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His group is accused of bad corporate practises, paying below minimum wage, putting companies they own into administration to avoid redundancy payments, buying shares in rival companies in an attempt to destabilize them, changing locks on business companies they've bought into, not paying rent due on premises. The list goes on. Obviously he denies all these accusations (apart from the one about minimum wage, he happily admits that), but he can't deny what a shitshow he turned Newcastle FC into when he was the owner. There's an eye opening article here for anyone interested. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/07/mike-ashley-sport… All in all he's a...

Few thoughts... 1) Trailforks is a great cash flowing app. I know its adjacent to PB but its important to note Outside is likely making real money from the space. 2) I see traffic numbers all over the place for PB, but I hear they do 70-100M page views per month. Do the math on a CPM basis even running something like AdSense. When you ad up all their revenue streams (adsense, brand specific ad packages, youtube, podcast advertising etc etc), I'd guess they are doing something like $3-8M/yr 3) Expenses are relatively low, even with all their "content overhead"...

Very good reporting going on at Escape Collective on how we got heree: https://escapecollective.com/how-did-the-bike-industry-get-into-such-de… Interviews a guy from Wiggle and has too many good quotes to list here. Ep. 3 is what I am sending to folks who are tangential to the industry; it really shows what kind of position we are in. One guy mentions that Kona laid off its entire sales staff.....

Quite early to be advertising an edit which will be dropped on 2nd June 👀

I'm an old guy from Spain. Three years ago I bought and ebike "to do some exercise". There's a small bikepark/trail network near my house. Got into some e-enduro and felt in love with them gravity things, so I started following the DH WC and EWS and got obsessed with all things MTB. Last year I introduced a friend who is s trial-bike guy to the WC and he is now a fan too. Been feeding him snippets from this amazing thread about the "silly season". Yesterday, he asked me:" any news from Mondraker?" Told him "the espionage things were...

More like I finally have the option of a downhill bike so I want to see what all the hype is about. I am plenty happy with Enduro and from what I've heard internally, contrary to rumours, Enduro isn't going anywhere. But just wait till you see my latest bike, new year new me.

Between the lines of your post is an unfortunate reality about Danny — the most memorable thing he will ever do in his career was over a decade ago, and is in fact largely about Rob Warner’s announcing, not Danny himself. As an aging racer with diminishing results, anything he can do (aside from coming back with another 2011-World-Champs-style performance or multiple World Cup wins) is going to be overshadowed by *that run.* Sponsors don’t really get to cash in on that retroactively, either. It was done on a Giant, and always will have been done on a Giant. With...

High five for “Joins ways” on that article title. That made me laugh.

My turn to chime in...... While I agree with almost most of you, not all, but most. Plain and simple. Money. Money is the root of all evil. I did pay for GCN last year because I've never missed a race in almost 20 years. I do wake up at 2am, 3 am, 4am because nothing beats live coverage. Highlights are cool and all. But nothing beats live coverage. Do I think 2023 coverage was up to par. Sure. Absolutely. Drones were troubling at times. To the one commenting on Rob and what not. Yes. Ric and Cedric need some...