Outside Inc layoffs

[HammerTime2]

Hey James-good luck in whatever you're doing from here on. Dumpster fires suck.

https://twitter.com/angryasian/status/1 ... 4081636355

Today marks 7yrs for me at @cyclingtips. No other job has felt so much like home nor any other co-workers more like family.

But things just don’t feel right anymore, and I always follow my gut, so I’ve today submitted my resignation.

Last day and what comes next is TBD.

[glepore]

https://twitter.com/angryasian/status/1 ... 4081636355
Which is why I posted the tailwinds message.

[TobinHatesYou]

Reminder that Outside owns operations like BRAIN and BikeReg. I’m currently lobbying for my regional race org to switch from BikeReg to BikeSignup.com or to start work on its own app.

[PeytonM]

Reminder that Outside owns operations like BRAIN and BikeReg. I’m currently lobbying for my regional race org to switch from BikeReg to BikeSignup.com or to start work on its own app.

This might be of interest to you, most Aussie clubs use it.

https://www.buncheur.com/

[cfrankscid]

Pretty useless update from Brad Roe @ outside posted on CyclingTips today. Sounds fine, but also sounds like they are making CT/VN into "Bicycling Magazine". Certainly making this easy for any future competitors.

https://cyclingtips.com/2023/02/the-roa ... d-peloton/

[elSid]

"our content will honor the best of CyclingTips and VeloNews" - Brad Roe

I've been only loosely following this, but it seems Brad is (vaguely) eulogizing CT and Velonews. Does anyone know if the plan is to shutter one or both?

"I was excited when Peloton joined Outside in 2021 because it gave our writers and staff a larger platform and more support" - Brad Roe

As of today, pelotonmagazine.com looks abandoned. Everything is sponsored content, and from last summer (or older).

Whatever their 'exciting' new platform will be, it already feels boring.

[spartacus]

Not sure who this dude is lying to; himself, or us?

[Curious George]

So a question, where is everyone getting their cycling news fix from now?

[Stendhal]

So a question, where is everyone getting their cycling news fix from now?

Among other places, this board. Check out the long winded but not inaccurate article on Pez Cycling News about the cycling media industry, written ironically by an Outside affiliated person. There are many sources of cycling content, including from amateurs-- us. Heck, when Ronan McLauglin and James Huang post here, it's a pro site too.

[bikeboy1tr]

https://pezcyclingnews.com/features/the ... rtunities/

[Curious George]

So a question, where is everyone getting their cycling news fix from now?

Among other places, this board. Check out the long winded but not inaccurate article on Pez Cycling News about the cycling media industry, written ironically by an Outside affiliated person. There are many sources of cycling content, including from amateurs-- us. Heck, when Ronan McLauglin and James Huang post here, it's a pro site too.

I'd forgotten about Pez, I think I stopped visiting about the same time as I stopped reading Cyclingnews.
Might give it another shot.

[jlok]

So a question, where is everyone getting their cycling news fix from now?

Among other places, this board. Check out the long winded but not inaccurate article on Pez Cycling News about the cycling media industry, written ironically by an Outside affiliated person. There are many sources of cycling content, including from amateurs-- us. Heck, when Ronan McLauglin and James Huang post here, it's a pro site too.

I'd forgotten about Pez, I think I stopped visiting about the same time as I stopped reading Cyclingnews.
Might give it another shot.

The PEZ Toolbox section is great.

[Stendhal]

So a question, where is everyone getting their cycling news fix from now?

Among other places, this board. Check out the long winded but not inaccurate article on Pez Cycling News about the cycling media industry, written ironically by an Outside affiliated person. There are many sources of cycling content, including from amateurs-- us. Heck, when Ronan McLauglin and James Huang post here, it's a pro site too.

I'd forgotten about Pez, I think I stopped visiting about the same time as I stopped reading Cyclingnews.
Might give it another shot.

The PEZ Toolbox section is great.

I don't read it often but like it. It has ads -- good! Cycling journalists should have a business plan to allow them to continue to stay in business. Some of the products are ones I'd not heard about, and interesting. The ads aren't usually from big bike companies whose products are up for review -- and even if they are, you know it and can judge the reviews accordingly. And Pez isn't primarily a review site although over the years Charles Manantan has done good work for the site on that. Same comments except for final one apply to Bike Rumor, another site I like.

[UpFromOne]

Other Outside sites are having tech/login issues. They (e.g. Pinkbike) claim they're on "high security" basis, but it sounds more like double-secret-probation.

[UpFromOne]

So a question, where is everyone getting their cycling news fix from now?

https://dougreport.com is IMO the best aggregator.