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From what I heard guerilla gravity’s problem is they had an investor with no interest in weathering the impending storm that the bike industry is in now. Reeb on the other hand is a passion product of someone who doesn’t have to worry about money. They do not need to grow or even be profitable. Much like the athertons who can rely on sponsorships for their personal income. Atherton and reeb bikes doesn’t need to make a dime in their lifetime. They can afford to put every bit of revenue back into the company and better yet can trade on...

GT could build a future as a premium E-bike brand building e-bikes for older riders that were kids in the '70s & '80s and still think of the brand as premium. That said that window is closing fast as so many good e-bikes are being released. Soon, it'll be hard to stand out.

No offence, but that's some industrial grade hopium right there. Others have pointed out how incredibly unlikely that is. All I'll say is that they already own Santa Cruz and Cannondale, do you really believe they'd gut there mid-budget firm to reposition it to compete in the same market as their other 2 companies? GT is dead. Long live GT

This is making no sense at all, you can't ''pause'' a brand, lay off staff & athletes just to try to position yourself as a premium brand the year after. They're actually doing the complete opposite of what's required to reposition GT as a premium brand within the next two years.

I kinda doubt people will just start to see GT as a top shelf brand all of a sudden just because they want to position themselves as one. Making your bikes more expensive isn’t going to change your brand perception, just means less people will buy it because the value is worse compared to the competition.

My GT story; In the years 2000-2001, I was working as a team technician and road manager for Schwinn Toyota RAV4 Racing, GT also was owned by Questor at the time. Our challenging experience began in August 2001 during a World Cup race in Arai, Japan. My company credit card was suddenly declined, and we started hearing rumors from the United States that Schwinn/GT was going bankrupt. Despite having our hotel pre-paid, we—myself and team members Elke, Leigh D, and Deldycke—found ourselves in a precarious situation. The office was giving us vague reassurances about potential loans and future payments, but...

I've only ever had to Grease the seal head, otherwise i dont touch them... several v2's that have been going for years. got 2 x v3's and they are even better. I had several Fox transfers fail, PNW fail... but never a failure of a oneup.

Hardly fair to imply the OneUp post falls into the cheap but unreliable category. You'll find outliers that have replaced a number of cartridges, others who occasionally service them, and yet others still who've more or less never had to service them. Other than cleaning the collar and adding slick honey to the seal head, I've never had to do a take-apart service of any of my oneup posts after years of use. Where were you for the first 5 years of dropper posts? Maybe you've moved the goalposts since but 90% of the stuff from that era is going...

You know how rich dorks move into the cool neighborhood and then start complaining about the nightclub’s noise and the neighborhood starts sucking and becomes lame and they’re all looking around like what? That’s what this feels like. Union embodied the passion that truly drives the sport. Their whole thing was to help, not to earn. Pricing them out is not better for anyone.

Bummed to see all the teams closing, that one hits the feels bigtime. The Union did amazing work.

Long live The Union. A fraction of the budget and a bigger stack of results than so many high-dollar teams out there. Their absence tells the story of things to come.

So sad to see them go, probably my fav team ever

Not surprising but damn, what a loss for the sport!

There was an interview with Sacki sometime around the release of the latest n greatest Reverb where he related Sram asking him for a post and he mistakenly thought there was the potential for a licensing arrangement. Turns out it was for reverse engineering purposes to find a way to circumvent his patents. Sure it happens and woe for assuming, but not even paying for the thing is a poor showing.

Yeup… just as I suspected… looks like a rear shock

Of all the standards that could potentially happen, I hope a standard motor mounting pattern will happen, or at least shrink the pattern down to 2 or 3 different patterns depending on the motor. (EU USB-C law where you at?) As a consumer I would be worried about a company like DJI, or even smaller 3rd party motor makers not seeing sales where they want and cut off production, leaving me SOL except to the frame maker if I was to have issues. If I was a product manager or designer in the bike world, it'd be a similar concern...

Looks like an EXT Vaia.

haha someone got it