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anotherbikerguy Liked a reply to forum topic The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
3/25/2025 10:00am
I try my best to avoid them.
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chriskief Liked a reply to forum topic 2025 Race Talk
3/24/2025 2:44pm
€500,000 prize pot and produced by a team of up to 300 people on site, who managed the event, its broadcasting, and the light shows... for TRACK CYCLING?
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jessemelamed Liked a reply to forum topic 2025 Team Rumors
3/24/2025 2:40pm
If I can add my 2 cents here. I don't think Sram paid Jack, or the team, anything. That whole YT deal is that they run whatever they want because they don't take money from any sponsors. Now I think that was changing because the industry is struggling and they probably saw how much money they were losing out on. My best guess is YT asked Sram to pay to support the team and they said no, so YT doubled down on the TRP/Fox association they had already been building. Vali would be the only one I could see saying...
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iRider Liked a reply to forum topic The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
3/22/2025 8:08am
Maybe not all 40 employees are full time? I know of a biotech company that inflates their staff numbers for the investors by listing e.g. their freelance marketing guy, their interns, cleaning personal, tax consultant, etc. as "staff" although most of them do only get a tiny fraction of their full salary from them.
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DubC Liked a reply to forum topic The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
3/22/2025 8:06am
Most americans dont realize that the german bike market alone is nearly as big as the entire US bike market. We're too busy doing important things like defending the continued use of the imperial unit system and changing map names to the Gulf of America (aka the gulf of small hands and fragile egos).
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Beez177 Liked a reply to forum topic 2025 Race Talk
3/22/2025 7:58am
Sam Hill said... SRAM didn’t even return an email or phone call when he was try to put a bike together most recently. Seems pretty disrespectful to athletes (and champs) that helped push your products for many years. It’s one thing to not resign a rider. It’s another to just ghost them like they never existed!
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FullSend Added a comment about press release Race Face Introduces All-New Turbine SL Stem
3/19/2025 1:46am
Heavy (for an XC stem), expensive and only available with a 35mm clamp. That’s a „nope“ from me.
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Willis24 Liked a comment about Press Release Race Face Introduces All-New Turbine SL Stem
3/19/2025 1:41am
35mm bar clamp only... Ugh say's the luddite!
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Trocko Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
3/18/2025 11:20pm
Cody Kelly with a mechanical derailleur on a carbon stumpy 15
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steelisideal12 Liked a reply to forum topic The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
3/18/2025 5:41am
Isn’t the main problem with influencers the sheer number of them? YouTube is absolutely saturated with people making biking videos of varying quality. The second issue is that many of them were (just about) able to make a living from it when the the going was good. Now it isn’t, they can’t. Whilst I have some sympathy, it never was a sustainable living, and shouldn’t ever have been treated as such. Now the bike industry has contracted, the market isn’t there and they’ll have to move on and find employment like the rest of us do. The mountain influencer scene...
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Eae903 Liked a reply to forum topic The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
3/18/2025 5:36am
I'll bash them for you. All influencers are awful. Seth's bike hacks was the start of it and ruined everything. Everytime I see any influencer content recommended to me I die a little more inside. Bashing aside, I think the rise of influencers as marketing in mountain biking and cycling in general is a sign of the sport losing its identity. Whether that's good or bad is up to you, but most influencer content I see markets more to out groups and casual people over core riders, and with the covid casual rider kind of phasing out, I wonder if...
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sspomer Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
3/17/2025 12:54pm
specific thread for dropper post discussion started here. https://www.vitalmtb.com/forums/hub/dropper-post-insertion-depth-length…
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Jotegr Liked a reply to forum topic The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
3/15/2025 2:42pm
Is "Gravel Biking" In the room with us right now? Mwood, you asked a little while back about how people figured out Carbonda had Nukeproof - Carbonda is the "will sell DTC" branch of Flybike, the actual manufacturer who will not sell DTC. Members of a forum dedicated to the stuff have found they have Dissents, Megas and Gigas available in various colours.
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dancingwithmyself Liked a reply to forum topic The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
3/15/2025 2:39pm
Y'all do realize the people who were trying to get Taiwanese factories to triple their capacity to support the permanent increase in demand that was going to be created by Covid are the same people who thought paying influencers would have good ROI. Could simply be that, absent any external factors, brands are simply realizing that most of us don't give a sh!t, and the rest of us have wised up to the fact social media is just a collection of disguised commercials.
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Will_Narayan Liked a reply to forum topic The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
3/15/2025 2:37pm
I don't know in the rest of the world, but where I ride (east of France) covid has messed things up quite a bit. We used to organize rides through a messageboard and there could be big rides (up to 20 or 30 people sometimes, a bit of a mess :p), it had started to decline before covid but despite the bike boom during covid, the messageboard is now dead, now there are small groups through whatsapp and other networks like that. People's riding habits have changed, no more big rides, a few buddies here and there, a decent minority...
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dolface Liked a reply to forum topic The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
3/14/2025 10:38pm
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29 Liked a reply to forum topic The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
3/14/2025 10:36pm
very good article Fuck Robin Thurston, that guy is a cancer upon the cycling community
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Ryan Burney Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
3/14/2025 10:30pm
Took me long enough but here is a FEA of a tubed vs machined CS (take it all with a grain of salt as neither are optimized but its fun to see how the stress goes though the part). Scroll to the bottom: LINK HERE
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sspomer Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
3/14/2025 3:34pm
another awesome frame stiffness topic with @Ryan Burney https://www.vitalmtb.com/forums/hub/can-you-fine-tune-frame-stiffness-j…
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