Episode 5 - Can You Trust Bike Reviews?

The Pinkbike Podcast

Pinkbike

Sports, News

4.8 • 718 Ratings

🗓️ 29 April 2020

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Can you trust bike reviews? The short answer: Yes. But also no. It depends. We look at the different types of reviews out there, talk about how we like to do our reviews, and some of their shortcomings. And we can't do any of that without getting into biases (we've all got 'em), embargos (review tomorrow!), and some tips on making sense of it all.

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0:00.0	Hello world and welcome to episode five of the Pink Bike podcast and we have a big one today. Can you
0:11.9	trust bike reviews? With me today, I have Brian Park. He's my boss. Brian, how's it going? It's going
0:18.4	well. How are you? Mike Casimir. My other boss, how's it going? Good. Great.. How are you? Mike Casimir, my other boss. How's it going?
0:22.0	Good. Great.
0:23.1	Good. And I'm Mike Levy, your host for this episode.
0:26.6	Guys, I want to start this thing off with the question.
0:30.3	What dumb purchases have you made during the lockdown?
0:37.8	Kaz will blow my cover if I don't say it off the top, but lockdown must be getting
0:43.1	to me.
0:43.4	I'm considering buying a hardtail, like the actual dumbest purchase of all.
0:48.0	What for?
0:48.7	What are you going to do with that?
0:50.8	It's a good question.
0:51.7	I got some new brakes and I didn't need new brakes and I was like,
0:56.2	what bikes should I put this on? And yeah, I don't know. I spiraled. Yeah, you have a full
1:02.9	suspension bike. So I suspect that hardtail is a waste of money. But who knows? I have a
1:07.0	suspension bike and I have a gravel bike. So you already have a hard deal.
1:11.7	Yeah, you have a hard down. I don't need, but yeah, I definitely spiral down to like 3 a.m.
1:16.5	Like, why doesn't anybody make the thing that I'm looking for?
1:20.1	scrolling through weird Eastern European like one-off makers.
1:23.9	There's probably a good reason for that.
1:25.2	You know that, right?
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