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This is from The Rise and Fall of Rad Power bikes on Geekwire, link below: Step on the gas Rad raised more than $300 million from investors in 2021, doubled headcount to more than 600 employees, and bet big on sustained demand. But like many other businesses during the pandemic, Rad dealt with...

Very interesting. And depressing. As I said above, well regarded Scottish clothing brand Endura have suffered like your PON brand examples. Just this week massive lay offs in Scotland and entire company pulled from Scotland to the London HQ of their owners, in effect they'll be lumped in and...

Its It's the same story for most of the bike industry woes- spending a fortune on bikes to supply the huge demand during covid, then fighting lack of supply issues as China shut down, then getting hit by a sudden drop in supply in '22 yet by then having a huge over-inventory they can't sell...

Base is PON in trouble generally? Or just individual brands?

Eurobike 24 is where DJI launched the Avinox system. At the start of the year I tend to start getting curious to know what industry announcements we can expect this year, at shows lije that but it all sounds pretty dire so far.

Jeez Cervelo? Along with Canyon in trouble that's 2 of the big beasts, pro peloton, new generation facing headwinds. Bike biz really hurting. Are Cervelo direct to consumer as well?

With this and the gravel orientated E-ASTR Ridley are going all in on the TQ40 motor.

It was always Canon v Nikon with the fan boys in the old days. The big two. Pentax, Olympus, Minolta et all were small fry in comparison. Minolta being bought by Sony to start their photography journey later on. I always had a soft spot for Konica. Best glass I ever owned was the Hexar AF. But...

Exactly. Used be Levi's v Wrangler too!

My trick is to slowly push both sides of tyre around the rim, starting at the valve, it doesn't feel like it's doing much as you go, but when you get to the final foot or so, the awkward bit this constant smoothing usually create just enough 'give' in the tyre to pop it over the rim. Might take...

I took out my Pentax K-1 DSLR from some deep place in my room. Cleaned it, charged the battery (not used for 4 years, it could charge!) then I realized there was no SDXC card in the camera :) Of course, ordered the memory cards and the interface to download the photo files onto the PC. Then I...

plus, I think if you are riding without a motor & battery, you want the enjoyable ride of a light bike when possible.

The UK and Ireland as Islands don't have alpine style 20 mile climbs but instead an abundance of short viciously steep hills. I'm on the edge of Dartmoor, the highest point is High Willhays, at just 621 meters (2,039 ft) so not high at all. Highest mountain in Ireland is Carrauntoohil at 1,038...

Fazua gets a lot of stick on here but they had one genius tech idea with the Ride 50 motor system; it was designed so you could easily remove both the motor and battery and stick on a cover and so ride your gravel bike as a lighter, analogue bike.

This is a 15 year old steel bike I'm talking about. Luckily in the UK there are a number of old well established touring/Audax specialised bike shops, Spa Cycles and SJS in particular that do numerous parts for all kinds of Bikes. Spa does its own relatively cheap chainsets, and also sells ones...

So my Salsa Vaya has a nowadays, very old fashioned 3x chainset 24/34/46 with an 8 speed block 11-34. It has 38mm Panny Gravelkings semi-slicks. I'm not fit and the hills are very steep, but at least with this gearing I can just about get over them (not too many in a row mind you, that's why I...

I think they are mostly a US or at least North American company. I remember reading they were starting to sell in UK but with all their bikes being on American settings, throttles etc they were struggling to change to UK/EU standards. Plus it's a very competitive market here already. They aren't...

And they are not alone, nor limited to the ebike side of things alone. Just this week Scottish MTB/Cycling wear company ENDURA are laying off most of its Scottish workforce and relocating to the London HQ of its parent company after huge loses last 2 years, it's basically being folded into other...

None of which would prevent you from owning and enjoying an x20 or x35 equipped bike on 99% of the roads you can ride on from your front door. Which is my point. You already have bikes for your occasional forays into the exciting world of Polish gravel racing. Nothing to stop you trying a...

Haha just saw something about that. You can't stand still it seems!