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Look at something with transferable warranty then. I'd steer towards something with a Bosch motor, this is coming from someone who has only owned shimano motors too. In saying that, I would have done nearly 20,000km's on these shimano bikes and only had 1 "failure" which wasn't really a failure, rather the motor got a touch noisy.

I dont know of any that offer warranty to the second owner so cant be much help there but would definitely recommend checking what brands the local bike shops carry. Easier for any service issues if a good local shop is used to working on them

Specialized do transferable warranty to the second owner I'm pretty certain

Stay far away from fazua, their future is somewhat suspect, and failures are fairly common with them. Too early to tell with avinox. Shimano is doa. Brose is pretty solid from a larger company like specialized, if you have warranty. Their bikes are pretty "meh" though. I'd be looking for a used crestline 180 with the bosch gen 5 if I were you.

Racing and an ambassador like Tippie both come out of the marketing budgets for most companies. Which one is going to potentially sell more bikes? The guy racing or the guy at races and other events stoking other riders as well as hyping up your brand? I might be biased since I know Brett, but he brings a lot to the table and maybe for less than a WC racer.. That article really sums up Brett quite nicely.

We're def in the he said she said phase... That said, gun to my head if you ask me who to side with... I'll go with the marketing/brand manager who worked with Fox, Etnies, DC, and K2. Rather than the CEO-pilled guy who was... A bodybuilder? With experience in... Managing/marketing gyms? (Not exactly a product-based business, more so service. Unless he was sellin equipment i dunno shi) (As well as the man who has been CEO, head chump in charge, during this entire scenario where seemingly no employees, riders, or customers were warned of the impending doom... Rather baited in...

What if we chopped the injured riders into dog food during the season, to help cover expenses for the series? Or if we required donations of sperm and eggs from riders, which could be sold off to the highest bidder? Another idea: We could ask the riders to choose one of their parents, and if they don't make the cut for finals at least once during the season, we feed that selected parent to a pack of starving dogs. My main concern here is how we can make this race series more profitable. I believe we can do it, as...

I think it's a terrible idea to discontinue juniors, especially for the non-europeans riders. The tracks are so different in the US from the European tracks that going over as a junior is one of the only ways to learn. Its seems the US riders get less interest than the European and very few end up on factory teams as it is. I dont the the feeder series will be much help, as awesome as the Monster Pro DH and the National series races are, in giving the juniors enough exposure to be put on a factory team and then...