|   this year's covrage sucks!!!! | evil4bc
Oct 24, 2003 2:57 PM | | I have been checking out the interbike covrage from this year and it sucks , nothing went up live , some of the booths that have been labeled "new" are from last year . The other sites on the net, pinkbike, Hcor and trancend all have better quaility pic's up and alot faster that MTBR , what happened to my favorite mtb site? If you guys needed help you should post it on the board, I was there all week with my GL2 and didnt even try to take photo's cus I thought you guys had it covered. |
| re: this year's covrage sucks!!!! | stiingya
Oct 24, 2003 9:43 PM | | Sucks is a bit strong, but I am totally feeling the point he is making. Pinkbike's coverage has been ten times better, but they pretty much ignore 80% of the bikes at the show cause there not freeride bikes. Singletrack.com has been really good too, but there a Euro site and there perspective is not sinking with alot of my Yankee ideals.
There was alot of coverage and pics of gloves, socks, components and of singlespeeders, and independant or small builders, and lots of bikes that the average rider can't afford. But where is the coverage of the bread and butter everyday rides the bulk of us mountain bikers are actually going to be looking to buy in 04? I don't know how the virtual trade show booth works? But where is spec, giant, fisher, jamis, cannondale, trek, K2, and all of the other major bike brands? don't get me wrong I am glad there was photo's of the Jerico art bike. But it's not cool to have one cannondale pic, one gt, one(4 actually) fisher, one marin, and ten Kona's and 27 pics of the new VP cruz??? How about some balance? How about considering the market share compared to the amount of pictures a bike manufacturer gets? Cause I'm not thinking one trek and five Yeti's is a fair representation of the kind of bike sales Yeti get's to Trek...( true market share shouldn't govern coverage, but there was a point there somewhere)
Anyway as someone who is looking to buy in 04 I have been very frustrated at the interbike coverage this year, It would have been great if I had 4 grand to spend, or if I was looking for a full on huking droping down hill machine, or even if I wanted a singlespeeder or tandem. But like the bulk of established cross country/trail riding mountain bikers that will buy a new ride in 04 I am looking for a longer travel trail bike with some kind of SPV. Um perhaps you guys at mtbr.com have heard of this concept? cause I had previously thought that was gonna be all the rage for the 04 mountain bike sales year. But obviously I am mistaken and the comming trend is to buy bike that actually LOOKS like a raked out motorcycle cruiser, or a bike that makes ice cream and margarita's... :)
PS http://www.gords.com/ has alot of great pics from the canadian equivelent bike show, just keep in mind that the spec probably wont be the same as the US bikes... |
| re: this year's covrage sucks!!!! | JakeT
Oct 27, 2003 6:13 PM | | virtual booths are just ADs, with the companys "sales pitch", and since 2 of them were not even there this year but still had virtual booths !!! its easy to see there just paid for ADs.
(But where is spec, giant, fisher, jamis, cannondale, trek, K2, and all of the other major bike brands? )
they didnt buy the "AD" space labled as virtual booths and sold to mtbr reads as coverage. |
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