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"There are clear parallels with what's happened in plenty of other industries. Jayu Yang, a Taiwan-based industry expert, told us the decision to go global was made decades ago, as a Chinese national-brand strategy — the same one that made DJI, Xiaomi, and BYD leaders in consumer electronics and electric vehicles, respectively. Yang explained to us that, much like in the Global North, in the South, the pandemic accelerated everything, and with the cycling sector specifically, it pushed companies to expand manufacturing capacity enormously, only to then leave that capacity looking for somewhere else to go when the demand dropped."

Have not read/listened yet but based on the previous episodes I'm betting this will be interesting to a lot of you: https://escapecollective.com/part-3-will-the-chinese-brands-change-the-…

I love you all but can we please move the commuting talk to a different thread? Thanks!

Here for any Tippie/ Brage collabs.

Well as one of the "Older Crowd"..I am just super bummed at what cutting down the # of people making WC final's did to the sponsorship side. And I get part of it is the industry hurting a ton. But it just seems different this year. Your young, Up and coming..Welcome! Your over 30..We love Ya and what u did..Stop by and say hi! Maybe it's just me..But I would think Minnar saw what was coming, Danny's time might be limited. Gwin better be on game this year. Jack Moir U would think be offered a decent ride for DH...

Take a quick second and look at the methodology, which was posted here https://2026macro.vercel.app/about.html There is a lot of brilliance here, and if you cared to click on anything, you'd see (real) citations everywhere with links back to the actual research reports. Not trying to be a dick, but there is a reason I posted this. Its not a lossy compression rife with hallucinations. This is "AI done well".

He clearly did not leave by choice. Hope Mondraker forever regrets letting him go. Really hope he finds a company that will provide him with a great bike that is already "finished" and not another team developing for years just to drop out when the Bike is finally done. But more than that I hope he gets Paid! and I really hope has a great season.

The bike maintenance & vaping takes had me spittin up my cheerios🤣

I don't know, we're still working on it, though.

I know you say you want to be doing more marketing, but ironically your comments in this thread convinced me to buy a bikeyoke last week (a used one off PB buy/sell) but in the future you'll be top of mind when I'm in the market for a new one.

@Sacki, I'm going to mirror a number of others' accolades. Rarely is it that a business owner throws their can in the fires of forums and come out looking just as good if not better than when they went in. You manage that pretty much every time I see you comment anywhere. I tip my hat to you. I'll also say how I've had nary any issue with the first post I got (used from a swap) from your company, and the same goes for the new one that came on my Ibis. Keep up the excellent work and make...

Wow, just wow. The amount of insight we get in here is absolutely fantastic, and this week specifically has been tremendous. To Sacki, big thank you for sharing the passion, the stories and the pictures! Seems your posts here are as good as the ones you build :D

When I refer to "manpower" I am talking about our in-house capacity. We manufacture/assemble our posts in Taiwan in our own facilities with our own team of now 13 people. That means every single post is assembled by ourselves, not, as it is otherwise often the case, by a "partner"/factory/assembler who is contracted to do all the sourcing, manufacturing, assembly to get the product ready in the box to sell. We draw every single part, source the suppliers, have them made, get them to us and then put everything together in our own facilities with our own machines. No post...

Completely O/T but a big shout-out to @Sacki - your posts changed my dropper experience from a random gamble to a reliable, dependable, don't-have-to-think-about-it-anymore boring matter. Boring is good.