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The Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act anyone?

Well you ideally wouldn't want to be liquid, you would want to have large amounts on inventory purchased pre tariffs to hedge against the price rises. You don't need liquidity post tariff as everything is now expensive and you won't want to buy it. I think we've know for a while people like buying higher quality made in USA/EU etc components and bikes. The reality is though is that these are small companies making very small amounts of frames. USA and the EU will never replace the mass manufactured frames from Asia, nor should they. These aren't nice jobs. Nobody...

Ahhh, the chicken tax on cool Toyota pickups, now you’re hitting us right in the feelers as MTB nerds.

I'm one of those kooks who's a big fan of aggressive industrial policy to build up domestic industries, with the rapid growth and diversification of South Korea's industry in the 20th century as the classic textbook example, but yikes! Industrial policy is supposed to be a holistic thing, with taxes AND investment, and ideally the investment part comes BEFORE the taxes. Even in the case of South Korea the success story, it was pretty rough for a while! Like, decades. Buying a Hyundai car or Samsung refrigerator in 2024 is pretty great. But only being able to buy those products...

It's putting the contents of the wagon before the horse prior to the wagon even being built. I hope the wagon can hold everything and has a bunch of different pockets for all the different things it'll need to train, tool up for, find real estate for, hire for, find investors for, and create new distribution chains for (before even getting a chance to learn what sorts of things it'll have to hold and how much room that stuff will take up).

At 70% travel there is a singularity which allows your spring force to simultaneously be three different values. Some hypothesize that if you can push past 70% travel you will bridge spacetime and land in a parallel universe.

No this test was supported by Feedback Sports and Ride Wrap. BrakeAce also generously loaned us two sets of sensors. Each brand did provide brakes FOC. They were given the same testing parameters and product asks. No brakes were bled by the brand. They arrived in a box the same as any rider recieves them. No one got a special treatment. Our goals/angles we focused on for this test: testing brakes in Whistler because the trails are proper and relatable/familiar to many riders. 2.) Test an entry-level brake against premium options. 3.) Compare/test staple brakes like XTR and Code. 4.)...

Hey biz thread subscribers, I met with Jeff about a month ago for an Inside Line to discuss the current state of things. It was a rad discussion. The podcast and its copy are below. Enjoy! I know I did. Thanks to Maxxis Tires | FOX | Jenson USA for supporting The Inside Line Today we're joined by Jeff Brines, a long-time mountain biker, Litter Mag and Vital MTB fan. He's also educated and versed in finance. He kicked off a forum thread on Vital MTB that asked " Will more companies be shutting down in the next 12-24 months?"...

Thx a ton for having me. Post any questions or call outs here (which is totally fair) and I'll respond. Also, apologies for all the rambling. I was...nervous. 😬

Look who's talking about dampening now!

Perrier has been criminally unvalued since the La Croix fad of 2018. Primed for a big rebound.

In my digging around through KTMs stuff, I found this in their H1 presentation. Mind you, this is many months old, but felt too good to not post... BICYCLE MARKET "During the coronavirus pandemic, the demand for bicycles rose rapidly, leading to overheating in the bicycle market and disruption throughout the supply chain. Stock levels peaked as a result. The return of these stocks to normal levels continues, while at the same time there is massive pressure on sales prices. On the customer side, the increased cost of living in the core market of Europe led to a loss of...