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No, no, no. It's not your fault. Don't beat yourself up over it. It's your daughter's fault. Blame her!

The new pivot bike looks amazing but I wouldn’t want to join a team where there’s potential for the manager to try and fuck me

Why am I imagining this in Danny Harts voice ?

Looks like GT is no more

Unsure if it’s been mentioned yet, but Bernard and Jakob have unfollowed eachother on instagram. Oh the drama!

Without a doubt he will still be doing WynTV . Fundamental part of race weekends now

My 1st MTB was a brand new 1987 GT Avalanche Elite (the bike I'm on in my profile pic) that cost me $680 and I had to finance most of it at over 10% interest as a dumb 18yr old dude. I loved that bike and just recently donated it to a good home. GT will always have a special place in my heart and I hope they can return at some point in time.

its possible its just a post olympics shake-up

looks to be the new intense rider is juan fervelez

Pivot looking a bit light on numbers now , Bernard's trip for UCI points might not have been just for you tube views . Any rumors about Camile Balanche ? I would have thought quite a few teams would be keen .

I agree with you. What a fuckin waste. I gave them the benefit of the doubt the first year and even paid to watch. Last year I pirated it out of spite and will continue to do so until they actually make a positive impact on the sport.

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.

Make a well engineered but expensive to manufacture component that is reliable. Or. Make a cheap but unreliable component and just keep replacing it. A large number of the components will never actually be used enough to fail anyway (and so are very profitable) and those that are will be replaced immediately (and cheaply). Customers remember 'the outstanding customer service' rather than having a component that never actually needed it in the first place and associate that with being a good product. eg, Trek spec the '1248' freeehub body on a load of wheelsets, it's absolute garbage and fails constantly...

I have two BY droppers. One has been flawless for years. The other one has been giving me mild troubles since new, never as smooth and responsive as the other one. Then there were problems with failing bushings. I am still a big fan and would buy another one in a heartbeat, but they aren't completely flawless. I would not hesitate to buy a 3rd party wireless kit if reasonably priced and engineered well enough. Petty emtpy beer dramas make no difference to me.

What I see is a classic clash of US and DE business cultures.

There not any allegations in his post, at least none regarding OG. Merely that they said they have not wanted to move forward with any of the prototypes that have been tested so far.

Turns out it was not on good terms. BikeYoke has entered the chat and apparently this product doesn't been the German standards. Sorry for beating the dead horse but context needs to be present for vital readers

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