Probably because the 1st one was coping so much flack from MTBer's.... that or he got stoned and lost the log in for the 1st one. *shrugs*
Where is my "Lahar"?
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Seems like it. He's still talking about how "good" his business skills were.
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Submitted the 2nd video to pinkbike for there front page and apparently "it is not home page content at this time" must be because you aren't crossing there hand with silver.
the idea that you can ride a decade old bike isn’t really what Pinkbike is about. Maybe if part 3 details how to retro fit headset cable routing?
did you send them part 1 to post? Or did they find it organically?
What is pink bike about? Submitted, there isnt really much on that front page that isnt submitted now or paid for.
Even though they posted the 1st part most of the engagement came organically considering I started with 7 subs.
Woke pish and product sales
I mean it was more a rhetorical question to the person above but I do agree with what you've wrote.
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I know it’s rhetorical, but…
I read Pinkbike, vital, and the radavist most days. The main differences to me is dumbed down to:
Pinkbike - the industry is great, look at all this great stuff, everything new is amazing. Isn’t the newest genre great?
vital - the industry’s kinda messed up, but our guy who works for whoever is doing great stuff, most new stuff is amazing. Isn’t racing great?
The Radavist - the industry is an unstable plaything dictated by the winds, the treasures it leaves behind are a means to connect to our core self. Isn’t alt cycling great?
Ride monkey - The industry sucks, old bikes suck, new bikes suck, you suck, why are we doing this to ourselves.
And that’s why I come to ride monkey. Grumpy fucks who hate the industry normally give honest advice. Is it good, balanced advice? I’ll leave question that for another day.
Not selling, taking.
Taking your hopes and dreams, defiling them, and and then destroying them.
I find nsmb.com is an excellent website too. One of my favorite contributors there was Andrew Major, who is apparently now writing for our overlords at www.bikemag.com . Probably worth it checking out Bike Mag a bit more, now that he's there.
I think Pinkbike deserve an honorable mention for their position against thru-headset cable routing. It seems that was the limit they were not willing to cross when it comes to overhyping garbage. It would have been easy for them to pussyfoot their way around this standard in their reviews, but they did not. I appreciate that.
every now and again I read Andrew’s blog MeatEngines and I liked his Min-Max style articles on NSMBbut to be honest there’s only so much bike news I can take.
velocipede salon has some cool stories on handbuilt/home made bikes, but again, there’s really only so much I can take in. I watch Chapman Cycles videos quite a lot on Instagram and it’s a special kind of therapy to see him working away on lug sets.
my personal favourite bike site is of course Pete Verdone, the absolute apex of ego. No one can match the sheer self belief of big Pete.
I can think of a few…but those of that class are absolutely in a class by themselves and reality is not part of it.
The NSMB tear down articles are brilliant. As are their long term review follow-ups.
I know its hard to do when everyone is rushing to get the review of the new shiny stuff out the moment the embargo drops, but its good to have an idea of the longevity and serviceability of stuff.
I still want to see a website give every review of brakes to two journalists and make one of them 200+ lbs of brake dragging squid doing park laps just to see if their journos agree on the performance. Brake reviews by lightweight riders, or pros that don't know what comfort braking is aren't going to compare to what I plan to do with them.
I love NSMB's min-maxing articles. Also, Uncle Dave picked me up for prizes twice, so I'm a huge fan of the website 
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.Yes, shit where you ACTUALLY NEED BRAKES, like Out of the Blue, Predator, Invictus in WA; Hope Point, Hatch Peak, The Dome here. And not the ****ing lower sections of these trails where it's flat, but the top and middle.