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I've got a beer can shim and carbon paste that keeps my post where I want it..

Well, I haven't heard this one before. 🙄

I unintentionally ended up with 4 bikes with 30.9 seat tubes. So now I'm a 30.9 evangelist with only my emotions to support it... I like the idea of 34.9 because bigger must be better (right?) and all sizes fit with just a shim if necessary.

Wait...You don't refer to yourself in the third person as "papa" when doing interviews as your company burns to the ground?

add to that what and how he wrote in the short time he was answering/explaining hinself @ mtb-news.de forum. he signed off with „papa needs now to sleep“

Yeah that's fair. I was being too judgemental without knowing the real facts. Either way, shit show, I feel bad for the poor workers. In Australian news bookings at the bike parks and trail building contracts are going strong this season, so decent turn around from the anaemic summer we had last year.

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.

Vital article from a while back at the Chinese bike show this year. Chatted with my local shop in regards to WR1 and they aren’t doing frame replacements unless catastrophic failure. Frames are being sent to a company in Vancouver for carbon repair. Molds apparently are being sold to Sava Cycles and they will be flying the bikes under them and not WR1. Below pictured is the proto dh WR1 but now Sava will be bringing it to production in the distant future.

It would be interesting to get a comparison of the Sava and the WR1 frames..

Carbon fiber Mah Jong sets.

Kinda bummed if they actually sold off the molds and IP on the frames to a no name China bike co. Holding out hope that in a couple years they'd keep tinkering away in the background on frame design / manufacturing techniques to make a low volume made in Kamloops frame work financially.

still waiting for our first enduro or dh 32!!

A response to a post I left on the PB thread... " you are correct. We had an entire organization of employees based in the US that were ready to keep this brand alive. Most of us have been there for 5 plus years and made North America over 50 % of YTs business. Instead Markus choose to screw us over and will try and reopen with all new staff and under his control. We are all at peace with it. We took care of so many customers the best we could. US was constantly bottle necked from YTG. We...

It is interesting, right? Places that make for good bike shows are inherently bad for bike riding (i.e. Vegas, Friedrichshafen, Taichung, etc) , and places that make for good bike riding are bad for trade shows (i.e. Whistler, Bellingham, etc). Sea Otter inhabits a weird middle ground where it's sort of bad for both (sunburns, rain, and lack of vendor amenities, and the riding is aggressively meh), but Sea Otter provides an acceptable-enough compromise to stick around year after year, durable and longstanding. Outerbike has tried to fill that gap, and Interbike tried to do that to varying degrees of...