Saris Acquired by C+A Global at Bankruptcy Auction

 @jrocksdh: PPP loans maybe so. COVID shutdowns? Absolutely not.

 @jrocksdh: Typical pointless point from a triggered victim of the Government. Life must be tough...

 And 98% of those loans got "forgiven" by simply filling out a form. If this isn't welfare, I don't know what is.

 That was your money!!

 I don't see how Peloton survives on its own. That business is bleeding money. It either needs a bunch of external funding, sold off to a larger company (Apple or Google maybe), or it goes under.

 @HB208: the industry is ripe for consolidation. I’m surprised Zwift and Strava are still independent. Seems like a combined Peleton + Zwift + Strava could be significantly more competitive joining forces.

 @HB208: They recently landed some big contracts with hotels etc. I think it’s the only thing keeping the afloat.

 @Chondog94: the financials still suck. I know they partnered with Marriott but I doubt that’s more than a few million in revenue a year

 @HB208: Definitely. The brick and mortar locations make me laugh out loud, ship will sink soon enough

 It's already here, holiday sales are starting now. I'm getting pummeled with discount emails everyday from pretty much every company outside the bike industry. Most bike companies are offering discounts on all their bikes too and you can bet this will continue thru the end of the year.

 @bforwil: the only difference is that DISCOUNTED prince in 2022 is MSRP from 2020

 @bforwil: Oh yeah. Snagged a new Marin I been eyeing for almost 20% off. Bought a bunch of components on sale and have a high spec'd bike than the top end bike for less.

 Yup major sales already here and major price destruction. Save your $.

 @bforwil: It'll still be continuing through the end of next year. It hasn't really started yet.

 not sure how it is in the Capital but where I am from FB Marketplace is booming... the only issue is that everyone wants 6K for 3 - 4 years old carbon framed bikes

 @jrocksdh: Please let my dead family members know they should’ve recovered much quicker

 @jrocksdh: Alex jones just lost a billion and The Committee is loading up a cannon.

 @jrocksdh: Let's tell the families of nearly 1.1 MILLION dead americans that they should have recovered. Of course we don't know what the total dead is in many countries as they either stopped reporting data daily/weekly (as has happened here in Canada) or they've been outright lying the entire time (China who have reported to having tested EXACTLY 160,000,000 people but had just over 254k cases and less than 5500 reported deaths.... Turkey has done over 162 million tests, had over 16 million cases and over a million deaths).

 @jrocksdh: You're a complete moron. Wearing masks prevents airborne transmitted viruses and pollution from getting into the sinues, throat and lungs. Did you not grasp the fact that influenza cases drastically dropped the same time the masking requirements were in place was BECAUSE people were wearing masks ?

 @deeeight: oh name caller huh.
Meet me at the pull up bars!!

 @deeeight: I agree with your sentiment, and I happily say I was early to the mask party when the pandemic hit.

However, I would warn against promotion of falsehoods--the 'masks' required in most places served as nothing more than facial decoration. 'Mask for entry' was common, but there were very few places that enforced any sort of standard. You could use a mask made out of old race jerseys and it would still be deemed adequate--I would be very careful about drawing correlations between ""masks"" and a reduction in other infectious diseases, as it is likely not the chief factor for the decline in influenza, etc. Rather, other variables such as social distancing, remote working, etc. likely had as great, or greater, role in reduced disease transmission.

Since stock can be found once again, I would suggest anyone who actually wants to see a benefit from wearing a mask go and pick up a stack of N95s (at minimum), and find a style that seals well to your face. That cotton mask with the cool Navajo design on it ain't it my dudes..

 Smaller bike companies that rely on third party manufacturing contracts are surely in for some hurt.

 "......combined with customers who think most things are too expensive"

Think? Is that how money works for you?

 @cmi85: yeah should have gone with frugal, broke, tight....

 yeah it's weird what happens when a channel's sales tool is cut off

 Reading comprehension > You

 Recently they offered insane EP deals for their smart trainer and two bike racks. Like 70% off. I didn't have the money at the time, but I wanted to buy their H3 trainer and MHS rack so bad.

 I was reading about this a while back and it sounded like they were having most of their issues on the trainer side while they couldn’t keep the racks in stock. So the side that was actually selling they couldn’t make any money on because they couldn’t get stock, then the side that they could get stock on they weren’t selling. Just caught in a catch 22. I have a MTR rack. It’s decent but when I needed a part they couldn’t help me, but luckily I have some friends that work in a machine shop so I was able to get the part made. I have some extra arms they did send me when I thought I was having an issue so I should be good on the rack front for a long while. The new Saris MHS design is horrible though.

 Kuat has Kashima coating

 @shift9ears: Sarcasm missed.

 @porkchopsandwich: Damnit, hate it when that happens!

 Not completely happy with my 1up. It is great as a single bike carrier, but with 3 bikes the flex when hitting bumps on the highway is ridiculous. Forgot to tighten the safety latch on one trip and the whole rack w bikes hit the highway at 80 mph after a bump. Was lucky to only ruin one rack and not lose any bikes.

 If it's a superclamp, try twisting the cable while feeding it back in.

 My swingout hitch had issues from the first couple weeks I owned it. Opened up a warranty claim, didn't hear back for 4+ months and then out of the blue they replied to me a week ago and shipped me a brand new one that showed up a couple days later. I'd try reaching out to them now since the customer service guy told me that they were bought and fixed the problem immediately.

 Sold their liabilities off.