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You might be able to get a deal on some 2012/13 fork crown/kashima stanchions if you call them.
Blimey, that's really a surprise. Mojo are Fox in the U.K. It will be intresting to see where this goes from here. Mojo are a great company to deal with and I think Fox owe a lot to them for maintaining their profile in the U.K.
I wonder if Mojo will pick up a new brand or what?
I guess we will see some Geometrons with Rockshox in the near future!
I think this might have been in the planning for a while, we had no DPX2's in the UK and long lead-times on other 2018 forks and shocks.
I have a noisy float x evol that might need a warranty job. Who do I send it to now?
edd - MemberThat's a bit of a shock. I hope that Mojo stays aFloat. Presumably Fox will Transfer to a new distributor.
Not a bad try Edd
(Try Edd sounds like Triad, it's very witty. HTH)
Best of luck to all at Mojo and hopefully no job losses.They have always been brilliant to work with.
Mojo took a deposit from me for a 2018 fork, I was told it was delayed because there were factory issues. So either they were lying, or Mojo has thrown a hissyfit with Fox and there has been a falling out.
I wouldn't be suprised if this is something to do with the weak pound, imports are more expensive, the classic build a war chest before announcing liquidation, fair play to the CEO.
Looks like either pretty much everything has sold or they've taken the bulk of the stock offline
+1Best of luck to all at Mojo and hopefully no job losses.
Looks like the shop is down now
Looks like the shop is down now
It'll be back up in a second...
Looks like either pretty much everything has sold or they've taken the bulk of the stock offline
If you search on the mojo site you can still find everything!
Looks like the shop is down now
It'll be back up in a second...
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Mojo have always been very easy to deal with & very knowledgeable too.
The speed at which this happened & the dumping of stock quite so dramatically does not bode well for a happy ending - for neither Mojo nor its customers.
I hope I am proved wrong..
The speed at which this happened
Mojo pulled the usual Fox 36 sponsored prize at the WGES before Eastridge, so looks like something was in the offing then.
Well thats ****ing lovely of Mojo to take my money then for a backorder.
Is it all gone then? Nowt on the website.
Balls, I was umming and ahing over buying some forks from them.
Tom_W1987 - Member
Well thats **** lovely of Mojo to take my money then for a backorder
Time for a call in the morning
They may well have been hoping to get things back on track with Fox at that point.
They were on the phones at 4.30 this afternoon (I called and grabbed an X2 with a mod from 50 to 57 - it was theoretically the last one). I’ll see what turns up in the post.
I do feel guilty scavenging on their remains, but then they have made the offer rather than me force them into a deal. It means I can cancel my upcoming service plans and resell my current shock for no overall loss, should essentially be a free service.
mmmm have had a set of 34 uppers on back order since May. What now?
I was just about to go for a ride at Cwmcarn and call in to Mojo to see about retuning my DRCV shock on the small bike when this thread started and I posted earlier.
Called in on my way to Cwmcarn anyway and had a good chat with them about the whole situation. They didn't give out any details but from the way they were talking and by their body language, this is my take on the situation:
Basically it's happened quickly. They feared the end was coming (I think someone mentioned it was in the last week or two) but they had made no announcement as they thought they had time to fulfil current orders and get an alternative business going - servicing all makes etc. They do not have any knowledge of where Fox is going for the new distributor but there will be one, the UK is not being abandoned and warranty work will still be able to be completed by someone. All they would say is that things have moved a lot faster than they knew/thought they would so they are all very down at the moment. The whole workshop was very subdued and quiet, totally unlike every other time I have been there where it's usually busy with service work and people having a banter. The only thing that was hectic today was the phone, it was ringing the second they put it down.
I really feel for them as it feels like they've been shafted by someone. The fact they are selling off everything at cost suggests they are in need of freeing up cashflow to help them get re-established without Fox quickly. Either that or Fox have peeved them off so badly that they are happy to dump a load of stock on the market and kill any sales for the next few months. I did feel slightly like a vulture when I walked out with a Transfer post and 1x lever for £200 but they said they were happy to see people getting bargains so it does suggest the split isn't an amicable one.
I really hope Mojo don't disappear as I've always had good service from them. Add in that Chris Porter started the business from nothing, deliberately put it in a deprived area then employed local kids and trained them up and you have to feel sorry for them right now. I just hope that the situation can be turned around, preferably with them becoming the Welsh version of TFTuned. Don't forget that they are involved with the Fox Demo and servicing at BPW and they sponsor CwmDown uplift so it's not just the direct jobs at Mojo that this could affect.
Personally I think Fox are silly to drop Mojo, Mojo=Fox in the eyes of the UK scene so throwing away that 20 year association for MTB as well as the motorised side is a bit short-sighted. Good luck to the staff getting through this, not what you want at any time, let alone heading towards christmas. If Mojo emerges out the other side as a pure service centre I'll be putting business their way.
Cheers for the update milky1980, very interesting.
I did wonder if we might see some custom shocks and eventually forks from them.
It does seem odd that such a long standing patnership has gone sour so quickly. I do hope that Mojo weather the storm though.
Hope everyone at Mojo is ok and they find their feet again 🙁
If that is the case Milky, Fox appear to have lost the plot.... I dont buy RS partly because their distributor is terrible. Ive heard there has been cost cutting going on at Fox to, with even more of the business being moved to Asia.
That's a real shame for the Mojo lads.
Hope they manage to work something out and no one ends up without a job. 😥
They really do know their stuff and have been great to deal with.
I was in there last week and though it was a little subdued but Paul just said they were slowing down a little after the summer rush.
Pretty interesting though that even with these big discounts the transfer is still pretty much the same price as a 170mm reverb always is. Don't get me wrong, i want a kashima dropper to match my 36s 😆 But I have no idea how they sold a single one at full price.
Rumour mill has it that Trek may be involved
@milky that’s very interesting info, always good to hear first hand and see the body language. Mojo have always given me good service although I have to say the price of Fox kit is such I don’t buy it unless it’s part of a bike / frame
The times i've used Mojo for servicing forks and shocks they have always been brilliant. Hope they don't disappear 🙁
I hate Trek for the way they bought up, chewed up and spat out smaller more interesting companies bitd. Hope they're not involved, wouldn't be surprised if they were.
So do you think Trek will be involved in a "you can only get Fox suspension on Trek products" kind of way or do you think they will be selling Fox aftermarket like Specialised do with Ohlins.
How would that work? I know trek are big, but big enough to buy Fox?
Well, if Trek have offered them a lucrative OEM deal.....I really hope Trek don't get their mitts on Fox. There will be a bazillion new standards within months if they do.
I suspect Mojo service arm is more than viable, they cost 20% more than most and are still booked up most of the time, opening up to other brands will only add to that.
How much of the business is there to handle distribution for fox though I don’t know - it doesn’t seem a massive place, I wonder if the bulk distribution is handled elsewhere.
If I was going to guess the reason I’d say Fox are cutting out the middle man and distributing themselves as they’ve just done in Germany.
Nasher's not given us much to go on, but it could be Trek agitating with Fox over warranty repairs somehow?
Since they'd be professionally involved with Mojo in that regard.
If I was going to guess the reason I’d say Fox are cutting out the middle man and distributing themselves as they’ve just done in Germany.
Well, that seems the likely explanation then.
or do you think they will be selling Fox aftermarket like Specialised do with Ohlins.
That hasn't been the case for well over a year now! Might be closer to 2... Ohlins is fair game for any independent to get hold of (if you don't mind the piss poor margins, the hefty buy in, and dealing direct with Europe as there's no UK distributor!).
Fox are bigger than just MTB stuff, I don’t see Trek buying fox just to have exclusive rights to fit their stuff on their bikes. Proprietary suspension stuff doesn’t have a great history, just ask Spesh and you’d be mad to buy Fox just to close 90% if it’s market, it just wouldn’t work.
“I did wonder if we might see some custom shocks and eventually forks from them.” watch this space...
Possibly not related, but a had a fox digital shock on back order from June. Eventually got word that a shipment was coming from Taiwan on a Friday in July - called a few days after, shipment did not arrive and they did not know why. This happened a few times - promised shipments not turning up. Eventually the pump turned up mid September. Talking to Fox, they said they had run out of many of their spares. Very odd behaviour by Fox not keeping their distributor informed.
Chainline - Member
“I did wonder if we might see some custom shocks and eventually forks from them.” watch this space...
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