All

I appreciate the info my friend. You went over my head with most of it as I’m primarily a moto guy but I get the gist 🤙🏼. Guess I’m locked into a 2 yr buying cycle for a while but I am a believer in having the right equipment for your kid. And still affordable compared to dirt bikes 😎My 9 yr old likes the drops as well - good times @Bentonville

I always disliked the condescending views about "influencers" and think don't hate the player, hate the game - you can't knock people for having a go at making money from something that they were led to believe could be successful. At the end of the day they wouldn't even get started if there wasn't people watching them, or at least an algorithm serving those videos to everybody. I would argue huge chunks of the bike industry is unsustainable - in its current state I struggle to think of many players who are completely rock solid. Shimano? World Cup racing is...

I wonder how long we will be left on the grandfathered cheaper Trailforks subscription...

Well the tariffs are coming. Good luck to DaVinci, Norco, Transition etc, brands that do a lot of cross border sales. I wonder since a lot of the frames are made in Taiwan and shipped from Taiwan they won't be tariffed. Unfortunately products like Vorsprungs new shock will now be 25% more expensive for Americans.

Your point about being a potential competitor to other frame manufacturers (when it comes to OEM wheel spec) isn't invalid, but I agree it's likely pretty far from their biggest reason for cutting off frames. I worked for a boutique bike brand (eventually as a product manager) when the Arrival 152 was in full swing launch/marketing - lots of guys there, including myself, ran WR1 wheels on their personal bikes. When the time came and we began looking at new carbon wheel spec options, WR1 should have been a prime candidate (if we ignored weight, which wasn't something the brand...

personally, i'm of the opinion (and others seem to be as well) is that once you can mate / integrate a gearbox with an e-bike motor the floodgates would probably open up.

Man, I don't want to derail this thread even more than I already have today (and yesterday), but does anyone else feel like the term "Certified Pre-Owned" is a bit of a misnomer? They're clearly trying lean into the automotive market, where CPO is essentially defined term wherein the OEM has inspected the car, certified it, and is continuing to honour the warranty (and possibly extending it). Is TPC inspecting, certifying, and honouring warranties? (hint: the answer is no). I was curious about what CPO means in this case so I checked their terms of service; it means you get...

Just to put a fork in this one, I did hear from a reputable unnamed source that AB is doing just fine. So, lets chalk that up to the first "L" of the year for me! I feel my big miss here was twofold, besides the fact the flat out make a killer bike. Equity Sale: They raised at least $4M, which is a chunk. Plus, its equity so you aren't on the clock to pay it back. This is plenty of capital to put infrastructure in place without financing terms you'd usually have to be subjected to. Hence, if...