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The Sens hate is mostly tongue-in-cheek. I have no horse in this race and just want to root for someone. Brady Tkachuk is probably my favorite player on the ice tbh, with Max Domi a close 2nd. I'm 90% serious. I think both will be increasingly effective if and when they make it through the...

Boston is enemy #1 Nordiques used to be enemy #1 I have no strong feelings about the Leafs either way

Go Leafs Go Fuck them Ottawan beotches

Unbelievable

Flat bar hybrids are even more of a steal right now. Sell your Cannondale and go get something like a Trek FX Sport 5 Carbon. My local bike shop is selling the 2024s for $1499 Canadian which is like 1100 USD. Insane, man.

Yes. Cannondale, Giant, Trek, Specialized. I just looked and Cannondale's Topstone Carbon 4 is currently being advertised for CA$1000 below MSRP, and that's a MAP-compliant price, meaning that even steeper discounts can likely be found in store. Wouldn't surprise me if you could score one for...

I'm probably borderline autistic, or at least ADHD. Just with no superpowers.

I do not. I prolly need one, don't I. I managed to open wifey's old word combination lock that she had forgotten the combination to, just by feel. This shit is fun.

Yeah. Carbon fiber bicycles are luxury products that are super labour intensive. If you want one, buy one now from one of the big four manufacturers. The current discounts are below cost and I've confirmed that Trek and Specialized are eating the loss on unsold post-COVID bikes. That's nice of them.

Working at the distributor level is interesting because you get a good glimpse of the struggles at every level. The manufacturer needs to pump out product quickly to make money, which can easily affect quality. The distributor is oftentimes the one that does the true, final quality control, and...

Right right. One of my dealers did the white label thing during the pandemic and he regretted it. He showed me the bikes and they're not the same quality as the factory branded ones. His bikes were made by the exact same factory that makes mine. MOQ is usually one container to be competitive...

The expert-level lying and gaslighting is insane.

I mostly sell traditional pedalbikes, which isn't a booming market as much as it is a recovering one. But yes, that's the next step I'm going to explore - the Quebec guy is an independent sales rep so he's on pure commission, but that means he can rep tons of brands and doesn't have the same...

In semi-related news, I now have a Garmin Varia radar/camera on the back of my bike. It's kinda fun to review the rear-facing camera footage after the fact. When I get smushed by an angry pickup truck driver, my family will be able to retrieve the footage and see exactly how fast said pickup...

He could easily have a few demos air-shipped for a couple hundred bucks each, and I'd suddenly move lots of bikes. But he likely can't cause he hasn't paid his last bill (for the original container that was full of weird bikes that no one wants.) FML Stevie :abc:

There is demand for bikes I don't have demos of, namely gravel bikes. All I have with me right now are road bikes, which no one wants here. It's all about gravel in Ontario these days. We have some really really nice, affordable carbon fiber gravel bikes coming in for 2026. I have 20+ prospects...

The bikes are nice. I just came back from a ride on one of my demos. Super sweet ride. I'm probably the only person in Ontario with one of those though, which is a big part of the problem, lol

Nothing to do with tariffs. The big issue is that the owner can't afford what he wants to do. I've been promised new 2026 models to show to my prospects, since February. They're not gonna come before June now, and that sounds like another empty promise. I think he's not paying his suppliers and...