"..all media is social media". Yes, to an extent, but an nsmb review of a brake or whatever and a comment you or I make about an experience with said brake are very different than an influencer who is directly paid to promote said brake. Huge distinction.
Edit: I mostly agree with the rest though. Except that it's not as expensive to get into as people like to think. Most places a (mostly) working used bike can be bought for far less than 1k usd. It might be old and clapped out with terrible geo and not work that well, but it's still enough to get a new rider hooked on mtb. I mean a lot of us here started on marginally functional bikes with terrible geo that broke all too easily (exempt that weren't old, they were new and top end but it was the late 90s) and we still fell in love with mtb.
Jan. 12, 2023, 12:10 p.m. - kcy4130
"..all media is social media". Yes, to an extent, but an nsmb review of a brake or whatever and a comment you or I make about an experience with said brake are very different than an influencer who is directly paid to promote said brake. Huge distinction. Edit: I mostly agree with the rest though. Except that it's not as expensive to get into as people like to think. Most places a (mostly) working used bike can be bought for far less than 1k usd. It might be old and clapped out with terrible geo and not work that well, but it's still enough to get a new rider hooked on mtb. I mean a lot of us here started on marginally functional bikes with terrible geo that broke all too easily (exempt that weren't old, they were new and top end but it was the late 90s) and we still fell in love with mtb.