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How many calories did I burn scrolling through this thread and chuckling?
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*Most sponsor contracts contain non-disparagement clauses, which means that riders (who are essentially paid representatives) can never say anything bad about the supplied equipment - not just during the sponsorship period, but ever. And here's the irony of sponsored professionals: Sponsors pay professionals to use their products because they want to associate their products with the performance of the professional (e.g. "The professionals are experts and they want to get the best performance, so if they use a particular product it must be best."). But if you look at it from another angle, you have to wonder: How good could a particular product be if you have to actually pay people to use it? Furthermore, paying a lot of high profile professionals to use a product costs a lot of money, which must be passed on to the customers, which may reduce the relative performance-to-price ratio of a sponsored product. |
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This is done in many sports. Pros don't ride the bikes they ride because they like them the best, they ride the bikes they ride because their job depends on it. It is a condition of their employment. It follows that anyone who buys such-and-such a bike because so-and-so team or rider uses them has believed a rather large lie. |
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Ritchey WCS Carbon or Carbon matrix....E Bay...From China....Real or Illegal knockoff
Can't delete
Last edited by Ralph; 06-11-2019 at 01:48 PM. Reason: Wrong place |
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more then switching from mech to electro
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So no Specialized then.
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Making this thread even funnier is the fact that somehow another thread, with a different topic, has managed to squeeze its way in. Good stuff.
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Now I finally know why riding a fixed gear in the mountains is so much easier!!
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What is this thread about, I was about to respond to the original post and now im lost
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