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White Brothers Ceases Operations
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[QUOTE="placelast, post: 1258854, member: 22683"] We lost an industry keystone although it was a' coming. They did my IT175 suspension (to long travel) in late 1977; were in Garden Grove, CA at the time and a small 2/3-bay shop in a commercial rental, with a 4-page catalog. I bought every bolt-on goodie they had for my Yami, and that brand was their bread and butter. Most parts were well thought out and improved over OEM performance. I got out of riding for many years, then when coming back 10 years later, starting buying lots of goodies from them in the mid-to-late '90s/early 2000's. By then they had 2 or 3 huge buildings in Placentia and one in Kentucky. About that time they changed/evolved from general track/off-road R&D and manufacturing/parts middle men to focusing on exhaust and street stuff, then sold the company to another entity; but before that, one of the brothers got out of M/Cs altogether and into competitive MTBing and parts; the other bought him out and ran the company up to the buyout and stayed on afterwards to kinda run things as a GM I believe. This latter brother was into MX well into his 40s and maybe early 50s, whose son suffered a debilitating M/C crash; they needed the $ for his medical needs. That and the attention/stress may have driven the early co. sale. Since then it got further and further from the enthusiast - to the point of ceasing retail sales altogether and acting like a smaller Parts Unlimited/Tucker Rocky. Last time I was there was 5 years ago, and it was a headache just dealing with the counter guys; much better when the bros had it. Sorry to see another change though the last was not for the better. [/QUOTE]
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