lighter means a material that cant be welded back when cracked which means its useless! thats a wonderful design idea and should be paid big for. how about pick up some weights and do things called squats and build these things called muscles. people who take weight as a factor are just plain lazy. end of story. type till your fingers bleed there is no excuse for a BICYCLE being $5000. A simple steel frame is still the best choice. cracks, it can be welded back stronger! Funny how the pioneers of this sport started on "crappy" bikes like these. like i said on another comment this article just goes to show how we've all become pussies and rely on 10 inches of travel and body armor to save our asses instead of raw skill.

who else is getting tired of tree pans like at :23 at the beginning of every video? its like watching paint dry.

Its not that i dont like it. It doesn't fit with the video. Im an architect student minoring in film and the soundtrack doesn't fit a guy in a santa suit. The bouncy tune of Jingle Bells would had been a more funny song to fit with this.

also im gonna correct what i originally said. so maybe bikes like trek shouldnt be as cheap as a walmart bike but they shouldnt be more than $1500. when the price of a bicycle is more than a dirtbike witch comes with a far stronger and bigger suspension, a much stronger frame and a freakin motor; somethings priced wrong!

yeah i know i'm not supporting Walmart or the quality of their bikes but they have a good sense of business and sales. i have yet to go to Walmart and not see someone in line with a bike. but i have been to a bike store and seen people laugh at the price tags and walk out.

Not true! the cheap $170 bikes from department stores are mass produced by the thousands. someone had to design and build them as well and get paid. The reason they still make money off a cheap price is because they mass produce them at a low price selling thousands of more bikes each year then trek does in probably 5 years. Trust me thats basic business and thats why Walmart has boomed across the globe. selling more at a cheaper price gains more profit then selling less at higher cost. if for one day and one day only trek would sell a session 88 DH for $300 I guarantee bike stores would sell out in minutes forcing them to order more from trek. Plus cheaper prices would bring more and more people to buying bikes and getting into this sport causing mass profits from other sources such as events and races. the more popular the sport of MTB or any type biking becomes we might see it more on espn on tv instead of having to check up on websites. who knows pinkbike could become its own tv station.

I had to stop watching. the song just plain didn't fit. it ruined the entire joke. what does mainstream techno got to do with santa????