Videos are great but I much prefer the picture format with these articles. Maybe in the future we could have all the photos and at the bottom of the article have the video as well food for thought.
@mikekazimer: Just feels like we are missing a lot of cool content because it is in video form. Specially when it's bike checks, where a photo based article would be a better fit, in my opinion.
@mikekazimer: why do you guys argue with this kind of feedback? People apparently overwhelmingly prefer photos vs video for this kind of content, and when they express that you get indignant and try to explain to them why they're wrong. This video is 15 minutes long. Nobody wants to sit through that. How often do you get comments on your photo posts whining that it's not a video?
@4823904823041, coming right up. Would a papyrus scroll fit your needs? I'm handcarving the nib for my quill pen as we speak.
@thegoodflow, we could just keep the videos on YouTube where they seem to be quite popular, or we could share them on the Pinkbike homepage so that more people can watch them if they'd like. I totally get the desire for photo articles, and those aren't going anywhere - a quick scroll down the homepage and you'll see a whole bunch of them.
Now that there's all this Outside cash sloshing around, I'd like to see @brianpark finally coming good on the long-promised interpretive dance version of each review.
@thegoodflow: The video is much better than photos would have been because you get to hear people's voices and excitement as they describe their unique builds or "new to them" bikes. I enjoyed it.
Maybe you can just pause the video and take screenshots since you hate motion images so much. Also, it's youtube.... you can speed up playback if it's too slow for you. Or just keep complaining that your free entertainment wasn't done to your liking... up to you I suppose.
@poundsand: I personally would prefer photos as I don't want to sit through 15 mins of video. I can just scroll till something catches my eye with photos. Probably easier to do a video.
What’re you guys talking about - videos of bikes standing still in one spot make total sense!!
What I’d like to see are only pictures of races, dirt jumping, and red Bull rampage. Videos of racing and jumping make zero sense - pictures of riders in motion is where it’s at!!!
Whereas videos of objects standing still and not moving make perfect sense. With the video you really get to capture the speed of that object standing still in one spot.
@jaydawg69: no way dude. It’s so much easier to scroll through a video of bikes standing just sitting there. The mouse wheel uppy downy thing is so 2009. You gotta get on board with scrolling left and right on the video bar and look at tiny thumbnail images before actually selecting that part of the video. So EASY!
Oh I forgot another advantage of video- if you pause it essentially becomes a photo! A single photo but nonetheless a photo! Best of both worlds. Would you rather scroll thru pictures like a Crazy person from 2009, or have the option of video/single picture??? I know what my answer is!
@mikekazimer: videos great but......... Proof you can rarely (if ever) please the masses, or some just have streaming issues. Oh how privileged we are, cheers.
That dude on the tall bike rode both sides of the dual slalom course cleanly with a beer dangling from his six pack holder. Shit was the highlight of the event.
Looking forward to some racing videos. Some of us can get away with watching videos at work/school and you can tell a better story with moving pictures although I understand the desire for static content. too.
No no. Pictures of racing only. Cmon pinkbike I know you can deliver. We have videos of bikes not moving, so the logical next step is pictures of riders in motion! Duh!
And you can find all sorts of non-moving pictures in the articles mentioned in this Sea Otter recap: www.pinkbike.com/news/the-ultimate-recap-of-sea-otter-2022.html
Can't please everyone.
Leather bound hardcover, ideally, but I know you folks are on a schedule, so paperback is acceptable as long as the cover is presented in APA format.
@thegoodflow, we could just keep the videos on YouTube where they seem to be quite popular, or we could share them on the Pinkbike homepage so that more people can watch them if they'd like. I totally get the desire for photo articles, and those aren't going anywhere - a quick scroll down the homepage and you'll see a whole bunch of them.
(sarcasm)
Maybe you can just pause the video and take screenshots since you hate motion images so much. Also, it's youtube.... you can speed up playback if it's too slow for you. Or just keep complaining that your free entertainment wasn't done to your liking... up to you I suppose.
What I’d like to see are only pictures of races, dirt jumping, and red Bull rampage. Videos of racing and jumping make zero sense - pictures of riders in motion is where it’s at!!!
Whereas videos of objects standing still and not moving make perfect sense. With the video you really get to capture the speed of that object standing still in one spot.
Obviously I know what I’m talking about
That said, cross-linking any photo-related post to the video post would be little work to accomplish a similar end.
Unrelated, we need a Tom "That's so good!" GIF.
Proof you can rarely (if ever) please the masses, or some just have streaming issues.
Oh how privileged we are, cheers.