Here's a cycling company that should be boycotted...

I guess it's more of a speaker company marketing itself to the cycling community...but regardless.

I don't really understand the appeal of their product in the first place...but this story guarantees that I will never purchase from them, and recommend that other cyclists do the same.

http://groupthink.jezebel.com/dudebros-busted-being-dudebros-boombo...

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Permalink Reply by Michelle Milham on April 9, 2014 at 5:25am

Yeah. While I find it amusing that they're on their 6th or 7th unsuccessful, poorly thought out, pseudo apology/excuse... they have turned me off their product. I might like something like that, but not from them. 

Permalink Reply by Tricolor on April 9, 2014 at 5:40am

I'm surprised no one at the company noticed they weren't using stock or purchased pictures.

Permalink Reply by EssFresh on April 9, 2014 at 6:05am

I strongly dislike it when a fellow cyclist has one of these near me. 98% time they are blasting something terrible. I have shitty taste in music, but I keep it off my bike and away from disrupting others. Get off my lawn.  :D

AM 9.5 said:

It wasn't bad enough that they seem to advocate making a ton of noise in the wilderness. 

Permalink Reply by Justin B Newman on April 9, 2014 at 8:44am

Jennifer, just sit back and listen while I 'splain this to you...

Jennifer on the lake said:

Idle thought: Why are the Women In Tech and the Women In Cycling problems so similar and yet addressed so differently?

Permalink Reply by Gort 12-mile Pinklegneep on April 9, 2014 at 8:59am

The upside is being SF Doofy Startup Number A Billion, I'm unlikely to ever have occasion to act on this boycott. 

Permalink Reply by Gort 12-mile Pinklegneep on April 9, 2014 at 9:01am

How are they addressed, respectively? 

Jennifer on the lake said:

Idle thought: Why are the Women In Tech and the Women In Cycling problems so similar and yet addressed so differently?

Permalink Reply by Gecko on April 9, 2014 at 9:03am

I was wondering that as well.  I agree that the problems are similar, and also are most likely in more places than just tech and cycling.

Peenworm "8 mile" Grubologist said:

How are they addressed, respectively? 

Permalink Reply by Gort 12-mile Pinklegneep on April 9, 2014 at 10:56am

I see what you mean. The tech industry does get some calls to change the culture but that's largely because the culture is utterly abysmal and the calls to change that often get attention when there's some particularly egregious disgusting demonstration of how fucked up everything is (like the "techcrunch disrupt" conference, PAX, plus the just constant workaday climate of an industry dominated by guys who metamorphosed from awkward nerds to dreadful bros and never figuring out how to be around women). 

What you say makes sense in cycling because there's an element of conscious social change present there that doesn't exist from tech, because cycling has factors in a bunch of environmental concerns with it that i can see that brocialist "we'll do your feminism or whatever after we've smashed capital" thing going on. 


Jennifer on the lake said:

Well, I'm not in tech, so I don't know for sure, but I get a sense that the industry is called upon to "change the culture" so that it's either more accessible or less hostile (or both) to women.

But in cycling, this is almost always followed by some variant of "No, we actually need to build more infrastructure like in all those places where there is no 'culture' because it's so safe," and then somebody brings up cargo bikes. I have yet to read an argument that if we just built more secure wifi networks and made online shopping easier, then more women would be interested in technology. Maybe the problems aren't so similar after all.

Permalink Reply by Bikefreeek on July 6, 2015 at 1:20pm

Boombotix makes a good product for the price. Is their marketing the best? I'm not sure. They are relatively new and I think they have some things that they're still learning.

The original post is over a year old at this point and I think they've made some progress. For one, they've sponsored Slow Roll Chicago with custom branded product. I think that's a good start that's local here in Chicago.

Imagine if any of us were to be judged for eternity for something we put on the internet. Also imagine being young and trying to appeal to who/what's cool. No good reason to put someone down to try and build yourself up. Also no good reason to dig up dirt on someone trying to make good even if they've done bad in the past.

Permalink Reply by Irvin Steinert on July 5, 2015 at 5:07pm

I think much in advertising pushes this way, "buy this and you will be cool, as opposed to uncool; shame on you you uncool 'so and so' don't worry though, buy this and you are now cool (beyond shame)!

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Permalink Reply by Yasmeen on July 6, 2015 at 8:03am

ugh. This form of advertising is such a turn-off for so many reasons. Stupid. Fat-shaming. Nearly naked women. Did I mention stupid? 

And what does any of this have to do with generating good sound? Nothing. 

Permalink Reply by Gort 12-mile Pinklegneep on July 6, 2015 at 8:18am

The upside I suppose is that this startup kultur bro shit doesn't really need to be abided because real audio companies like JBL and so on have come out with perfectly serviceable speakers for this task. 

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