RockShox B.I.K.E. – Sorge vs. Howard. Live This Sunday.
A few days ago a friendly chat over Facebook between two of RockShox sponsored pros, Kurt Sorge and Ryan Howard, escalated into a challenge to throw down in a no-holds-barred game of B.I.K.E. in world famous Kamloops B.C.
RockShox got wind of the challenge, and shared the riders' conversation with their fans, asking them who they thought would win. The response was immediate and enthusiastic, as people from all around the world piled on the votes for each rider.
So RockShox decided they'd put up $5,000 in a winner-take-all purse — if the riders agreed to play the game live on the RockShox Facebook page. That way, not only could fans all around the world watch the action unfold, they could actually participate and influence the game with their comments and posts.
But as Tyler Morland of RockShox put it in a video message to the riders, if the winner was going to walk away with $5,000 in cash, the loser should take home a prize too. His idea: a henna tattoo of the winner's choice across the loser's chest, done live at the RockShox booth at Interbike in front of thousands of people.
Each assured there was no way they'd suffer the indignity of getting publicly branded by the other rider, Sorge and Howard quickly signed on the dotted line, and the first-ever game of RockShox B.I.K.E. was born.
To see who's going to walk away $5,000 richer, and who's going to get their chest redecorated, tune in this Sunday, September 16th at 10am Pacific at http://www.facebook.com/rockshox.
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If this is what the world is coming to we are truly doomed. Yet another distraction from global warming,, the polar ice caps could be permanently melted within 4 or 5 years, then no white reflective layer, and a runaway progression to a burning, melting hell...it's your future kids, are you going to do anything to actually fight for it? Or just watch stupid B.I.K.E.?
As Mckibben says, the future will either be miserable or impossible, we are quickly trending towards impossible! Twat that!
and protour - what on earth are you on about now?
What is B.I.K.E anyway? Someone explain please.
Also Websites serve the Instant Publication Function, Search Engines provide the opportunity for finding things, and arguing that Facebook a single Business should be responsible for both of these is a bad idea in general. My Idea is post it to your website, Then either A, embed it into Facebook, or B. link to it. Don't make it Facebook exclusive, that is my point. Which was missed So I will continue for general enlightenment.
And if you don't like being in the Sheeple herd, well you might not want to talk about that on Facebook. IE Brandon Raub (Extreme But Accurate) . So no Facebook is not owned by the US Govt. but they have signed away all rights to all information for monitoring by the U.S. Govt. Don't believe me, read articles about it. In the Raub story they had private conversations, messages, and extracts from private games the dude played with his family. Facebook has refused to comment on how the Government came into knowledge of these communications which is standard when you were issued a Gag Order.
@Willy94
I can't view facebook pages, photos or anything unless I register. When I click anything on a page it brings me to the registration.
I dunno, I have a lot of friends who are into other extreme sports (kayaking, windsurfing etc) who post stuff and I'll watch, and they'll have a look at biking links I post. I think Facebook is a great tool for promoting mountain biking. I can't really think of any better way of doing it, and those people that aren't on facebook really need to get themselves into the 21st century. I'm sorry but that's just how people communicate these days.
Reasons To Use Facebook
1. Reach New Audience - That is actually not proven to increase business profits, but does make good publicity.
2. Join the cool gang in the 21st Century
3. Stay in touch with family and friends that prefer not to give updates outside facebook. Aunt Holly this is You!
4. To watch RockShox B.I.K.E.
Reason not to use facebook
1. They committed a MASSIVE violation of Securities Law that stole from Pensions and Average Households
2. Goldman Sachs a major player in Bankrupting Greece and other Sovereigns "Likes" Facebook and Received the Spoils of that Fraud
3. They have been proven to sell your private information to 3rd parties been sued and settled a couple O times
4. They grant the U.S. Government full access to all user data - Not of course the private valuation discussions prior to the IPO
5. They promote the Collapse of the Euro, Loss of Nation State Sovereignty, and Removal of Personal Liberty and Freedom.
#5 is more loosely implied. But by partnering with Goldman Sachs and the Government in private arrangements who have been proven to do these things it's not a huge stretch. I am willing to loose out on an episode of B.I.K.E. although I sure do love me some Rock Shox, I can assure you I will most likely not be missed.
#3+4 - of course they do, so does every other company that has access to any of your person information. That's nothing new or special, everyone does it, get used to it.
If PinkBike was located in the USA or on servers in the USA then all our data would be accessible too. Since Vancouver is a hotbed of web servers I assume the PB datasets are held there.
Look this is turning into a Rant so PM me if you are really interested in hard facts, I am not interested in speculation. I can give documentation and sources for everything I have stated.
But to put the case to rest on Goldman Sachs and Greece and if you understand how IPO's work you don't need an article or writeup to understand how a Bank that cooks a valuation real high then sells shares is profiting from fraud, the boys on the street like to call that Pump n Dump.