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In addition to Lapierre filing for judicial reorganization, Raleigh (Accel UK/Ireland) has filed to appoint administrators. Both are trying to restructure separately from the Accell holding company. Should be interesting. Bike EU article may be paywalled

My first “nice” bicycle was a Raleigh Chopper like this one:

When I was a little, 5-year old kid in the 80s, I won a full-sized, red Raleigh mountain bike in a draw at the general store in my tiny, Newfoundland hometown. The old man was fucking stoked. Both myself and my older brother each road it for a time when we were older. I think he still has it out in the garage. All to say, I'm sad to hear of their demise as well, as I have a lingering fondness despite their products holding zero consumer appeal to me.

It's actually @jeff.brines and @TEAMROBOT in the BS podcast, not @sspomer.

Shut the fuck up about drivetrain efficiency. Holy shit. Go find a different thread.

The electronic suspension/high pivot/stand up and pedal convo is the dumbest thing to happen to tech rumors in a long time. Banal, illogical, myopic.

Nvidia and most chip designer companies operate based on the litography roadmap that the chipmaker have. We already know that updated 4nm, 3nm and 2nm chip are in various prototype & testing stage with planned rollout for well into 2029. So Nividia is only planning new generation based on the TSMC timeline. We will only know what the actual product spec (how much core, memory size, memory bus width, wattage and various speed) 3-6 months in advance which is usually 1 1/2+ year since the last top sku was launched. RTX 3090 was launched sept 2020 RTX 4090 was launched...

I mean it just came off as your typical fortune mag ceo jerk off interview. I will agree with and give props to trek’s investment in female athletes. Vali, Rachel, neff, Mosley. They have no issue funding around a female first and men second in mtb racing. for me reading the article explains a lot of how trek ended up in the shape it is today. But I agree burke doesn’t seem like a bad guy. But he is pretty full of himself and his views on things that ain’t got nothing to do with bikes. A couple of which...

I just stumbled on an interview with the CEO of Trek. https://fortune.com/2026/05/06/trek-ceo-john-burke-gen-z-tariffs-ai-nat… I only skimmed it but my initial reaction was "woah, tone deaf". Also, LMK if this was posted earlier and I missed - will delete if so.

Is this an 75% e-bike thread and forum now? Time to say 75% goodbye? Asking for a friend.

These days* the main differences are BB's are often crappy plastic cups with narrow profile bearings pressed in to frames with poor tolerances, so they need retaining compound to hold them in. Headsets are more commonly alloy cups pressed in to better tolerance frames so they don't need the retaining compound to hold them in or take up variation in roundness. Or they don't have cups and the bearing sits directly on the frame. It isn't unheard of to loctite a headset cup in but its extremely rare and is a sign of a problem with the frame rather than...