New Epic thread deleted by?

[Scary Rider]

6 hours ago, El Duderino said:

It's disappointing when you make your best comment ever on Bike Hub and then the thread gets removed. And now I can't even go back and admire my handiwork. Sad face.

Egg - zact-lee. Me thought we were discussing not so expensive bakkies riding off road...🤔😉

[gemmerbal]

13 minutes ago, Scary Rider said:

Egg - zact-lee. Me thought we were discussing not so expensive bakkies riding off road...🤔😉

🙊

[Mattman]

8 hours ago, SwissVan said:

How long before this thread is locked?

@Matt please don’t let BH became like other social media platforms that just cancel people/ posts because it “violates their community guidelines” (read: they don’t agree with your opinion) - I appreciate that this isn’t the case on the post deletion here since the reasons you note for removing the post make sense…I have however been actively involved in threads that have disappeared with no explanation, which only had posts which were innocuous. In my view, BH is only made cooler by the ability to converse openly 🙏🏻

[DieselnDust]

13 minutes ago, Mattman said:

@Matt please don’t let BH became like other social media platforms that just cancel people/ posts because it “violates their community guidelines” (read: they don’t agree with your opinion) - I appreciate that this isn’t the case on the post deletion here since the reasons you note for removing the post make sense…I have however been actively involved in threads that have disappeared with no explanation, which only had posts which were innocuous. In my view, BH is only made cooler by the ability to converse openly 🙏🏻

Imagine how I just feel…. First Spez I could fall in love with in like 25years 

like meeting the girl of your dreams and her husband takes her home .

Let’s hope the thread resurfaces on Friday hey boys 

[OVERDRIVE]

10 hours ago, Headshot said:

So that fun thread about the new Spesh Epic has disappeared. I know I'm slow out the blocks but did Spesh lean on BH management to get it ripped? 

Was wondering!

10 hours ago, Matt said:

Since you asked, it was deleted by me. 😉

Yes, they called and asked politely since the material leaked is confidential. We felt it was a reasonable request.

The fact that the bike is coming and images/videos of it are not exactly a secret, but this specific info has not been made available anywhere publicly as yet. 

New Specialized Epic 2024 leaked in a SRAM video (brujulabike.com)

New Specialized Epic leaked | off-road.cc

Spotted: A New XC Race Bike from Specialized... 2023 Epic? - Bikerumor

 🤣

10 hours ago, Headshot said:

Okay, so you were leaned on, bike mafia style 🙂 

9 hours ago, lechatnoir said:

 

if pics aren't meant for posting, don't let them get taken... has celebrity gossip not taught us anything?

Horse def shifting gears in the backround...LOL

[PregoRoll]

17 hours ago, Headshot said:

You trying to get a permanent ban or something?😂

[NickGM]

18 hours ago, Jewbacca said:

hahahaha

'Nothing sinister, this is the reason'.......

'Oh but it IS sinister!' 

The internet truly loves a good, technicality nay say 

 

Fine, make light of all of it with your jokes, but how do you explain this:

[Furbz]

39 minutes ago, NickGM said:

Fine, make light of all of it with your jokes, but how do you explain this:

my word - back when Mavic was actually cool!

[Nick]

11 hours ago, Mattman said:

@Matt please don’t let BH became like other social media platforms that just cancel people/ posts because it “violates their community guidelines” (read: they don’t agree with your opinion) - I appreciate that this isn’t the case on the post deletion here since the reasons you note for removing the post make sense…I have however been actively involved in threads that have disappeared with no explanation, which only had posts which were innocuous. In my view, BH is only made cooler by the ability to converse openly 🙏🏻

We're always going to moderate the forums to our community guidelines. This means posts will disappear and often without explanation. Excluding spam and scams, there are very few comments being removed. It's civil around these parts nowadays.

The open platforms are horrible places that leverage intolerance, falsehoods, and abuse to drive outrage and engagement, while veiling it as free speech. Bike Hub is a bicycle hobbyist forum, not the town square.

[Robbie Stewart]

Is just me that thinks that bike is fugly?

[DieselnDust]

38 minutes ago, Robbie Stewart said:

Is just me that thinks that bike is fugly?

Yes , sorry it's just you 

[Robbie Stewart]

9 minutes ago, DieselnDust said:

Yes , sorry it's just you 

I am firmly in the camp of hating on this new trend of trying to hide the suspension. I like the tech look of seeing the inner machinations of what makes a MTB tick. Trying to hide it is trying to turn a MTB into a road bike, i.e. something it's not.

Sies man.

[DieselnDust]

2 minutes ago, Robbie Stewart said:

I am firmly in the camp of hating on this new trend of trying to hide the suspension. I like the tech look of seeing the inner machinations of what makes a MTB tick. Trying to hide it is trying to turn a MTB into a road bike, i.e. something it's not.

Sies man.

I hear you, witness the mechanical beauty doing its thing. Its one reason i love the Revel Ranger. Wish I could afford one and keep its as my one bike to rule them all.

Sadly I still have a competitive heart so these spindly lean mean machines just have an appeal that harks back to Cindy Crawford in the 90's

[Simon123]

13 hours ago, DieselnDust said:

Imagine how I just feel…. First Spez I could fall in love with in like 25years 

like meeting the girl of your dreams and her husband takes her home .

Let’s hope the thread resurfaces on Friday hey boys 

doesn't mean you cant still bang her. 😛

[Shebeen]

34 minutes ago, Robbie Stewart said:

I am firmly in the camp of hating on this new trend of trying to hide the suspension. I like the tech look of seeing the inner machinations of what makes a MTB tick. Trying to hide it is trying to turn a MTB into a road bike, i.e. something it's not.

Sies man.

It's just a temporary sleeve for the prototype/testing - to hide "spy shots" (which have since now emerged anyway)

exactly the same thing happened with the Trek supercaliber, people went batty when they saw this

only for those to be revealed on launch

 

 

(nothing like a Honda RN01 gearbox!)

[dasilvarsa]

All Competing 2 Get 2 Water Bottles in the Front Triangle.