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I feel like selling bikes 2 for 1 might have been a clue, but I dunno, I'm not a bike industry genius.
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The midsize company often has it hardest. It stinks because Kona is/was so much more interesting than many. |
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Strange, considering they just announced a new model yesterday (https://bikerumor.com/kona-ouroboros...e-dropbar-mtb/), which was their first new/updated bike model since 2019? 2020? It's been a while.
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That is very odd, could be somethign else going on. If not then bummer. I just was in one of my LBS's yesterday and was looking at their Kona bikes. Not that I am interested in buying but still, you know. The shop owner spoke highly of them.
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Bummed to hear - their MTBs always fit me great.
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I really want to hear about the bike companies that didn't ring up Taiwan and order way too many bikes in the middle of the pandemic and then end up in this situation.
Is it just the companies that actually still make their own bikes who didn't fall into this? Like when you just call Taiwan and say make us bikes it's so easy you don't think about it ahead of time whereas any manager who actually has a factory realizes they shouldn't expand the factory 4x and hire 4x the workers just cause you couldn't make enough bikes in 2020? Are there any boutique builders or factories the size of Seven, Moots, IF, etc.. who are in trouble? |
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Seven itself has been shedding some employees as of late...
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All City just got axed from the QBP lineup last month. Canyon seems to be doing OK due to MVDP? |
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For larger companies, having profits that fluctuate over the business cycle is a perfectly normal thing, and is also plausibly profit-maximizing in the long-term. For the very small players, they generally need to be profitable every year to finance their ongoing operations. In between, it can go either way.
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POLE sounds like the only one that manufactures all their own bikes. IBIS makes a limited # themselves but outsources most (bonus points for seemingly moving some back) Orange makes some themselves and outsources the rest Canyon is outsourced AFAIK All City is outsourced My conjecture was just that actually manufacturing your own bike would have put a brake lever on the desire to massively increase production during 2020-2021 which seems to be where so much trouble started. If Seven has had to lay people off that's interesting. I thought Parlee was more just long term failure as opposed to the supply/demand cycle issues that are hitting most companies right now. Parlee is also partially outsourced now too. |
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I know someone directly impacted by the changes there, so, can confirm.
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This is not good news. They so some nice work.
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https://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/p...clist-investor |
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design input from Mr Parlee himself. https://parleecycles.com/products/ouray looks good. |
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