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They are .... how do you say........ taking the piss?.....

Starting their own supplement company?

Pretty sure all you cunts have just been trolled by the marster marketing machine hahahaha

It’s definitely not a ticket to sales, just lazy easy stats for marketing departments tbh. There was a podcast somewhere where the brand being interviewed was working off social media numbers rather than sales information. 🤯 I can’t remember who or where right now. Also are ig followers the biggest spenders? The ones I know certainly aren’t.

DH bikes are useless. They only fit the bikeparks and racing while trail and enduro bikes are much more versatile. THey have a place, but not for the average rider, which is shown by the sales numbers. As for DH, you could say it's the F1 of the sport. But to be the proper F1 of the sport, race bikes need to get custom, unlike anything offered for sale on the market. Think RN01. And that's hard to achieve with brands trying to push their product through racing. DH racing, currently, is more like touring car racing. But EWS is...

Now, back to the rumors - Seagraves: the rumors about them and Canyon are most likely true. Canyon will soon present a revised or a new version of their downhill bike: The Sender. Having a top female rider and one of the young and upcoming free-racers on board is definitely very compelling. - Nico Vink: little bit disappointed that he leaves as Scott just introduced their new Gambler. I can see him joining the YT family (the ultimate brand of the freeriders, but can they afford another top star?), Transition (why not?), Trek (they might have a free spot...

I personally think the DH World cup has much more media attention than the EWS. The format of having 1 timed run on race day is almost perfect for the television. I do watch influencers on YouTube and Instagram, but in my opinion they cover a different segment. And yes, of course Downhill bikes are only for a small group of people and are not sold as much as other categories, but this is mainly too to the very limited availability of Bikeparks in most region of the world. With the growing number of parks I expect an increase in...

In my opinion, the social (esp IG) influencer personality and content has a shelf life. People are going to catch on to how disingenuous it is, and it’s going to become more and more transparent how ‘advertisey’ it is. When we make a move to work with someone of any stature, be it mega pro to local ripper / good person their social reach is far from a metric we place value on. It might seem ridiculous but we place human contact and interaction value so far beyond any social bs. I find it a shame that so many companies...

The fact of the matter is no one buys dh bikes anymore. I doubt forming a WCDH team is a successful business in any sense of the word. Why do people do it? For the love of the sport and the technical advancement of mtb as a whole. As for YouTube, take Seth’s bike hacks for example. 1.64mill subscribers, with probably way more random views on top of that. Now let’s take Aaron Gwin who has 425k insta followers. You throw Seth a few bikes, some cash to make some entertaining videos and the reach is exponentially larger than the...

As in no more riders on c-dale or no more c-dale. Or are they focusing on road and XC teams while GT focuses on gravity?

And Klein to Klein. The Commencal's high pivot wasn't high enough; he's riding a Mantra for 2020.

rude to proflex.

Said before the cannon has fired it’s last round

Not happening, she’s on her 6 year contract still

'Trekking'...

hey I appreciate all the feedback here, thank you. I agree... better to use Strava to gauge my own progress than against phantoms on a leaderboard.

Does anyone actually care about Lopes anymore?

That first shot is everything there is to love about racing.