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mickey Added a reply to The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
10/17/2025 5:06am 2023. Remember, he came from Specialized, aka the people that are still sitting on softgoods and bikes they massively over-ordered during the pandemic, because they were led by a vacuum cleaner salesman. Kenstone felt like they were “missing out” because they had zero bikes during peak bull-whip effect, a bummer for them because they are vertically integrated… they were getting...
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mickey Added a reply to The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
10/16/2025 6:51am Whoever was doing drop bar product management and copy writing at Haro ripped off a bunch of copy and graphic design work I developed for a client. Not too mad too see this interation fail. Going back to earlier parts of this thread- Haro is a bit of an odd duck. I might blame Bjarke for ripping off my clients...
mickey Added a reply to The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
10/15/2025 3:07pm The fallout of the life of remittances under precarity is always under-investment and under development in countries of origin. If you enjoy heterdox economics as much as i do, Immanuel Ness has written extensively on the subject, his most recent text, Migration As Economic Imperialism: How International Labor Mobility Undermines Economic Development in Poor Countries (2023) is impeccably researched and...
LePigPen Liked a reply to forum topic The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
10/12/2025 6:58am
Occam's razor strikes again. The private 'non-traditional' school was a huge tell but... Ya know ya try not to be judgemental but the reality comes to light regardless. Kids don't just start business ventures for millions of dollars randomly. Hell most average kids are struggling to do the standard college to job transition nowadays. Well hope that guy prayed for his 100k back or somethin...
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mickey Added a reply to The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
10/10/2025 6:03am Station bikepark is a real simple story; Rhett’s private school was funded by Musk(some of his spawn attend it). Musk fronted the principal the money to buy the ranch for Rhett’s project. The principal obviously doesn’t want to/can’t afford to own hundreds of acres of property in the Hillcountry. If you have a few million laying around… its a lovely...
mickey Added a reply to The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
10/9/2025 5:45am The family that owns Thunder has a son that, at least when I worked there, wasone of the top 10 earners in the “clean energy” hedge fund space. Like some of my favorite southeastern bikeparks, Thunder is a wealth management scheme. Their goal is to either lose x amount of money every year or break even, thus reducing the tax...
mickey Added a reply to Feedback Wanted: Strava-Like Racing App
10/5/2025 8:39am So, the elevator pitch here is Strava, but with privacy protections? You can’t call something “racing” and then not have consistent timing though. 2 practiced volunteers using something like keypad entry on the Zone4 android app or two sync’d google sheets +hand timing is ultimately more accurate than using phones or head units and algorithms, I would think. I salute...
mickey Added a reply to Feedback Wanted: Strava-Like Racing App
10/5/2025 4:51am I have never used Strava or a gps unit on a bike but I have timed, promoted and officiated dozens of gravity races, and I regularly use various gps devices to collect GIS data for trail building. I don’t understand your assumption that phone or handlebar mounted GPS data will be sufficient to time anything? I get you can try...
KooktheWolf Liked a reply to forum topic 2025 Race Talk
9/29/2025 12:30pm
The drag on skis or a snowboard is way lower than on a bikes tires. Mechanically, you are melting a tiny bit of snow with the base of your skis/board and creating a slip plane that you then slide across. Whereas bike tires are attempting to dig into the ground lol.
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mickey Added a reply to Save the Monkey!
9/27/2025 7:03am My buddy Brady bought all the hcor servers from John and relocated them(they were a physical thing) but then lost them in a fire. He recovered all the text data but the photos are gone forever. It’s a real bummer, message boards used to be such a rad hive of barely-mediated expression and experiences. Instead of using algorithms to identify...
seanfisseli Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
9/26/2025 11:20am
I feel you, but some hardtails are legitimately comfortable (when reframed as gravel bikes…) speci Fuse is stiff and sucks, epic hardtail is compliant and feels so good to ride. im telling you guys, the majority of the gravel segment has never tried a mtb (thinks they don’t need one, overbiked, etc.) or doesn’t even need a “gravel bike” (just needs a road bike with 38s and lower gearing.) the gravel category exists because people think road bikes can’t have 45c tires and also that mountain bikes are silly and unnecessary for singletrack. What we see in practice though is...
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olddogbmxer Liked a reply to forum topic 2025 Race Talk
9/26/2025 7:54am
I know that today courses with alot of flow and huge jumps are the thing but I would love to see an all natural track come back. 2009 and 2010 Gravity East Series courses at Whiteface where winning pro time was 7+ minutes. Ask Neko how taxing these courses were! No machine work needed!
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mickey Added a reply to 2025 Race Talk
9/26/2025 6:03am And, also, thanks guys for cleaning up someone else’s sloppy work!
corey.carpentier Liked a reply to forum topic 2025 Race Talk
9/25/2025 9:44am
It used to be the sickest park on the east coast
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NY_Star Liked a reply to forum topic 2025 Race Talk
9/25/2025 9:10am
This is the funny thing about whiteface. It is owned and run by the state, so its simplify the state choosing to ignore another part of the state. It won't get canceled. Some people will be angry, maybe a lawsuit will get filed. The stuff on the open ski runs will get pushed flat again so they can groom and they will argue about it again next year.
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mickey Added a reply to 2025 Race Talk
9/25/2025 6:33am If the contractor had actually followed best management practices for soil stabilization, this probably would still be happening, but it would be less embarrassing for the trail building community.
NY_Star Liked a reply to forum topic 2025 Race Talk
9/25/2025 6:28am
Really all it takes is a detailed plan and early communication of what you are doing with state reviewers. You just cant go off into the woods with a excavator and tell people "I'm gonna build you something rad". Unfortunately I think ORDA has a history of this kinda infraction and now the local enviro advocates keep a really close eye on what they do.
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Primoz Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
9/18/2025 12:02pm
Lahar vibes are strong with that one.
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mickey Added a reply to 2025 Race Talk
9/14/2025 10:11am I had the honor of going on a couple different action shoots with Jonesy. He is such an expert poseur, I still use many of his “go slower to look fast in still photos” tricks to this day.
phillemaistre Liked a reply to forum topic 2025 Race Talk
9/14/2025 10:09am
Some of you didn’t obsess over the photos of Steve Jones testing bikes in Dirt mag, and it shows.
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