OK – well against the urgings of my wife who assures me that there are more important things for me to attend to, I have just spent two days reading the entire 79 pages of this thread……I know, my wife was as usual 100% correct, but anyway!!!
What I find interesting about the whole thing is that it’s a great study in modern social networking and how anyone can get their message out there if they are willing to put the time in.
After doing a little research the strategy is pretty simple. You take two crazy kids who have each had their share of problems, and give them purpose through their discovery of a new way of approaching their personal nutrition. Life change + new found purpose + relationship creates a nice little triad that is pretty powerful.
The issue gets somewhat complicated in that the purpose requires the message to be put out there and this is where Harley and Freelee show an above average level of industriousness. Anyone can start a simple website, but there is a lot of energy required to spend what must hours and hours cruising a multitude of forums making comments designed to get people to go to either their website, or one of their youtube video’s. Just like fishing, if you throw enough lines in you are going to get bites. If you throw in an unprecedented number of lines and are willing to spend half your time making youtube pronouncements you are going to develop a following – most likely made up in equal parts with the lost, the vulnerable, the curious and the people who think you are an idiot and just want to gain more ammunition.
Anyway, like most people that have something to say, Harley makes some positive points, but in the context of the cycling news forum, is there really anything else to say? I don’t want to see anymore pictures of durianrider or Freelee (sorry guys but those puppies are fake and that does not speak of wellness and inner peace to me). If you want to make a pronouncement that there are more half naked pics of her on your website or youtube then that’s ok, but I am sick of em being in my face as it were.
My wife is a nutritionist, with a masters in clinical epidemiology and is working through her phd looking at diet and disease at a global level. I love talking to her re cycling nutrition and hope that a discussion can continue on this forum and I hope durianrider remains part of this. But geez I hope that we stop feeding his platform for self promotion and start seeing the strategy for what it is. Durianrider should be welcome as a passionate cycling enthusiast, but I don’t think it does him or us any favours for this thread to continue the way it has been - at least thats what I think!!!
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