Many of us dream of a job in the industry, and many of us have already worked one and are loath to go back 😆

BUT

IF you could work at the bike/component manufacturer of your choice .. what’d it be (and why?)

For me, I’ve always been hugely impressed with HOPE .. their super-trick factory and commitment to high-quality in-house UK manufacturing has always turned my head (and my wallet)

If hope wouldn’t have me, I’d go work at Cannondale and hammer out some even freakier bikes 😀

Voluptuous Magazine.

The last thing I lie awake thinking about is working for a bloody bike company… 🙄

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No matter how shonky your stuff is our how long you take to do it they are happy.

Hope would be good. COmmencal would be good too as they’re based in the pyrenees which i love 🙂

one that paid me for the work I did and didn’t take the attitude that everyone is expendable because some other sap will be along any moment to fill their spot if they leave. also one that doesn’t expect packing boxes to be your dream job.

unhappy times at O-O thepodge?

Santa Cruz, Specialized, or maybe something smaller, like Transition.

Watching that program about the bloke building up his dream bike, I think it was cinelli and chris king that struck me as having cycling pumping through the veins of the companies, they seemed to do a lot to encourage cycling as a lifestyle in their employees (which I am sure pays off with obsesive workers if you are aiming for quality).
If working there meant getting my hands on the products whenever I wanted, then I would probably go for nicolai.

Surprised that no-ones mentioed Orange yet, after the recent Orange 5 ‘love-in’ thread.. 😉

Personally i’d go for Hope, for allsorts of reasons.

Cotic, then i’d have a different angle at trying to persuade Cy to make a steel Hemlock.

mmmm… steel … Hemlock…

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Watching that program about the bloke building up his dream bike, I think it was cinelli and chris king that struck me as having cycling pumping through the veins of the companies, they seemed to do a lot to encourage cycling as a lifestyle in their employees

Ah yes, I remember that now .. the Chris King Employees looked chillax’ed

I turned down a job with Max Commencal when he was still running Sunn at St Gaudens.
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I’d quite like one of the smaller frame builders because you’d get to do a lot of different jobs. Someone like Paul at Rock Lobster, or Sean at Soulcraft does everything from building frames to answering the phone and packing things up. I can imagine Hope being a bit samey after a while. Either building brakes all day, or loading machines with billet. However, they do like their riding.

I think it’d have to be something where they actually made stuff in-house rather than spent all their time unpacking boxes from Taiwan and stuck decals on. So Orange or Hope, or King would be good starters.

Mind you, the job I currently do has its good moments too 🙂

Santa Cruz, Specialized, or maybe something smaller, like Transition.

Don’t you have to be a God Botherer to work at Transition?

(from what I’ve heard from a couple who toured the factory)

Don’t you have to be a God Botherer to work at Transition?

I can’t believe they would be able to discriminate in that manner, even if it was true.

Don’t you have to be a God Botherer to work at Transition?

I smear my naked body with blue fox fork oil, and dance around a set of bombers overlooked by images of Tomac & Giove every sunday morning, before going for a ride. I think I could fit in.

@ nixon_fiend which ever one responded to email request for pics and further details which may lead to sales of items 😉

Maverick

I turned down a job with Max Commencal when he was still running Sunn at St Gaudens

I had one of my best nights out ever in St Gaudens when I was woeking down that way. We were having so much fun the festivak organisers gave us free beer to come and liven up things at the front of the stage. Ahh happy days, had to carry Helen home after a massive asthma attack

Marin because that would mean being in the bay area too

Spesh and or Giant.

Huuuuggggeeeeeeeeeeeee R&D budgets relative to everyone else. I’d get bored packing boxes 24/7.

Apollo. Just for the sheer Kudos. Innit.

haribo !! 😆

Someone like Independant Fabrications.

Ventana for me

Jones – so I could sort out those absolute monstrosities that they build. 😆

My multi billion dollar bike company in my dream world 😉

The Daddy Bicycle Company

I wrote speculatively for a job the other day to a company that have Orange as a client. That would be ace.

Superco. End of.

Or Brooklyn machine Works, as long as they stopped making shite fixie crap.

Hope, Orange or Spesh.

Klein.

Then I’d be able to design my Adroit Carbon, with modern geometry, 100 – 120mm forks, oversize swoopy carbon tubes, spangly paint that changes a million colours in different light and debossed carbon logos (edged with with silver framing).

It would be pimpin’ 8)

Either that, or Yeti.