Andrew Coggan wrote:
So when will ST readers get to hear Dimond's side of the story?Trying to answer those that I think I can to start.
Some general answers to start with:
1) I have a lawyer already. Howard Jacobs - the "athlete's lawyer" who most folks know from anti-doping cases. He's local to me (lives about 10min away) and is himself a triathlete. Plus he specializes in working with athletes. So he seemed a good choice. We are working with a colleague of his in Iowa.
2) As far as the money, I am paying. I will have to pay the costs. The GoFundMe may cover all of it. Or it may cover some of it. If there's extra, I'll donate it. If there isn't, I'm on the hook for whatever is left.
3) I cleared this post with my lawyer and Dan before posting it.
4) I have a copy of the suit from Dimond. I will ask my lawyer if I can post it. I personally have no issue with making it public, but I obviously need to ask my counsel. Dan certainly has my permission to post it, but again, I will need ask Howard about this. But there I certainly have zero objections to it being posted. Or to having Dimond/TJ tell their side of the story.
5) As to the why, it's not more or less complicated than what I wrote. It's possible that I could have made a more generous offer to settle that would have been accepted. That would likely be cheaper than the net cost in of fighting. However, I do not believe that is the right thing. Now, perhaps this is too little, too late. And certainly I don't expect that I make it out of this without my own reputation being seriously harmed. I did not wish to harm a company that I believed was trying hard to make good bikes. Once it became clear that they were more interested in a vindictive lawsuit than in listening to my constructive criticism about how to fix the flaws in the design, I no longer believed that they were a company worth defending. I expect some people may disagree with that decision. I can accept that.
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