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I wonder if we're going to see a Santa Cruz with a "Righty" 32" fork next year and they'll claim that its resemblance to a recently shut down PON brand is purely coincidence. I have it on good authority that the Horst link Tallboy and Vala were intended to be the new GT Sensor and E bike and they just updated certain design language to make them look a bit more "Santa Cruz". I know a former GT employee and he told me that at least one, probably more of the engineers moved directly over to SC to support those...

I know this isn't necessarily "racing" but its rad as hell.

Sam Hill Columbia inside line

I think they saw that you were leaving this thread and knew there was only one thing in the world that would get you back. 😁 Eagerly awaiting the next Substack piece on Fox Fiasco

Sure, my flight is delayed so here you go from memory: Reign Advanced size M high seatstay setting Fox 38 170 travel 96.5psi 21% static sag psi 0 reducers +0 neg. LSC3 HSC5 LSR9 HSR7 Fox DHX2 W/switch 500lb spring 2 turns preload 21% static sag. Very firm CS90 compression stack and lighter RS30 rebound (thanks Marko!) LSC3 HSC2 LSR8 HSR8 Fox Transfer 180mm Full Shimano XTR Di2. M9200 9/25 cassette. CRM96 30T chainring. 165mm cranks XTR M9220 brakes P03A resin finned pads. Levers at 32° 6B750 rotors 200mm front and rear M9220 pedals MT001 cleats, almost fully tensioned DHR2...

He was CEO while $2.5B of equity value was wiped from the company’s market cap. Put differently Dennison accumulated an estimated twenty odd million in gross economic compensation and retained equity value while a shareholder who bought at the beginning of his CEO tenure lost roughly 81% of their investment. Ouch.

I'll just leave this here as my best guess as to Mike's total comp while he had the reigns of FOXF. It totals to about $45M not including severence. I'm making some big assumptions around how I "counted" the stock based comp from a $ perspective - using the fair value when granted method (SEC's preferred method) EDIT: did more digging into form 4s and whatnot; looks like his realized comp was closer to $20-22M, all in. Had he sold his stock when he got it, it'd be closer to that original $45M - but he didn't. He saw like...

I'm certainly not an anarchist, but it's hard to not advocate eating the rich when this guy's makes $20M when overall he lost his company $400M

Sam Hill’s wife is one of my favorite characters in the MTB universe.

He doesn't ride MTB? Hardline Tasmania ?

Id more point out that his trail building company is really gaining steam, quite a few new builds in WA so far (small market) but from a brand promotion perspective, he is on the tools building trails

He got half the DH world, including a lot of WC athletes, to try out flats for 2-5 years until we all collectively realized we weren't Sam Hill. Bryn, Gwin, Blenki, Wyn, Leov, and more all raced in flats during that era. Every few years I put on flats again for a few months and feel like I'm sickest at cornering until I realize I'm still very much not Sam Hill and I'm scared and actually going slower through all the rough bits.

They could have at least had the basic respect to respond to him.....Sam was most pissed about the fact he was completely ignored. Maybe we won't know which brands exactly they were, but I fully believe five ten wouldn't have the mtb market they do without Sam Hill - I'm not sure people these days realise how massive his influence was in making huge numbers of people change to flat pedals 20 years ago....

5.10 was acquired by adidas in 2011. With plenty of the core MTB related staff staying on. So you are cooked on that point. Whether Sam is a good investment for brands is definitely debatable, even when racing at his peak, he didn't actually ride that much. There's always two sides or more to any story, but Sam is a true icon. And his DH to Enduro transition (with huge succes) is so, so underrated.

He says in the interview that he disappeared for a few years because he felt stung by the industry. He's back riding now and seems to be enjoying himself.

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/fox-factory-announces… There ya' have it. This is corporate speak for "we fired Mike". I can only assume they read this forum and saw the scathing replies to the Marucci deal.

Are you trying to tell us unskilled labour salaries in food industries have increased 20-40% since 2021? I'm sure the people in those industries would have a few things to say about that. Edit: and I've made a faulty assumption here in that the totality of the increase in consumer prices is attributable to labour cost increases.

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