![]() ![]() ![]() Sometimes as the writer you will never find out who they are, or if they’ll ever contact you. There are others looking, reading, following in the background, in the shadows, for reasons only they know. Some have become lifelong friends because of our shared passion for motorcycles-people I know I may never have met if it weren’t for ADVrider and Ride Reports. Who is reading? In my case, having ridden in over 90 countries, I have had the chance to meet so many other inmates who have been readers that it astounds me. On his return, he struggled to find anywhere to share what had happened on that ride on the early 2000s Internet, and so he created Actually, it all started with Baldy taking a ride to Mexico and coming back with a story to tell, but nowhere to tell it. Baldy is crazy enough to want to share his motorcycle life with anyone willing to read about it and that’s how the ADVrider forum started. Some know what this means, some don’t!ĭoes this mean this random guy was member or inmate number one, or is he just a random person? No, this is Chris MacAskill. Look at the bottom of the screen, you’ll see it shows Baldy.1. It’ll go to his profile page, if you hover over his name. Have you ever clicked the”Inmates” button at the top of the ADVRider forum page? Try it type in “Baldy” and click on his name. ![]() Like he tells us below, a well-done Ride Report is worth the effort, and you never know who’s reading!-Ed. ![]() In rtwpaul’s case, he didn’t go racing himself, but he did go to what amounts to the Vatican of off-road motorcycle racing! And it all started and happened because of the forum here at ADVrider. The latest issue features the usual travel and adventure stories, but we’ve got a few racing-focused pieces as well. Gaining access to the purse strings of a massive corporation will be a big step towards realizing some of your bigger projects.Hey, readers: Volume 6 of the ADVrider printed journal is shipping out right now! If you aren’t already signed up to receive this year’s issues as a subscribed forum member, you can pay for this year’s Volume 7 and Volume 8 here. But it doesn’t come without it’s own costs. You now have consumers, shareholders, and a board of directors to keep happy, and shareholders don’t care about pinkbike, they care about dividends, and the board doesn’t care about pinkbike, they care about shareholders. I’m sure there are intricacies to managing a site like pinkbike that most of us will never understand, but, without attempting to sound too dramatic you’ve made the proverbial “deal with the devil.” That’s not taking a shot at outside by calling them the devil, purely metaphorical. I guess the point I’m trying to make is the growth that you refer to does come at a cost. You will unfortunately be subject to people from beyond the mtb sphere making decisions about a website that you (pinkbike staff as a group) have previously had a huge amount of control over. I wish you all nothing but the best and I hope this venture goes far better than most commenters are predicting.Ĭongratulations. I think a lot of the PB community are rightly worried, but I can see it both ways. I would really like to see assurances that PB content as it exists currently will remain the free version, and that any pay wall would only apply for new, additional content. In your article you mentioned training plans, health videos, books etc and that would be a brilliant addition that I would pay a subscription for as it offers new value that you and your competitors don't currently have. Singletrack, in my opinion, are a great example of what you should NOT do - the only content not behind a pay wall is of far reduced quality to what they did have, and the amount of adverts and pop ups makes the site horrible to use. PB is more than a website to many of us, it's a community, in a lot of ways it feels like a tribe or a family. The thought of that sense of togetherness disappearing behind a pay wall, or turning into the free version of Singletrack, feels like I'm being robbed of something which I feel I belong to, and therefore have shared ownership in, even if only emotionally. I hope decisions are made moving forwards which consider us, the readership, as I can see this being a make or break moment for PB and I don't think everyone will stick in it for the full journey. Other have posted this but it should probably also be up here in the top comment. "The Pinkbike acquisition adds considerable readership and revenue in the cycling space, and thus adds momentum to the company’s Outside+ membership program. Outside+, introduced this year, offers enthusiasts various bundles of content, services, discounts, and other offerings for a $99 annual fee. The membership revenues complement Outside’s revenues from advertising, creating a business model for publishing that CEO Robin Thurston said is more sustainable than traditional media models in the long term. ![]()
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