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mickey Added a reply to 2025 Tennessee National DH at Windrock
3/31/2025 6:50am The old trailbuilding staff used to go through and chop the ground up in key sections to make it looser before the event- the new management seems to have run a plate compactor down some of those same sections. Titus’s crash reel from yesterday kinda highlights that, eh?
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mickey Added a reply to The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
3/27/2025 7:05am Corporate. These stations usually have more than 100 gas pumps. Selling gas is a lot like selling complete bikes, no margins. Merch and to some extent foodservice is how they manage to pay workers. In South Carolina, they actually closed a public rest area on i95 to make room for a bucee’s near myrtle beach.
mickey Added a reply to The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
3/27/2025 6:27am Bucee’s is a a consumer cult that is all about buying branded merch with the beaver character on it. A Texas-based corporation, they have just expanded to the southeast in the last few years. People who generally aren’t into consumerism(like the women who live in my house) somehow find Buceee’s merchandise to be hilarious. Swimsuits, hats, fleece blankets for every...
mickey Added a reply to The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
3/27/2025 5:21am The BucEee’s wage signs get shared pretty dang often by people I know in the bicycle industry. It’s shameful how little margin is available to pay employees in the retail end of the bike bussiness. anecdotally, The number of newer shops that I’ve seen pop up that are organized as loss-leading tax dodges for wealthy folks still isn’t moving the...
AndehM Liked a reply to forum topic 2025 Team Rumors
3/26/2025 7:10am
I like that they're still encouraging the kids to excel at school at the same time (listing their GPAs). Way to lead by example Neko & FW.
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sspomer Liked a reply to forum topic 2025 Race Talk
3/24/2025 7:38am
Wade Bootes and Guido Tschugg come out of retirement! on a serious note, looks interesting for sure. if anyone can make a cool course, it's jacobs!
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mickey Added a reply to 2025 Race Talk
3/24/2025 7:38am Bitchin seeing some 3x action! Making advancing rounds the race for 2nd, instead of the race for the first corner might help to get rid of the holeshot/block to the finish racing that plagued most dual and 4x tracks.
mickey Added a reply to 2025 Team Rumors
3/24/2025 4:31am WBD has announced the end of their Track Champions League, a made for tv velodrome/discotheque series, which, afaik, represented WBD’s first direct investment in cycling. The end of TCL leaves the basically broken UCI Nation’s Cup as the only global track series. If WBD is killing made for tv events- it’s hard not to see them axing events that can’t...
owl-x Liked a reply to forum topic 2025 Race Talk
3/24/2025 4:09am
They probably put some dork ass roadie sales guy in charge or something. My short time in and around the bike industry revealed that the wrong dudes are usually in charge of the cool stuff. Mind boggling.
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Finkill Liked a reply to forum topic The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
3/14/2025 3:15pm
That linked article has not aged well.
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hamncheez2003 Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
3/14/2025 1:51pm
Well said. If Neko started a Frameworks (not to be confused with the new computer company) SubscribeStar or Patreon to support his world cup team, as well as his R&D, no one would be complaining or poking fun at him, and a bunch of us would probably subscribe.
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jonkranked Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
3/14/2025 1:50pm
another thought i had..... having a discount from that program could possibly be used to give the sponsors a way to more directly quantify the amount of sales they are getting via their sponsorship via that program
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dolface Liked a reply to forum topic The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
3/14/2025 9:52am
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mickey Added a reply to The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
3/14/2025 8:10am To crowdsource unpaid labor for the leaches that are left? Nah. The number of times that i KNOW people who work for Outside have stolen information from these forums is too great for anything like that. Making unpaid posters do the work that journalists used to, so the tiny number of civilian people who care can score some cred? I’ve...
mickey Added a reply to The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
3/14/2025 7:49am I would be willing to pay for Escape Collective if they didn’t cover gravel but did cover domestic road, cx and XCO in America. As a life long mtb, cx, road racer, gravel racing is clearly a horrible, regressive trend that is doing irreparable damage to legacy bike racing. The most expensive races, ever, with the lowest costs for a...
mickey Added a reply to The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
3/14/2025 6:56am Someone needs to get Richard Schwinn(now that Waterford is closed, too) on a podcast and ask him how he feels NOW about moving the majority of Schwinn production to Giant in the mid 80’s. I have a buddy that works at the Columbia bicycle factory in Massachusetts. Founded in 1877, and currently located in the 1914-built factory, Columbia stopped making...
mickey Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
3/14/2025 5:51am All i know is Joe’s team’s “only fans thing” is less insulting to my intelligence than the press releases that dropped from Temecula around the same time… If that Axess site was for Frameworks 5-dev, i’d sign up in an instant.
TEAMROBOT Liked a reply to forum topic The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
3/14/2025 4:53am
I'm certain they haven't.
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DontWorryImAPilot Liked a reply to forum topic The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
3/12/2025 5:09pm
...and everyone called me stupid and said I was overreacting for stretching a bit and buying a bike pre-election because I knew what was going to happen with these tariffs. Of course, I'm not a bike company but I'd hate to be shutting down my riding because I couldn't deal with the tariffs. I was looking to WR1 for new wheels when I eventually go beyond help with my current ones. Might have to shift to Nobl since they now have an in-the-US facility.
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Brian_Peterson Liked a reply to forum topic The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
3/12/2025 7:17am
The PR on that deal kinda had me thinking that they "investment " by the factory into the brand might have based on Factor owing them money..
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