BIKE INDUSTRY MILKED THE GOOSE

Over the past few years the bike companies have milked the golden goose to death, selling NZ$10K - $15k bikes to clueless numpties by convincing them cycling is all about having a flash bike. But it never really was, and that lie is slowly taking them down.

 Despite clearance sales of up to 30% off, high end bikes are still sitting unsold on shop floors for upwards of NZ$10k, but who on earth is spending that much on a bike in a recession?

Specialized Turbo Levo SL Expert 2025

 

Last year big companies like Trek and Giant announced massive production cut backs, along with half price sales, but they still just couldn't move all the unsold bikes.

Part of the reason for this, that is seldom mentioned, is that in the real world, if the ride was say up to the top of a 500m hill, and then back down again, a hardtail XC bike would only be about 1 min slower than a big flash freeride rig coming down, but would easily be 15 mins faster going up, so would be 14 mins faster overall in an actual ride.

"You’ll be blown away by it’s unmatched combination of flawless handling, capability, and “2 X You” amplification that gives you the Power to Ride More Trails. Compare it to anything out there, with a motor or without"

OK...well it's not quite cheaper, but this example makes the bike prices look pretty stupid - A 2025 Yamaha YZ250 retails for NZ$14,899 - and a motorcross bike has thousands more parts than an MTB, and weighs around 100kg, so costs vastly more to manufacture. 

 

 In terms of development the latest $12k mountain bikes are basically only at the point MX bikes were at 30 years ago, but without a motor.

 

 

GREAT SITES THAT LOOK A BIT CRAP

 There seems to be an unwritten rule that if you have a huge website with masses of amazing "conspiracy" content going right back to the 90's, you have to leave the site looking like it did in 1998 and never update it's appearance or organise it properly. Here are some classic examples of must see sites that look like something the cat dragged in:

BIG LIES

 

WHALE

 

MILES MATHIS

 

EDUCATE YOURSELF

 

 

 ANCIENT CELTIC NEW ZEALAND

 NUKE LIES

 

THE MORE I LEARN THE LESS I KNOW

Reading some of my old blog posts, five years ago I seemed to know all sorts of things that I'm not so certain of now. While I did make quite a few accurate predictions back then, I probably wouldn't have anticipated that I'd end up knowing less in the future than I did then.

And watching some podcasts lately I've come to the conclusion that the longer they drag on for, the less worthwhile stuff is actually said. Podcasts used to typically be about 15 to 45 minutes long which is plenty long enough. But now, some of them are going on for several hours. If someone can't say their piece in under an hour they are wasting everyone's time.

Like a bunch of fat whales queuing up at McDonald's for a big feed of shit, most of what we are getting served online is not doing us any good. It's time for a better diet!

 

Here is a 26 minute podcast/audio where Amazing Polly totally nails it:

https://www.bitchute.com/video/El273OzH8zXf/

 Although I later came to the realisation that "Amazing Polly" was a shill, when I watched this podcast I thought it was great to see someone online expressing this poibt - what she says here is something I often feel myself, and I get the feeling she was for real in this one, because I recognize the tone of her voice!

Although personally I don't trust Jim Carrey an inch, and I think "The Truman Show" was the illuminati doing one of their reveals (she doesn't mention that part).

Another one of my wild speculations is that Jim Carrey was playing a CGI version of Joe Biden

RANDOM IMAGES #42

 

BACK IN THE OLD DAYS I USED PAWN TAGS

 This www.sift.co.nz blog is an update of my old Blogger blog that I started in 2007 and stopped updating in 2015. The original blog is still online here. 

This blog looks pretty much identical, as it is essentially a copy of the original, only missing two features - a picture of "HOT RETRO BIKER CHICK" (I have no idea where that picture originally came from), and a massive list of search tagwords.

 

In the eight years that I never posted anything there, it still got over 50,000 hits. Why was that? I can only think it was because of all those tag words in the footer. They were popular searches of their time, with lots of misspellings of Britteny Speers and other celebs who were engaged in scandals around 2007, but the tags all look pretty deranged now.

 

I would have done a post with a copy of the list here, just in case they are still a hit magnet, but I tried that and the post was immediately blocked. It seems Goosle has much more stringent AI censorship now. If you would like to view the original list it can be seen HERE on my WordPress blog, or it still remains there uncensored in the footer of my original Blogger blog.