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hogfly Added a reply to The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
11/4/2025 5:35am Hey Nukeproof: seems like there’s a pretty good distributor and marketing infrastructure set up in the US if you’re looking to move into that market. Give Jeff Taylor a call. Now opening Bentonville and San Clemente locations: the Nukeproof Bunker.
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LePigPen Liked a reply to forum topic The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
11/4/2025 5:26am 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...
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hogfly Added a reply to The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
11/3/2025 11:17am Carbon fiber Mah Jong sets.
hogfly Added a reply to The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
11/1/2025 11:23am From a commenter on PB: “ Everyone needs the hear the facts. Markus flossman is an egotistical freak and scammer. After insolvency there was a handshake deal for YT USA to purchase exclusive brand rights and be independently operated. Truth is Markus couldn’t stand the idea of US branch not being under his control. Continued to shoot over shitty deals...
hogfly Added a reply to The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
11/1/2025 9:11am I have no idea how it would work, but it seems like the US team (Jeff Taylor and crew) were attempting to somehow separate YT USA from YT Germany and take over operations as a “new” and separate entity. No clue how that would work legally or financially, but the part about US and Germany not being able to come...
hogfly Added a reply to 2026 Team Rumors
10/31/2025 11:04am New article on Pinkbike on rumors shouts out the "sleuths on the vital forums." Haha. Main one of interest was that they listed Danny Hart off Norco as "debunked" and said they've talked to Minaar who debunked it.
hogfly Added a reply to The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
10/31/2025 10:18am Doing the Lord's work. They pulled it down, now. Feel so freaking bad for all the employees, but at least some of them didn't go quietly into that good night.
TEAMROBOT Liked a reply to forum topic Should Juniors still have a place on World Series Teams?
10/30/2025 8:00am 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...
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MTBDHdad Liked a reply to forum topic Should Juniors still have a place on World Series Teams?
10/30/2025 7:59am 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...
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hogfly Added a reply to 2025 Race Talk
10/28/2025 7:08am A litlte more somber... but the amount of people bitching about Yeti "only" putting up 10k toward Adolf Silva's Road to Recovery fund made me realize how wildly people overestimate the profitability of bike brands. Could they do more? Possibly... but 10k isn't just a "rounding error on a spreadsheet" (to borrow a popular phrase) to a company of that...
hogfly Added a reply to Clear riding glasses
10/27/2025 8:30am You can usually get Wildhorn Radke's on Amazon for like 40 bucks. They all come with a clear lens and a tinted lens.
hogfly Added a reply to 2026 Team Rumors
10/27/2025 7:48am No real basis in any evidence but just a hunch: HSC racing (US-based team with Clay Harper's son Zac, Sully Notaro, and Ryder Lawrence) had YT as their frame sponsor last season for mainly racing the Monster Energy Pro Downhill Series in the US. Ryder did very well in the last two WC races (top 5 at both, I believe)...
ARonBurgundy Liked a reply to forum topic The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
10/22/2025 3:20am I have a real hard time believing AI is going to result in some sort of utopia for the masses. There's enough money right now that we could all get some level of UBI and be working less and spending more time on our passion projects. But when have the ultra wealthy EVER wanted to part with even a little bit more of their money? If we just give them a few more tax breaks to pay for their data centers and help subsidize the cost of the electricity and water to run them so they can become trillionaires, THEN...
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Jason_Schroeder Liked a reply to forum topic 2025 Red Bull Rampage
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hogfly Added a reply to 2025 Red Bull Rampage
10/20/2025 11:41am I also want to say big respect to Reed Boggs for dealing with a frustrating situation yesterday with wisdom and class. It's got to be tough standing at the top, knowing that you have a good chance of dropping in and potentially winning the whole thing (or at least placing top 3), choosing discretion over valor, and then congratulating the...
clivegosling Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 Team Rumors
10/20/2025 8:20am Hi all, I'm the 'Gosling' being referenced in the Bikeradar article. I had meetings in Les gets with five teams, YT being one and I'll start by saying that Gunnar Franke (Team Manager) is one of the best guys in the pits running a great team with awesome riders and staff. However we (Nukeproof) don't have the budget to go from 'no team' to one of the best, and highest budget teams in the pits when today we are not even selling any bikes. I also feel that we are not the type of brand that wants or needs one...
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hogfly Added a reply to 2025 Red Bull Rampage
10/20/2025 7:44am Tough day yesterday. I was sort of watching off and on while working on a truck project outside. Unfortunately, I was watching during Silva's crash. It was absolutely awful to see. It was crazy how Rogatkin uttered, "No!" halfway through Silva's double flip attempt. He could clearly see that he wasn't going to make it and knew that the resultant...
ishouldridemore Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 Team Rumors
10/19/2025 12:12pm First things first, It wasnt on a pit bike. Secondly you can get hurt doing anything in life.. that’s life. And thirdly if you’d listened to any of his pod casts last year you would have heard him speak about the meltdowns himself and discuss how he has grown as a person and doesn’t do this anymore. Before you criticise the guy atleast have a small understanding of what you’re criticising.
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hogfly Added a reply to 2026 Team Rumors
10/16/2025 12:35pm Yeah... he never said anything about "I'm not being renewed" or "I'm being dropped." Purely speculative, but reading between the lines, that would indicate to me that an offer was made to Dak, but that it probably was a reduction in his previous compensation (which is understandable from Mondraker's point of view when mainly looking at race results this season...
hogfly Added a reply to 2026 Team Rumors
10/16/2025 5:23am They discuss his future later in the pod. Pivot doesn’t seem likely from what they said. Norco or Intense both seemed possible. Also: the way the whole thing is discussed is kind of strange. There is never a mention of “I won’t be back with Mondraker” from what I heard. It just seems that they haven’t necessarily renewed his contract...