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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.

Businesses abhor uncertainty as well. Which is why the breaking-some-eggs-to-make-an-omelette attitude is so baffling. There is no omelette being made. Its just breaking eggs because the people running things are toddlers and like the sound they make when they hit the floor. If the goal is...

There are some pretty hard limits to how much prices can go up though before companies feel pain. People don't have infinite money to buy stuff; the more prices go up, the less people will buy. Its also the sort of thing someone says when they can afford large increases in their living...

I've been waiting to see how a kickstarter I backed would handle the tariffs (Routewerks big handlebar bag, FWIW). They updated today basically saying "we are almost done production in China, and just don't think the tariffs will last so we are warehousing them in HK and waiting things out"...

Professional converters and DIYers are basically buying the same stuff. I would assume PedalUma is much more competent at part selection and execution than, say, I would be, but I don't think hes buying anything that your average DIYer can't get. Its also worth noting that both DIY and pro...

DIYers? I think like 99.9% of those parts come from China. Is there anyone making motors/controllers for DIY kits literally anywhere else on the planet?

Who knows, maybe one of the big 3 will buy enough trump/melania crypto to secure a tariff exception for bike stuff.

To the original point of this thread, really the only question is how much more expensive everything bike will get, and how bad the industry will get hurt. Too many raw, intermediate and final products come from overseas and will increase in price, and profit margins just aren't there for most...

It can happen when the bead doesn't fully seat somewhere, so the tire is out of round. It can also happen when theres a failure or defect in the tire casing causing it to bulge at one location. Could also be a hop in the wheel itself (a spot where uneven spoke tension is causing the wheel...

I mean, figuring out what this administrations policy actually is is sorta like interpreting a kindergartners crayon scribbles, but generally tariffs are on the imported [whatevers] manufacturing cost. So if the frame cost you $300 to have made in some Chinese factory, you'd pay...

The problem is that so many bikes/ebikes "made" in other countries (EU, USA, other Asian countries) contain large quantities of parts made in china. And parts made in other countries are generally made with materials largely imported from China. If you massively tariff imported aluminum, for...

"Fat tires" back then were probably skinnier than standard gravel tires are now. :)