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I hope cable tourism is the new "looks like a session"

Zink's already made a mega salty IG post AND a classless comment on Tom's own post :D He's a freeride legend but also a narcissist who can't cope with ageing. Bro really thought he was going to be the best freerider on Earth forever and no progession was happening in the sport.

@nickfranko: I did check both and my comment doesn't say I only found coils on DH bikes.

@bat-fastard: The Scarab is such a cool looking bike!

I just checked on CRC and the only Nukeproof bike on sale today with a coil shock is the aluminium Dissent, you know... a DH bike. I checked Vitus as well to be sure and found no coil shocks. Assuming CRC have no say in what other brands do (or that there isn't a single, omnipotent "industry CEO" somewhere out there), this comment isn't relevant to this bike at all? But I thought to myself, "OK, these guys can't be talking out their arses, there must be a rear shock conspiracy" so I checked some other very popular brands. I gave up after 5 websites with, respectively: no coil shocks, no coil shocks, coils only on DH bikes, coils only on DH and FR bikes, coils on 165mm+ and air on shorter travel. I swear pinkbikers will say anything to complain these days :D

So many non-answers it's hilarious, but the WTB guy takes the cake. He didn't actually answer a single question, but at least we know his life story. The Schwalbe rep stands out in a good way.

@p1nkbike: I wasn't thinking about a specific bike, but how about a fluid or optic or rift zone or stumpjumper or izzo... probably many I forget. Especially the fluid seems like great value in comparison and has normal cable routing.

@excavator666: Lol. So you think if they just wanted to tick a box, they wouldn't choose to pay a tenth of her salary to some ex-pro female mountain biker? Make sure an adult controls how you spend money. They wanted one actual TV presenter on the team, as TV networks tend to do, and she happens to work for them. Obviously she has zero connection to the discipline but that's true about most TV sports commentators in the world. We'll see how she does. I mean you will see, 'cause I'm not paying for Discovery+ or GCN. Plus, the broadcast covers both men's and women's races so I'm not sure what's so strange about having one woman in addition to 3 men on the commentating team tbh.

@Fortuneteller: "So you wouldn’t pay for a ticket to see the races live at the venue?" Where did I say that? Some people in this conversation either fail to grasp or purposefully ignore that a lot of us make conscious choices about what has value for us and what doesn't. I've never paid to watch a mountain bike race in my life, live or on TV, but who knows - maybe watching live will one day be valuable enough to me to pay and get advertised to. Or maybe not. TV coverage? No chance. At least the venue tickets partially cover the venue's cost to UCI/Discovery, so you're not just paying to get marketed to. You're paying for a place for racers to race at. I'm not getting ridiculous. You need to make up your mind and figure out what your own point is. In one post you say that redbull TV wasn't free "beacuse advertising" and in the next you say Discovery needs to be paywalled "because no advertising". In reality, neither broadcast has 3rd party ads, but both include branding/sponsorship/product placement. Or to make it easier for you, redbullTV is just as "ad-free" for the viewer as Discovery+ by what seems to be your definition of "ads".

@Fortuneteller: "Never seen an advertisement in the last three years watching sports on Eurosport Player/Discovery+" Are you joking or did you miss all those logos plastered literally everywhere on everything in every sport known to man? "Red Bull TV wasn’t “free”. It was a big marketing gig for them. You paid for the coverage. Just not directly." No, we did not. You're contradicting yourself. In every company on earth marketing is treated as a cost of generating revenue, not as revenue itself. Redbull spent money to market to us or "buy" our views. We were the product, not the ones paying. The coverage was absolutely, by any definition, free to the viewer.