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Correct! Boeing bought the drawbenches that lived in Connecticut and also the draw benches from Sapa. 2015 was the last time anything except drawn-over-mandrel straight gauge 6061 has been available domestically. Swaging machines and shops that can dome and swage still exist, if you know where to look. There might be an automotive muffler plant in Ohio that has a draw bench suitable to the task in mothballs, but the chances of a dusty old mandrel for a Klein downtube being useful, or there being staff members who remembers how to run the machine are pretty darn low. Outside of...

another +1 for never ever bringing back protected status. everyone has the same poles to ride in between. stay on course, go fast, make a result. keep human judgement out of it. (still absolutely gutted for lachie)

I mean, it's not that confusing... 😆 2014: Easton-Bell Sports sold its baseball and softball division to Bauer Performance Sports ($330,000,000) 2014: Race Face buys Easton Cycling ($?), Fox buys Race Face and Easton Cycling ($30,000,000) 2016: Easton-Bell Sports sells Bell and Giro (and Blackburn) to Vista Outdoor ($400,000,000) 2020: Rawlings acquired Easton Diamond Sports from Peak Achievement Athletics (formerly Bauer Performance Sports) ($?) 2022: Vista Outdoor buys Fox (the other Fox) ($540,000,000) 2023: Fox (this Fox) buys Marucchi (whose logo looks like Manitou and name sounds like Marzucchi, which is how people frequently mispronounce Marzocchi –– which they also...

I think being in Creekside plays into it. You had to make an effort to get to the track as opposed to just walking by in the village and seeing something going on

Wow what a show. Stoked to finally have a WC in our backyard and wow did it ever deliver.

Must have been the brakes

Hopefully I'll do a quick substack on this one, because its really bad. LOL. Fox bought the company for $572M, financed with debt. Interest on the debt was roughly $107-115M per year. The unit was generating roughly $65-73M in EBTIDA per year. When you net everything out, Fox lost about $400M before counting capex and working capital. The only thing Fox retains in this deal are the losses. No IP sticks around, not that they'd want it anyway. Baseball has nothing to do with suspension. OUCH.

You can still delete this slop.

I cruised the pits today and made my amateur PIT BITS here: https://www.vitalmtb.com/forums/hub/evans-whistler-pit-bits

from whistler world cup yeti pits just now

Somewhere in California the cpu in a long dormant machine fires up, cold red eyes flicker into existence and a robot returns, ready, once again, to fight the pedal kickback wars.

Live update from Midway. Also, excellent choice of words from my boots on the ground.

Aight, i'mma head out. No bikes left.

There are some dramatic dh rumors circling. Atherthon and MS will stop the programs Trek and Canyon have masive budget haircuts. At Canyon only Kiefer is under contract, all others did not accept the new offers.

to everyone bummed on the discussions and derailment, there is that novel idea of starting unique threads for unique topics.

There are like 3 completely idiotic conversations happening at once here.

As you mentioned, this is old information by many years and product cycles. Yeti does all their engineering work in house from kinematic to ID, FEA and carbon layup along with custom suspension tuning. They do partner with a vendor in Asia for production but all the main work is done in Golden. You can hear a lot of what goes on direct from the main man there in this interview You Think You Understand MTB Suspension? Think Again | Yeti Cycles, Peter 'Stretch' Zawistowski You can also look at their Linkedin page to see exactly who and how many...