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re: bearings In my 30 years of riding mountain bikes, I've owned 40+ full suspension bikes, and not once did I ever consider bearing replacement ease/difficulty when considering a frame. I know we're a bunch of nerds on here, but do some of you actually consider that when looking at a bike?

Regarding this 'too many bearings' thing I'm imagining those infomercials where the actor over dramatically struggles with something and loses conttol but its bearings and they go flying all over the place.

On the topic of 6 bar pedal bikes, anyone got info on this? Spotted at my local trails a while back, seems pretty dialed for a proto….

Something screams scor at me with this bike but they went out of business, somehow…BMC, the company behind it, might want to give it another try.

From how it ended with Gwin and later Dak it never seems like YT was interested in doing the "honorable" thing.

Not that anyone ever would ever bother to do this on the dumb two-shock ebike, but I’m trying to imagine how hard it would be to pick a base tune for two identical shocks working in parallel on a fairly normal leverage rate. The funny thing with the one flight attendant shock is that, in that dual shock layout, every time the FA shock locked out it would make the suspension twice as soft by diverting all the force to the other shock.

Therw as one of the bigger mail order companies that had an in house bike brand and the rumors were that they would order bikes with the cheapest steel frames they could buy but set-up with top shelf parts.. When the bikes got here, they stripped the bikes and tossed the frames.. A former employer of mine would buy a good amount of closeout bikes, and when it came down to some sizes that didn't sell, they would strip the bikes and sell all the parts at a deep discount.. I never did a breakdown, but he probably made more...

I think the primary compensation mechanism for tech bro execs is when they get to imitate Steve Jobs walking around a visually minimal stage design in jeans talking about a powerpoint: https://www.forbes.com/sites/billroberson/2025/03/31/rivians-micromobil…

To be fair, if modern guide brakes are anything like the ones I had back in the day, they are overpriced at $39....

I’m no expert but that looks like a thin margin… 2m profit off of 70m sales on your best year ever??

Back to YT for a second. What kind of multiple do you think this type of revenue and earnings would have garnered in 2021?

Sorry but have to respond to this. Who would spend thousands of dollars on a bike from a company in self-administration? You are taking a massive gamble on warranty and even spare parts. As far as I am concerned, they are no longer a viable bike brand.

Care to share this website with the crowd?

I'd go with: "I'm amazing and built this incredible brand so that everyone could afford high performance bikes - basically just like feeding the hungry. I sold it for the good of everyone. External things happened. Plus, I wasn't around I came back. Other people had made mistakes. I was going to fix, but external things happened" That was an insincere, arrogant pile of shit and PR malpractice. It's so f'ing simple: say you could have done better and say you're SORRY for unavoidable negative effects, even if temporary, to your customers (and employees).

Yt has to be the least German German company I can think of. Stop looking to America for influence. Y’all got it right when it comes to business over there.

Ya the e-mail is at least honest and up front and doesn't try too hard to hide from how they fucked up. The bigger CS suicide, in some regards, is popping their biggest 'flash' sale right before this happened, potentially trapping many buyers with the allure of insane prices right before they (maybe knowingly) went into insolvency. Again, with their wording... People who got their bikes before are obviously fine, and people could order now under 'normal business' and get a bike... But anybody who ordered a bike that was waiting to be delivered by the time they went insolvent...

I find it very ironical and super hypocritical for somebody like the YT main guy to whine about ”discount wars”, when they basically were the ones who brought this aggressive pricing strategy to the market. Dude, are you for real??? I honestly hope everybody will be OK after this, but I can't remember all the direct-to-consumer brands being too sympathetic towards the bike shops who, at the end of the day, stay at the core of our sport. And the problem is that people really believe that they are entitled to that discounted ”high end bike” with top parts, even...

Technically I accounted for those guys when I included "creditor" in the gutted section. Pedantry aside, I didn't see that until right now and that sucks ass.

Customer service suicide with sending out that email. So bro, no bike, no refund. Good lucking earning back any goodwill after that.