h2ofun wrote:
exxxviii wrote:
SBRcoffee wrote:
Kind of harsh. They were pretty much the only power based trainers for years, and they worked near perfect with little maintenance and excellent customer service.
Technology and the market pivoted; CT did not. It is just like the story of Blockbuster video refusing to enter the digital or kiosk space for fear it would cannibalize their brick-and-mortar business. DCR summarized the pivot pretty well-- the slow death began 5 or 6 years ago with Kickr & TrainerRoad. CT failed to engage in the open trainer & software space (they would have had to have abandoned their SW and opened the trainer to standard wireless interfaces), and the product line died as a result.
It was not because people in the company were not trying to get the owners to make changes!!!!!! I have talked to many over the years and they knew what needed to happened, but could never get the support.
I still think someone will buy up CT...
I very rarely agree with h2ofun about trainer, but I will agree on these two fronts:
A) It's not about the lower level employees. Time and time again they expressed frustrations to me about the owners not wanting to move forward.
B) I think someone will buy up CT (there's already a line from what I see), but that's only if Chuck lets them. Right now, they aren't answering calls/e-mails from interested buyers. So...yeah.
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