Stupid review

Sometimes when you're walking past an ATV shop and wondering if it's time to replace the ailing ATV that you have sitting at home, you can't help but wonder what other professionals are saying about the ATV that you're salivating over. So what do you do? You walk over to the magazine store and grab the latest magazine and scan the pages to see if you can find a review on the ATV that you just saw. If they don't have an ATV review on that, you go home, log onto the Internet and start scouring the World Wide Web for a review on the ATV.

It's common but let's just sit here and wonder a bit....how much of the review should we believe in?

Well, if you left it up to me, I'd say about 40%. The reason is very simple. Don't think for a minute there that I think the reviewers are writing nonsense and that we can't trust them. We can. In fact, these are people who deal with ATVs day in and day out, so, they should have privileged information PLUS knowledge on how best to review an ATV. But BECAUSE they deal with ATVs every day of their working life, their review of an ATV might be skewed by their boredom of seeing yet another INNOVATIVE and STYLISH ATV.

In all honesty, I've spent some time reviewing ATVs as well and I've gotten to a point whereby I sit there flipping past photos of one ATV after another without noticing the slightest bit of difference! Suddenly, they all look, sound, perform the same.

When reading a review, the first thing that you should remember is that the ATV review was written by a man....well, a person. And that person has his or her own personality and preferences. He could be a bulky man with the built of Hulk Hogan whilst you're a young woman looking for something chic and sleek. What you're looking for in an ATV is completely different from what this reviewer is looking for. So, the perspective might not be the same. The ATV reviewer might like huge monster machines while you're looking for an ATV you can lug around plants in the yard.

Remember, different ATVs are designed for a different group of riders. So, the first thing you should look for in the review is what KIND of ATV you're reading about. Use your common sense to judge whatever the reviewer has to say about the machine; and the best thing you can do for yourself is to go over and test run the said ATV after reading the ATV review before handing over your credit card. The review might have been influenced by the opinion of others hanging around him, so, he or she may not have had the chance to form his own opinion yet. So, what you're reading is a skewed version of the review writer's original opinion.

Gee, I hope I am making sense here.

In conclusion, what I say is that if you want to know if an ATV is right for you or not, read a review and then give the ATV a test run before you buy it.

Autor: Tony Mikael

Tony Mikael is an ATV enthusiast enthusiastically promoting ATV riding as a sport and family activity! When he's not off on one of his impromptu ATV expeditions, he runs one of the hottest and fastest-growing ATV sites right now... http://www.atv4kids.com

Added: December 26, 2007
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