• Re: GT Bicycles lay off staff, no new bikes

    From JNugent@21:1/5 to Spike on Wed Jan 1 13:00:14 2025
    On 01/01/2025 12:27 pm, Spike wrote:


    <https://road.cc/content/news/gt-bicycles-pause-new-releases-and-lay-staff-311797>

    Iconic American cycling brand GT Bicycles has announced that it will pause the release of any new bikes and lay off a significant chunk of its staff before the end of this year, while also letting go of “all of its athletes”, according to a pro downhill and BMX racer sponsored by the company.

    The decision seems to have come from GT Bicycles’ parent organisation Pon Bike, a cluster within the larger transport conglomerate Pon Holdings based in the Netherlands, which also owns several cycling brands like Cannondale, Cervélo, Gazelle, Focus Bikes, Urban Arrow and many more.

    This is all no doubt due to the "ever-increasing take-up" of fairy-bikes
    by chav-cyclists.

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  • From Spike@21:1/5 to All on Wed Jan 1 12:27:09 2025
    <https://road.cc/content/news/gt-bicycles-pause-new-releases-and-lay-staff-311797>

    Iconic American cycling brand GT Bicycles has announced that it will pause
    the release of any new bikes and lay off a significant chunk of its staff before the end of this year, while also letting go of “all of its athletes”, according to a pro downhill and BMX racer sponsored by the company.

    The decision seems to have come from GT Bicycles’ parent organisation Pon Bike, a cluster within the larger transport conglomerate Pon Holdings based
    in the Netherlands, which also owns several cycling brands like Cannondale, Cervélo, Gazelle, Focus Bikes, Urban Arrow and many more.



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  • From Spike@21:1/5 to JNugent on Wed Jan 1 13:35:21 2025
    JNugent <JNugent73@mail.com> wrote:
    On 01/01/2025 12:27 pm, Spike wrote:


    <https://road.cc/content/news/gt-bicycles-pause-new-releases-and-lay-staff-311797>

    Iconic American cycling brand GT Bicycles has announced that it will pause >> the release of any new bikes and lay off a significant chunk of its staff
    before the end of this year, while also letting go of “all of its
    athletes”, according to a pro downhill and BMX racer sponsored by the
    company.

    The decision seems to have come from GT Bicycles’ parent organisation Pon >> Bike, a cluster within the larger transport conglomerate Pon Holdings based >> in the Netherlands, which also owns several cycling brands like Cannondale, >> Cervélo, Gazelle, Focus Bikes, Urban Arrow and many more.

    This is all no doubt due to the "ever-increasing take-up" of fairy-bikes
    by chav-cyclists.

    …the success of which has recently seen cycling trips fall by 50%,
    according to official data.

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  • From JNugent@21:1/5 to Spike on Thu Jan 2 16:10:14 2025
    On 01/01/2025 12:27 pm, Spike wrote:

    <https://road.cc/content/news/gt-bicycles-pause-new-releases-and-lay-staff-311797>

    Iconic American cycling brand GT Bicycles has announced that it will pause the release of any new bikes and lay off a significant chunk of its staff before the end of this year,

    Before the end of 2025?

    while also letting go of “all of its
    athletes”, according to a pro downhill and BMX racer sponsored by the company.

    The decision seems to have come from GT Bicycles’ parent organisation Pon Bike, a cluster within the larger transport conglomerate Pon Holdings based in the Netherlands, which also owns several cycling brands like Cannondale, Cervélo, Gazelle, Focus Bikes, Urban Arrow and many more.

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  • From Spike@21:1/5 to JNugent on Thu Jan 2 17:07:41 2025
    JNugent <JNugent73@mail.com> wrote:
    On 01/01/2025 12:27 pm, Spike wrote:

    <https://road.cc/content/news/gt-bicycles-pause-new-releases-and-lay-staff-311797>

    Iconic American cycling brand GT Bicycles has announced that it will pause >> the release of any new bikes and lay off a significant chunk of its staff
    before the end of this year,

    Before the end of 2025?

    The article is from 2024…but either way the staff get ‘released’ and the new bikes don’t…

    while also letting go of “all of its
    athletes”, according to a pro downhill and BMX racer sponsored by the
    company.

    The decision seems to have come from GT Bicycles’ parent organisation Pon >> Bike, a cluster within the larger transport conglomerate Pon Holdings based >> in the Netherlands, which also owns several cycling brands like Cannondale, >> Cervélo, Gazelle, Focus Bikes, Urban Arrow and many more.


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