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I guess it depends on what you mean by premium. I'm not talking about cool-guy frames like frameworks, raaw, etc. Instead I'm talking about for a company like Cannondale, under Pon, presumably a "big" brand. Stuff like Stumpjumper, Levo, Ripmo, Vala, Spectral, etc. You really think MOST of the people buying those are choosing the alloy versions not because it's cheaper? Why can't you buy an alloy Nomad then? Why are the alloy options so limited across the industry? All those brands have " established history of building long term durability not the cheapest option available" too. Keep in mind...

You do realize restaurants run single digit margins. Like low single digit.

The negative is obvious and terrible, 150 people losing their jobs and a local venue losing industry and community. My heart goes out to anyone affected by the layoffs, and I genuinely am pulling for Cannondale to work with out. That said, it feels like they're trying to conglomerate the brands under one roof, they've slowly been doing this in the background with some of the B2B systems, and as a shop guy, I can't say the idea of having one rep for multiple brands bothers me at all. One stop shop kind of thing in many respects. We're not...

Conservatism: "Government doesn't work and we'll prove it by the way we run the government."

Yes, but it is neither taxed nor regulated nearly enough. You sound like Lance Armstrong … “I’m the most tested athlete of all time”… The financialization of the global economy is very clearly a rigged game, and the players in the game are barely, barely, barely accountable in this country.

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/fox-factory-announces… There ya' have it. This is corporate speak for "we fired Mike". I can only assume they read this forum and saw the scathing replies to the Marucci deal.

I think yall are underestimating how much easier planned obscelence is with electronics

I hate that my first thought was "that looks sweet"

WRPs glimpse on IG of the Cassette in a Can is pretty rad!

But, but, but....how are all of the people working at or selling those brands supposed to pontificate about sexism in the industry and shame everyone else for selling "men's" bikes that could never deign to meet the hugely different needs of a woman? LOL After all of those years of bro-science (cloaked as pro-science) marketing pitches about male vs. female proportions, it was fun to see how after Specialized bought Retul and logged data from 1000s of bike fit measurements, they were forced to admit that the physical measurement overlap was so huge that only unisex bikes really made sense...

How do you know how much power they have if you just felt them in the pits?

Brian Park visited Taiwan Bicycle Association and posted a few thoughts. In short, no one is confident about where the industry is at right now. 5 things we learned at Taichung Bike Week | Bicycle Retailer and Industry News

I’ve seen it too many times in this thread recently. I’m sorry but grammar matters sometimes. You pedal a bike. Therefore it’s pedaling a bike or pedaling efficiency. Peddle means to travel from place to place selling small goods, or to persistently try to convince people to accept an idea, story, or piece of information. Peddling is the act of trying to sell those goods or ideas. The only thing you’re peddling with an eCVT is the idea that it’s somehow better (or worse) than the other options.

This is the point that many forget when there's outrage over the use of AI for creative work. Those capabilities were built on the learning (mass consumption) of human-derived material with no compensation whatsoever. We haven't even touched on the fact that the output is now some gross generalization of individual creativity, so now our world gets painted with a single brush rather than many. This is why most low input A.I. generated images look the same depending on the model you use. Low input is an interesting point because we can also discuss the erosion of true skillsets (think...

That’s it, Shaft driven bikes. Shafted Purse 2028, I’m calling it now.

Switching bike/drivetrain mid-season would not be something most riders/teams would want to do. If anyone is going to give up the belt drive, they will do it next season.

I mean, it's not that confusing... 😆 2014: Easton-Bell Sports sold its baseball and softball division to Bauer Performance Sports ($330,000,000) 2014: Race Face buys Easton Cycling ($?), Fox buys Race Face and Easton Cycling ($30,000,000) 2016: Easton-Bell Sports sells Bell and Giro (and Blackburn) to Vista Outdoor ($400,000,000) 2020: Rawlings acquired Easton Diamond Sports from Peak Achievement Athletics (formerly Bauer Performance Sports) ($?) 2022: Vista Outdoor buys Fox (the other Fox) ($540,000,000) 2023: Fox (this Fox) buys Marucchi (whose logo looks like Manitou and name sounds like Marzucchi, which is how people frequently mispronounce Marzocchi –– which they also...

According to your own brilliant AI post (which I understand you may not have been able to read), here are some similarities vs. differences: Shared between Norco Team DH & Canyon Sender Frose Stock High-Pivot Domn Differences, Sender vs. Team DH, respectively: Long: 125mm vs 41SMM Root Pivot: 927MM vs S67MM Ligh Pivot CB vs Low Pivot SD And some specs that may help differentiate between them: Sender: Tech Sper 18.0 min High-Pivot Layout: 72.5mm High Pivot Layout: 830mm RRID8T: 325mm Team DH: High SSFR: 7S.8mm Tean-Pivot Suspension: 2S.5mm Tean-Pivot Suspbnrti: 36Smm Rull DK18K2: 13S Shops Now please stop posting.

true radial like a car tire is 90 degrees to the direction of rotation, which is horizontal. none of the mtb radial tires in production by any brand are like that, and they vary from 55-80 degrees. traditional construction mtb tires are 45 degrees, which is diagonal to the direction of rotation. so diagonal or bias ply are both right, and radial is not literally correct, it's just an obtuse angle. one might assume that schwalbe thought marketing tires as 'obtuse' would not be as effective as calling them 'radial'.