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@L0rdTom: to some degree, yes that’s exactly what I’m saying. It’s like they said on the pod today. Sure it’s great that Ferrari puts out a million dollar car w space age technology. But it’s not particularly impressive. At least not to me.

@bykeco: I hear you. My wording was clunky. Maybe a better way to say it is there’s nothing “impressively innovative” about super expensive things/bikes. Throwing features at something cause you have unlimited budget may be innovative, but isn’t particularly hard.

@mikelevy: That's part of what I mean - when you just throw money at something, of course the screen (for example) can be nicer. A screen on an iPhone is better then a screen on a Garmin cause it costs over twice as much (and there's economies of scale). I don't see that necessarily as innovation. I'm in industrial design and believe me its not hard to innovate features when you can spend virtually whatever you want.

Yeti skimped on the spec to get there.

"I can hear the comments section exploding again, but you do have to appreciate all the innovations Specialized has packaged into the S-Works Kenevo SL." Actually Matt, no I don't. There is nothing innovative about a $15k bicycle.

This bike is perfect for Robin "I mountain biked once" Thurston

And the pricing for Outside + is batshit crazy. It’s the same old story - “look how much we’re investing!” And when it comes time to balance the books the cuts will start. Make no mistake.

Yep exactly

Listening to this guy speak was like the noise Jim Carrey screamed in Dumb and Dumber. Nothing embodies what's wrong with our current capitalist system like a "serial entrepreneur". "I made a million dollars off this, a billion dollars off this, another million here, another million there, all on the backs of the people that worked for me. Did I know what I was doing? OF COURSE NOT. I was just about making as much as I could and then getting out." What an awful person.