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seplavy Added a reply to Forum Hot Seat - Todd Seplavy, Director of Product at GT Bicycles
12/11/2015 2:14pm D) we just hate you Charlie.
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seplavy Added a reply to Forum Hot Seat - Todd Seplavy, Director of Product at GT Bicycles
12/11/2015 2:13pm That bike was so sick! That was the bike that got me really thinking about what a WC DH bike needs to be. That brand was owned by Accell and they bought Lapierre and I guess wanted to focus their MTB resources over there. I never get to Creek because now I have kids and it's like totally too far...
seplavy Added a reply to Forum Hot Seat - Todd Seplavy, Director of Product at GT Bicycles
12/11/2015 2:09pm I don't have any really good ones. I had to buy a guy they lived with a bunch of booze to make up for him drinking all his Jack. My personal fav moment was when Rennie won Alpe d'Huez. I was up at Platty and Heimdal called my cell to tell me. I had like 1-bar of cell service and...
seplavy Added a reply to Forum Hot Seat - Todd Seplavy, Director of Product at GT Bicycles
12/11/2015 2:02pm Making cheap DH bikes is like making a cheap helicopter - sure, you can do it but do you really want to get in it? You spend a lot of time to squeeze down the price of each and every part, but in the end it's often for only a small improvement in cost. The best thing about the Fury...
seplavy Added a reply to Forum Hot Seat - Todd Seplavy, Director of Product at GT Bicycles
12/11/2015 1:57pm This topic always comes up on the internetz! Gear boxes are fascinating until you start to deal with them. Currently they're still too heavy, don't have crisp engagement, and are pricey. This makes them hard to race and hard to sell. Until those hurdles can be overcome they'll remain a fridge product that we like to kick the tires on...
seplavy Added a reply to Forum Hot Seat - Todd Seplavy, Director of Product at GT Bicycles
12/11/2015 1:52pm 1. Alliances - pick one and stay with it. OneWorld, SkyTeam, Star Alliance. All have their ups and downs but it makes it way easier when you're flying with a bike, or not getting jammed in the last row middle seat. 2. Passport - make sure it's got enough pages in it and that it's got at least 6-months left...
seplavy Added a reply to Forum Hot Seat - Todd Seplavy, Director of Product at GT Bicycles
12/11/2015 1:45pm 1) Nope. There is no carbon version of the current gen Fury. Not even protos. We haven't made one. Rach's bikes last year were all aluminum. 2) The nichifying of the niche drives me bat shit crazy! But, the genie was already let out of the bottle and it aint going back in. I'd have personally preferred if DH stayed...
seplavy Added a reply to Forum Hot Seat - Todd Seplavy, Director of Product at GT Bicycles
12/11/2015 1:41pm This is usually decided by the direct market region or the distributor in the market. They weigh trends, pricepoints, currencies, sell thru, dealer needs, etc etc. It's hard sometimes explaining to folks why they can't get the exact bike they want in the country they live, but I then know as a VW/Audi guy that Yurp always gets the sweet...
seplavy Added a reply to Forum Hot Seat - Todd Seplavy, Director of Product at GT Bicycles
12/11/2015 1:38pm Best thing - never having to ever buy another t-shirt ever again. Worst thing - not being able to "just go for a ride" without thinking and analyzing in your head different parts on your bike and how to make the ride quality better.
seplavy Added a reply to Forum Hot Seat - Todd Seplavy, Director of Product at GT Bicycles
12/11/2015 1:35pm My current personal trail bike is a Force Carbon w/ XTR 2x11, Fox Float X, Pike 160, 785 RaceFace bars, 50mm stem, and Reverb. I swap between XTR trail pedals and e13 flats depending on trails. I'm super picky about using 785 RF bars, TLD lockon grips and Silverado saddles. They're on pretty much every bike I ride. It's pretty...
seplavy Added a reply to Forum Hot Seat - Todd Seplavy, Director of Product at GT Bicycles
12/11/2015 1:25pm I really don't have much of an opinion on it really. Not trying to duck the question, but I'm pretty removed from that side of the biz. I will say, when I travel the globe I've seen company owned and concept stores in virtually every market. They do allow for brands to test out products or gut check merchandising concepts...
seplavy Added a reply to Forum Hot Seat - Todd Seplavy, Director of Product at GT Bicycles
12/11/2015 1:22pm People will buy bikes how they want to buy bikes. Bike shops aren't going away but neither is the internet.
seplavy Added a reply to Forum Hot Seat - Todd Seplavy, Director of Product at GT Bicycles
12/11/2015 1:21pm Rennie rode for Iron Horse for a year so; I dunno if those three have that type of ability to break shit 
seplavy Added a reply to Forum Hot Seat - Todd Seplavy, Director of Product at GT Bicycles
12/11/2015 1:19pm I dunno if that can be done again. That was really a right place, right time type of situation. It was combining the input of the hottest rider, with the genius of Weagle, and the owner of Iron Horse gave us enough budget to make a rad bike and go to race them at World Cups. I think the entire...
seplavy Added a reply to Forum Hot Seat - Todd Seplavy, Director of Product at GT Bicycles
12/11/2015 1:13pm So on a few MY16 bikes we now spec the bike w/ a 2x but we throw a 1x NW ring in the box. This way you can run what you need to for your local trails or riding ability. Our current gen bikes' kinematics were largely designed in the 2x/3x era. But we knew 1x was coming so our...
seplavy Added a reply to Forum Hot Seat - Todd Seplavy, Director of Product at GT Bicycles
12/11/2015 1:05pm It was super cool in June 2013 when we were launching the new Sensor and Force bikes in Utah and Gee and Rach went and won Fort Bill on the Fury we launched that same weekend. Yeah, that was pretty neat.
seplavy Added a reply to Forum Hot Seat - Todd Seplavy, Director of Product at GT Bicycles
12/11/2015 1:03pm The 2x spec is for two main reasons; price and range. As a product manager I've tried my best to put better suspension, brakes, and cranks on bikes (aka the pricey bits) over the past few years rather than drivetrain. Drivetrain has become pretty personal (1x vs 2x, Shimano vs SRAM) and it does wear out or get trashed. So...
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Sanjay Shanbhag Liked a comment about video RuckTheWorld - One Bike, One Scooter, and One Man on a 7 Year World Adventure
9/22/2014 3:56pm
Spomer, yeah buddy. How's life? Hope all is well. Todd, crazy that it was over a decade ago that I crashed on your couch. Your Sunday definitely saved my race. Sideshow, thanks for the positive words. KingDevin, I've put a few hundred miles on the Ruckus towing my MTB. So far no problems. The tire I'm not worried about. Since there is no load from braking or pedaling, there is very little wear. For longer stretches, I'll just pull my chain off so that my freehub doesn't get worn out.
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sideshow Liked a comment about video RuckTheWorld - One Bike, One Scooter, and One Man on a 7 Year World Adventure
9/20/2014 1:59pm
I think it was an old LIttermag photo of Sanjay at Mt Snow (not 100% sure), and the caption was something with the gist of, there is always a guy racing on a bike that is capped 3-ways to Sunday, but he is, and always will be, faster than you. I grew up seeing photos like the Cruiser DJ below, and because of that, have always held this guy (whom I don't know) in high esteem. Very cool to see he's still out there sending it big! Edit: I hadn't watched the video before commenting (classic). Updated comment: holy shit...
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