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I worked on advocacy for the 15 minute city concept, and can tell you that literally no one has actually proposed restricting travel. That idea is a "bUt OuR fReEdUmB" talking point aimed at people who do their own "research".

I'm at point where I want my car when I need it, but with the expenses that come with it, I would like to use it less often..

I believe that the idea behind 15 minute cities wasn't to restrict travel, but to lay out cities where you don't need to travel more than 15 minutes to get what you need. But, in most American cities, a 15 minute drive takes at least 30 minutes and a 15 minute walk is considered to be inhumane.

Yeah, safely walkable and bikeable cities sound like great places to live to me. Regarding the backlash against the 15min cities, I think a big part of it had to do with the implication that people's ability to travel outside of that 15min radius would be restricted. Sort of a, "I'm sorry Comrade, but you have not earned sufficient social credits to receive a travel waiver" vibe. I have never dug into the topic deeply enough to see if that was a total fabrication, or if it had some basis in fact that was then overblown by opponents. From seeing...

I'd imagine that Giant makes considerably more building bikes for other companies than selling their own. Plus, with leadership changes and the passing of their founder, maybe they are restructuring how they market their own brand. With everything they've put into the processes on the new Anthem and TCR Advanced, I'd expect to see that used for other brands at the top end.

Or is it smaller as they aren't setting fire to excess stock that has been imported? They made larger losses in 23 than 24 as inventory was shed and imports dropped to account for excess inventory.

To be pedantic, the dumpster should be bigger in 2024. Less units sold = bigger dumpster fire

Shrinkflation hits us all

I like how the dumpster is slightly smaller in 2024.

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Has anyone got any information about Giant? I've heard some things that make me think they could be in deeper trouble then I could have predicted. My LBS used to lean heavily into giant in the sub 3k segment and lately, giant bikes have been no where to be found on their floor and they have been looking to bring in new brands to fill that segment. When I inquired about it, there was a passing comment about how they couldn't get bikes from Giant at the moment. When you go to their site, relatively new models that seemed like...

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nice! that's way less depressing 🤣

And the floor is not 0, it's 2 million. God I hate graphs that are misleading by nature...

Considering a lot of companies were cutting back due to high inventory levels then tariffs threw another curveball at bike companies..

Oh, f*** that guy. 😠

Blame this guy for why its bad to cycle in the US&A https://youtu.be/pRPduRHBhHI?si=1aiZlnsRzVZfDWCr

While I was unemployed a while back, I got hooked on urban planning videos.. Not Just Bikes is probably one of my favorite channels. Anyway, a constant theme that comes up is that the US is more concerned with moving cars, not people. Another is that the best way to reduce traffic is to make transportation options other than cars viable. I live less than a mile from a lot of shopping and there is no safe easy way for me to ride there for small trips..

With the global bicycle market coalescing around “mobility solutions” as the future profit center the American response that you are “afraid to ride to work” is just about all the economic insight needed to understand why this thread will soon be 150 pages long. The number of Americans I know who have held pro dh licenses but are hesitant riding a bicycle from their own homes to run an errand is staggeringly high. I mean, I get it, but I don’t have to like it. Before People For Bikes (the defacto US industry trade lobbying group) became embroiled nonstop in...

Realized last night that the changes at Spesh make it even more unlikely that the Motion Instruments IP ever sees the light of day as a standalone product and that bums me out...