Fair enough, but think about how silly the opposite situation would be.
Suppose you wrote a review that said something like 'this frame is amazing, it's the secret sauce behind the downhill prowess of the whole bike. I recognize that all bikes are fairly adaptable, but this one seems especially so.' But then you tried the bike with a fork that was different from the stock fork -- and while you were at it, you swapped out the stock tires and seatpost -- and lo, now it sucked derriere.
Would you write a re-do? The new parts completely changed your experience with the bike and disproved a conclusion of your original review, right? But I feel mortally certain the answer is that you would not. Nor should you. It would look like a contrived effort to bash the bike, and we'd all wonder what was really going on.
Aug. 10, 2017, 6:51 a.m. - OldManBike
Fair enough, but think about how silly the opposite situation would be. Suppose you wrote a review that said something like 'this frame is amazing, it's the secret sauce behind the downhill prowess of the whole bike. I recognize that all bikes are fairly adaptable, but this one seems especially so.' But then you tried the bike with a fork that was different from the stock fork -- and while you were at it, you swapped out the stock tires and seatpost -- and lo, now it sucked derriere. Would you write a re-do? The new parts completely changed your experience with the bike and disproved a conclusion of your original review, right? But I feel mortally certain the answer is that you would not. Nor should you. It would look like a contrived effort to bash the bike, and we'd all wonder what was really going on.