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Short chainstays don't help you load the front...they do the reverse...

Wireless shimano stuff coming soon?

June.

Any word on the new TQ HPR motor?

Silca is not releasing it;s newest product (mini-inflator) in the US due to tariffs: https://escapecollective.com/silca-elettrico-pumps/ Lots of good insight, and I thought this breakdown was really helpful "Ideal world: COGS: $42 Shipping: ~$2 Import Duties/Paperwork fees ~13%: $5.46 'Landed COGS': $49.46 Price to bike shop: $90/ Silca Gross Profit: $40.54 / 45% Retail: $149 / Bike Shop Gross Profit: $59 / 40% With Trump 45 Tariff on Chinese-made goods (2018): COGS: $42 Shipping: ~$2 Import Duties/Paperwork fees ~13%: $5.46 25% Trump 45 Tariff: $10.50 'Landed COGS': $59.96 Price to bike shop: $98/ Silca Gross Profit: $40.05 / 38.8% (42-45% is...

Really don’t get the dumb dislikes on the previous post, the black ones ( I got 3 all in full black with the last 3 warranties ) are the latest stock apparently, and after some torch inspection no, there’s no extra seal around the pins, so they will keep failing with moisture staying trapped causing the spring to corrode or something.

nope. i don't have picture but they sent me 3 upper derailleurs as a warranty for failed GXs and all the grey bits are black now, it also seems like they put some sort of o ring around the battery pins, probably they had to do something given the failure rate

Damn looks so much better!

SRAM update there cranks without saying anything? Just bought a set of 165mm replacing 170mm and noticed how much slimmer it is by the spindle

this press release i just received seemed pretty tech but maybe it belongs in the geometry thread. i'll start here... I am reaching out to you because I believe your audience would be interested in our company's launch in early May and the two new products we're launching with, the Cardio Speeder and the Super-E. These are the first-ever "procumbent flying position" electric bikes on the market. The procumbent flying position, a new riding position invented by Martoni CEO, Marty Williams, is a posture that combines ergonomic riding with speed. On a procumbent bike, there is no saddle; riders step...

There are so many components from unbuilt and built bikes sitting in warehouses... Jenson will be supplying everyone for the next 5 years. There is no shortage of bikes, components and accessories in bike. Just some logistics to get those parts off pre built bikes etc. This will be an amazing time for the customer who looks for deals, doesn't need to newest latest and greatest stuff. SRAM parts will be a plenty. Shimano will be a bit harder to get but plenty of SLX and XT groups. Buyers market for 3+ years. If you are bike industry mid level...

I wasn’t going to post this, but you’ve provoked me. Ben Horowitz wrote a book years ago called The Hard Thing About Hard Things. In it, he talks about his time as a CEO in the early 2000s, and how brutal the job can be. One thing that sticks out is how often people walk into a C-suite role with a prebuilt narrative in their heads. They assume there will be a well-rounded team, a healthy bank account, a working business, and a highly defensible product. That version of the story almost never plays out unless you’re stepping into a...

You may be underestimating the sheer number of companies (in and outside of bike) that rely on spreadsheets and manual updates. Frightening to think that Excel really does run the world.

Hey everyone, this is TJ. Tariffs aren't fixed to factory cost, or wholesale or retail. They're calculated based on the specific transaction price. The example we used is accurate for an ecomm purchase, shipped from our warehouse in Canada. If a retailer ordered the same short and we charged them half the price ($100), the same tariff percentage would apply, so tariffs would be $145 for a total cost to the retailer of $245. If the retailer sells that short to a customer and maintains their dollar margin the short would be $345 to the end user - however if...

I've blasting all my SoCal shop connections with a pic of a guy that came into my friends shop with one of the bikes.. Hopefully, they get caught..

@jeff.brines somewhere in this thread you did a deeper dive on Fox Factory. Any further thoughts with the latest guidance? Implications for the broader industry? https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/fox-factory-price-targe… https://www.tipranks.com/news/the-fly/fox-factory-price-target-lowered-… https://www.tipranks.com/news/the-fly/fox-factory-price-target-lowered-… Layoffs at the German office as well https://www.facebook.com/rheinpfalzpirmasens/posts/ein-teil-der-belegsc…

Tech Rumors and Innovation For rumors of tech. No one cares what chain stays you prefer take it somewhere else.

I originally posted a longer comment here but deleted it it read too much like a blog post, and I figured most folks wouldn't be into it. Still, I stand by the analysis, so if anyone’s curious (or wants to subject themselves to it), you can read it here: https://jeffbrines.com/2025/04/17/why-did-revel-maybe-go-bankrupt/ For context: $8M at 8% interest is $640K annually. That’s a serious cost (even if its a "spike" in the debt due to inventory or other reasons)—especially if you're carrying ~30 employees spread across continents. Even assuming $2K in gross profit per bike (which they likely weren’t making), you’d need...

Starting to see some real head scratchers of pricing on complete bikes this year. Wondering if PMs and accountants have to price things a certain way despite logic. Check out the yeti SB140. https://yeticycles.com/en-us/bikes/sb140/kits We will use the non LR version for this comparison. Yeti actually has a pretty cool mechanical transmission build kit that uses an x0 crank, chain, and cassette, but the 90 series mechanical shifter and derailleur. This bike is $6600, it’s the T2 build. The next level up is the T3 which is the x0 transmission build. Every single part is the same, aside from shifter...