Enter to Win A Crankbrothers Prize Pack - Pinkbike's Advent Calendar Giveaway

 On the fourth day of Christmas pinkbike clickbaited me, to see if @sewer-rat became a nice christmas gift from @pinkbike . Sadly Karen took the gifts from all her fake accounts...

 @Hamburgi: bloody Karen.

 "Creaking" couldn't be more accurate

 On the fourth day a Christmas pinkbike gave to me, a cigar tool and a rock n roll teeeeee

 @JeCo07: I love the rhythm of this. Gave me a laugh. Thanks

 Between xmass and new year pb should run a contest on who can come up with the best interpretation of this glorious song...

 You'll only get what you want if you ask for it.

 nerd alert>

Well, with a RS Reverb ACS and some protocol hacking you could do it...

/nerd alert>

 I've had my M19 for years and yeah, best tool ever!!!

 Crank Bros have always made good tools. Everything else has invariably been hot garbage that they've had to keep working on to make even acceptable.

 @nouseforaname: CB turned a corner several years back, and nearly the entire company has been turned over since. They have 2 people, literally only 2 people with the company that were there five or so years ago. They have gone from a design based company, to an engineering based company, and they have very good people with a good deal of talent steering the ship. You don't hear about pedals falling apart on a regular basis any more, you don't hear about rampant dropper issues, and they have done away with the proprietary wheel program. Matter of fact, their pedals and dropper posts work really damn well(far exceeding being just "acceptable") and their newest wheels (and more specifically their hoops) are among the best on the market, period.

 @privateer-wheels: This a sales tactic or unbiased opinion?

 @TheLoamDeranger: definitely not a sales pitch, but I am a wheel builder (ya got me!), and with that comes experience dealing with a load of wheel part companies, riding a load of wheels, and building many more wheels for others. Emphasis on riding a load of wheels, and even more on building many wheels.

Ultimately you could say I am biased - and my biases are based on experience working with many wheel parts. There are parts I enjoy building, there are parts I do not enjoy building with, and there are parts I will outright refuse to build with, based on my experience and the experiences of my customers. I think that's pretty fair, isn't it? That said, I genuinely think CB are making some very good rims, and very good products in general recently.

 @privateer-wheels: Nice, good to hear your perspective.

 @privateer-wheels: I've been around longer than crank bros, and long enough to associate them with a gimmicky tire lever.

I dont know why they bother honestly. But I feel that way about plenty of mtb companies. The fact they make a really good dropper or neat pedals is nothing to write home about. And they've pushed shitty versions of exactly those products for years before "turning around". How can you have faith that 'this time' they're doing it 'right'?

Ymmv.

 @nouseforaname: how can you have faith? Well, not seeing wide spread reports of failure on the new products is a good start for the more cynical of us. Most recently, reviews also look good on the new gear, but I get that not everyone puts faith in these. For me, the faith is based on personal experience.

I don't know who's behind the dropper and pedal improvements, all I can say is for me the pedals have worked well. But for the wheels, I know there are people behind them with pretty successful history of rim design and production. And I have handled and built the rims, so I can speak to them from that stand point also. Generally speaking, junk rims show their colour pretty clearly when you are building them, and that was not the case with CB carbon or alloy. I've also ridden both myself have have been quite pleased with them.

But that's just my experience, and experience based opinion. You are welcome to take it with a grain of salt, or leave it. I just want to put it out there because I find some people are stuck in the past, and all the talk about past productt doesn't deserve to overshadow new product that works really well, in my own opinion.

 love mine! the larges are huge

 I have about a dozen rides on my set and so far, so good. I prefer them over Vaults, which was my preferred pedals for nearly five years. The CB pedals have more grip and the shape seems suit my feet better. I ride the larges with 5.10 Freeriders.

 The accounts that win don't post, so you're not likely to get an answer.

 The official contest rules do not say anything about having to check "Yes, I would like to receive news and information from" box. The only requirement for entry is " 6. To enter the Prize Draw Contest the entrant must click on entry button (CLICK HERE TO ENTER) found on the Contest Post. The entrants Pinkbike username will be automatically entered to win eligible prizing"

 @nouseforaname: It’s really odd that NOBODY has ever come forward to share their winnings and Pinkbike doesn’t release who won either. Makes you wonder why you login and click every day. Seems legit!

 I have red, my kid has black

 He means for the prize...

 You can have any color you like, as long as it’s blue!

 Ham

 @Middnight: I like that color to. What a wonderful color ham is. The glorious color of ham. Best color!

 Its a mystery, rumors are nobody wins....