i read on one of the announcements that PB is the largest of all mtb sites, by a large margin (in terms of page views). its actually the second largest segment by traffic now that its part of outside, second only to Outside itself.
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"MX Inspired", sold exclusively through powersports dealers, they're not even pretending anymore
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Whoever could have POSSIBLY seen this coming?"MX Inspired", sold exclusively through powersports dealers, they're not even pretending anymore
TAZER MX
WELCOME TO THE INTENSE TAZER MX THE FIRST MX-INSPIRED E-BIKE. Whether you’re exploring twisty forest trails or conquering a steep climb, the added boost of e-assisted riding is there when you want it. BUILT FOR THE MOTORSPORTS ENTHUSIAST. If you’re an adrenaline junkie like us, tearing down a...
So you're saying we need to bump the fasting thread and lower the wings thread in the SEO results?
Nah, we need to bump the booze and dope content.
And maybe the tattoos as well.
the orbea 2022 presentation in gendered german. you don’t even have a clue how good you have it with a genderless language and no speech nazis who want to change how ppl speak 
Genuinely interested in how this issue is handled in German and the romance languages. Care to elaborate?the orbea 2022 presentation in gendered german. you don’t even have a clue how good you have it with a genderless language and no speech nazis who want to change how ppl speak
If it makes you feel better, patients are now allowed to fill in whatever they identify as for sex/gender in our medical record. Upside, way moar diversity and inclusion at the gynecology offices!
That was the biggest thing tripping me up as an exchange student in 89-90, and not having studied any German beforehand.the orbea 2022 presentation in gendered german. you don’t even have a clue how good you have it with a genderless language and no speech nazis who want to change how ppl speak
Oof. OTOH, I did get placed with a family in Berlin - had a front row seat to the wall coming down shenanigans.
That must have been a heck of an experience. I remember the thousands of abandoned Trabants in the streets of Prague during the exodus through the West German embassy there.
https://m.pinkbike.com/news/baptiste-pierron-fractures-4-vertebrae-in-race-run-crash.html
Has his brother been released from the hospital yet? Mandatory body armor I say!
no you don’t understand, thats normal german. every noun describing a person is either female or male. but the plural version is always male. now woke people wanna include the women in speech, so for example what used to be fahrer (riders) is now fahrer_innen and they speak it fahrer (pause) innen. this is not proper grammar, but woke grammar. no one speaks like that in real life. but it was used in this presentation, a lot.
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Ah! Got it!
I left after 11 months with a basic conversational fluency, that sadly has not had much use since.
Meine Grammatik ist wie Scheisse, aber Vocabular ist nicht so schlimm.
This many years later, it's pretty bad. With a native or much more practiced fluent speaker, I always have to ask them Bitte, Konnen Sie sprechen ein bisschen langsam?
Didn't help that most of the time was spent in Berlin, but the last few months down in Landau. My "accent" if you even want to call it such, is all fucked up.
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It was amazing, and really taught me so much. Going over there as a typical snotty American 15 year old opened my eyes. Seeing how many of our service members (and their families) behaved was cringe inducing, and I began to understand why most of the rest of the world thinks we are assholes.
you laugh now.......wtf!
they're referring to paywalling articles. ads are necessary to KTLO.
I'm ambivalent on PB for a while now. I feel like they've drifted closer to the american bike mag trend of "Every bike we test is great, because it was free for us" mentality. I hope there are still bastions of grunginess out there on the internet for people to say "This bike/tire/fork sucks" without repercussion
I think that's why some people are upset over it. The advertising and collecting of information was clearly working, from my view as a total stranger. Otherwise their original content and constant hiring of more people wouldn't be happening.
And now everyone is assuming that that model is going to do a 180 and we'll (the subscribers) be on the hook for covering those costs somewhat.
All the surveys are complete money grabs haha. That is info being fed directly into the system.
I enjoy Pinkbike's original content and take it for what its worth most of time - time killing entertainment. And as some others have mentioned, there is a community of readers and commenters on Pinkbike that no other mountain bike website has. I'm crossing my fingers and just blindly hoping that not much changes in the near future, the content is still published for free and that the paywall will be minimal or nonexistent (lol).
Based on some of their recent comments about more detailed testing including machine measurement coming in the future, I think it's likely to be tests/review type content that will get paywalled. IE, initial review is ungated, premium membership gets you data/graphs etc.
another aspect of that is that by and large, bikes are really good these days.
the last product i remember that was truly DOA was the crank bros kronolog dropper, and that's been years.
the only bike i can think of recently that had some proper design flaws was that pole bike that got derped in PB's huck test, but it sounded like that issue was fixed?
I rarely bother to fill them out, but when I have the "answers
" I give are to the best of my knowledge. 
.Has anybody ever answered one of those truthfully? If so why?
If it happens it'll be the fault of everyone who paid for Trailforks instead of deleting it.
trailforks actually provides value for what you're paying for. plus its integrated into garmin's bike computers, which is a pretty compelling feature.
besides, its not like anyone had the foresight to anticipate pb/tf was going to sell out at the time.
There's no fee to use it on a garmin device
Nor on the web browser interface.
not all the pro subscription features are free on a garmin (new custom base maps). but yes most of the core pro features are still free, but the garmin edge computers aren't cheap.
not all trail networks are within cellular range.
