PSA - Chainlove has merged with another company, and their “20 minute deal” platform is no more… Very sad. I was sad when bonktown became chainlove too.
Isn’t it all under the Backcountry/Competitive Cyclist umbrella?
They all have the same address…
PSA - Chainlove has merged with another company, and their “20 minute deal” platform is no more… Very sad. I was sad when bonktown became chainlove too.
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Bonktown was the real deal!!!
I totally miss Bonktown. I picked up a ton of random gear from there that I might never have bought otherwise, but come to find I really like it.
PSA - Chainlove has merged with another company, and their “20 minute deal” platform is no more… Very sad. I was sad when bonktown became chainlove too.
They merged with Steepandcheap, which was Backcountry’s original flash sale site which then spawned Whiskey Militia, Bonktown and then Chainlove. Steepandcheap is more outdoors equipment-focused (tents, backpacks, knives etc) so the selection of cycling stuff will likely just be diluted and less frequent vs what used to pop up on chainlove.
I have an app on my phone that alerts for new deals on each of those sites, and a week or so ago the click-through to Chainlove (via a 3rd-party referrer) stopped working and was displaying a message that they no longer advertise with Chainlove. I guess the impending merger was the reason for that. Text alerts from sacalerts.com stopped working around the same time too.
PSA - Chainlove has merged with another company, and their “20 minute deal” platform is no more… Very sad. I was sad when bonktown became chainlove too.
They merged with Steepandcheap, which was Backcountry’s original flash sale site which then spawned Whiskey Militia, Bonktown and then Chainlove. Steepandcheap is more outdoors equipment-focused (tents, backpacks, knives etc) so the selection of cycling stuff will likely just be diluted and less frequent vs what used to pop up on chainlove.
I have an app on my phone that alerts for new deals on each of those sites, and a week or so ago the click-through to Chainlove (via a 3rd-party referrer) stopped working and was displaying a message that they no longer advertise with Chainlove. I guess the impending merger was the reason for that. Text alerts from sacalerts.com stopped working around the same time too.
I’ve been using GearScan which pretty much deals with the same outlets.
I’m excited, because I could never figure out how to STOP the chainlove feed.
Anytime I had Firefox open, the chainlove popup would interrupt what I was doing. Highly annoying.
Isn’t it all under the Backcountry/Competitive Cyclist umbrella?
They all have the same address…
It is, it’s always been a backcountry/departmentofgoods/whatever they feel like calling themselves.
Bonktown was great, I haven’t seen anything on steepandcheep or chainlove worth buying in years.
Isn’t it all under the Backcountry/Competitive Cyclist umbrella?
They all have the same address…
It is, it’s always been a backcountry/departmentofgoods/whatever they feel like calling themselves.
Bonktown was great, I haven’t seen anything on steepandcheep or chainlove worth buying in years.
Toward the end, Zipp 404s were popping up very frequently.