VicSandrin

Executive VP at PROPAIN Bicycles, USA

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VicSandrin edspratt's article
Oct 24, 2023 at 12:20
Oct 24, 2023
Signa Sports United's Internetstores GmbH Declares Insolvency
@ScandiumRider: half a billion dollar loss, sorry I mis-typed the number. its a lot!
VicSandrin edspratt's article
Oct 23, 2023 at 14:02
Oct 23, 2023
Signa Sports United's Internetstores GmbH Declares Insolvency
@TEAM-ROBOT: Also doesn't help when revenue at SSU was 1 billion Euros and in that same year have a loss of 500,000 euros. Not many companies can work through that loss and no backer will continue to fund those losses. I am sure the people at SSU had plans but I don't see many ways out of a hole that large in the bike biz. You don't get a lot of big swings from losses to gains to cover down years.
VicSandrin PROPAIN-Bicycles's article
Jan 31, 2023 at 13:04
Jan 31, 2023
VicSandrin PROPAIN-Bicycles's article
Jan 17, 2023 at 12:08
Jan 17, 2023
Cami Nogueira Signs With Propain Bicycles
Stoked to have Cami on the bikes this year! She is pushing the sport for sure which is fun to watch.
VicSandrin edspratt's article
Jan 12, 2023 at 10:30
Jan 12, 2023
Commencal/100% Race Team Disbands After 9 Years
@mexicant: Sorry but corporations didn't "invent" inflation, its been around since ancient times the concept of inflation. Most of the inflation today is caused by government printing fiat money at rates never before seen in history! price inflation has been caused by all this new money in the market and demand spiking. If anything Government caused this inflation as a tax on the middle class. Read some econ books Speculators cause oils prices to spike and no its not because they only want conservative governments. Historically it doesn't matter who is in office prices of oil swings on speculation. I get the whole all big corps are evil trope but it isn't the boogeyman that most people want to believe it is.
VicSandrin PROPAIN-Bicycles's article
Mar 18, 2022 at 15:58
Mar 18, 2022
Propain Welcomes Ryan Rodriguez & Dylan Crane
you obviously never met him in person, about the nicest person to EVERYONE he meets. So the question is do you think he has strong political views because its something you don't agree with, or do you think everyone who comments on politics has a strong political view and shouldn't say anything? But you commenting on this post the way you have seems to me that you are trying to stir something up that isn't there, perhaps your 2 cents should be kept in your pocket.
VicSandrin PROPAIN-Bicycles's article
Mar 18, 2022 at 10:48
Mar 18, 2022
Propain Welcomes Ryan Rodriguez & Dylan Crane
stoked to have you guys on the program!!!
VicSandrin alicialeggett's article
Jan 11, 2022 at 17:54
Jan 11, 2022
Mechanics Petition for Durability Standards & Repairable Budget Bikes
@A-HIGHLY-EDUCATED-PROFESSIONAL: I hate to say it but making just 1 great part will never work, because we live in a competitve, open market world. Sure in 1950's China, Mao could tell the factories exactly what to make and for what price, ie Flying pigeon bikes. They were guaranteed someone would buy the bikes exactly how they made it. That is a "planned" economy, What happened in that planned economy is the great famine in China. That is what happens when companies make what they want or told to make and not what the consumer wants. Your logic of " companies market to what makes them money, not what we actually want" isn't entirely correct and historically inaccurate. Companies will try to anticipate what consumers will want and market to that but if they miss, they go out of business or take a huge hit financially, All the talk on this forum and fireside chats at every bike event about if I designed a bike is much akin to Homer Simpson designing a car https://www.wired.com/2014/07/homer-simpson-car/ The other FACT of bike parts today is they are infinitely better then they were 35 years ago when I started riding mountain bikes, even the cheapest trash bike these days have better shifting and brakes than 99% of bikes from 1990! there is no denying that. Companies are making what people want in the price points they can afford, I totally agree that Big Box stores selling bikes isn't great for our industry and to get people to look at bicycles as real vehicles and not toys. Could those bikes be better, absolutely but will people who shop for bikes at Walmart pay more than $200 for a bike, most likely not. So Walmart is filling a void. Honestly the best thing our industry can do is stop being such snobbish dicks when a new person comes into your store. Maybe if you explain why buying a better bike at a higher price point will benefit that consumer you will be surprised with the sale. Too many bike shops, and I have been in and sold to hundreds of them! have a very elitist attitude and that telegraphs so poorly to consumers. On a side note, nothing stops you from raising 2 Million these days, like crowdsourcing, make it happen! only you can improve your life, government surely can't. And you know the old saying is, if you want to make a million in the bike industry start with 2 million!! ha
VicSandrin briceshirbach's article
Oct 19, 2021 at 17:04
Oct 19, 2021
Oregon's 5 Most Popular Trail Networks According to Trailforks Data
Pretty Sure Oakridge is more popular that the 44 trail!
VicSandrin ralf-hauser's article
Sep 5, 2021 at 17:33
Sep 5, 2021
6 New Helmets From Eurobike 2021
Comes in Vanta Black
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