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mickey Added a reply to 2026 Team Rumors
12/18/2025 5:58am WD40’s sport marketing efforts are managed by former World Cup 4x pro Robin Baloochi. It’s kinda an endemic non-endemic sponsorship- WD does have that whole line of bikeshop oriented product…
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mickey Added a reply to USA Cycling 2026 National Championship Schedule
12/18/2025 5:49am The XCO track in Roanoke is such an embarrassment. We have the best crop of xc racers in 30 years, but we are making them race on a track that wasn’t good enough for local racing in the 90’s. If you have a junior that is interested in racing, they better have a front row call-up because the track has...
mickey Added a reply to 2026 Team Rumors
12/17/2025 5:05am Just to cleat things up, that was when Gary still owned the company. Clif is owned by Mondelez now… All Clif sponsorship is dead, they might have kept an influencer or two. Gary’s still sponsoring a domestic crit team via the family winery though, because he’s a true hero of cycling.
mickey Added a reply to The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
12/16/2025 8:20am ok then when do we get a demonitized Clappin Yo Dome posted up? We’ve all been good this year, how about a Holiday treat? It’s not right that the kids today can’t watch it without finding a senior citizen with a DVD and DVD player!
metadave Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 Team Rumors
12/16/2025 4:59am
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mickey Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
12/15/2025 5:30am I have had Classified hubs in for evaluation in 142 and 148mm applications. All that extra mass hanging off the rear wheel would suck, just like any other IGH. Also, the shifting isn’t exactly…. reliable.
mickey Added a reply to 2026 Team Rumors
12/13/2025 4:47am Why yes, of course! During the Sinister bikes v Iron Horse east coast glory days, FTW and I would both have spares of all the small Sinister parts at local races and Daq had full spares kits when he was on the road with Ebbet and Smutok at Nationals and Crankworks. At Mt Snow Frank would often take bikes he...
mickey Added a reply to UCI grant Discovery WC rights from 2023 to 2030
12/11/2025 3:21pm I agree. Please folks- don’t post LLM generated content here.
bizutch Liked a reply to forum topic UCI grant Discovery WC rights from 2023 to 2030
12/11/2025 3:19pm
That read like a serial killer's cut & paste letter to the authorities. Cut. Paste. Cut. Paste. CUT. pastE.
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mickey Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
12/11/2025 4:45am I had one of the my ‘26 enduro frames in my hands a couple weeks ago. If literally hundreds of FTW built frames hadn’t passed through my hands over the last 25 years, I would be hard pressed to tell the difference, the start-stop marks on the welds were even in the same place Frank does them. Neko and Logan...
mickey Added a reply to The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
12/5/2025 6:56am Jeff, As a human who gets paid to help people sell bicycles, I am much more interested in the metrics that relate to human flourishing, not ecological carrying capacity. Consumers can’t consume if they are precarious- and the precarity of the American Consumer is hard to deny. It takes more than looking at GDP to understand consumers- dashboards like this...
mickey Added a reply to The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
12/5/2025 5:29am Just a timely reminder that finance does not equal economics, and that there are many disciplines of economics, many of which do a much better job explaining the human condition and the condition of the planet. Development Economics and Ecological Economics are both valuable heterdox disciplines that give us more tools to understand the world. A recent integrated multidisciplinary approach...
roundman69 Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 Team Rumors
12/4/2025 5:03am
Prince andrew to pivot?
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NY_Star Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 Team Rumors
11/28/2025 7:29am
At the side of the Whiteface DH track I overheard a guy in Gates apparel talking about their commitment moving forward to DH so I don't expect them to disappear, but Gates is a huge company so priorities can shift. I bet the "purse" is an insurance policy that is written against the odd's of someone actually winning. From the marketing side the more you do the same thing over and over it looses its impact, so they may be putting their spend in other places. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prize_indemnity_insurance
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mickey Added a reply to 2026 Team Rumors
11/28/2025 7:27am Exactly, Thom Weisel / Lance Armstrong engaged in some pretty amazing insurance fraud in that manner, betting for and against themselves by rigging the game. I love re-watching the tapes from those depositions! But Gates, while they make decent parts for excavators and automobiles, has been trying for more than 15 years to get traction in the bike world. They...
mickey Added a reply to The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
11/28/2025 7:18am I was thinking the same thing… if you “buy” Felt, you have a more attractive proposition to sell to your OEM manufacturer than just Unno…
mickey Added a reply to MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
11/27/2025 6:59am Mega Mullet is what I have heard Pon employees describe their test-mule frames as…
mickey Added a reply to The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
11/27/2025 5:35am 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.
sethimus Liked a reply to forum topic The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
11/25/2025 4:28am
it burns a tree every time you just look at something
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lawn dart Liked a reply to forum topic 2026 Team Rumors
11/22/2025 5:10am
He's looking for a new sport, really. How many fully-salaried Enduro racers are there left?
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