I'm of two minds on this subject TBH - on the one hand, it doesn't do our hobby any good to be presented like this
by an aspiring business... on the other...
For good or ill it's a personal choice to ride like that, and I'm thinking some folks here have been coming down a bit hard on nidyanazo - for the wrong reasons. How he chooses to ride is between him, the cops & his medical coverage, whereas I think the only real issue is his choice to use such footage to present motorized bicycles for sale, as a business.
As a dealer, you're essentially an ambassador representing our sport so I fully understand and agree that any video shot should conform to local laws and traffic regulations... such an "extreme" riding style would be perfectly acceptable were it simply on trails instead of in traffic.
Yet
reprimanding someone for just the way they ride... where does it end? Who doesn't act the fool from time to time? There are those that would think just bolting on an engine and doing thirty on a
bicycle is sheer madness - but what of all those that pull the baffles out of their mufflers and scream up and down the street in a residential section? All those whom lost their license & now drink and ride some cobbled Huffy? How about ALL those states where our bikes
aren't legal - too much horsepower, too fast, too large a displacement, etc. - those are all violations too *shrug*
Burnouts, drag racing vids, wheelies - all this stuff is far more popular than quietly putting to the park to look at the ducks and it
sells, which is what I think nidyanazo was trying to do, be it right or wrong. Make the same vid offroad & use that to promote the performance and I bet there'd be no problems...
well... 'cept the environmentalists ofc
All I'm tryin' to say is there's a difference between constructive feedback and flaming, that it's often a very fine line between criticism and hypocrisy.
