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How many times does Specialized need to change its story before it's reasonable for me to lose trust?
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Hmm. The broken section and rider number are conveniently cut out of the belkin picture.
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But to say that Specialized is covering up anything is a reflection on 'you' creating spin and not Specialized...even if Specialized initial response was wrong. There is no way to prove it was any sort of cover up. If you believe so, prove it. Otherwise you are talking out your @$$.
They followed that up by saying that Roche's bike was the broken one, not Contador's. Again, bad information or more lies.
Later the story changed to Contador's bike being "run over". More bad information and/or lies. Granted, this one is actually reasonable. I can see how "being hit on the roof rack" could have changed to "run over" in a game of telephone.
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Sounds like no bike that he was riding was broken (neither causing his crash nor a result of it).
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So, which one of you detectives are
going to change your forum name to Columbo ...
going to change your forum name to Columbo ...
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Yep, that sounds a lot like it.
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Specialized is covering up Contador is riding a re-badged steel bike
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What an ugly world some of you live in. It's all lies. Trust no one. Give 'em one chance to get it right. Big corp. can't be trusted. Blah, blah, blah. As I said before, ain't no one gonna get the best of you.
Do you really think the only concern of the folks tending to Contador and his bikes was to tell you what was going on? Get a life.
Do you really think the only concern of the folks tending to Contador and his bikes was to tell you what was going on? Get a life.
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Sagan is my favorite. Anybody see him ride no handed while popping a wheelie up hill over the finish line after that unbelievable stage?
Tour de France rider Peter Sagan pops a wheelie across finish line | For The Win
Tour de France rider Peter Sagan pops a wheelie across finish line | For The Win
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What an ugly world some of you live in. It's all lies. Trust no one. Give 'em one chance to get it right. Big corp. can't be trusted. Blah, blah, blah. As I said before, ain't no one gonna get the best of you.
Do you really think the only concern of the folks tending to Contador and his bikes was to tell you what was going on? Get a life.
Do you really think the only concern of the folks tending to Contador and his bikes was to tell you what was going on? Get a life.
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I submit you never had any trust to begin with and therefore none to lose.
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How come all the people stirring up trouble here ride steel bikes?
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Cause carbon assplodes.
duh.
duh.
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"Then Specialized (not people on the internet) came out with conflicting explanations, each statement given as a fact"
You saw someone from Specialized make conflicting explanations? Where did you see them? Who were they? Did each of these people state what they were saying was fact, and what the prior Specialized spokesperson was wrong?
Or have you just repeated what you read online?
You saw someone from Specialized make conflicting explanations? Where did you see them? Who were they? Did each of these people state what they were saying was fact, and what the prior Specialized spokesperson was wrong?
Or have you just repeated what you read online?
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Well, looks like this is one for the Mythbusters to work on, no way to determine what happened by examining video or historical accounts. They'll have to use the experimental approach, and ride CF bikes around on abandoned runways until they assplode. Which will happen sooner or later with those two guys on the job!
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Wow there are a lot of dumb dumbs on this site.
The only thing I fault Specialized for is not waiting for all the details to come in before responding to the questions/concerns from media and public. But then again, in today's "need information yesterday" world if Specialized were to state that they were going to wait for all the details, the trolls would have hammered them even harder.
Note: I own and like Specialized bikes.
The only thing I fault Specialized for is not waiting for all the details to come in before responding to the questions/concerns from media and public. But then again, in today's "need information yesterday" world if Specialized were to state that they were going to wait for all the details, the trolls would have hammered them even harder.
Note: I own and like Specialized bikes.