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Being a mountain biker and not knowing who John Tomac reminds me of this scene

Besides being one of the last racers to compete in cross-country and downhill on the same weekend, he’s the last one to podium both events... Won the 1991 XC World Championship, then took silver in DH. Ciocco, Italy

John Tomac is widely considered one of the greatest (American) mountain bike racers of all time. During the early years of international racing he won numerous DH and XC events. He went on to be the namesake and involved with Tomac bikes. The 204 DH frame in the photo was their flagship model. The bike company then ceased to exist (in the late 2000s?). I also believe he helped coach several (a lot?) of racers over the years including Aaron Gwin for a time. Finally, if you’re into motocross, he is the father of Eli Tomac. Basically, John Tomac was...

Wow. Seeing a Tomac 205 with a belt drive gearbox wasn’t on my bingo card this year.

Lol these did not catch enough heat when they were around

“Have you ever added anti-vibration stickers to your mass damper? You might be entitled to compensation”

Cancels out each other and you actually get more vibrations and your arms will dislocate at every joint and you may die. If you get symptoms like nausea, vomiting, anal bleeding, bloodshot eyes, excessive migraines, please contact your do-… actually just put a wizard sticker on your forehead itll clear it all up.

Lapierre have issued a statement on their farcebook page regarding the Accell situation, sound like they may be looking to go independent again?

You are right, the "who owns who" question is dizzying. Makes me think, maybe the best way to make a million dollars in the bike industry is not to start with two million, but to instead be an lawyer in the M&A space. (real knee slapper there eh Jeff?)

When I was a little, 5-year old kid in the 80s, I won a full-sized, red Raleigh mountain bike in a draw at the general store in my tiny, Newfoundland hometown. The old man was fucking stoked. Both myself and my older brother each road it for a time when we were older. I think he still has it out in the garage. All to say, I'm sad to hear of their demise as well, as I have a lingering fondness despite their products holding zero consumer appeal to me.

Fox Factory results are out. I'll do my normal substack thing but the stock has responded positively in post market trading with the stock up ~8% and up pretty notably on the week (from $16 to $20/sh). SSG (bike+baseball) sales are down year over year, with the company citing "oem order timing and channel destocking in response to market-wide economic conditions". Other interesting points as I skim the release... Guidance "raise" is fake. Revenue up, EBITDA unchanged. Zero incremental margin on the raise. Implied Q4 EBITDA: $41-69M. High end needs ~17.7% margin, never been done. Answer's in the bottom half...

When I saw your post about Accell Group going into insolvency, I thought Diamondback would be one of the brands listed in the insolvency agreement alongside Raleigh. I remembered Accell owning Diamondback (another brand that we've observed to be struggling mightily in this thread), but I didn't see it on the list in the Reuters or BikeBiz.com articles about the recent insolvency agreement for Accell. Turns out Accell sold Diamondback and Redline (their US businesses) way back in 2019. Even if Accell still have a Diamondback landing page on their website: This is all a surprise to me. I either...

Another covid deal gone sour. The writing was on the wall for a while but it seems like they ran out of options. https://www.reuters.com/legal/transactional/bikemaker-accell-starts-ins…

Yes - I’m my case at least. Have 1.5kilo scuba weight strapped to the bottom of my Single speed V10.8 park rig. I love it set up like this. Increased the frame weight by nearly 30% down at BB and have no cassette or cable weight on the rear wheel. Works out the quite the change in handling characteristics in my experience

It was part of the press release back in april, when they unveiled the new 32" stuff. I think it flew under the radar. I've been on it for the last month, 4 weekends, 10 days, 45k vert on it thus far and it's been holding up really, really well, DH casing DHR2 MTv2. We only really have one trail at N* that actually tests the grip of a rear tire, TNT, but I can't tell any difference between MG and the new MTv2 when pulling the anchor on the granite steep stuff. I'll post a pic of the tread...

Dark Crystal is one of the best trails I’ve ridden in Whistler honestly The only thing that sucks about it is the climb to get there