Filed under: bike
I stumbled upon thebroadbandracer.com today. Really high quality video on cycling. Seems to be all road racing, but still cool. Check it out.
Also, Crooked Cog is now podcasting. What makes no sense is that Crooked Cog is Mountain Bike focused, but the entire first podcast is an interview with the manager of Masi Bikes, an obscure road bike manufacturer recently revived by Haro. It was a good show, but didn’t make much sense so far as the Crooked Cog “brand.” Oh and the end with a fake kid was lame. If I was the Masi guy, I would have been embarrassed that that followed me.
Lastly the thing that bothered me the most was the seemingly 5-minute Jenson USA commercial at the beginning. It began 5 seconds in, without warning, and went on forever. I actually stopped listening to the podcast, and was going to trash it, but just the sheer morbid curiosity I had to see just how long they’d have the guts to stretch out that pitch. OMG, I almost turned it off again. They could use a little disclosure. And before we get started, let’s have a word from our sponsor X, and then on with the show! If I hadn’t already decided I was never going to buy something from Jenson because of all the blatent pitches at Crooked Cog (do one of you work for Jenson?) this podcast seals it. I have nothing against commercialism, or trying to make a buck off your site or podcast, but this is overkill. And I say that as the target demographic.
