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She would make them look like pylons. She didn’t just play hockey she was on the Swiss Olympic team.

She’s Parton ways with Canyon

tech rumors forum update - you've spoken and have been heard we'll lock out this thread at the end of the year (no matter what, it's just too darn big now), and will carry on with yearly tech rumors threads that will be stickied for easy participation. the 2026 thread is already underway here (not yet stickied) i just want to thank everyone for their feedback and insight on what this piece of the vital community means.

Jokes on you for listening to that shitty podcast

Soon they’ll be the best and only New Zealand running podcast if KB keeps this new shit up!

I was the one who originally floated the idea of maples to frameworks in the forum, people could have just read that and assumed I knew something.. but I didn’t, was just going off nekos vibe when commentating his runs. OTB podcast quite confidently said maples to pivot last episode.. but they are practically a bikepacking podcast now so can they really be relied on for mtb news? Hard to say.

Greenland to Frameworks?

This is fast becoming one of my favorite podcasts, well done y'all! The production part at the beginning was so good, I'd happily listen to a multi-episode deep dive on the entire process, especially all the little details we never hear about (3d-surfacing, multiple versions of drawings, the difference a particular production line at a given factory can make etc. I had NO idea!)

a new bikes: unaffiliated just went up and we have troydon from crestline on. at about 20 mins in, he goes into some really interesting details about how he got started and dealt with overseas manufacturing etc. the episode is "about ebikes" (the 2nd hour is) but we got derailed for a while b/c his production info was so insightful.

Thanks for all the love Vital! My goal is to continue a career that allows me to contribute to another 1000 pages of the tech rumour thread.

When I refer to "manpower" I am talking about our in-house capacity. We manufacture/assemble our posts in Taiwan in our own facilities with our own team of now 13 people. That means every single post is assembled by ourselves, not, as it is otherwise often the case, by a "partner"/factory/assembler who is contracted to do all the sourcing, manufacturing, assembly to get the product ready in the box to sell. We draw every single part, source the suppliers, have them made, get them to us and then put everything together in our own facilities with our own machines. No post...

I believe it's hard to put the blame on anyone specific. It's also not always fair to wonder, "what they were thinking". There are no hard feelings or criticism from our side towards anyone of our partners who might have forecasted too high, because it is our call to interprete these forecasts for ourselves. We have outstanding and strong relationships with all of our partners. Many of these relationships go way back. What I was trying to say with my post was that this was an extremely unreal situation everyone suddenly found themselves in. And it was naturally going to...

The bike industry as a whole could have sold more than they did in 2020 and most likely throughout the whole 2021. However, the supply chains simply were not able to cope with the demand. And I completely understand that, for some companies (those that essentially everyone needed parts from) it was impossible to give exact lead times. Their systerm could not scale for that demand and that's why you suddenly heard about lead times of 700-800 days. In reality it could have been 300 or 1000. Simply because no one could accurately scale it up just like that, because...

It's a very interesting and impressive interview. Thank you, Sam, for taking the time and going so much into detail and also Jeff, of course for trying and then making this happen! It was interesting to hear how YT experienced the turbulent times during covid. For us, I can say, that we already saw OE orders being postponed and cancelled already around Q2 2022. But the more important thing happened to me in April 2021. There was one particular OE customer who used to need around 1,500 post per year from us. End of 2019 (pre-Covid) we received a projected...

Wrapped up @jeff.brines podcast with Sam yesterday. I'm definitely not a business wonk, but I really appreciated the high-level business discussion that was still digestable for me, as an educator who runs a school. It also gave me a lot to think about even in my own practice of being the "CEO" of a school around making tough decisions, strategy, and revenues vs. outflow. Anyway, I feel like this sort of business insight into the bike world might have a somewhat limited audience... but I do think that it follow the 1,000 true fans model that the people who appreciate...

Thanks so much for the kind words. I know I have a lot to learn to be an effective podcaster, but if I keep getting at bats I promise I'll do everything I can to make the best show I possible can for you guys. I really enjoy it, and love learning from people like Sam. Cheers!

Sam Nichols touched on the point that it's risky to train your customers to never buy bikes at retail prices by frequently and predictably applying heavy discounts to move units. Then "new" YT turns around and effectively launches by putting out a limited release at barely break even price. Also interesting to hear that the more recent "race to the bottom" pricing from YT was less of an intended business model but simply more of an inventory dump maneuver to keep the lights on.

@jeff.brines the Sam Nichols podcast was absolutely awesome. Really great insight to not only the situation YT was in, but also how bike oems handle their business, as well as an anecdotal case study of how PE/VC actually happens. It's nice being able to digest that paradigm with a case study that is relevant to my interests... makes what is otherwise a pretty dry subject if you're not in the thick of it and makes it palatable. Thanks Jeff, great work!