Pinkbike

Another week, another website in a blog-ish format that I like to visit. The semester rolls on. This week we have Pinkbike.com Strange name, cool site. Pinkbike is the biggest and most relevant online community for mountain biking of all disciplines: Downhill Racing, Cross- Country, Dirt Jump/ Street, Freeride/Slopestyle, BMX. and lastly......Road . It's a great place to go for photos, videos and industry news; as well a great place for user submitted buy/sell ads and forums. Like a lot of online communities, Pinkbike forum's median age sometimes seems a little low to get any useful information, but the search function does wonders for questions about parts and reviews.

Two cool features that stick out on the homepage are the POD and VOD sections. (Photo and Video of the day). A lot of professional photogs submit a lot of pictures to the site, so the POD section is always a very high quality shot. The videos aren't quite as great, but the mountain biking industry hasn't really progressed as much as other sports in the realm of frequent and high-quality, user-submitted video edits. (possibly because filming mountain biking is extremely time-consuming and tiring.)

Today's POD

I couldn't upload today's VOD because Blogger can only process Youtube videos evidently. But it was video coverage of the Valparaiso Cerro Abajo, which is an urban downhill race that happens every February in Chile. Like we've come to love in rally racing, fans really enjoy getting as close to the action as possible, and this human really makes racing interesting. It is a very unique race in a very unique and culturally rich location, so a quality video from it is always a treat. Check it out.

Online community covered today: mountain biking.