bcbikeman

Good on you for taking the time to share your positive experience - classy move on your part to follow up after the effort Rocky Mountain made to take care of the quality issue.

I used to be really excited to do a quick check-in with Pinkbike on a daily basis. Over the past couple of years, since Outside has purchased them, I find my interest waning more and more. That cookie message on the bottom right is becoming a real deterrent to me. I come to this site less frequently now, and with less enthusiasm. This site seems to prioritize it's own corporate and commercial interests, rather than appealing to the subscribers' love and passion for mountain biking.

@mikekazimer: How would you compare the Trek Slash to the Santa Cruz Nomad?

Knolly bikes have the cleanest welds in the business - the only other brand that comes close is Nicolai. The straight top tubes on the prototypes are a nice look. On a different note, those Lazer helmets look really good.

My heart goes out to athletes born biologically female who have dedicated their lives to a sport, to the point of being top 10 in several consecutive competitions or in the national ratings, only to have that taken away from them by someone who used to be a man who was not even relevent competively in the same sport against other men - either several hundred places behind the top rated males, or even in the thousands, but once they transgendered, were very quickly able to dominate the female category. I have read interviews of biological women who have lost their scholarships to universities in the US, since Biden introduced the new laws to include transgender athletes in female sports - this is a completely uneven playing field that has unfairly treated many aspiring femaile athletes. Why is such confusion and obfiscation being added to this conversation? The solution is very simple. Let's not pretend not to know that this is a completely different category - when you are born with an entirely different potential for strength and endurance, and require drugs to make a transition to a different gender, you will have either a distinct physical advantage or disadvantage, depending on which gender you started as. This is not a mean and insensitive comment, it is me diplomatically stating the reality, and expressing my heartfelt thoughts and emotions for female athletes who don't have a chance competing against transgender athletes.

Congratulations Wade! I wish you the great success, and I will support your business! You are the true Godfather of this sport, and there wouldn't even be a pinkbike or other forum to have these kinds of conversations if it wasn't for the pioneering moves you did to show us what is possible on a mountain bike.

She absolutely nails this sketchy line, and lets out a little giggle :-)

Wish you a speedy and full recovery. Thank you for sharing this crucial reminder.

Happy 40th Bearclaw - you are a legend! It is great that you were all together to pay tribute to Jordie.

The idea of being good stewards of our resources and our environment is practical. I don't agree with being wasteful. And I like the idea of being as efficient as possible with our tools and resources. When it comes to the climate change agenda (a.k.a. U.N. Agenda on Sunstainability), I don't buy the fear mongering arguments presented by the media and the government over the past several decades. Fear has always been used to manipulate the minds of the populace - look what is happening over the past 20-months. I am very skeptical of what the media and the government say about climate change (and pandemics), and I now consider Pinkbike to be a part of the mainstream media. I will try to enjoy the content related to bike reviews and video segments of some of the personalities we have come to love and appreciate, sharing their experiences on the trails. But I will not be susceptible to the bullshit agendas. Maybe we could have a conversation about brainwashing rather than greenwashing. I'm okay with down votes. I just appreciate the opportunity to share my opinion. Thank you.