After tackling broader questions like “which bike and ski brands are the current holders of their respective ‘Cool Kids Belts’” in Part One of Bikes vs. Skis, 2023 last week, we’re diving into the head-to-head comparisons: which bike company is most comparable to Rossignol skis? Who is the ski equivalent of Guerrilla Gravity? And many, many more.
And we’ll be back with a third installment next week, so let us know what your best comparisons are, what we got wrong, and/or if there’s a specific company you want us to touch on.
TOPICS & TIMES:
- Santa Cruz (2:18)
- Road bikes as XC skis or frontside carvers (5:22)
- Santa Cruz, cont’d (11:24)
- Specialized (17:00)
- Major brands as innovators (20:41)
- Rossignol (25:18)
- Transition (27:33)
- Which brands have the best marketing? (29:52)
- ON3P (35:57)
- Yeti (38:32)
- K2 (51:06)
- Guerrilla Gravity (56:52)
- Atomic (1:03:38)
- YT (1:11:17)
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