I sat down with VitalMTB’s Shawn Spomer and Charlie Sponsel to reflect on the last 2 years of turbulence in the bike industry.
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YT May Find Investors. Can It Find a Future?
Let’s take the chatter that YT has landed a new investor and run with it as a hypothetical to explore what the future might look like for the German mountain bike brand.
Product Review: Fox Podium, a $2,000 mistake?
The Fox Podium has not lived up to my expectations so far, but it also hasn’t been a total dude. Turns out I’ve entered into a toxic relationship, not with a partner but with a suspension product. Stay tuned as I’ll be updating this in the coming weeks as this saga unfolds.
State of the Industry: Giant Manufacturing’s Q2 results
What can we infer from the largest manufacturer in the cycling space? What does it tell us about the future of the industry? A quick look at Giant’s second quarter results…
KTM’s Restructuring: What happened and where its going…
KTM has built a reputation that some might call “bulletproof” over the last few decades, at least as far as … More
YT went bankrupt. Now what?
Last week well known mountain bike company YT Industries filed for the German equivalent of Chapter 11 bankruptcy protections. How … More
XC bikes gone wild – a review of the Specialized Epic 8 Evo
My thoughts after a season aboard the Epic 8 Evo
The most popular mountain bike* in the world, reviewed.
The Specialized Stumpjumper is to mountain biking what the Model 3 is to EVs. In this piece, I review the Evo Alloy Elite model while leaving no stone unturned…
Nerd Alert! The case for adjustable rear center lengths and a novel approach to mountain bike fit
Looking for some top tier bike nerdery? In this post I pose a novel way to approach mountain bike fitting, handling and weight distribution.
The bull and bear case for a $2,600 mountain bike fork.
This week Colorado based Push Industries released the Nine.One, the company’s first attempt at building a front suspension fork from … More