Trole team. Troll video. also, why industries? do they make stuff?

cool, thanks for the response. Your review is well written and I don't disagree with it. Also, I respect that you are a tech nerd and it is apparent that you put a lot of effort into the review. My point about the sticker is that it represents affiliation with the brand, not that it is hard to come by or that the sticker itself would change your opinion. I am not say the sticker proves a bias; affiliation does not necessitate bias, but it could suggest it. As I said in my original comment I was mostly asking what others thought about your review. I do feel like I was unclear, I was trying to say that I DO trust you, but that I feel like articles like this could (if written by someone with less integrity than yourself) be very biased. I am also assuming that some bias is necessary, such as "sram products do not have a large discrepancy from one to another, therefore the product I reviewed will be similar to the any that can be purchased". After some thought my one request would be that in the description of the picture you have the source, i.e. is it from pinkbike staff or SRAM. Thanks so much, -Paul

Damn, a SRAM product review from someone who has a custom SRAM XO nametag sticker on their bike. Next week: Sam Hill tells Pinkbike whether or not the Demo is a good bike for DH racing! ok, I'm making a hyperbole, the article seems to be unbiased and does cover some of the 'issues' with the reverb. I also know that it is damn near impossible to find someone in the bike industry that won't have any bias or brand name disposition. However, as much as I would like to trust Mike's reviews, it would be nice if most of the pictures were not from SRAM and if Mike wasn't on a full XO equipped Trek. BTW this is not directed as an insult to Mike, just a general comment on Pinkbike's journalistic practices. Does anyone else feel like this is a problem, or do you have a solution? I was thinking publish it as "product promotion" rather than "tested". Just because you rode it for a year doesn't mean you don't have incentive to promote it. Also, did anyone notice Pinkbike is running Reverb adds on the homepage right now? yikes.

Hey, I cam across you Sambar drift project on the Japanese Mini Truck Forum. Are you still working on it? do you have any videos of it? it's really cool!

no, my dad's computer crashed right when we got home from the trip, he just was able to use an extraction software to get the photo's a couple days ago, I don't think he's had a chance to edit the ones of us yet

Super cool!

http://www.pinkbike.com/video/193010/ and http://www.pinkbike.com/video/193110/