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There’s Vital BMX, there’s Vital MX of course this site but seems to me there might be more advertising money available from the eBike market right now why not?
Personally, as a user I don't really see a benefit to visiting 2 different websites/threads to see the 3 comments underneath a seatpost lever article, probably from mostly the same users. I doubt advertisers would be particularly excited either (I have no idea how that business works to be honest).
We see some websites have made the split: https://enduro-mtb.com/en/ (they even discuss DH and trail bikes, what a disgrace!!!) and their sister site https://ebike-mtb.com/en/ which end up with a lot of duplicated or cross linked posts, they even incorporate a bunch of articles from their commuter focused site. No major problem, but they have absolutely no community. The Vital contributor community is small enough as it is, splitting it further would not add much value.
Would some of these smaller companies jump on? Maybe... Would the companies that use Amazon as their main selling platform jump on? Probably not.
Vital could take on more overhead without much return.. Unless they go beyond just emtbs...
I finally took the plunge and bought one. Its fun. It feels like...mountain biking. It doesn't feel like some brand new sport, at least to me. There are a few things E-Bikes do that normal bikes don't. There are a few annoying parts about e-bikes. But overall...its bike riding.
Vital doesn't have "VitalMTB - Chairlift Edition" or "VitalMTB - DH Bike with Shuttle Rig Edition", so why make a site just for those with a little motor that makes getting to the top a bit faster/easier? We clearly don't object to other forms of free-rides to the top...
I'll hold my thoughts to e-biking relative to other 2 wheeled fun having for a review...but yeah, I'd say Vital already has a content scarcity problem. Why add to it by splitting up the site?
i literally get 1 or more "want a free e-bike for your youtube vlog?" emails from off-shore brands every day. 20" fat e-folding-commuter kind of things. explosions aside, way less hazardous to test than riding through a rock garden down a mountain.
and this headline from BRAIN
(i can see this thread becoming quite fun).
This is great for the yougoobers - they can sell the free review ebikes as additional income to supplement ad revenue, sticker sales, and day jobs.
As for Jason's idea, sign me up!
I could not find a single review on youtube with those wheels or graphics
Edit: Ahh cheers finanegans!
Enjoy.
today's email "test our ebike" gems - the first one is because they were impressed by a the jordi cortes inside line clips video about "best suspension platform" whic makes sense since they have a kashima-coated dual crown on the front. the 2nd bike is b/c they were impressed by a one lap w/ strobel from port angeles on our "youtube vlog".
Easily the most eloquent statement about the shitty way to rape trails with battery powered mopeds.
They're toys. Maybe they're fun toys. But they aren't bicycles.
And all the bitches with eebs are too ashamed to ride their eebs on the moto trails so they overpower cyclists on the bicycle trails.
E-bikes have also brought an insanely huge number of douche bags into the woods that were never there before.
It's gotten so full of azz hats.
vital bmx was sold off by vital media network a little over a year ago
edit: found the thread on it:
https://www.vitalmtb.com/forums/The-Hub,2/VitalBMX-sold-vitalMTB-sold-w…
hey spomer, just checked it out of curiosity. still appears they are using the vital bmx branding. popcorn.gif
agree with all this, but i do want to add something - there are DEFINITELY companies selling "ebikes" which are in fact mopeds (eg more than pedal assist). look like an ebike, but i have seen on at least 3 or 4 occasions people accelerating uphill without any pedaling input.
The sheer ignorance, arrogance and jealousy in this post is amazing. The eGenie is out of the bottle. Maybe you should consider that public trails aren’t your private trails. FYI, Class 1 ebikes are not moped but you know that. I’m sure you also know that a eBike has no more impact on trails than a non eBike inflicts on the trail. So you really just come off as being dumb when you suggest otherwise. Finally, the real reason you don’t like eBikes is you don’t like opening up the sport to people who enjoy it on a bike that can provide more fun to ride and more access for fear that it diminishes your solitude. Maybe you should just stay home and flog yourself in private and leave the trails to people who are having fun?
eBikes are here to stay. Period.
Sorry guy, but you are just dumb. I go to Ride Kanuga where e-bikes are legal and rentable 1-2 times a week. They pass fit people 2-3 times a ride and me 4 times per ride.
So explain the hover magic theory you can use to explain away 3-4 times as much riding in a single afternoon of riding.
Oh..and the really obese folks on eebs, they can get in 2-3 times as many laps as me and pass fit riders. Quit making up garbage.
They're tugging buddies up every lap, and I've seen them pull the same person 10 laps. So now that's 4 tires, 2 people and a total of 20 laps from 2 riders. You want what you want...and you just want to try to justify it. I watch them lap after lap being able to spin roost when they go across uphill water bars that fit cyclists are not able to.
Just because you pop a viagra, it doesn't mean you get to stick your erection in whatever hole you feel like. You have to do it legally. Same with eebs. They're illegal in Pisgah and Dupont where I live. That's all that matters. If you're the kind of dude that straps on some electric viagra to a set of mountain bike wheels and forks...it doesn't give you permission to stick your eeb-rection in the forest without permission.
Bye fallacy.
So basically you have no facts to back you up just your clearly unbiased opinion…
dude GFY. You’re exactly the type clown that makes mtb activism such a joke.
So, you’re whining about use & erosion in a bike park which allows e-bikes & actively hires them out too, as a revenue stream? 🤦♂️
Thankfully I live somewhere where guns arn’t legal & ebikes are. That way I can ride my electric ‘toy’ (as you put it) as well as my non electric toy, depending on whichever way my mood takes me.
I’ll make much more of an effort to be butthurt when an ebike overtakes me on a climb & get more laps in than me too. I’ll make sure to do the same about anyone catching lifts in resorts. Those lazy, good for nothing park rats. Unless they ride to a trailhead, they don’t even know they were born.
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