Moots Carbon Gravel E-bike!

[sg8357]

Originally Posted by oldpotatoe

"Heard" this was coming...A push by the new owners. What I didn't expect was it to be labeled as a 'Moots'.[snip]

These guys ?

[rice rocket]

Originally Posted by Elefantino

I remember Litespeed carbon bikes.

I still have one!

[charliedid]

I remember when cigarettes were 50¢ a pack

[unterhausen]

I'm not really attuned to the "old wealthy rider who wants to keep up on group gravel rides without training much" market. I don't think it exists in this area, so possibly good prospects for growth?

[rice rocket]

Originally Posted by mstateglfr

Moots has never made me weak in the knees- its always been a company that seems to sell really really expensive titanium bikes that largely look the same as, and sometimes not as nice as, other titanium bikes.

there's two distinct versions of Moots, the prior semi-custom titanium builder, and the current cash cow milk the brand version. Which are you referring to?

[pdonk]

Originally Posted by Elefantino

I remember Litespeed carbon bikes.

What about seven's foray into carbon - Diamas SLX

https://sevencycles.com/bikes/limite...ect-diamas.php

For the price, I'd get in line for a firefly electric, which I may do if my health stays bad.

[texbike]

Originally Posted by merckx

Now we can all find wings on the Oude De Kwaremont like Cancellara once did.

^^Lol!

Originally Posted by Elefantino

I remember Litespeed carbon bikes.

Originally Posted by pdonk

What about seven's foray into carbon - Diamas SLX

https://sevencycles.com/bikes/limite...ect-diamas.php

The Diamas was horrid! Sometimes you gotta try something to know that you shouldn't do something (loosely based on a quote from the movie "Neighbors 2" - you can look that one up...).

Texbike

[PJN]

“Made in Asia in a partner factory” is a shark jump. What is moots now? Boltcutter adding stickers to carbondas?

[Davist]

Somewhat interesting, it uses a 47T 1x front chainring, meaning no "narrow wide" profile like most (all?) 1x chainrings I've seen.. Is this a shimano thing or ?? just curious, not to derail too much!

[redir]

Who buys e-bikes like that? Seems a small market to me at $10k a bike.

[lunardds]

This seems similar to my brother's dilemma with his BBQ place. He has some of the best in town and the demand is there but product and labor costs have almost made it impossible to run his business. He would have to charge so much for his BBQ that nobody would want to buy it. To counter this problem he began offering other 'cheaper' meats and a variety of daily specials to give more affordable choices and bigger profit margins. At some point you have to make some money to keep the lights on and Moots may be feeling the effects of the higher interest rates and higher production costs. I don't like it but I don't blame them for playing the cards they have available.

[FriarQuade]

When I heard about this last week, the second thing I thought about was getting my popcorn ready to read the pace line comments.

I hope it's a good business decision for them in the long run. On some levels this makes sense to me, your brand should be a guide, not a jailer. You may have built your legacy with a given material but if that material just doesn't make engineering sense for a new project then it makes sense to go in a different direction.

[Jaybee]

Originally Posted by Elefantino

I remember Litespeed carbon bikes.

There are still "Litespeed" carbon bikes.
https://obedbikes.com/

Same company, but they renamed the part that wasn't quite in line with their core branding of Ti. Maybe Moots will do that in the future too.

[Nomadmax]

I got one thing to say, 10 grand. Nope.

[texbike]

Honestly, this could be a home run for Moots. The number of sales of these could potentially be in the high single-digits...

Texbike