"High risers are for people with fused ankles, jongs and dudes who are too fat to see their dick or touch their toes.
Prove me wrong."
-I've seen black diamonds!
throughpolarizedeyes.com
I am all for accountability, I want to make that clear, but uneducated shit throwing gets us no where.
The recalled front wheels used hollow spokes made with unidirectional carbon fiber. The second-generation spokes have five layers of unidirectional fibers wrapped with two angled layers.
The new spokes also feature Kevlar fibers running inside the carbon. Those were added to comply with UCI rules that require that the components of a wheel stay within the volume of that wheel after the wheel is destroyed in a crash.
The first-generation wheels were recalled, Mavic says, to improve spoke strength against penetration by outside objects, such as a pedal or derailleur.
Read more: http://velonews.competitor.com/2009/...#ixzz0mLw4hrSK
This article has some more info on it. Seems that they are acting pretty responsible if you ask me. But this is way of subject.
http://velonews.competitor.com/2009/...e-wheels_91732
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Interesting and good to know. I still think that needing to recall and do a major redesign is indicative of problems. The R-Sys and Quest could both have benefited substantially from a few "what could go wrong?" brainstorming sessions with their engineers.
"High risers are for people with fused ankles, jongs and dudes who are too fat to see their dick or touch their toes.
Prove me wrong."
-I've seen black diamonds!
throughpolarizedeyes.com
Dynafit press release via Wildsnow.
http://www.wildsnow.com/2929/dynafit-tech-inserts-p/
"fuck off you asshat gaper shit for brains fucktard wanker." - Jesus Christ
"She was tossing her bean salad with the vigor of a Drunken Pop princess so I walked out of the corner and said.... "need a hand?"" - Odin
"everybody's got their hooks into you, fuck em....forge on motherfuckers, drag all those bitches across the goal line with you." - (not so) ill-advised strategy
Interesting.
In addition Dynafit wishes to clarify that starting January 1st 2010, the company is not supplying Dynafit-developed and manufactured inserts to Garmont anymore.
"fuck off you asshat gaper shit for brains fucktard wanker." - Jesus Christ
"She was tossing her bean salad with the vigor of a Drunken Pop princess so I walked out of the corner and said.... "need a hand?"" - Odin
"everybody's got their hooks into you, fuck em....forge on motherfuckers, drag all those bitches across the goal line with you." - (not so) ill-advised strategy
if y'all want to vote with your feet ... only buy boots with genuine dynafit tech fittings
"High risers are for people with fused ankles, jongs and dudes who are too fat to see their dick or touch their toes.
Prove me wrong."
-I've seen black diamonds!
throughpolarizedeyes.com
So Far that we know of ?
if you want a standard for the tech system ,buying only boots with genuine dynafit fittings would be your standard cuz they are made by the designer of the system ... just like it was before the patent expired
specialized admitted the fork failed and replaced the guys bike. mavic didn't really say anything about it, since their wheel breaking (post recall) was do to the fork, and not due to its engineering, and failed only under well beyond extreme conditions that any similar item would equally fail in.
if you are sprinting at 40 mph, and the fork snaps, then yes, it is expected that your wheel will go. not he wheels fault. its the fork's fault.
mavic saw a single wheel fail (during on-going in-house testing - what responsible companies do) and recalled all 1000 in the market. nobody to my knowledge has ever been hurt on an r-sys from a failure related to the spoke breaking under normal conditions (ie. the fork being in-tack), and none of the wheels i sold (11) had a single issue at all before being recalled. i think mavic handled a bad situation as well as they could have in this case.
i don't really care either way, nothing to do with mavic, just trying to clarify the group-think mentality that is going on this thread. boycott whomever you wish, but listen to the facts too.
Last edited by Danno; 04-28-2010 at 04:17 PM.
"fuck off you asshat gaper shit for brains fucktard wanker." - Jesus Christ
"She was tossing her bean salad with the vigor of a Drunken Pop princess so I walked out of the corner and said.... "need a hand?"" - Odin
"everybody's got their hooks into you, fuck em....forge on motherfuckers, drag all those bitches across the goal line with you." - (not so) ill-advised strategy
Nate, I see your point, but however, the company is just a parent company, and in MOST (not all, and i am not sure if this is one of those situations or not) the individual companies i.e. salomon, mavic, atomic, etc all have their own testing, product development, etc, and the larger company is just a bigger wallet/management . Now, someone correct me if I am wrong, but I believe that Salomon it self was the company with the issue here, so there would realistically be no reason to boycott mavic, atomic, arc'teryx, etc here. Especially since mavic makes the best DH rim on the market, ever, for dh mountain biking (ex721 My opinon).
"If we can't bring the mountain to the party, let's bring the PARTY to the MOUNTAIN!"
I've been skiing dynafit bindings for over 10 years now - no issues. Well there was the time I didn't take 15 seconds and clean the snow from the front binding, came out of the ski and rag doll-ed down about 500ft of a 1500 ft cooler - miraculously self arresting - but MY bad.
TC's incident - saloman's bad. Really bad. Solly you guys better do right here or there will be a mass exodus from your product line, all of it.
Pay the dude's medical costs, lost income etc etc etc and step up to the plate NOW. Not after some 5 year legal battle.
AND be very very fucking grateful that there was only one major injury with regard to your incredibly inferior product. I hope you're reading this Solly because the ski world is watching and word travels fast. Seeing Lou's test made me angry....
word, if this is something has no relation to amer as a group than phall's right. plus, the rumor of a 192 chetler had me pretty stoked. but yeah you're probably right in that it wouldn't be indicative of the company as a whole, especially after what's been said about the mavic (non) issue.
If they don't show TC some support than I'll show them (Amer) my wallet zipping closed.
That's all there is to it.
We have very little power as individuals so I would choose to leverage my boycott against all of their products. I like Arc-tyrex and Mavic and Salomon but I could get used to other brands. It isn't group think for me, just exercising the power to vote with my wallet.
j'ai des grands instants de lucididididididididi
any updates you can give us TC? guessing that your dealing with solly's lawyers and you have a gag order, but you never know...
When you buy products from any of Amer Sports companies, the profits flow to the same people who shortcut the R&D on TC's boots in an effort to make more profits. They exist as separate brand names for marketing reasons only.
Except for Suunto's watches and Mavic's rims nothing that Amer Sports sells is best-in-class, so why not boycott them all? If you can't give up Suunto or Mavic at least buy used.
Salomon
Wilson
Precor
Atomic
Suunto
Mavic
Arc'teryx
"fuck off you asshat gaper shit for brains fucktard wanker." - Jesus Christ
"She was tossing her bean salad with the vigor of a Drunken Pop princess so I walked out of the corner and said.... "need a hand?"" - Odin
"everybody's got their hooks into you, fuck em....forge on motherfuckers, drag all those bitches across the goal line with you." - (not so) ill-advised strategy
I was up hanging with TC at his house last week and while he has a great support system around him, the dude is miserable and in an unfathomable amount of pain all day every day. He can't un-elevate his leg for more than 30 seconds to a minute before it starts throbbing so bad you can feel it across the room. He is a strong dude but you can tell this is killing him inside to be so immobile and helpless at this point. If this happened to me, I wouldn't be able to handle it nearly as well as he is- dude is a rock of solidarity and determination and it is friggin inspiring, let me tell you!
Medically, the doctors have put his next surgery on hold to wait for swelling to go down and some more healing to transpire, so he is pretty upset about that too. Not knowing is very uncool at this point and he still has an erector set around his leg as well.
As for Fail-o-man, his lawyer has been in contact with them but still nothing definite as far as I've heard. No phone calls or reaching out as of the last time we talked, which was to be expected but is fucking gay nonetheless.
I hope he doesn't mind me giving an update, but I know there's a lot of people here concerned about him so I feel ok in telling you guys.
Keep the love coming, peeps! It means more than you can know!
Well, they know because they read this.
But- did anyone make a "Boycott Amer Sports" facebook page yet? I suck at teh social networkings but maybe someone wants to start one, I would join.
Done. Corporate HQ is:
amer.communications@amersports.com
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