I’ve watched enough youtube at this point to understand that’s it’s very very difficult to make compelling non-sponsored content at the throughput that is necessary to make a living at it. I think it’s why most of the bike content on yt kinda sucks - your options seem to be daily ride vlog kinda shit or be doing sponsored content for the companies with actual ad budgets (i.e. not mom & pop places sewing funky bags). Even Dustin Klein mostly posts videos about his fuckin’ van now.
Only pure channel left on youtube is Glen and Friends (and actually he did some half-assed promo content on some meat dry-agers now that I think about it)
The number of times they repeat the “I definitely knew these were counterfeit ahead of time” sentiment makes it sound like they’re trying to convince themself.
based on that thread I don’t agree tldr:trash; it seems like the hardware although slightly different is probably fine and the machined parts are possibly blems from legit production
FWIW, I’ve met PLP people in person and rode bikes with them a bit. They came off as nothing short of two nice people that ride bikes in cool places. We’re all selling something these days.
I think the entrepreneurial spirit of the generation succeeding ours is pretty awesome. When job security and pensions went away, our generation doubled down and sacrificed even more for corporate. This generation is refusing to buy in and trying to make their own way. ATMO.
PLP is a perfectly nice guy and a hell of a rider. I personally can’t stand the generically-youtuber-style videos he makes, but people make 'em for a reason - apparently lots of people do, in fact, enjoy watching them.
at least when you rib him about his mega-clickbait video titles, nowadays he just owns it. He used to immediately get defensively huffy and go full bill clinton “it depends on how you define clickbait”.
