Ramblings

SOPWAMTOS stands for the Society of People Who Actually Make Their Own Shit. Notice that the ‘Society’ does not have a geographical designation. It’s not necessarily owned by any one country – it just so happened that being Americans that have seen millions of jobs (as well as many within the bike industry) shipped overseas, … Continue reading »

SOPWAMTOS is an interesting organism and often misunderstood, misconstrued, or taken so far out of context that one can only sit with their head half cocked and wonder ‘WTF is that person talking about???’ We’ve been called old, Stone Age, cranky, grouchy – even xenophobic (which means a fear of foreigners). And this is only … Continue reading »

Seems some feathers were ruffled when the topic of outsourcing vs. insourcing (in the bike business) was brought up. But it’s time to be 100% clear – Bruce Gordon Cycles has not always manufactured, in house, every, single, little, nut and bolt that goes into every bike I’ve built.  I don’t know best practices for … Continue reading »

Over the last week there has been a lot of chatter about China, imports, profit margins, marketing and Rapha. And while everyone has their opinions to the moral rights/wrongs of building “stuff” at a low cost factory in a country with environmental/human rights violations that would make Nike cringe, some things became very clear to … Continue reading »

We dusted off some old pictures just in time for Halloween. While there are many more to come from the Anaheim Interbike days (particularly the Golden Toity Awards), we had to start things off somewhere. If grown men in Mickey Mouse undies, girls wearing fez’s and hulaing (?) $600 titanium hula hoops aren’t enough to … Continue reading »