Feb. 20, 2017, 11:08 a.m. -  Pete Roggeman

#!markdown Pretentious. Right. More or less pretentious than commenting on a reviewer's use of a creative adjective? Would you rather we just use the same tired words and have reviews that sound like everyone else's? What did you think of the rest of the review? Never mind, you're trolling. Carry on to someone else's bridge, they'll poop out language you'll find easier to digest, I'm sure. "We put the (bike brand) (model) through its paces…" - every second bike review ever written. Do a search for any bike - this bike even, open the links, and count how many reviewers used "put it through its paces". I'll bet the number is higher than two. "This (component, technology, idea) is a game changer!" - one out of three articles written in 2016. That expression was ruined years ago by people who lack imagination or creativity. The creativity that leads to expressions like Chunder Pig. I want a #chunderpig sticker. I think I'll get some made. You can have one for free, MJ. "just bicycles". Well, yeah, depending on who you ask. On an enthusiast's site, this is far from it. This is a Porsche. Not just a 911, but a GT3. Shall we just use boring language, then? "This is just a bicycle that costs $10,000 and employs the pinnacle of MTB technology, but we're going to avoid interesting language to describe it because certain readers would rather that we resort to exhausted clichés and words that google could assemble on its own. In a time when small minds howl at the 'elites' and their words, we're going to boil our bike reviews down to grunts instead. One grunt = buy this thing. Two grunts = do not buy." Unggghhhh