Battersby on volkl

not sure in this case, but in the past year, volkl's been throwing down a lot of money(by skiing standards) to make a good sized team out of what used to be like 3 people
 
Oh boy.

Real question is all what is Line going to do. Let Pollard rip and have nobody else, since Becker went to surface?!

Obviously Abomb dosen't ride for sport, she rides for money and driven by insane greeeeeed!
 
well, if they have too, they can always sign me cuz everyone knows im such an amazing skier and all......

psych
 
i use to ride some volkls but have been much happier with my armadas. My friend had the karmas and i rode them a few times and didnt like them that much.
 
And there is certainly no doubt about it anymore. She's off the LINE site....I wonder how long it's been that way, haven't checked in a while.
 
more like little premadonna skiers thinking about the money and not caring what garbage company is giving it to then, just as long as its a little more than who they have. total bullshit, good riddens
 
Sorry dude, I have to disagree. Pollard makes up for any lack of other pros. EP is a god among mere mortals.
 
How has nobody called this yet? I think it is pretty clear that K2 simply gave Ashley to Volkl, K2 owns all of them.

Think about it, you're K2 and you just bought Line and you have been spending all of this money to build a sweet Volkl crew. That crew wins the Masters even, you gotta keep it up or Volkl will never have a piece of the Freestyle Market and end up like Atomic so what do you do? Take Ash off the sinking ship you just purchased (probably with the intent to scrap it anyways) and give her to your other brand that you are actually investing in for the future. Think about this, even with all the sick skiers they have now the Dogen (from the original PE mold from 5 years ago and is made in China) probably sold less than even the Triplets last year, and the Karma is just too stiff for most kids to ski park on. They have to do something to grab a slice of the pie.

This is the kind of move I'd expect from K2, buy line and liquidate its assets. Pollard will be on the K2 team by the end of this season you watch. I will bring this thread back up when it happens to prove I predicted it, mark my words. He only works with Line because they practically ask his permission to make any new ski. When K2 offers him his own promodel and shows him the money they have to help him R+D it he will be all over it. K2 doesn't like Line, they never have, they have always been the top 2 in the market, startup versus conglamerate. Well the conglamerate finally won, what did we expect? What was called a change in financial backing will ammount to a hostile takeover by years end.
 
fantastic insight into the situation, you sound very smart. but unfortunately you are absolutely wrong. "K2sports" is the parent company, they manage different brands that still actually compete against each other, any company would never buy a "sinking ship". your take on the situation and predictions hurt my brain
 
It is wishful thinking that propels your perception. In good time we shall see though so it is not worth really debating. Companies buy one another out to sink them all the time. K2 will absorb Lines market share into itself and Volkl as soon as it proves more profitable than keeping them around. K2 has done this with several other companies in the past 20 years. If the parent company thinks they can do better keeping the Line name then they will stay, but it is laughable to assume that this is the norm in business.
 
it seems like 80 percent of the skiers leave their team for volkl or come to volkl wen they get dropped, why!
 
You need to shut up, fast. Have you ever skid Volkl? That's what I thought, tell me how long they have been making "shit" skis man. Blow me, and LINE too...
 
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