What happened to Cowan bikes?

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What happened to Cowan bikes?
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flag erictens
Posted: Oct 8, 2018 at 15:29 Quote
Back in 2013 John Cowan made a bike company, Cowan bikes, made some carbon dirt jump frames and completely disappeared off the internet as of nov 1 2014, I can’t find any mention of them after that, what happened?
flag headgr0m
Posted: Oct 8, 2018 at 18:17 Quote
https://bikerumor.com/2014/04/13/so14-sub-20-pound-carbon-dirt-jump-bike-from-john-cowan/

Is this what you mean?
Heres a guy trying to sell his (im unassociated)
https://www.pinkbike.com/buysell/2449100/

Im not sure about what happend, but it looks like theres still some of the frames kicking around. The guy says their very rare tho Salute
flag cmc4130
Posted: Oct 9, 2018 at 7:17 Quote
headgr0m wrote:
https://bikerumor.com/2014/04/13/so14-sub-20-pound-carbon-dirt-jump-bike-from-john-cowan/

Is this what you mean?
Heres a guy trying to sell his (im unassociated)
https://www.pinkbike.com/buysell/2449100/

Im not sure about what happend, but it looks like theres still some of the frames kicking around. The guy says their very rare tho Salute

I'm sure he's a great guy, but the idea that carbon is stronger than everything else seems odd. "Cowan claims he didn’t make the move to carbon because of the weight though. Instead, he made the move because the material is stronger and more impact resistant than anything else on the market."

I'm no materials expert, so who knows.... I do know some Enduro racers (with DH/jump background) around here who are regularly breaking carbon frames and bugging the hell out of warranty departments.
flag headgr0m
Posted: Oct 9, 2018 at 19:45 Quote
Maby he got sued because carbon wasn't the best thing for dirt jumping lol
flag dave-f
Posted: Oct 10, 2018 at 5:11 Quote
Probably same deal as with YT's carbon "play". Still available though only a limited edition of 25 were made. Gives you a good idea of how big the carbon DJ market is.
flag erictens
Posted: Oct 10, 2018 at 10:17 Quote
cmc4130 wrote:
headgr0m wrote:
https://bikerumor.com/2014/04/13/so14-sub-20-pound-carbon-dirt-jump-bike-from-john-cowan/

Is this what you mean?
Heres a guy trying to sell his (im unassociated)
https://www.pinkbike.com/buysell/2449100/

Im not sure about what happend, but it looks like theres still some of the frames kicking around. The guy says their very rare tho Salute

I'm sure he's a great guy, but the idea that carbon is stronger than everything else seems odd. "Cowan claims he didn’t make the move to carbon because of the weight though. Instead, he made the move because the material is stronger and more impact resistant than anything else on the market."

I'm no materials expert, so who knows.... I do know some Enduro racers (with DH/jump background) around here who are regularly breaking carbon frames and bugging the hell out of warranty departments.
Aluminum and other materials are only “stronger” because they use more of it, carbon is the strongest per gram
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