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NY_Star Liked a reply to forum topic MTB Tech Rumors and Innovation
10/28/2025 7:26pm
Milyard racing or Hover shock. What would win?
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mickey Added a reply to The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
10/28/2025 6:26pm Because some of the trail building I do is funded by big 5 military contractors (notice a theme here about massive consolidation?) my algorithmic news feeds are chock full of weapons industry PR. Normally it’s just press releases about new autonomous aircraft and “integrated kill meshes” but yesterday the mainstream press got in on the game; 3 year back orders...
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10/28/2025 8:35am Not excited to mention the name of the self-aggrandizing techbro that owns Andruil, but his whole schtick is “Project 2027”. Andruil isn’t the only company in the space that is hot for a drone war in the straight though…
mickey Added a reply to The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
10/28/2025 7:55am So, Back to the gigantic pachyderm in the room… At least one prominent US military contractor is forecasting a war in the Taiwan straight in q1 2027. Obviously a blockade of Taiwan would be disastrous for the bicycle industry. Could any of the Big 4 survive even a year long blockade?
owl-x Liked a reply to forum topic Pick your 3 favorite MTB brands?
10/28/2025 6:34am
is this a tax shelter thing? Opening a MTB shop in 2025 is bananas! To play along I’ll say Guardian, Guardian, and Guardian. Corrupt billionaires aka billionaires are into it!
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bulletbass man Liked a reply to forum topic Pick your 3 favorite MTB brands?
10/28/2025 6:33am
Transition - big fan of bikes and company. Trek - my preference of the big 3. Probably just carry limited numbers of USA made frames beyond that. Basically cool stuff for bike enthusiasts to look at while they wait for the service counter. Would have very few floor models. Just a bit of whatever is new and some sizes for fitting purposes. Most the shop space would be geared towards parts, accessories, and clothes. Loads of shoes in diffirent colors and sizes. Same with pads and helmets. Wall of grips, seats, handlebars, etc. store credit trade ins where we will...
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Stiksandstones Liked a reply to forum topic 2025 Race Talk
10/24/2025 7:13pm
The 'estimated' revenue numbers posted were pretty hilarious. Reminds me of that one time, I got cornered in Andorra World Cup while eating breakfast, by a certain top american DH guy's agent/mentor/preacher...I was in a contract negotiation with said rider during my time for a gear brand I worked for in that moment, dude says "listen man, we're just trying to get ____ his share of the billions you guys are making".....I literally spit out my Muesli while laughing. So yeah, estimates....funny.
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mickey Added a reply to 2025 Race Talk
10/22/2025 5:00am It’s likely to be the (dubiously legal) attention economy/old media roll-up that the Ellison family is creating.
ARonBurgundy Liked a reply to forum topic The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
10/21/2025 3:27pm
I have a real hard time believing AI is going to result in some sort of utopia for the masses. There's enough money right now that we could all get some level of UBI and be working less and spending more time on our passion projects. But when have the ultra wealthy EVER wanted to part with even a little bit more of their money? If we just give them a few more tax breaks to pay for their data centers and help subsidize the cost of the electricity and water to run them so they can become trillionaires, THEN...
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Blake_Motley Liked a reply to forum topic The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
10/19/2025 4:02pm
Late stage American capitalism. Why design, innovate, or disrupt when you can own and do nothing?
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mickey Added a reply to The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
10/17/2025 6:17am A lawyer friend was nice enough to download the first 20 pages of the Kenstone V Haro brief for me. The most telling thing: The ceo of Kenstone made herself the ceo of Haro and her cousin the sales manager, allowed way too much stuff ordered on her watch, installed the new CEO, and now Kenstone is looking for about...
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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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...
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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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