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I caught the podcast today and thought it was one of the best I've listened to in a while, very informative and I appreciated the discussion. I'm not in the bike industry but I am a bike geek who works with municipal governments on capital projects and I spend a lot of time analyzing how organizations make decisions and the parallels regardless of industry are undeniable. I am amazed that anything gets built and I'm always pretty sure shit is going to start to fail at any minute. 😅

Super fun sitting down with Jeff and Spomer to discuss the economics of making and selling bikes. Thanks for the invite, and hope the rest of y'all enjoy our various musings, disagreements, and observations.

Showing up to a federal land agency meeting with heat maps printed discussing decommission was an eye opening experience. It’s a great tool for them to identify and remove any trail that was a significant amount of time to build. Your 2 minutes of enjoyment likely was 100 hours of work or more. And it just put a bullseye on the trail when you published your ride. You can remove sharing heat maps on your settings, not make rides public and hide your maps. Or just not strava those trails.

I love what I do for work and feel privileged to be able to do it. But, if my employer wasn't paying me, I sure as sh*t wouldn't turn up for work in uniform. In fact they'd be lucky to see me at all.

Luca closed to the points gap to Loris for 3rd in the overall by 40 points but has Amaury between them

@sspomer can we get an excel sign up list started for next year to ensure a vital marshal at every race?

I just gotta say, as far as mtb online community contributions to the lexicon go... crab link is way better then downcountry. Feels the right amount of "inside baseball" and too far out there for the masses to absorb. Feel like this is going to be one of those if you know you know inside jokes for a long time to come. You guys should be satisfied with yourselves lol.

x 100000! so rad to have him with live trackside updates

Original bottlerocket was 140mm in the rear. Had a fun few minutes of digging deep into my youtube to find a video of me riding my bottle rocket around 2007 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h_nnyfWeSw

CSS Composites > Future Comp > Christensen Arms > Ancor Capital Future Comp founder and CEO are Christensens. Christensen Arms was acquired by Ancor in 2019. Did Roland just use some of the funds from selling his firearms company to start a new project? I don't know, but if that was the case, then it may not make sense to keep sinking his own cash in. If Future/CSS were owned under CA, then maybe Ancor had enough of the bike industry.

The overalls are the only context we need

Transition is re-releasing a new Bottlerocket next Thursday, October 9th! They haven't sent over full details yet, but provided some history of the Rocket images. I'm pretty hyped they're bringing this bike back. #freerideissonotdead

New Bottlerocket announced. Full details on the 9th. https://www.transitionbikes.com/Bikes/Bottlerocket-History

This race is the last one this season in which points will be awarded for Q1, so the Q1 for Elites should be interesting because it could have a substantial impact on the overall standings. Both Loic Bruni and Vali Höll have averaged more points in qualifying than the 2nd place riders (Jackson Goldstone and Gracey Hemstreet) have. Loic has earned 103 more total points in qualifying than Jackson, and Vali has earned 48 more points than Gracey. Of the four, Jackson is the only one who hasn't successfully qualified in Q1 in every race. The two times where he...

The Tasmanian Government has provided $1.4 million in funding to Red Bull Australia to deliver hardline over three years through to 2026. In 2024 the event brought 1,600 interstate and international visitors to Tasmania, delivering more than a 4:1 return on investment and created benefits for regional communities. Add to that the riders who have visited Maydena to ride after seeing the bikepark.