only thing that would make me believe is if he showed up at schladming and beat gwin
The REALLY best rear shock in the world!
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who writes this drivel? bike industry marketing is really lowering the bar this year. and crap mags like bike aren't helping.
I like that they make fun of the forum that they sponsor.
I think RS missed the whole April 1st thing.
I think RS missed the whole April 1st thing.
Commence mashing your keyboards in self-inflicted outrage....
it's so stupid it hurts
i think RS has slipped into the mindset that every day is april 1st.
Im outraged! I have no idea why, but everyone else seems to find ways to be outraged and I dont want to be left out.
MASH
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[edit] source of above quote: http://theteamrobot.blogspot.com/2013/03/this-is-amazing.html
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it also appears as if the brilliant minds at bikemag have run out of their own ideas and are stealing from team robot
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Seb Kemp. He's a rad guy and a great writer.
and also apparently steals from team robot. unless of course, he writes for team robot. in which case we're all about to fall into an infinite loop of stupid
"a piece of ________ stuck in your linkage." Truly deep, Charlie must have had to think for hours to come up with that one. This blatant theft by Bike mag cannot stand, and I refuse to to buy their mag, like their photos on Instagram, or contribute to their publication in any way until Seb offers an apology and submits to a public flogging.
mash, mash, mash . . .
mash, mash, mash . . .
come on lets be real here. do you really think the pool of originality in the world of mtb journalism is that deep that making the same comparison about the same product is just coincidence?
It isn't and it likely wasn't. Wow, um, big deal? Because it's also not really that amazingly creative either, and I can't even pretend to give a sh*t.
I'm still trying to recover from the near aneurysm I just had. Now I remember why I typically ignore most bike industry "publications"
ahh, so they are going to let the consumer do their R&D for them again after all.
I'm still trying to decipher whether rockshox products feel more like a loaf of bread or a potato, but I'm not sure.
my money is on potato. since a rock is more like that than a loaf of bread.
potatoes do have an eye to eye length.
They do also squish like an elastomer. Rock socks must be trying to get back to their roots.
it seems to me that may be the case. I open Bike Mag: Seb Kemp. I open Dirt: Seb Kemp. I open NSMB: Seb Kemp. Heck even teh Monkey links to Seb Kemp (I don't want to bother looking it up, but I'm referring to the defense of Evil piece he wrote that wasn't published in any paying publication). I bet if I opened a dozen other mtb publications I'd find Seb Kemp. I have nothing against him personally, and I find his prose has gotten a little less pretentious over the years, to the point I sort of enjoy reading it, but it seems like he produces about 80% of the journalism related to the "lifestyle" of our sport... a little diversity would be nice. I should say, he's probably a really nice guy and a great rider, he's certainly a prolific workhorse of an author and good on'im for that, it's just that his style of writing doesn't always hook me in.
on the topic of this thread, I refuse to believe 97% of mtbers didn't cotton on to the sarcasm of that "campaign".... most people had to be playing along for the fun of it, right? I mean come on!?!?!
i've been paying so little attention that I had no idea that was the case.
Seriously. Anyone that didn't realize immediately that it was a joke, wow. Just wow.
But can 97% of farmers tell the difference between the new vivid and a potato?
pretty much....a whole lot of fail all around, to be fair, a horribly thought out 'advertising' campaign, and a while lot of idiots on the consumer side too, actually, pretty par for the course.
organic or monsanto?
its pretty bad when advertising is basically trolling
mash mash mash. . .
Can anything that obvious really be considered trolling?
people still apparently fell for it, so yes
a challenger appears:
I'm fairly certain this was all planned out as an April Fools by Rockshox. Then, for whatever reason, management ordered them to release it three weeks early. Due to some upcoming product release from a competitor maybe? I don't know if Fox is about to launch something? Or maybe it's about these DVO things.
Who knows. But my money's on that. An April Fools, brought forwards at the last minute.
Who knows. But my money's on that. An April Fools, brought forwards at the last minute.
Taipei show is in a week. Expect new products galore. . . .
Can you give us any "hints"?
Anybody get it yet?
Give 'em a couple more weeks.
Apparently they've copped to the ad-fail..