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earleb Liked a reply to forum topic The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
11/27/2025 11:46am
We have a Ragwagon 3 and this hasn't been our experience. It's a cargo bike, but when loaded it doesn't feel like a overloaded wheelbarrow. It's my spouses bike and she's used it year around since the spring of 2020 and daily dragged two kids around on it. Our kids are small for their ages but at 8 and 10 we're still getting daily school runs on it and my spouse is of average 5'6" build not >175lbs. The bike has been a tank, spent several winters out daily in the Vancouver rain at my spouses work as she had...
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jazza_wil Liked a reply to forum topic The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
11/27/2025 11:46am
We have a Rad city 4 with over 5000kms on it rolling around Whistler, it’s been flawless and with the addition of a not legit kids seat on the back for our 6yo it’s constantly over loaded. Like Earleb said it’s a Hyundai and goes the same places our friends fancy specialized and trek etc e-bikes go. I’d happily buy another one, and might get one soon if they’re about to go down the sink.
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kperras Liked a reply to forum topic The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
11/27/2025 11:46am
It's easy to shit on Radwagon because they cater to the mass market, but they provided a valuable product and service that had knock-on effects throughout the rest of the industry. My Specialized Haul LT is a direct result of the market that Radwagon fostered and having a cargo bike to transport the family and run errands has been transformative for my lifestyle. I don't believe I would have arrived at the same situation that I enjoy now if it weren't for Radwagon.
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Jotegr Added a comment about bike check Trek Fuel LX custom
11/27/2025 10:18am
But why is it photographed in the gym? Are you to get fit alongside it? Stare longingly at it while suffering on the squat rack?
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MrDuck Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
11/27/2025 9:27am
One of the most interesting thoughts about biek innovation I've heard in a hot minute tbh
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Jotegr Added a reply to The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
11/27/2025 9:20am Man, this thread is great. Now we have the CEO of a reputable German bike (component) company coming in here and taking a look at the CEO of a German bike company of (now) ill repute. What other bike forum has such participatory reach? Well done guys! I would be very interested to hear more on FELT. The news seems...
Sacki Liked a reply to forum topic The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
11/27/2025 9:13am
I don't think it correct to assume that "Supercar money" can not be made in the Bike Industry. You can make decent money in the bike industry, then reinvest that money in something that multiplies your wealth astronomically. We live in a crazy world, where you can make insane amount of money with speculation in no time, if you are smart and/or lucky. Now, that money may not directly come from the bike industry, but I would say he could have pulled off his wealth from smart investment of money that he originally made in the bike industry. I believe...
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anotherbikerguy Liked a reply to forum topic The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
11/27/2025 9:11am
Campagnolo has also basically abandoned most OEM sales, except maybe for Ekar. Their product tiers effectively now run from "premium" to "ultra-premium." Not sure that strategy is working out the way they'd hoped.
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mickey Liked a reply to forum topic The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
11/27/2025 9:11am
https://www.bikeradar.com/news/campagnolo-job-cuts-2025 Only 35 years after the fatal blow of Juli Furtado swapping out the Campy OR parts on her Yeti for Shimano the night before the Durango Worlds, Campagnolo is finally starting to feel the heat of missing the mtb and ebike markets.
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jeff.brines Liked a reply to forum topic The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
11/27/2025 9:10am
I get the desire to move on from this story, but it deserves the attention it is getting. Here is why: First, there is not much else happening in the space. The Felt news is interesting, and I reached out to Cesar and may do something there later. He is a great guy. Outside of that, the only real story right now, in my view, is the health of the consumer, which everytime I bring up in conversation i get glazed eyeballs (lol...its riveting!). When you compare that to the personality of Markus, the very public way he is handling...
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63expert Liked a reply to forum topic The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
11/26/2025 9:18am
@Downtime Podcast Been busy and have sporadically been able to follow the thread. I haven’t listened to the DT podcast. Haven’t listened to Brines debrief. But I do know this. MF asked/paid Chris to provide a platform. Chris did that. Jumping on Chris for not asking the right questions is crap. MF was on the back foot from the company crisis. Chris didn’t put him there. MF had every opportunity to at least clear the air and admit wrongdoing. At any point during the pod MF could have said “Let me say this about that”. MF had an open mic...
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FullSend Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
11/26/2025 6:57am
Sorry, just realized that the contents of that website are, in fact, not available in English. Now I'm sitting here, having a little laugh thinking about how jarring and discordant that word must sound to anyone who's not used to German pronounciation. English: effective top tube length 😊 German: OBERROHR 😬😠
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boozed Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
11/26/2025 6:56am
They won't even let us see their Lenkwinkel.
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Jotegr Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
11/25/2025 4:42pm Honestly equally secret to Oberrohr for everyone too lazy to use a translator app, myself included.
TEAMROBOT Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
11/25/2025 4:41pm
Reach: 500mm Stack: TOP SECRET!!!
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bikelurker Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
11/25/2025 4:13pm
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owl-x Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
11/25/2025 12:33pm
Thanks for the math award. I don’t even practice so it’s double nice. We are also very handsome here on the messageboards. That bike is super dumb looking.
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alonzobutler Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
11/25/2025 12:32pm
One thing that became almost immediately clear in the relatively short time that I have been reading and participating in bike-related internet forums is that the proportion of posters that are good at math is extremely high. It seems that 1 in 10 is an actual engineer, and the proportion of math-brained folks among the remainder is way higher than the public at large. As such, holding back geometry information strikes me as misguided because one's efforts are destined to be futile unless they also refuse to release pictures of the product. From the moment the bike is portrayed in...
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FullSend Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
11/25/2025 11:07am
Here we go, it had to happen sooner or later... The first ever production full-suspension carbon XC-Bike with 32" wheels. Read more about it here: https://www.stoll-bikes.com/p32 Geometry table is at the very bottom of the page. Though it seems like Stoll won't tell you the full geometry data unless you're ordering a bike. They've got sizes "Medium" and "Large", although people have done the math for the missing geometry numbers and both sizes are very big. The size recommendations seem a little strange, to say the least.
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LePigPen Liked a reply to forum topic The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
11/25/2025 11:00am
This is a classic derailment. I don't think anyone expected Chris to grill Markus like it's a cross examination and no one expected Markus to do anything but represent himself in the best possible way to position his new company to re-start. At best, it is a bit of new information from one side... At worst it's a nothing burger. I hope Brines has contacted a certain someone in an effort to get the other side of the story. Because at this point that's the only thing that would make this narrative compelling. We never quite got a bullet points...
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