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Thanks for voicing your concern. Wheels are a really large initial investment when it comes to tooling, hitting MOQ's and first production numbers. Most of the larger brands you know have easer access to capital than a brand our size. Crowd funding was a way to test the market and raise capital without selling out to private equity or taking on huge amounts of debt. Now that the heavy lifting is done, keeping wheels turning is less of a hurdle (pun intended ha). We have planned for lots of stock incase things go awry for customers.

I’m marveling at this dude’s ability to detach himself from decisions he made. Talking about these onerous contracts that have simply handcuffed them, whatever shall we do? Zero accountability. Like, I expect it from these sociopath CEO LinkedIn financebro podcast goblins, but it’s infuriating to hear. Made it to the halfway mark, I’m out. The cornball way he holds the mic should’ve been enough: dude’s a kook. I sure hope he stays out of racing forever.

Maybe that is a pod we could actually get.

@jeff.brines recorded some thoughts after listening to the Downtime show. Listen below.

what a chode lol

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The Moir curse continues Hope he lands on his feet, he is a fantastic ambassador for the sport to the kids of Australia and in all my dealings with him over the years one of the nicest blokes you will ever meet. What you see in the videos is him in reality, a true legend.

I meant to link this earlier, but this should go to the company's financials (in this case ending 2020) https://www.bundesanzeiger.de/pub/de/suchergebnis?18 Here is the kind of color we get...its not much "Liabilities to Shareholders There are liabilities to shareholders amounting to EUR 10,710 thousand. These are shown under the item "Other Liabilities"." Maybe this is a German thing I don't understand, but this is not something I'd usually see in a US filing. You have debt holders, and you have shareholders. To have a shareholder also loan the company debt, especially EUR10.7M, is a bit odd! In any event thx for...

Hard pass. But best of luck to everyone that has a YT or is trying to get refunded or an actual bike that they ordered. Using Flossman as the centerpiece of your comeback press release is a wild marketing move.

yeah it's funny how as we age our interest change too. My whole youth was racing DH, Supercross and motocross. Golf and Baseball were far from interesting. Now I've had a couple of kids, a massive mortgage and half a head of grey hair my interest have shifted to the old man stuff, lawn care, golf, watching sport and drinking beer alone lol. Riding bikes will always remain, it's more the social aspect of it now. My appreciation for what people enjoy is broadened. My tolerance for dickheads and fake people has decreased. I am officially old.

Very true, I went all out with my prescription Oakley riding glasses and it was worth it. No fog ever even in the very Humid Sydney summertime. The Prizm lens fills in shadows it's like cheating. When I ride up to the pub in my normal sunnies it's a drastic difference. When I ride home from the pub vision deteriorates more lol

Thanks @sspomer and the rest of the Vital crew for putting on such a great Fantasy Downhill competition again this year! And what a great season of racing we have had! These last few rounds have been nerve racking, but I am beyond stoked to have somehow held on to the lead in the standings 😅. Here's to another great season of racing/fantasy next year 🍻

Yeah shout out to sspomer and the vital crew, fantasy was loadsa fun this yr. Fantasy + RAW (shout out Lawlor) + UCI Live Timing + the Downtime pre/post races shows have made for a killer season 🙌

Big thanks to Vitalmtb, Spomer and One up Components. Just received my package all the way down here in NZ. Legends. Now how can this mail from Canada arrive quicker than half my work orders for materials im only getting sent from one end of this country to another???

Thanks Vital + Deity 🤙

Total Air was a brand in our portfolio – those were made here in our facility. Eko Sport / Mountain Racing Products is our legal name, and we own and produce MRP, Kreitler Rollers, and Power Grips pedals. We also had/used the White Brothers, Tamer (seatposts) and Total Air brands previously, but no longer produce products with those names. We brought all of our suspension line under the MRP brand name in 2013 (discontinued White Brothers). I'm not sure when Total Air ended, but it was before I came on board (2010). 👍

It works on a dyno and I thought it added a benefit to riding. Obviously I'm super biased though. I will say- it was a fairly large pain in the ass to get a patent pushed through the right channels at SRAM, so that effort should show we thought it was a good idea.

Hey look what I found in the parts bin: This was one of the last things I worked on at RS before I left... goal was to control big hits by weakening or slowing down the return of the air spring. I run my setup with a lot of spring and no damping, so getting bucked on big hits is part of the deal. This thing 'gulps' all the air in the positive chamber on compression and lets it out with a tiny delay (since it all has to go through the tiny hole to get out). No delay on...