin' haaate Trek.
The entire company structure was available in the Rocky Mountain bankruptcy filings. We're nerds here, I know. I'll refrain from saying more because we already have the "will more companies be shutting down in the next 12-24 months thread" which is actually "Bike business discussion thread" or "lessons in bike company finance and valuation with Jeff", and I'm afraid someone will link that thread to tell me to stop discussing such things in the tech rumour thread.
No word about Trek using maxxis tires on the stock fotos? No more Bontrager tires?
https://www.rraven.co/zerro-intro (semi-stolen from the other site)
Very cool concept. I assume the two levers just push fluid on either side of a piston in the seat post, or something to that effect. Hydraulic leverage is a wonderful thing.
The videos look sped up to me, so I wonder how fast it actually is and how much lever force is actually required.
truly evil
Looks to me like they run each cable coming from the lever to different sides of the post, so that one pulls it down and one pulls it up. Not sure how it's locked into position at the top of its travel though, and how one smooth push of the lever would simultaneously unlock it and pull the post down.
I dont hate Trek but I do appreciate the usage of “douche canoe”, well done Sir.
I've been sneaking "EAD" into my work emails recently trying to get it to catch on as another wanky buzzword. Little do people know it means "eat a dick" lmao. People are stupid.
It's very inspiring that you can see it holistically.
If I had been in that meeting with you, I'd have suggested we remedy that last issue by rebranding the "Supercaliber" as the "Flash." Great name for an XC bike.
Call them Flesh and Flash.
Booyakasha - https://web.archive.org/web/20250000000000*/https://www.dyname.ca/
Beautiful, I didn’t expect anyone to care enough to archive that site. So yeah the address at the bottom of that page is the same address down to the suite number on Rocky Mountains LinkedIn.
”In 2009, the concept for a revolutionary electric drive system was presented to the design team at the company’s headquarters in Beauce, Québec. Propulsion Powercycle was created with the purpose of developing an innovative electric drive system which would be named Dyname.”
This reads to me like “The Company” is Rocky Mountain, but I’d like to see the filings that explain the relationships.
Okay Spomer I’m done talking about dying companies in the tech rumors thread so I’ll tie it back in. The Dyname motor is weird and impressive; I’m interested to see what other brands may adopt it.
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Dyname is the DBA of Propulsion Powercycle Inc. "The Company" would have been Procycle (as it then was), which later changed its name to Rocky Mountain when it dropped all of its weird ancillary stuff like Evox and Miele and (probably rightfully) refocused on Rocky Mountain. I think Rocky Mountain was a further chain below what's shown and Procycle (which now that I'm thinking about it was probably the DBA of Industries RAD inc.) completely subsumed it in 2018 with the name change, but I don't know the inner workings. The only reason we know the below is because of the court filings.
Dude the org chart couldn't be clearer.
But seriously, whenever I see anything this convoluted I immediately assume it's a drug front, money laundering, or tax evasion.
That was my first thought. I’ve also always thought Commencal is in the laundry biz.
Yeah it was clear, just not what I was exactly expecting was all. Immediately thought of that scene.
Being based in Andorra has a lot of benefits in terms of corporate/income tax, everything is like a third or less of the France equivalent. I wouldn't expect their workforce costs to be huge as the employee take home pay to company cost ratio is quite high in Andorra. It's basically one of their selling points when you go through the HR process and try to compare their low-balling offer vs your current salary.