Ellsworth Epiphany Enduro 27.5″ Mountain Bike Now Available

Quite like the bikes. Everybody is going to fall over the fact that their suspension is still pretty much the same as it was. But than again Foes, Ventana and a bunch of others have had the same suspension platform for years too. My only gripe would be that it should have have more travel.

Reformed –

Something tells me it’s dudes from the UK, with either very odd taste or nostalgia for 2002. Same goes for Orange mtn bikes, ew.

pretty impressive that you can spend $7500 and NOT get a carbon frame.

Since when is a carbon frame the paragon of quality and value? It’s not.

@ BR – if you are going to delete comments which use no foul language but show a negative opinion/joke on a company/bike, then you should just disable all comments in all your articles.

this is the last comment i will leave on your website.

Tyler, I’ve read nearly every post on BR in the past four years. I really like the site and the ability to comment but I disagree with what you’re doing by censoring comments based on opinion.

What benefits readers is being able to get an accurate representation of how people feel about a product. Filtering comments to align threads with the writer’s personal opinion is blatant journalistic bias and is not ethical reporting. That is a very amateur, hack move and should not occur on such a good site.

If everyone is upset about something relating to a product, let people express that. That is the point of comment sections – to get public input on a topic. Negative comments can still be constructive. Even if they’re not constructive they still represent someone’s opinion. If you want the comments to express the writer’s opinion, get rid of the comment section all together and build longer articles expressing the opinion more thoroughly.

Tyler, I really like this site and appreciate the work the team does. In regards to the topic of censoring posts, I am strongly against censorship for many of the same reasons that Joshua posted, with the exception of offensive language or subject matter.

What I really wish you guys could do however, is somewhere along the borders of the site keep visible a link to those articles which have generated significant comments in order to easily facilitate the continuation of comments/dialogue. It is tough for people to scroll back page after page looking for the article to continue commenting and most don’t do it after a day.

Keep up the good work.

The intended purpose of commentary is to facilitate dialogue. That is no longer the actual purpose of the comment section on BR (or any of the industry blogs, except possibly BRAIN, and theirs isn’t anonymous). The problem with anonymous commentary is it presents well-considered, educated, and informed opinions in the same light as the vomit that spews forth from the talk holes of the trolls. If I cared enough, I’d go back through these pages to find the few posts under which there was an honest exchange of useful information, but since I can only recall it happening a couple times, and since I can also remember the meta-comments on how well we were behaving, I’d say it doesn’t happen often. Turn off the comments, or make us accountable.

oh look. a mountain bike with slightly bigger wheels. nice progression. i didn’t see that coming.

I’m more or less with Tyler. I like this site and the information it provides. The one thing I don’t like about the site is some of the commenters, who make nasty comments about each others’ nationalities or opinions on frikkin’ bike parts. The name-calling is obnoxious and makes me not want to post and makes finding the good comments an unpleasant process.
That said- if someone’s comment says that a product is too expensive, then I say leave it.
Also- Yahoo (which dinosaurs read (past and present tenses)) has a useful “Comment Hidden Due to Low Rating” feature, which lets you see ugly comments or just plain true but unpopular opinions if you wish.

Criticism is never constructive. Criticism tares down and destroies. After the destruction you can then rebuild. If you are going to criticise and tare down it would be A responsible person that would do so with caution and careful consideration for all.

Things that are of no use or not of a positive nature, do need to be criticized/destroid/changed. Some things in the bike industry could afford to be changed.

Let commentators write their mind. Using some of the tools mentioned above ( by Tim, Tyler B., ABW, Mr. P and, Joshua Murdock) could help us all filter the info/feedback given. It can be for the better.

Last thing to other commenters. Please don’t be sensitive in product discussion. What you buy or own should not be a reflection of yourself. It’s really a sad state when we get people with hurt feelings over product criticism.

Take a step back and question it, “am I worshiping brands?” “Do I put too much weight on what others think about an inanimate item?” “Do I stand to gain from defending brands?”

Product criticism drives progress.

@Rico- there’s a difference between the kind of hard criticism, including sarcasm and insults, which does have content (“This is a commuter bike which costs 3000 dollars and has plastic pedals and mechanical disc brakes for God’s sake- I hope they go out of business!”), and just plain insults. (“Who would buy this crap?”) I’d like to see the first kind of comment stay, including the insults; what I’d like to see evaporate is the comments that are JUST negative.
Some products suck and deserved to be panned- let’s let everyone say WHY they suck.