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RonnieOatmilk
Yes, there was some beef on Instagram etc. I found it all a bit blown up and exaggerated tbh.
There are soooo many steel frames coming from those factories in Taiwan.
Brother, Fairlight, Crust, Soma all QBP (All-city, Surly etc...) most likely the Peregrine too and now also people who used to make all their frames by hand like Sklar. It's all the same and for a reason. Those factories actually churn out really good frames.
In my opinion, Crust acted very much like they invented big tyred rando / gravel bikes with a classic touch. I feel like that's a very US centric perspective. They forget, that the US is not the sole inventor of gravel/offroad riding and that before there were any of these Instagram cult bikes or figures there were french randonneurs, english touring bikes (Raleigh!) and things like the Rough Stuff Fellowship. Before there was a Fabs Chest there was a Carradice waxed canvas saddle bag etc...
It's all been done before and inspired by each other. I assume Rune and Crust also don't necessarily overlap too much in market share. It's ridiculously expensive to import a crust to the EU / UK and the other way around.
A much more appropriate criticism of "that Rune Person" was/is that he supported some discriminating policies against trans people in the cycling world. This almost did cost him agreements with dealers in the UK. He has since apologised for his statements.