Industry News Recap: Giant, Chain Reaction, SRAM, Shimano, Specialized, and Stan’s
Singletracks Mountain Bike Podcast
Singletracks.com
4.7 • 574 Ratings
🗓️ 22 February 2016
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
In this episode we discuss recent mountain bike industry news involving a number of brands, including Giant, Chain Reaction, SRAM, Shimano, Specialized, and Stan’s.
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| 0:21.8 | Hello everybody and welcome to the Single Tracks podcast. |
| 0:25.1 | Today, it's me, Greg, and I have Jeff and Aaron here with me, and this is going to be our |
| 0:30.3 | industry news podcast edition. |
| 0:33.0 | Over the past week or two, we've had a lot of news come down the pipeline that relates to retail and |
| 0:40.1 | how that happens in the bike industry and new products and competition. |
| 0:44.4 | So we're just going to dive right in and discuss it. |
| 0:47.4 | Before we get going, I'd like to say we've covered a lot of these on singletracks.com. |
| 0:51.6 | But in addition to our coverage, a big nod towards bicycle retailer.com, |
| 0:56.7 | which is sort of the pinnacle of news reporting in the bike industry and on the industry side, |
| 1:03.1 | I think. |
| 1:03.5 | A lot of the original breaking news happened there, and so we're sort of discussing a little bit of |
| 1:08.7 | what they talked about. |
| 1:09.3 | To get things started, Giant recently announced that they are launching an online |
| 1:14.8 | sales program that they've built as direct to consumer, but it's rather similar to Treks |
| 1:21.4 | model. |
| 1:22.2 | So if you buy a component or something like that, it's shipped directly to your door, but |
| 1:26.8 | if you're buying a bike, |
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