The paint is very thin, it could do with a coat of lacquer to protect it.
Sounds awesome
I think you'll find its Sick!
I used to be a fan boy now I’m just tired of it, I should have cancelled it and ordered a Pole back in November.
The thing that most surprised me about this thread is they have actually made a bicycle, 2 maybe 3 by the sound of it, I think im starting to understand their business model,( sorry rad bicycle collective ideology). sell a 1000 t shirts then make a bike. OP hope you get it sorted.
Mashr, the next bit was even better,
Also the original Sick decal was removed when I got the frame as it looked sh*t and I think had been cut and applied by a drunk 1 armed monkey whose wife had just left him...
They showed so much promise and seemed to be taking over from where Brooklyn Machine Works left off with the BMX style rider owned company but it just doesn't seem to have panned out for them.
They have definitely been going for the BMW/Spooky(metalhead era) vibe, it looked good for a while and I love the Slepnir and Heathen concepts but not for me it is tinged with disappointment and frustration
I'm hoping for a better experience with them. Ordered a wulf am frame and it's due Feb 1st .......
it’s due Feb 1st
This year or next? 🤣
I’m hoping for a better experience with them. Ordered a wulf am frame and it’s due Feb 1st …….
At least they’ll let you cancel if they can’t deliver...
I hope they will let me cancel if they can't deliver! I paid via PayPal so hopefully should get a bit of backup from them if it goes sour
it’s due Feb 1st …….
You sure it wasn’t April? 😉
Regardless of Sick bikes – his work is fantastic.
Was it not often squint as well?
Not any of the ones I have seen.
big yim
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I hope they will let me cancel if they can’t deliver! I paid via PayPal so hopefully should get a bit of backup from them if it goes sour
You would have to get a response from their customer service first, that guy is about as useful as a chocolate teapot.
Not even a nibble yet......
Just saw on their Instagram how far off target they were. Almost feel bad for them as their (apparently) loyal following really didn’t step up
Of off target of frame sales you mean mate?
£8k raised by 66 backers - how does that work then? They've not all bought a frame each surely.
You can buy T-shirt’s, stem caps, all sorts of trinkets on the indigogo as well.
Interestingly they will get all the money pledged (it’s not an all or nothing deal, like Kickstarter) so they can just refund the people who ‘bought’ frames then fulfill the T-shirt’s etc. Think that’s about £1500 worth.
Which may or may not have been their goal all along.
Gotcha cheers, that begs more questions as there's obviously a cost to providing those other items - but I guess these things are as much about publicity as they are the actual money raising.
or they can just keep the money. It's indiegogo, there is no requirement to deliver anything as far as I know
runs off to check
Edit: ok, they have to find the next best option available, which might mean a refund. I thought from the Limits power meter mess they didn't actually need to deliver anything if they couldn't
or they can just keep the money. It’s indiegogo, there is no requirement to deliver anything as far as I know
Well, yeah. I was being polite, assuming they wouldn’t just steal customers money (assuming they are genuine customers, not just shills)
Edit: ok, they have to find the next best option available, which might mean a refund.
But that must be in cases where people are contributing in the expectation of getting the proposed item, ie. the bike frame?
Or were they offering to make new t-shirts, stem caps etc as well?
I’m just waiting for the angry fella from Sick to see this thread and get all upset. It was really amusing last time it happened. Hope everyone gets the bike they’ve ordered though.
As well.
Eg pledge £15 and get this T-shirt...
Or that ridiculous stem for £150
3 Failed Kickstarter and no products other than a load of abuse if you saw through their blag bag of tricks.
I don't think they sell many bikes at all , an army of 10 year olds saying **** , yet only 4 frames sold😂
The slepnir (180mm 29er, high pivot, gearbox, unknown frame material) hit 150% of target I think, but then the target was £9k. Wonder how that’s going.
Thanks for explaining, I've always been a bit unsure and suspicious about how these crowdfunding things work.
I’m just waiting for the angry fella from Sick to see this thread and get all upset.
Not sure the comments have got troll-y enough yet. Give it time.
It has been seen, but that’s all I’m saying for now.
*waves*
The slepnir (180mm 29er, high pivot, gearbox, unknown frame material) hit 150% of target I think, but then the target was £9k. Wonder how that’s going.
Have you actually ever seen anything in reality from any of their vaporware instaposts?
Well, I mean, the drawings are real...
👋 👊 🤘
I got a t shirt.
Got it straight away and it's really nice.
Did shrink a little bit.
I hope they sort it out, both for the company and their customers who are waiting for the frame. They might be a bit of a pain on social media sometimes, but I wouldn't want to wish their business to fail because of that.
The Gnarpoon looks really nice, although doubt I'd buy one considering the above issues.
They seem to be all over the place - one minute they're building one thing, the next it's something completely different, and none of it ever seems to make it to the 'delivering bike to the customer' stage.
They're pretty good at marketing, though.
JP
They’re pretty good at marketing, though.
The best marketing is word of mouth/recommendations from outside the company, from this thread we have 3 unhappy customers and one who say he wouldn’t buy from them again. No one on here who has bought a frame from them has had anything good to say about the company. There was a thread a while back from a guy who had built one up who seemed very happy with it, but he’s only ever posted on that (his own) thread, draw your own conclusions...
https://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/sick-bicycle-co-og-gnarcissist-year-one-ltd/
The more I see of them, the more I think they are using the ‘bikes’ as a marketing vehicle to sell the pocket money items to kids, they’ll have a go at making bikes, cause it’s a laugh and brings traffic, but I wouldn’t take them seriously, if you want a bike like theirs, go to the people that make them on their behalf, Marino, rideworks, FTW etc and get exactly what you want. I get the impression that once you get to a stage where you can afford a bike/frame of theirs, you are no longer the target market.
Perception is reality etc
They’re pretty good at marketing, though.
Not converting that to sales though...sort of basic thing you'd expect a business to want to do. Although maybe really they're just a clothing business that dabbles in the odd custom bike frame to give them the credibility of an actual bike company...clever marketing that 👊
Impressive how they got 25k Instagram followers for such a young company... doing something right as roughly double Cotic, Stanton and the like
Following the surf industry model?
Almost all the major surfbrands sell he off board etc... But not in big quantity, it's just to give their clothes brand credibility.
Not converting that to sales though…
Not bike sales. A mate once asked on SM if they had a pic of a FS frame built up, as he was interested in buying, they told him something along the lines of ‘no, but it looks like a bike, duh’. He bought a cotic flare max. And a sick T-shirt. Their social media is full of comments of ‘you guys are ace, wish I could afford a frame, sadly I can’t but bought a (T-shirt, grips, gloves) instead...
. I get the impression that once you get to a stage where you can afford a bike/frame of theirs, you are no longer the target market.
So puberty then.
Impressive how they got 25k Instagram
But can only sell half a dozen frames and never deliver , yes sir that's impressive.
Tom,
May I ask how you know how many units Sick ship per month? Frame wise?
Seems like you know a huge amount about their profit and loss account.
Oh I don’t, it just how the operation comes across imo, care to correct me?
But you speak with such conviction about how it’s such a poorly run business. And how they don’t sell any frames. I assumed you had actual numbers and facts to back it up.
I never said they didn’t sell any? 300 odd isn’t it?
As for poorly run, I don’t even think that, I just think the bikes come second to the T-shirt’s etc, meaning people hand over a lot of money, and don’t get what they expect or hope for. Some do, but not everyone.
