i'm working with an industrial designer, and he can't understand why something he created in the metaverse can't be exported directly to a 3d printer.
TBF You seem to be angry about pretty much everything.
I was exaggerating about me being mad. Don't take everything literally.
We're all just raccoons attracted to the shiny bits and bobs on those expensive ones.
Tbh I'm past that. I mean sure it would be nice to have all the fanciest parts but I'd rather focus on riding. Though it is weird to see companies come up with new super premium or limited edition products. The biggest number of new things seem to appear there. Not that those products aren't great. Sometimes they are but well I'm free to not like the trend.
I don't know but I don't want to get into another argument where you are mad at me for saying something and want to derail a discussion about to you again having a problem with me. We don't agree on many things and it's fine. If you think I don't ride enough you are free to think that. I will continue to ride the amount that makes me happy.
It's not an argument. It's a fairly simple a question. Addressed to the forum in general. Not just you.
Yeah and the answer is we all ride more than we spend here because it takes seconds to write posts on RM. You must be really bad at writing to think otherwise. I thought UK achieved 100% literacy rate.
Didn't know it's bad words that broke my back.
I'm lucky enough to be able to ride pretty much every day and currently less than 10ft away from 3 bikes I'm free to ride right now if I really wanted to.
I didn't ask how much time people are spending on Ridemonkey. Try reading my question again. Maybe come back to it a few times if understanding it exceeds your 15min limit
Built a Santa Cruz "XO build" the other day. Only XO parts were shifter and derailleur. If I was spending $8k for a trail bike with "XO build" I'd be pretty pissed to see the cheap, heavy cassette and crank on it and the bike's 30+lb weight. I'm amazed at that company's ability to keep finding customers regardless of their pricing, spec, and weight.We're all just raccoons attracted to the shiny bits and bobs on those expensive ones.
Plus it hides some of the lower end models that are marketed as an "XT" build for example, but 98% of the drivetrain is not XT.
Ah yes because your comment assumes RM opinions about the industry mean we are all spending 4 hours per day doing deep intustry analisis and create excel spreadsheets and not just making comments because based on general observations. Sure.
So wait. You are free to ride right now. I am not and you are giving me shit for spending time on RM and not riding? I mean such a literacy expert like you must have reached the letter H in dictionary to see the problem here. Mate most of us shitpost here because we have office jobs and this is a way to procrastinate at work. You actively chose this over riding. Shut up and go riding.
Which makes us not different from any other tech-based hobby: cars, motorcycles, cameras, ....
I hear people swear by their customer support and warranty service. Not sure if that attracts them new customers but it sure helps you retain them.
Naah we are extra stupid for not spending time at our hobby and Gary will sacrifice his own riding time to tell us that.
I would not say stupid. But bikes as a hobby are, at least for me, the perfect mix of exercise, challenge, adrenalin, enjoying nature, maintaining and optimizing machinery, and collecting.
I was paraphrasing his silly argument. Nothing bad with reading and talking about bikes. Especially when we can't ride since despite what our OG Scott of Biking tells us we can't spend 24h per day riding bikes.
I'm actually on a 2019 Bronson, got the gx package pre-covid pricing, waited till I wore out the GX, put on XT. Smashed the lowers on the Fox 36, upgraded to Lyric Ultimate. Smashed the crap rims, upgraded to some reserve 30's. The frame is super solid and the bike rarely needs maintenance, and it's sub-30 lbs when I weighed it before a bike packing trip last summer. Current pricing though....probably not making the same choice, although can't say there's much out there really exciting me as far as bikes go, just We Are 1 because it's Canadian made, but I'm also a 27.5 luddite and averse to spending that much money on a new bike.
Honest question. What in SC frames really speaks to you?
Funny thing is I just realized you took what was generally a positive comment containing one thing that kinda annoys me, cropped it and pretended it was a negative one.
What? Even if Ive already been riding today?
Slightly MOAR Hu MALE nature I'd say. But yes. I didn't say there was anything wrong with that.
Works great for the variety of riding I do, very reliable so I don't have to worry about long term durability, solid warranty if I ever did have a problem, and at the time it was a price I considered reasonable for those benefits. It's been through 4 seasons of pretty solid use in the Sea to Sky and beyond, including regular BC "XC", big descents, gnarly tech, slabs, etc. and does not ever let me down, and I expect it to easily last a couple more seasons before I am ready for something newer. Bearings are all well shielded and even riding in Squamish winters and spraying the shit out of it with a hose regularly it does not eat bearings, and when I needed new ones I had them for free within days and it was easy to replace them myself with limited mechanical know how. That being said their current pricing structure makes it a lot harder to seriously consider another one in the future, but we'll see what happens over the coming years since all bets are off on that front.
. Otherwise, the frame has been a joy to maintain and solid as fcuk so far.I'd definitely seriously consider a SC frame again in the future because of that. Of the brands I've owned (Specialized, Ibis, Santa Cruz, Transition, Guerrilla Gravity, and Commencal), the SC frames had by far the best hardware, bearing protection, cable routing, and paint quality. They cost a fortune now but I'd stomach it for a frame only. Their build kit values aren't great, but most brand's aren't either.
So basically SC = Apple of bikes? (not a dig. I am writing it on a mac). Very expensive but you buy it and generally live a worry free life with the product.
Well Gary. I made a generally positive comment about how it's good we get less variety of design since a lot of said variety resulted in sub par bikes. Now when everyone seems to more or less know what works it's harder to buy a bike that rides trash. I hyperbolically said I'm "mad" about where the industry is going and you decided that's 100% of my comment and that I'm sitting at home, red faced, wearing a red "make bikes cheap again" hat. Don't take everything everyone says literally. Or rather. Stop trying to pick fights with me. I am happy. You should try it.
Naah you were implying that people talk too much about bikes and ride too little mate (hence the "how much do you ride bruh" comment). Now you seem to be backpedaling. Stop assuming I have il intent in every comment and looking for fights with me and then you can avoid having to pretend you intented to say something else than you actually did
Well I define very expensive as "costs significantly more than the average price for a given product". Very expensive doesn't mean "not worth the price". I know one coffee shop that sells 15E per cup coffee and it's defo worth that price.
