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Thats generally how aluminum fails. Welding heat weakens metal so they generally break somewhere near the weld (tubes are usually butted, so they tend to crack where the thickened area ends; this is true on steel frames as well). Aluminum needs to be heat treated after welding to restore its...

At least they aren't punishing countries that were smart enough not to vote for it. I imagine the wishy washy language (instead of just calling it a tariff charge) is to avoid government retribution.

The issue with carbon, as a material, is its strength is highly dependent on the direction/type of the weave. An aluminum plate will generally be equally strong no matter how its oriented, but a carbon plate could be super strong one direction but very weak another if thats how the carbon...

Its smaller, but I love my Routewerks: https://routewerks.cc/products/the-handlebar-bag Its not as spacious as the touring style handlebar bags but has a plastic top (with bike computer/phone mounting point) and a rigid frame. Attaches to the bar using a machined aluminum mount that has a quick...

Dunno, lightweight low assist systems seem pretty popular. Part of the issue may be that the more power you have, the more battery you need to actually have a usable range. And battery is generally where most of the system weight comes from. Catalyzt is absolutely right that I'd be very wary...

The ebike market is hyper competitive, so I suspect that if a significantly smaller, lighter motor was easily achievable someone would be making it. There are very likely aspects your engineer friend isn't considering that make it a more difficult problem than you think.

I've been seeing a lot of that as well, especially bike parts. Prices have risen but often they straight up won't ship to the US. I needed a part for an Ltwoo groupset and managed to get it in before s*it hit the fan, but it did sit in Baltimore for like two weeks waiting to clear customs. If...

Why would anyone crowdfund something that has been readily available on the market from established companies for years?

Yeah. One thing from the gamers nexus video I posted went into that I hadn't thought about is that the tariffs are straight increases to production costs. AKA new costs companies have to pay up front before they even have something in their warehouse they can sell. So imagine you're a small...

Lol, true. Just has all the buzzwords (Micromobility! Supply chain optimization! Skunkworks! Leveraging [insert successful company] tech!) and zero info on the actual product. I'll believe it when I see it for sale, personally.

Yeah. It makes sense for a company like Sony; the US is a huge market, so if you can just increase prices everywhere to hold your market share in the US it might be the best way to keep profits roughly the same and set yourself up longer term. No company is going to sell at a loss forever...

I'm guessing this is more a way to separate VCs from their money than it is to actually develop a viable product and company.

I posted it in the other thread, but good article from the board game industry on tariff effects. Board games are informative because the industry seems well positioned to take the earliest hit. Reading the board games reddit lately has felt like browsing the obituaries. Lots of companies...

Oh man, that was a beautiful bike for its day, but I can definitely see it being uncomfortable. I'm sure it has (by todays standards) very racy geometry, given the era and the fact that it has a sid on it! If you want a more comfortable ride, pretty much any modern emtb is going to be worlds...

What mountainbike? What sort of terrain? IMO companies like Juiced used fat tires to compensate for crappy suspension forks and rigid frames. Nothing wrong with them, but proper suspension is always going to outperform balloon tires for comfort and control. They do have advantages where you...

I don't think they ever made a fat ebike for the US market. There is a Yukon E+ that appears to be for Canada? I'm not sure why you feel the need for fat tires though. Full suspension kinda solves all the same problems, just more effectively. Unless you ride in snow or sand a lot and need...

A good article on the tariff issue from the ceo of a tabletop board game company: https://www.catalystgamelabs.com/news/tariffs-rolling-against-american-game-publishers I suspect the issues are largely the same for small and medium companies in the cycling world.

As time goes on, I expect manufacturing for most stuff to move to where its most commonly purchased regardless of government policy. As automation improves, labor costs become more irrelevant and it makes sense to just build the factory wherever its easiest to distribute your product (assuming...

I think this really gets to the heart of the issue. The idea that we should manufacture everything in the US is basically saying the US should swap places with China, which is a significantly poorer country than the US. If we had large amounts of unemployed people there would at least be some...

That sucks. They make good bags. Its really hard for small companies to absorb sudden cost increases or drops in demand. We will probably be seeing a lot of this in the coming weeks and months.