COBALT CYCLE WAS NEVER REALLY ABOUT FOUR WALL, LIGHTS AND A SOUND SYSTEM. It was about the sweat, the songs we screamed together, the strangers who became friends. That spirit doesn’t close with a lease — it goes wherever we go next. We’re not able to keep the doors open, and that’s a hard truth to sit with. Part of the honest truth: third-party booking platforms like ClassPass take a huge cut of what you pay and hand studios like ours pennies on the dollar — sometimes less than the cost of running the class. They market themselves as helping small studios get discovered, but the math rarely works in the studio’s favor. We gave it everything we had anyway. So here’s our ask: when you find your next studio, book direct if you can. Buy the class pack, sign up for the membership, pay the studio — not a middleman skimming off the top. It feels the same to you, but it’s the difference between a studio surviving and a studio folding. Please follow our instructors to wherever they land next. And remember — there’s a place for everyone out there… even if it takes a while to find. Thank you for being a part of something incredibly special. Allen & Joseph