Pole Bikes hates Ridemonkey
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The problem is the VC mentality of growth at all costs which often leads to overinstestment and growth in areas where it made no sense. Hell very often the VC strategy is pushing for an innovative company to chase a monopoly.
Also "it's not a public company so there is no pumping done". Lol. I mean later rounds of investors are some of the people it's being pumpued on, later companies who might acquire a company or suckers at the IPO. This is how Peloton, a company producing only stationary bikes got valued at...checks notes... 33% of the global healthcare industry. But yes no pump and dump where companies are valued at crazy prices because there is an expectation there will always be a sucker down the road who will pay the price.
Duh, string cheese, obviously.
Uh...wut? You realize the global healthcare industry is measured in trillions of US dollars?
Your building a karpiel with a 35mm Boxxer...hell yeah I'd go monster T , but hey that's just splitting hairs.
Sorry meant Fitness Industry. I'm tired and I hate my job so I am mixing up shit. Fitness industry.
Now that you mention it... Their gravel and endurance racer (current & 5x 24hr MTB world champ) who they've sponsored forever was just let go. I thought it was odd, but could be a sign they're out of money.
dude, i have seen them in person and they are nice. i've seen a few pop up on the vintage pages. would be a cousin for my xprezo.
I've never seen one, a bb7 was my first dual suspension frame, I bought it from former member No Skid Marks.
It was a tall, short frame, but it was only a medium and I needed a large.
I'm so sad I left my 2002 bb7 frame at my old apartment with a friend when I moved to Nelson for a year with gf in 2012 and when I returned a year later asked if he still had it in the storage and he had thrown it out
i have an xprexo furax which was the DH bike from another company run by at least some of the guys from balfa / appalache. Last year out of curiosity I measured the geo, everything was largely within a few mm or a degree or so of modern bikes with 2 exceptions: the BB is a touch higher (but that's to compensate for it having 8.5" of travel vs the most common 8") and the reach & overall length are like 3" shorter (but it was designed for 26" wheels, this comparison was done against a 29" bike; should add here it has clearance for 275 wheels which is what i'm currently running).
damn, that hurts. really cool bikes (albeit, i've never ridden a BB).I'm so sad I left my 2002 bb7 frame at my old apartment with a friend when I moved to Nelson for a year with gf in 2012 and when I returned a year later asked if he still had it in the storage and he had thrown it out
also, the appalache real was sweet. that's one brand (ok, some formulation of the 3: balfa / appalache / xprezo) that'd i'd love to see rise from the grave. a modern alu front / steel rear high pivot iteration from that crew (built in quebec, of course) would be rad.
my old xprezo adhoc still lives on - handed off to my son.
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any idea what happened to those guys after xprezo went under?
i managed to score most of another furax frame from a guy on pinkbike, he had a bunch of rando xprezo stuff, best I could gather is he acquired a large batch of it at auction when after they closed up shop.
that's pretty cool actually. glad to see they are still making bikes, they had some cool designs and ideas that were ahead of their time (mixed materials in frames). is there a website or something?A friend is actually getting his own custom designed full-suspension frame welded by Xprezo's ex-main guy, so I guess they're still kinda doing bikes. Just need to come up with your design
looks like phil was a welder / machinist @ balfa & xprezo. hugo bardou (started xprezo), and jerome roy (fired up appalache) were the OG balfa founders. now curious where those 2 ended up...
holy shit his dually frames! very cool looking
I say it's 11spd XX1. I prefer the silver cassette to black. The shifter & derailleur are lighter. The chain is lighter.
Another vote for the XX1 11sp. I have bikes with full XO.1 Eagle drivetrains, but the XX1 11sp on my hardtail is in a class of its own.
i met philippe when I was at the xprexo factory, very nice guy. IIRC hugo was around, but i didn't spend as much time with him. we were only there for the morning.
By like 3g, the X01 11 is the same exact thing. This ain't like XT and XTR where the parts are fundamentally different, the X01 and XX1 is fundamentally exactly the same.
Tomato Tomato. It's the same thing with a different color and a 3g weight difference but hell yah if it makes you feel good. Either way, best drivetrain ever made.
Here it is!I'm so sad I left my 2002 bb7 frame at my old apartment with a friend when I moved to Nelson for a year with gf in 2012 and when I returned a year later asked if he still had it in the storage and he had thrown it out
I didn't miss my balfa at all, my 37 pound hardtail was all I needed at that time.
It had the momentum that 29er people carry on about but with the nimbleness of 26" wheels.
Back to Pole, their 5yr transferable warranty seemed pretty crazy and I always wondered what would happen to the bond if you get one of those acidic sweat people riding one?
It had the momentum that 29er people carry on about but with the nimbleness of 26" wheels.
Back to Pole, their 5yr transferable warranty seemed pretty crazy and I always wondered what would happen to the bond if you get one of those acidic sweat people riding one?
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