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18LifeToGo Added a reply to 2024 TEAM RUMORS
1/18/2024 8:44am 50 people have said where Dak is going for the last 2 months and yet a bunch still don't get it. Amazing.
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TRex Liked a comment about Feature New Rider, Sponsors and Budgets - FRAMEWORKS 2024 Inside Line Podcast
1/17/2024 5:37pm
Pretty harsh to call those companies 'blemishes'. I for one would support those companies just because they support Neko and the team. 5Dev seems to have supported Neko on many, many frame parts, aside from cranks. That development alone is very valuable. Specialized supports so many racing projects and cool stuff too. To call one of the more technically advanced companies a blemish is just beyond me, especially when Specialized supports a lot of privateers, their own factory team, this team and Rooted/others that are trying to make it. And ENVE? I've run their stuff in the past and as...
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DIGRIDEPARTY Liked a comment about Feature New Rider, Sponsors and Budgets - FRAMEWORKS 2024 Inside Line Podcast
1/17/2024 8:23am
Me looking at my Specialized bike with Enve Rims and cockpit, 5dev cranks and SRAM Transmission right now going... Go FRAMEWORKS!! Haters gonna hate.
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18LifeToGo Added a reply to 2024 Racing Talk
12/14/2023 9:26am Already have both. Yay me.
18LifeToGo Added a reply to The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
10/20/2023 9:20am Yeti's dealer base is shrinking due to Specialized and Trek buying all the big players in major markets. They have no choice but to sell direct. Any brand who doesn't sell direct is stupid. Dealers don't have any cash to buy inventory and bike brands need cash to pay bills to factories and suppliers. Yeti having a sale is smart...
18LifeToGo Added a reply to The Bikeconomics (Mega)Thread
10/20/2023 7:44am The problem in a nutshell. No bikes selling = no money for shops to buy bikes. No bike brands can sell bikes. So they can't pay factories to make their new bikes. So everything is at a hard stop. Good news is there are plenty of New bikes available at insane pricing. And participation in the sport is still at...
18LifeToGo Added a reply to All Things Rampage 2023
10/17/2023 3:03pm Brendan just cleared up his view on Oli's channel. He's happy with his run. Understands why he didn't win. He clearly states why the guys who did like 5 practice laps didn't win. He Thinks he should have been a bit higher but also admits he fell pretty hard on a practice jump in the morning and left one trick...
18LifeToGo Added a reply to Yeti Cycles Goes Direct
10/16/2023 8:10pm 9 out 10 dentist prefer to buy bikes online vs going to a bike shop M-F between 10 am and 6 pm and dealing with some 19 year kid who can't afford a 10k bike. True story.
18LifeToGo Added a reply to All Things Rampage 2023
10/16/2023 6:07pm Lessons learned from Rampage 2023. Not one rider in the top ten sold a bike frame this week or month or year. Pinkbike is a bunch of Kooks and Brian Park is a joke. Red Bull is still a crappy energy drink that you mix with vodka when you are 18 but thanks for spending your billions on events. Cam...
18LifeToGo Added a reply to All Things Rampage 2023
10/15/2023 2:18pm He knocked himself cold. He was out for 2 minutes.
18LifeToGo Added a reply to 2024 TEAM RUMORS
10/10/2023 7:35am Imagine this. I'm your title sponsor. I'll pay you $100,000.00 USD to race. You can pick any production DH frame in the world to run. We will buy 10 of them, repaint them and put the "team name" on it. You still picking GT?
astrizzle Liked a comment about Feature A Year Later, Is World Cup Downhill Racing Better?
10/10/2023 6:46am
Great podcast to get everyone's opinion on how this year went! It's funny to me to hear how political some of the riders are and how media trained some of them are on what they can and can't say. I know you'll never get a true honest opinion from them because of potential sponsor backlashing but this podcast came pretty darn close I think. How about this as some proposed changes to the schedule: -Run qualifiers on Friday and take the top 40 men/25 women into the final on Sunday -Change the current Saturday semifinal race into a Last Chance...
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18LifeToGo Added a reply to 2024 TEAM RUMORS
10/8/2023 7:59am Why would they bother with GT if GT isn't paying? Those frames are a nightmare. Just go get frames from anyone. Buy them if they need to. If GT isn't dropping cash. I doubt there will be anyone riding those. GT wants to sell bikes to walmart not bike shops.
18LifeToGo Added a reply to 2024 TEAM RUMORS
10/8/2023 7:46am Intense Done. GT Done. Other small brand teams Done. Gwinn to GCN broadcast booth and to run a bike park probably ride Neko's bike because why not. Dakota going to whoever will deal with him. Big factory teams will pick up top 20 talent and cheap athletes who just want to ride. Women's teams will probably vanish. Expect large brands...
18LifeToGo Added a reply to How long before Outside Sells Out or Pinkbike is shut down?
9/20/2023 6:33am I heard he was moved to a new title at Outside. Guessing more like he butted heads with corporate goals and they just paid him to leave and he's happy as a clam collecting money and not talking. Good for him if that's true.
18LifeToGo Added a reply to What do you like and don’t like about Strava.
9/19/2023 8:44am I don't like strava because i don't care about the data it gives. I know people who love strava and use it. I wish some people would keep private trails off strava or strava would block private land or non sanctioned trails. That's one downside. KOM's are also annoying for downhill mtb trails with high traffic. That's more based on...
18LifeToGo Added a reply to How long before Outside Sells Out or Pinkbike is shut down?
9/19/2023 7:08am "Pinkbike is the most visited action sports website. " Wrong. Bikerumor has more views. Pinkbike has massive repeat views. It's organic view count on a standard post is around 10 - 20k. It's the same 10 - 20k people every post. A larger post hits 25k. Then the total post hits 40 - 50k due to repeat visits to argue...
18LifeToGo Added a reply to How long before Outside Sells Out or Pinkbike is shut down?
9/18/2023 6:00pm Did you not live through 2008? Bubbles pop. End result is media companies who based budgets off of false numbers fire everyone and sell the assets or use AI to write clickbait. Maybe the Pinkbike superfans will swarm Vital and click click clack and boost some rankings? Or are the pinkbike comments all a discord pod... false hype?
18LifeToGo Added a reply to How long before Outside Sells Out or Pinkbike is shut down?
9/18/2023 8:04am Wow, 10 years of revamping? Must be a popular clickbait title for views. Need to replicate that one on my site.
18LifeToGo Added a reply to What Would Make You Buy a New Bike?
9/18/2023 7:03am Being able to sell my old bike would allow me to buy a new bike. No one wants used bikes when new bikes are 30 - 50% off. So i will ride my current bike with upgrades like transmission, brakes and suspension. The frame is fine.
