yes that Marino head badge is my design on my new custom frame i bought after giving up on sick 🙂

Yeah but what’s bothering me is, is Marino a bloke or a company?

It’s just the Italian distributor for Marin.

He is a small company , has a few guys working for him as far as i can tell , really good to comunicate with, really easy to work with , verry good experience , 2 weeks from order to build finish. then 2 weeks shipping. sick must have really messed him around as i have had nothing but a good experience. ( though I am a design engineer so Im use to dealing with international suppliers etc )

Sceptical  mod is sceptical.

#akira 🙂

From Pinkbike, this is apparently Jordan’s next venture….

https://instagram.com/knucker_hole?igshid=1gs1kf8pm86v

Really. Do Vegans take well to being told to **** off?

Vegan cashew cheese.

Riiiiiight.

metg1991 out of curiosity, what size is your frame and how much does it weigh?

It looks mint 😉

Vegan cashew cheese. Riiiiiight.

Sure. It’s a piece of scrubland in the middle of Western Australia. Might be the location of the registered office, I guess.

https://what3words.com/vegan.cashew.cheese

Vegan cashew cheese.

Riiiiiight.

Makes sense. Plant-based lifestyling offers a whole new seam of cash rich and bullshit-susceptible customers to be mined.

Vegan cashew cheese.

I’m guessing a cashew is a vegan cashcow?

Makes sense. Plant-based lifestyling offers a whole new seam of cash rich and bullshit-susceptible customers to be mined.

Do you think Jordan actually shouted ‘Eureka!’ when he realised that fashion isn’t just related to clothing? All his projects seem to be based around it in some way. It’s good that fashions stick around for a long time too, so con artists entrepreneurs can’t chop and change from one ‘great’ idea to the next, once you’ve milked (cashew, obvs) it for all its worth.

Wait, no…

Are the cheesecloth shirts up for sale yet?

‘Knuckers’ or sometimes, ‘nuckers’ are said to be ‘water monsters’… They can be found in bottomless pools of water known as Knucker Holes. When they aren’t hiding in their holes, they cause trouble by consuming livestock – and in some stories, villagers.

Sounds like Sick! are a human incarnation of a Knucker 😀

I reckon he’s just trolling here and the PinkBike forum.

Serial Contrepreneur has a nice ring to it.

That would look good on a T-shirt

Well, the cheese certainly looks like Sick, so there is some continuity.

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We are now stocking @knucker_hole Vegan Cheese. It’s seriously good stuff! Stock is currently quite limited but if you want to be one of the first to get your hands on it come and see us but be quick it won’t hang around for long!

A post shared by Teba Food Worthing (@tebafood) on Jun 8, 2019 at 10:05am PDT

The insta account has gone private now…

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In an endless mire of bad news, here is something nice to look at. This was a sample we ordered from Frank to test the geometry and handling on a USA built hardtail. A reminder of good times. And dreams with heroes being fulfilled Something to remind us, why we started, and why we are continuing. Yes the company has fractured, yes, we have our more than our share of failures, it was brutal to fail so many people. We’re taking on guidance and mentorship to make things good, to unfuck, what we did **** up. Sorry that took so long. That leadership will mean restructuring, it will mean a lot of new people in the business, it has meant us stepping down from the positions we held. A humbling process. This team will have the skills we didn’t possess to operate at this level. We’ll be able to care for our customers better. For everything that did go wrong we are grateful for the opportunity to do it. We are down but not out. We’ll make good on the projects we promised to deliver. Thank you.

A post shared by Sick! Bicycle Co. (@sickbicycles) on Jun 14, 2019 at 1:35am PDT

Good luck finding “A lot of new people” who want to work for you…!

Good luck finding “A lot of new people” who want to work for you…!

It’ll be another bunch of dreamers who think it’d be cool to run a bike/t-shirt co I fear.

Good luck finding “A lot of new people” who want to work for you

I assume that’s the insolvency service?

Wouldn’t “a lot” of people require them to be new anyway as there were only 3 employees?

At least they’ve managed to coax an apology out of all the bullshit.

they’re grateful they had the opportunity to funk up? crazy kids

At least they’ve managed to coax an apology out of all the bullshit.

I think, going on past form, its more likely a million monkeys at a million typewriters thing than an actual apology.

I wonder if Knucker Hole Cheese is as readily available as Rich Energy?
Sold in loads of places that they can’t tell you about….

That also sounds like a decent’ish apology on the insta post – pity it’s taken so long.

I think, going on past form, its more likely a million monkeys at a million typewriters thing than an actual apology.

When I read Sick posts my feeling is they are saying what they think people want to hear, rather than actually sorting any of the issues, just to deflect or delay any action against them.

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When I read Sick posts my feeling is they are saying what they think people want to hear, rather than actually sorting any of the issues, just to deflect or delay any action against them.

Couldn’t agree more.

Maxway just created a Pinkbike account to post this:

Hi everyone,We are Maxway a frame maker from Taiwan,We want to make a statement that we didn’t make any frame for Sick Bicycle and we didn’t have any business with Sick Bicycle !

I wonder if framebuilders standing up and saying ‘We don’t have anything to do with Sick!’ is going to become a thing. If so it’s going to need a hashtag.

Would an actual apology on an Instagram post from Sick suggest that Jordan may not be handling their PR anymore?

I wonder if framebuilders standing up and saying ‘We don’t have anything to do with Sick!’ is going to become a thing. If so it’s going to need a hashtag.

#imnotspartacus

Says nothing about the refunds does it? Does one of the new people have a wallet?

What about the project managers? Tell me that they’re not going to lose their jobs too??

Serial Contrepreneur has a nice ring to it.

It does, someone should put it on a T-shirt…

Says nothing about the refunds does it? 

And untill people who are owed money get paid out apologies are worthless and pointless 🙁

It does, someone should put it on a T-shirt…

*sense he may have missed something*

Interesting : when I typed Sick Bicycle Company into the What3words search field it gave me this. The words seem appropriate :

https://what3words.com/deals.crash.smoke

What3Words is actually wired into the subconscious of the world Matrix-stylee. Either that or there are so many combinations due to the tiny tile size that you can make anything out of nothing. I’m going to set up some sort of Gypsy Rosa-Lee Tarot reading service based on it. You pick the significant places in your life to reveal the truth, or you pick the words from flashcards to choose your next holiday (Western Australian or US deserts due to the country/language bias built into the mechanism). Or maybe Jordan will beat me to it.

Regarding any of Jordan’s new ventures I’m sure he’ll be able to draw on his extensive CV to promote his suitability for the role.