Bell Welcomes Tyler McCaul to the Team

 What do you folk even think you will accomplish? The people that work at bell don't control federal and cci ammunition. Not do they control who the parent company supports. And on top of it providing a product ie guns and ammo that people wantis evil because why?.. If they don't someone else will. Don't you think the real issues lie elsewhere?

 @Jokesterwild: You have to understand, virtue signaling on the internet saves lives.

 I'm boycotting any products that are made by American companies because the USA's "rah-rah guns everything" attitude has led to so many shootings, school and otherwise.

Am I doing armchair activism right?

 @Dethphist: Nailing it. Especially the not actually accomplishing anything part. And the sharing it with the internet part.

 Unless Vista changes its stance - and it might! - I will be buying Bontrager helmets next. I can't afford to smash the Giro I have now (and turning it into landfill seems pretty dumb) but I won't pay for another while Vista supports the NRA.

 The FBI were tipped off several times about this goof and the police were at his house after he held a gun to his mom's head and didn't take away his guns. So if you're going to blame anyone blame law enforcement for doing a sh*tty job. Not to mention the school resource officer ran away like a clucking chicken.

 @DownHooligan: Nobody is interested in facts or reality. It's a virtue signal circle jerk of irrational hate. There's no room for logic.

 @DownHooligan: First off he didn't run, he thought the shooting was happening in the field behind the school and there is video evidence to support this. Second off because of the BRA, this good as you put it, was able to walk into a f*cking Wal-Mart and buy a semi auto weapon and bullets.

 @DownHooligan: NRA* Goof* F autocorrect

 While nobody likes school shootings, I find it interesting how people over inflate one of the smallest statistical threats(school shootings). Since 1990, there have been 22 shootings at elementary and secondary schools in which two or more people were killed, not counting those perpetrators who committed suicide. The epidemic you perceive is of your own imagining.

There are over 50 million kids in school now, and multiple times that over that thirty year span, in which 60 kids died. This is the tiniest of threats to today's youth, but so much anger, because guns. And media inflated perception. Guns and hunting are a passion for millions, and an industry that supports countless jobs, and improves the quality of life of thousands reliant in it. Eliminating guns would do far more harm to our society than good. And it's not even close.

 @AllMountin: Thank you for your logic, reasoning, and understanding of this incredibly nuanced situation. But please leave this comment section, its for your own good. Really. They don't want to listen to you here...

I mean, they're talking about boycotting a helmet company because of some supposed ties to an organization that they don't even understand. Clearly they've already done some damage and could likely use a new helmet themselves...

 @AllMountin: Nobody is saying eliminate guns. Some measure of control over who gets those guns would be nice however. Dude was known to be violent and the police did nothing correct? Would it have made a difference for him when purchasing a gun?

 @AllMountin: If we even ignore school shootings, (of which even ONE is too many in my mind), the US still has the highest number of mass shootings of any country in the developed world by a huge margin. Nearly half of the civilian owned guns in the entire world belong to the residents of ONE country. Yeah, Venezuela, Somalia, etc might have a higher number of gun related homicides per year, but those aren't considered developed first world countries either.

Regardless of the circumstances around this one particular case, America's obsession with guns, and the attitude that everyone needs to be able to get a gun has led to an absolutely staggering number of civilian deaths.

I'm not against people owning guns, if you want to hunt or target shoot (legally), go nuts. Many people do here in Canada, including myself, but why is there such a steadfast opposal in the US to showing some basic level of respect to a device designed and built to kill?

 @Tmackstab: no he was able to walk into a WalMart and buy guns and pass a background check because the police didn't pass on his criminal behavior to the federal registry.

 @DownHooligan: What if he went on a road trip to the next state over? Each state has different laws.

 @Tmackstab: and the NRA has been trying to change that for the last ten years. If you commit a serious crime and are a danger to yourself or others the police will have an obligation to send a report to the federal registry right now there is no law that says they have too. This whole shooting could have been avoided if the police and FBI acted on the threats he made and the criminal behavior he committed.

 @DownHooligan: What about the Vegas shooter? Respected in his community. What about the Columbine shooters who bought their guns from a friend who bought them legally at a gun show (while there was a 'ban' on some Ar15's)

 @AllMountin: That world be 22 school shootings too many. Your logic is extremely twisted. What you're effectively saying is that you consider a situation where 22 or more individuals can obtain assault rifles (granted single fire only if they don't get a bump stock) and shoot up schools, killing children a fair price to pay in exchange for preserving your right to buy something like an AR15. That kind of logic gets you laughed at where I'm from. I just hope it's not your child next.

 *would

 @Kamba6: And yet a small fraction of Muslims attacked America and Trump issues a full on ban so fast that some were stranded at the airport. I guess if Muslims were lobbying the govt it would have been a different story.

 @Kamba6: I'm suggesting people have an irrational level of fear and hatred for a specific threat, that amounts to around 2 fatalities per year, on average. "Your" agenda is actually that of your puppeteers, and the mass media portraying a warped view of reality. People hate, but they don't understand why. Logic is not your friend. Banning AR's solves nothing. It's replaced with another weapon just like it, or a pressure cooker bomb, or a dude in a moving van. Bad people do bad shit. And they get prosecuted for it. The sooner you come to terms with the fact that there is no preventing it, the happier you'll be. Stop deluding yourself and get a grip.

 @Jokesterwild: Because the only language understood by corporations is MONEY.

 @AllMountin: While a number of deaths in school shootings is low at 2 per year according to your statistic, that's 2 per year more than the rest of the developed world on average. You see, a school shooting is just not a reality in Europe for instance, and the fact that we cant buy assault rifles plays a part in that.

But if the threat of a school shooting is too low to present a real concern, how about the fact that over 30,000 Americans will die in firearm related incidents this year? That is a number that far exceeds anywhere else in the developed world whichever way you look at it. And you can't say that's not to a large degree down to the fact that Americans own three times as many guns per capita than the next nation on the list.

If bad people are going to do bad things than why is it that bad people don't go killing children in schools or people at a music festival using pressure cooker bombs in the likes of Germany, UK or Australia where guns are not easily accessible? And also, why would you make it easy on the bad guy. Let them try to put together a pressure cooker bomb. Maybe they'll get it wrong and it doesn't go off. It's certainly harder to do than squeeze a trigger.

Now you're no doubt going to tell me that if the bad guy wants to get a gun they'll get it one way or another and that's true to an extent. But I'm willing to bet that Nikolas Cruz, Stephen Paddock or Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold would have had a lot of trouble obtaining firearms they used in their senseless murderous rampages and would have likely not gone through with it or would have got arrested while attempting to buy them on the black market. It's only for the fact they were able to simply walk into a shop and just buy them (or buy them off a friend who bought it legally at a convention)that we are now talking about them.

And yes, there is preventing it but that would take more than just gun control.

As far as your puppeteers, the media and the warped reality comment, you'll find you are the one being manipulated and lied to. You are somehow convinced that you have power if you can buy a gun or that you are somehow more free than the rest of the world because of your freedom to choose to to own a weapon. We'll I've lived through a war and if I never see another gun it will be too soon. I will have my freedom from fear of being shot and killed at a music concert by a deranged individual over your freedom to buy and own an instrument of death any day of the week.

 @AllMountin:You have a lot to say for someone who is clearly so mental they think Assault Rifle ownership is a good thing. What are you ´mericans so scared of (apart from each other) that necessitates owning the sort of weapon only legally needed by a solider (or your police, because you cant control guns in your country). Your freedom of speech schtick is so rooted in red-neckery and racism that its laughable. Odious attitude to be promoting on public forum - i guess if your so hooked on Vista Koolaid and guns you must be some sort of dumb ass inbreed.

 @Bustacrimes: lol no pics, account activity, must be another fake snowflake account. Seems to be a lot of those that have popped up on here recently. It's unfortunate that Pinkbike is turning into Facebook.

 @Bustacrimes: and there was someone else who said only guns should be in the hands of soldiers what was his name again he had a little mustache and a fixation with sticking his right hand up in the air. Supposedly disarmed and killed off thirteen million people ya look how that sh*t turned out.

 @singletrackslayer: well then you should have figured out they won't be just dropping their biggest income because they lose a slight amount on a off brand. Some poor sucker at bell and Giro will probably lose a job if anything.

 @Bustacrimes: and with a name like "bustacrimes" you wonder why people arm themselves. Lol what a f**king joke you are.

 @Kamba6: "If bad people are going to do bad things than why is it that bad people don't go killing children in schools or people at a music festival using pressure cooker bombs in the likes of Germany, UK or Australia where guns are not easily accessible" Do you have short term memory loss? that's EXACTLY what has happened in europe recently, Manchester, (bomb) Brussels, (bomb) Bataclan theatre, Paris (bombs, guns, beheadings) And the other "creative" attacks with trucks and cars in Germany, UK, France, etc.

"30,000 Americans will die in firearm related incidents this year" ...Yeah 2/3 of those are suicides.

 @dmn89: Those were acts of terrorism committed by mainly foreign religious extremists and not by a troubled 19 year old who had a bit of a tough time in school.

Even if 2/3 are suicides, 10,000 firearm related deaths is still a lot more than any other developed nation.

 @Kamba6: And? How does that undermine my point? violence is violence and it happens regardless of laws.

The US is country of 330 million people (plus between 30-50 million illegal immigrants) The majority of firearms homicides happen in rather "undeveloped" neighborhoods. For some perspective, my home state, which has a population similar to Norway, has a murder rate on par with Belgium or France.

 @dmn89: A terrorist organisation with links to organised crime won't have as big a problem obtaining firearms as say a teenager would. Also, a terrorist will be trained in making improvised explosive devices. When a random individual with mental issues and a troubled past can get their hands on an assault rifle easily and without many medical and background checks the likelihood of something bad happening goes up.That's the difference.

 @DownHooligan: I dont live my life via social media, so stalking my profile for troll points is a waste of your precious time, snowflake. Your a muppet - condoning the rights of individuals to carry military grade weapons for self defence or hunting is madness. If you want to play solider, sign up and stop with the chilidish wannabee soldier schtick. Grow up and stop glorifying gun violence. And the minute you make comparisons with one of the worst dictators in living history youve probably realised yourself the argument is done.

 @Bustacrimes: this is a website about bikes, you have no account activity and not a single pic of a bike on your account which makes me think you're just a Liberal poser.

 @scott-townes: would love to see both TMAC and RDOG on the podium at rampage shit

 all the fasthouse crew will end up on bell.


time will tell if fasthouse can stick around....


they are basically rippin off a few of tld's simpler/day in the dirt designs from a few years ago and running with it......

meh.

 @stacykohut: I dont know if i would say "ripping off" when Kenny Alexander the founder of fasthouse is responsible for starting Day in the Dirt.. and also is extremely good friends with Troy Lee. You can definitely see the TLD influence in design, and even brand persona which I think will help their business, lots of people love the boutique-ish brand that TLD is known for, and this is just another cool brand they can go too now

 cool

 You make me want to be mad.Cheer up friend.

 @nug12182: You're right, I don't mean to detract from T-Mac's success. He definitely deserves his hard won sponsorships.

 Uh? Okay?

 Vista Outdoor — parent company of many well-known bicycle product brands like CamelBak, Giro, Bell, CoPilot, and Blackburn — also owns brands that sell assault weapons and ammunition. Moreover, the company is a proud supporter of the National Rifle Association (NRA). Vista Outdoor owns 50 different brands. Their core business is their “shooting sports” division. Rifles, rifle accessories, and ammunition make up over 75 percent of their revenue, which is expected to reach $2.4 billion in 2018. One stock analyst said Vista is the largest seller of ammunition in America with 40 percent of the total market.
Love the new Bell Sixer Helmet. Hope Vista Outdoor sells it’s bike brands. Bell is a great company and sure it has many great employees. I am a gun owner but NRA has gone too far and is a disgrace of an organization. The way NRA attacked the student at the Florida school was way too much. NRA cannot be reasonable with reasonable gun control policies. Politicians that take an NRA money are scums!!

 Post a pic of the smashed helmets, put your $ where your mouth is! Not a fan of the NRA either but come on. Should Tyler turn down the sponsorship or does that mean he's pro-gun??

 Word! Tmac is awesome. His decision. I even like bell helmets and camelback products but I can’t support bell, camelback, giro, Blackburn now. TLD are nicer helmets anyway

 @Beez177: Neither point was made by me. f*ck the NRA & Co. is the message. Obviously T-Mac cannot control the policies of sponors/mega-corps. I however can control what companies get my $$ & support. One that seemingly advocates mass murder does not get any love from me.

 @Beez177: for example, the riders who dropped their energy drink sponsors and dtarted repping the “drink water” movement.
similar principles in my mind.

 there was a lot of hair splitting about carbon production and disposal in this place. I cannot see why a matter of social responsibility of a business shouldn't be raised in the same manner. I'm not sure about the effectiveness of a consumer boycott in cases like this but at the very least customers should have access to knowledge about the politics behind making money by a company or its parent company

 So effectively, anyone who owns a bell/giro/camelbak product is a trump supporter in an indirect way. E.g. Bell>vista outdoor>NRA>trump

 @fattire4evr: Thank you for sharing your POLITICAL opinion of your NEIGHBORING country on a bicycle news website. Don't like a product/company/athlete? Vote with your feet and don't support them. End of story. No need for the self-righteous hoo-ha how you're doing the world better by bashing a company.

Congrats to t-mac continuing to evolve through the bike industry and contributing to what he loves!

 @pistol2ne: funny thing is he is whining about politics from America when he's Canadian lmao I'm not to worried about what the gun laws are in the states and who supports what because it doesn't affect Canadians like me in the least lol

 @g-monster: ya the US would never impose their will on another sovereign nation........
Props to @fattire4evr
Screw bell,giro,camelback,Blackburn

 Meanwhile the nra supported by bell,giro,cb, bburn enable the slaughter of us citizens and promote partisan discord funnelling Russian $’s to support the orange grifter in chief to tear down democracy #muellertime

 Also if you live outside of the U.S. bell has the worst customer support.

 smashing your helmet doesn't do anything (unless you take pictures and send it to bell telling them why you did, i guess). just wear it until you need a new one and buy a different brand.

that's my plan, at least

 @fattire4evr: fair enough

 @won-sean-animal-chin: the orange grifter...................

so good.

 @kmoter: vote with your dollar fo sho.

it might be the only way to be heard these days...................

 @krypto8: Gotcha, thank you for the explaining. Now I get why he is unsettled.

 @krypto8: thanks for a pretty balanced overview of the facts. These terrible things tend to amplify the extremeness of everybody's position, left or right, pro or con, so I appreciate some actual "information".

I realize this is the internet and I'm not hopeful, but maybe we can let everyone have their position without judging their motivations or logic, and just talk about things that bring us together, like the ridiculousness of SRAM's new BB "standard" and E-bikes signaling the apocalypse.

 @plyawn: For once theres another human that sees like myself. Hi haha. But yes, I agree. Cleared it up with facts.

 @mhoshal: You're right for the most part, though it does in some ways. We share the largest porous border in the world and a lot of the scarier guns that are out there migrate from the US. Plus if you're pro-gun I'd think the strong "anti-US" politics in Canada actually lead to calls for even more control up here...

 LOL yeah bro stand up for "people-kind"

 Smashing your helmet does no good, is wasteful, and fills landfills. The money is already spent, and cannot be unspent. Black out the logo if you must, by why protest one problem to create another?

 dick sporting goods steps up and puts common sense before profits..................


thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/375974-dicks-ceo-on-ending-sales-of-assault-style-rifles-we-dont-want



vote with your dollar.

 alfonso calderon from cnn this morning.............

Joining us now, Alfonso Calderon. He's a junior at the high school.

When I spoke to you last week, alfonzo, you said it was going to be really physically, emotionally difficult to return to school, but you thought you would. I assumed you were in school today. How did it go?

ALFONSO CALDERON, MARJORY STONEMAN DOUGLAS HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT: I just want to start with it's difficult. A lot of people sometimes take for granted how hard it is to go back to a place that remind you of something so tragic. At the same time, it was actually very uplifting, because it was amazing to see how the community and all the students and the school got together. There were so many hugs and so much time just bonding with people and teachers and, you know, rebuilding those bridges that were once burnt. It was amazing. But at times very emotional for me.

BLITZER: Did most of the students go back today? Some decided apparently not to, right?

CALDERON: Absolutely. I would say most of the student body was there. As I said before, it was just an amazing spectacle to see because I saw teachers and students who used to get into arguments on a daily basis hug and cry in each other's arms. I saw people who wouldn't dare speak to each other just open up. It's really heartwarming.

BLITZER: And now it's going to be regular days as of tomorrow, all of next week. Everybody's going to be going back to school. What was it like going in? There was a lot of armed presence there, a lot of police, right?

CALDERON: Yes, I think some students might find it comforting, but personally I felt like I was choking, like if I was having an asthma attack. It was very difficult to grapple with everything, you know, especially with the freshmen building, which is where the tragedy happened. There's a fence built around it. There's armed officers at all times, including through the night now. Walking through there to get to some of my classes, it was tough.

BLITZER: Is that going to stay like that as far as you know? Are you going to have to endure that kind of police presence for the rest of the semester?

CALDERON: Absolutely. I'm sure that most of the police officers that were here today will be gone by next week, and the ones in school as well, but the ones around the building where it happened, those aren't going anywhere. That's still an active crime scene until the case has been settled. I think it'll forever be locked down.

BLITZER: Yes, it's an awful situation all around. I know it's painful and difficult for you and all of your friends at school.

Let me get your reaction to what's happened with Dick's Sporting Goods, a major retailer business that actually sold the Florida shooter a shotgun last year at the age of only 18. They say they will stop selling A.R.-15-style rifles. The CEO of the store, of the company, also says a decision was made for the kids of Stoneman Douglas.

You're going to have to be 21 from now on to purchase any kind of weapon there. What's your reaction?

CALDERON: I know I just talked about some very depressing issues, but I want to say that is the most uplifting news I have heard in a while. It's been very tough going to my state capitol in Tallahassee and being told that I won't be able to do anything or the Hill in Washington, D.C., and facing some trouble. But I'm glad to see that companies are finally hearing not only the children's outcry but everybody in this country who is sick and tired of the dysfunctional laws and system we have set in place. I'm glad that Dick's Sporting Goods supports common sense gun laws, such an as 18-year-old should not be able to buy a shotgun or A.R.-15. That's just not sensible. And I'm glad that companies, which are what will stop the NRA from doing what they're doing, basically killing kids, the companies are going to be the ones that are going to stop this. And I'm calling out every single company right now who is not in favor of cutting their ties with the NRA. The NRA has shown themselves to be toxic, vile, and to not support the right to live, which is in the preamble of the Constitution. I want them to remember they always talk about the Second Amendment, but that preamble is before it. Because of its importance and its necessity for America to be the way it is.

[13:45:38] BLITZER: Alfonso Calderon is a junior at Stoneman Douglas High School. Today was the first day back at school.

Alfonzo, we'll continue these conversations down the road. Good luck to you.

CALDERON: Absolutely.

BLITZER: Good luck to all your friends at school, your families. Thank you very much for joining us.

CALDERON: Thank you very much.




listen to the american kids, they know whats up.

 @stacykohut: must be running out of things to comment about huh?

 @nug12182: you think that kids getting shot in schools is something to be joking about?

congrats man, you rock. so classy.

do you even know who alfonso calderon is or what he went thru inside that school?

his words mean soooo much more than any comments from this bike site.

 @stacykohut: WELCOME TYLER MCCAUL!!!!!AND YOU WANT TO WRITE A STORY!

 @stacykohut: oh and.....I didn't even read what you wrote.This ad is not about whatever you wrote.about.and yes I'm sure they are related in whatever way you want to see it.Keep it to Tyler.

 A Full 9 makes a D3 feel like wearing a paint can on your head! Best helmet out there full stop.

 That "class act" and "ethical decision" had absolutely nothing to do with carbon footprint as evidenced by him flying around the globe even more since retiring, but you know.. tsk tsk on T-Mac... im sure he has hours to spend on the internet digging up dirt.

 It’s parent company Vista Outdoors does, so in a roundabout way yes Bell supports the NRA.

 Yeah, it's lighter and full carbon (the standard moto version isn't full carbon). Def the best full face I've owned (15+ years riding)

 Get lost snowflake.

 Next they will call for ridding the world of name places such as Manhattan, Manchester...for the betterment of people-kind "LOL

 @oieeri26: make me b*tch!