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January 29, 2011
Haha. Crackup time. 150buck tote vs $14.95 @ LL Bean. Spend $18 & get a zipper too :-))) Love that Air Jordan clip. How many wannabes haven't you seen show up with a set of 404's and actually thought it would make a difference; just to get dropped by a 60 year old guy on an 80's steel bike with a 7-speed cassette...
- Andy, Sweden
January 26, 2011
It's funny to see how easily suckered you people are, not to mention how comically self righteous. The tote bag thing was obviously a joke.
- Sam, Broomfield, CO
January 25, 2011
I feel compelled to take back everything positive I said concerning your company in the "comments" I included with the online order I just placed (but stand by the specific comments directed at your inside rep). Are you SERIOUSLY giving space and attention to a one-hundred-and-forty-five-fucking-dollar-canvas-tote-bag? God, what a stupid, wasteful piece of bird shit. What's next? Suggesting that we ought consider one of the bejeweled mobiles featured here: http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/feature-worlds-most-expensive-cell-phones
OK: you sell expensive kit - and you've flogged some pretty stupid stuff. But this is the first time I've felt like taking my business elsewhere in protest against the disconnect evident b/w your self-aggrandizing "PRO" blogging/marketing/BS and many Americans who, independent of their financial situations during the worst economy in forever, think it would be an act of sheer idiocy to drop $145 on a canvas bag. God, what pretentiousness and elitism. Stick to selling bike gear and waxing philosophic about the greatness of Tafi.
- Joe, Pittsburgh, PA
January 24, 2011
The Velonews issue is BANANAS. Most of the copy was directly from the manufacturers. Velonews should be ashamed.
- Eric, Washington, DC
January 20, 2011
we're still in a f**king recession and this guy is buying $145 CANVAS tote bags 'made in the usa" by some kid making minimum wage? i found the SAME bag for .99 here: http://cheaptotes.com/canvas_tote_bag_8.html #elite #aristocrat #hautemonde #asshole
- rockefeller, hamptons, st. barts, canary islands
January 20, 2011
If you buy that tote you have " more money than sense" as Grandma would say
My wife brings home free book bags from the elementary school she works at...... free, they look similar. Thats altogether saltier and more achievable. How F'N bourgeois !
- slim, pickens
January 19, 2011
"a stellar collaboration with..." I took my wallet out of the house and parked my MINI's tire on top of it before I read the rest of that sentence, fearing CC collaborated with Rapha. // Speaking of luxe bags, I use a fleet of LL Bean boat bags to tote my stuff around. Have for over a decade. // VeloNews was one of the first cycling-related twitter accounts i'm aware of that thought it was cool to spam ads in their timeline. Just saying. // Someone get Garm*n on the phone: they ripped off the wrong team's design...They could have to a lot more differentiation from Helicopter-POV if they would have stole from the Gatorade kit.
- Matthew, PRoB
January 19, 2011
Million $ tote-bags, goofy looking CFRP non-handmade frames, and upchuck-inducing "branded content" vids: pfffffttttt...who cares. Now, Big Mig rocking the full fingered gloves on a real bike with real wheels and the pitiable suffering of The Professor...that's worth the price of admission. When thinking of Fignon I will always dwell on the possibilities: Just how much more wonderful could racing in the '80s have been had he not succumbed to tendonitis and if his rival Lemond had not been Dick Chaney-ed whilst duck hunting. Imagine, a half-decade's worth of Tours like the one in '89. Ah well, reality...
- PawleeWalnutz, NYC
January 19, 2011
I'm glad you publushed the pictures of the defective Specilized. No I have to motivation to let you know about the defect in my BMC SLC01 I purchased 4 years ago from you.
I asked for a good price on a used frame and instead you sent me a new frame. But it is clearly a "second". Why do you ask? Because the Swiss cross on the top tube is off center by at least 1 mm. Maybe 2mm. It bugs me every time I look at it. And I also use it to allign my saddle and the saddle now points off to the left a little. Can you send me a new Impec to make up for this glaring defect and cover my emotional pain and suffering? I ride a 55 and will start checking the front porch everyday for the big brown box that is surely on its wy. Do you think you'll ship it out today or tomorrow?
- Rob, Charlotte,NC
January 18, 2011
"Pro-consumer ravings of a congressman"??? Did you even read the article and the web links regarding Riddell's concocted safety claims? How do you equate bringing attention to a false safety claim with a "doomsday scenario"?
You should make your slogan, "Competitive Cyclist - we put $$$ before public safety"
It's hilarious that you mock Velonews' journalistic integrity for falling for BMC's marketing BS and choose to ignore the NY Times' quality investigative journalism of some seriously false claims in the very same rant!
- Charles, New York
January 18, 2011
Wow. While I occasionally love the ACL blog, I can't believe anyone bought that tote bag. The price-tag is ridiculous, and you can get nearly the exact same thing -- look, quality, made in the U.S.A., etc -- for a fraction of the price, as other commentors have noted, from L.L. Bean.
- Brian, Cambridge
January 18, 2011
The New York Times had a long series on the long term effect of multiple concussions,
imagine your kids getting something that looks like Alzheimer's in their late 40s. A high price for an athletic scholarship.
- Scott, Cincinnati
January 17, 2011
Lest we forget, Fiat had that slogan before even BMC. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WaglhAA0nY
- Uri, Easthampton
January 17, 2011
ACL! I think that is awesome that you guys look at that blog.....and support it! It is one of my favorites.
- Robbie, Oklahoma City
January 17, 2011
The ACL + Dandux bag is pretty ridiculous - even by ACL standards.(which is saying something about people who believe you can "curate" a stocking cap) . In other news the concussion industry has a potential field day coming in the next few years until people learn the helmets do almost nothing to stop a concussion. I think it will effect all of Bells brands - look for big price hits on anything with the name Easton (esp. the Hockey side of Easton) and Riddell.
- mathhew, Brooklyn
January 17, 2011
gladwell, new yorker as bob posted.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/10/19/091019fa_fact_gladwell?currentPage=all
- rusty, austin
January 17, 2011
The Canyon countdown continues, post 1/14 settlement. But who is on the chopping block? I'd guess BMC based on the item above, but Bianchi by the number of gallery postings. Canyon sales would crush 21, I'll bet, in their first year.
- Dobbin, Horse Country
January 17, 2011
Thank you for the Spike Lee clip. God, sometimes you forget how powerful good advertising can be. I know for a fact that did not, and could not, jump higher, but I still owned those self-same Jordans.
- Clifford, Minnesota
January 17, 2011
$145 for a tote bag that has no useful difference from the $4 one at the grocery store? I guess being superior has it's price, and that price is $141 plus shipping.
At least there is a tangible difference between my bike and one that costs 1/30th the price.
- Brian, Denver
January 17, 2011
+1 about Velonews. All their reviews of bikes within the issue sound like they were written by marketing departments the world over. For shame, for shame.
- Jordan, Denver, CO
January 17, 2011
Riddell and Company = SELFISHNESS....all too easy to justify....especially when the NYT gives you the space to gush about how complete it makes you. Pure selfishness.
- K., Utah
January 17, 2011
i love u guys but i find it a little funny that you razz the specialized video right after you pump your capo-callabo.
- bill clinton, little rock
January 17, 2011
Get your canvas tote from LL Bean at a fraction of the price...
- TTT, Boulder, CO
January 17, 2011
Malcolm Gladwell had a great story in The New Yorker back in the fall of 2009 about the dangers of head injuries in football. If you read that or saw the similar story on HBO's Real Sports, you might might have a different opinion of the senator.
Then again the safest thing football could probably do is go back to leather helmets.
- Bob, Los Angeles
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