Cycle News Folded

[spyderchick]

http://www.superbikeplanet.com/2010/Aug/100831cyclenews.htm

CR Gittere said on the WERA BBS that he talked to the CN peeps and it's true.

[Super Dave]

Yeah, I heard it from an industry contact.  Good friend and industry insider kind of gave me the "hold on" message, but then followed up with it's done. 

I saw a place where Don Emde said, "Not many people in the sport who were riding before there was a Cycle News. If this is true, that's something quite historic." 

[dylanfan53]

True, unfortunately...

https://paulcarruthers1.wordpress.com/2010/09/01/cycle-news-r-i-p/

[Ducmarc]

that really sucks it was like a home town newspaper  i guess the whole motorcycle industry is crumbling.

[spyderchick]

that really sucks it was like a home town newspaper  i guess the whole motorcycle industry is crumbling.

Not crumbling, in transition. Things we loved will go away, and things we will love are being born right now.
Nothing is static.

[ahastings]

even many of the mainstream newspapers are struggling. Don't think it is a motorcycle problem as much as a change in the way we get our news and information. I am old enough to remember waiting for cycle news to get the latest race results. At one time there were two seperate editions and east and a west edition. Now we have everything at our fingertips.

[Ducmarc]

plenty of 07's and 08's at our local multibrand dealer still.  they got a brand new 08 gsxr 600  what do you do with that? but in their defense my friend there say's that they have been selling more bikes but still really  heavy on inventory

[garraper]

export good jobs,,import cheap labor,, get your pitch fork ready..

[Super Dave]

export good jobs,,import cheap labor,, get your pitch fork ready..

No idea how that works with the Cycle News stuff, but...

But, I'll play... Who's jobs are they anyway?

[GSXR RACER MIKE]

Like I mentioned in another thread, recessions are the #1 time new businesses start and long established ones (that don't quickly adapt, or aren't willing to change) collapse.

It's the cyclical 'Thinning of the herd', traditionally weeding out the weak and a stronger / better herd resulting in the long run. Competition keeps businesses competative, but too much competition will result in minimal or even no profits and less success for most or even all - profits that are required to survive and could have been used to provide an even better product.

I think right now the excessive competition is being thinned down to a healthy level and the surviving businesses will end up providing better products for the same cost (or cheaper).

[garraper]

Super Dave,  the jobs can be explained from a performance by George Carlin's,words to the world. 

[Super Dave]

Super Dave,  the jobs can be explained from a performance by George Carlin's,words to the world. 

Obviously, comedy.

Unless a worker is self employed, the job is not the property of the employee.  It is owned by the business owner, the company, whatever. They can do with it as they wish.  Move it, ship it, increase it.