We have not made any updates in a long time.
Update 12/10/24:
Prototypes for bars are coming soon from Taiwan, we are no longer able to find someone that will bend up bars for us in the USA. We have been doing this since 2010 and things have changed a lot over that time. It is now sustainable in that we can use the money made here to make something else. We have never got a paycheck from this bike brand and most likely never will. We're ok with that :) We try things and see what sticks. Evil Ed stems, 13/16 seat posts and Retro Rider headsets are our best sellers. Most everything else we've made has been a dud, that is fine. We want to do more but if there is no demand it makes no sense to do so.
We are working on a bike, frame/fork too that we hope will wow people-it is not like anything out there. However I have no idea when it will hit the market- small, mass production takes a long time and you have to have the patience of Job to make it happen. When we have something in our hands, you'll know. Not before, as we are opposed to hype.
Stay rad people!!
Here is what is going on with us as of 4/14/22
We are still out of handle bars. We have been trying to get our tubing bender to make us some more, after three years of prodding he said he finally got the material, that was about 6 months ago. We understand that in the scheme of things, we are peasants. We make small orders and honestly it is not worth anyone's time to deal with us when they have other customers that want 10's of thousands of things. We are currently exploring making some bars in Taiwan. Our contacts in Taiwan say NOTHING till 2023 at the soonest. They are flooded with orders again from bigger fish than us. So we wait.
Right now we are putting our made in USA frames on hold. They are rad, we love them, however we sold a whole five frames in the last seven years. Making frames takes a long time and is costly and they take up a lot of room. In addition we get tire kicked to death over them. If demand was higher we'd make more but the market guides like any company, and the market say why bother. We may explore making some over seas in the next few year but again we did that already with the Red Menace and it took 6 /12 years plus a pandemic to finally get all of those into people's hands. Not a fast moving item. Things like our headsets, stems, and seat posts move well and store easy. We must do what makes sense instead of make flagship products that only serve one's ego instead of pragmatism. So no frames for now...
Snakebelly tires will not be re-produced again. They did not move fast enough to justify the expense. They do go bad. We had hoped they would sell quicker but they did not. We did a 2,500 tire order and that was considered "small" by the tire company. Again the market will influence our decisions.
What is cooking?
Like we said, some bars perhaps and something else that may not happen. I will only reveal when I have it in my hands as we don't like making empty promises. Many things are out of our control.