Originally Posted by
philbob57
I had to go into your profile to see that your home page is kontactbike.com, a website that sells seats and books, including Finding the Perfect Bicycle Seat.
IMO, if you have an interest in a business connected with your posts, you owe it to your readers to mention that up front. I don't question your belief in your products, but you're not completely objective. I ask you to mention explicitly your connection with kontact in, say, a tagline, which gets it into every post. I know you need to mention it explicitly in anything you post about seats/saddles.
I think your connection with kontact blinds you to the benefits of the Cervelo document. I, too, think they should have explicitly mentioned the pubic rami, but even though they did not, they posed some questions that help buyers sift through marketing crap.
Bikeforums has policies that mean I'm not going to post a link to my business in my posts. The picture and name are more than enough.
Joshua Cohen sells his book on my website, but I don't profit from those sales - it is a service I provide to him and his readers for free - because it is a good book.
If I wasn't objective, my post would have attacked the validity of my competitors literature - ISM and SMP. But I pointed to a problem with Cervelo, because it is a problem and Cervelo has a long history of putting baloney on their website - I worked at a Cervelo dealer for several years and am VERY familiar with some of the foolish things they do.
So a Cervelo post based on "marketing crap" about ischial tuberosities doesn't help anyone sift through marketing crap - it just reinforces the marketing crap.