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Of these 4 categories you list, how many of them are long-time riders who
wanted the changes? How many of them are newbies who might never ride the
bike? Whose view counts where changes are concerned? Is it more important to
"grow the sport" than it is to inquire of existing participants what they'd
like to see changed?
If a change sells more items, moves more units, pushes more product -- then
was that change unquestionably a good one, and one that everyone will look
back on, ten years hence, and say "now that was a real bit of progress"?
Or will people just salivate after "change" and construe "change" as "upgrade"
because they are little more than crows with eyes on shiny objects, people
with materialist/consumerist libidos that must be satiated or else there's
gonna be a gooey mess in someone's pants?
April 22, 2015, 10:03 a.m. - tibor96
#!markdown Of these 4 categories you list, how many of them are long-time riders who wanted the changes? How many of them are newbies who might never ride the bike? Whose view counts where changes are concerned? Is it more important to "grow the sport" than it is to inquire of existing participants what they'd like to see changed? If a change sells more items, moves more units, pushes more product -- then was that change unquestionably a good one, and one that everyone will look back on, ten years hence, and say "now that was a real bit of progress"? Or will people just salivate after "change" and construe "change" as "upgrade" because they are little more than crows with eyes on shiny objects, people with materialist/consumerist libidos that must be satiated or else there's gonna be a gooey mess in someone's pants?