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[Closed] Rock Shox Vivid shock 2014

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The new shock from RS is pro rider only available. A cunning ploy to make it super desirable?
http://reviews.mtbr.com/2014-rockshox-vivid-rear-shocks-available-only-for-pro-riders


 
Posted : 11/03/2013 7:25 pm
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Either that, or it's too hard to tune or too maintenance intensive to allow joe public to ruin.


 
Posted : 11/03/2013 7:42 pm
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Surely can't be any worse than fox servicing!


 
Posted : 11/03/2013 7:50 pm
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It's marketing, Sherry. Quite smart marketing, too.


 
Posted : 12/03/2013 2:51 pm
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If you're Pro you'll have a suspension deal so will either not pay or pay cost for your shocks anyway.

As for the tech in the new shocks, I can't see that they've done anything ground breaking.


 
Posted : 12/03/2013 2:57 pm
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It's marketing, Sherry. Quite [s]smart[/s] hand-shandy marketing, too.

FYP


 
Posted : 12/03/2013 3:00 pm
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😆


 
Posted : 12/03/2013 3:07 pm
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They've just put up on FB that 'it's just too good to keep just for the pros'

😐 The Marketing people at rs need some lessons in strategies 🙄


 
Posted : 12/03/2013 8:16 pm
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The masses will bite, don't you worry about that.


 
Posted : 12/03/2013 8:26 pm
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Not so sure, the comments on recent RS posts seem less than favourable.

Still they'll be fitted oe on loads of frames so rs will shift the numbers regardless


 
Posted : 12/03/2013 8:41 pm
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[url= http://m.bikemag.com/news/news-of-the-tweet-97-percent-of-the-internet-is-as-dumb-as-a-hammer/ ]Seb Kemp does a Charlie Brooker on SRAM marketing and the internet's "dumb-as-a-hammer" hero's[/url]

Made me smile 8)


 
Posted : 14/03/2013 7:34 am
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Haha, didn't get stw in a flurry, an although better class of keyboard warriors obviously 😉


 
Posted : 14/03/2013 8:41 am
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Well, you can't fit a vivid on rigid singlespeed? Beard hairs get stuck in the coil.


 
Posted : 14/03/2013 10:08 am
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the comments on the pb article about this are less than favourable. To say the least 😉


 
Posted : 14/03/2013 10:40 am
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You're all bitter because you don't have the skills to deserve such a fantastic product. It's obviously fantastic because it's only available to Pros. I'm seriously wanting to get one of these because it may turn my skills up a level and add in a careful tune up for my slight weight, I can become a pro and finally get out of this terrible office job.


 
Posted : 14/03/2013 10:55 am

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