I’ve known for a while now and was asked to keep it on the DL, but I think cat’s out of the bag.

For those who don’t know, Sean has sold either part, or all (not really sure,) of his biz (to include Airframes and Bushwheels,) to private equity. Transition is underway, and I’m not privy to what will be made where (presumably all will eventually be moved to KS under McFarlane,) but change is coming with the Vance Street Capitol acquisition.

For those that have been around for a while, we remember Bill bringing the tyre out of AK down to ID. There were the Wup years (shout out,) then the sale/move back to AK, the growing pains, the Palmer facility, the bunny boots, and now another sale. Curious as to your thoughts?

With the Arcline Investment Mgmt gobbling up companies like Hartzell and Skytec, and Vance Street buying Mcfarlane and now Airframes, things cant be good for the little guy...

When Bushwheels were mom n’ pop and reasonably priced, it was easy… but now with a private equity move, we will surely see a price spike… and with the new Grove/Desser 29/31” option, the big question will be how y’all choose to spend the hard earned cash. Thoughts???

I purchased my first set of ABW's from Bill in 2002 when he brought a load of deflated tires up to Fairbanks in the back of his truck. I am still running these same 31's. Now that I keep our Cub on floats, I run these under our 180H. No pavement, lots of Alaska gravel, no checks, no cord, look near new at nearing 24 years old. Only anecdotal data here, the present production does not appear to be matching the longevity of the original product. In my opinion, quality and purpose wins. It is undebatable the product has purpose, the question is, can the producing entity, whoever it may be, manufacture quality.

TR