Oppo contributed to the sale of my budget electric dirt bike

"AC2 - The Now 15 Year Old Jalop" (ac-2-shoes)
08/03/2018 at 13:00 • Filed to: None

A few weeks ago, I posted an ad for my the electric mini dirt bike I rebuilt for a fraction of the price (I’m kinda like a mini Tavarish) on Facebook Marketplace, the highly disputed best cheap car buying place in the U.S. It sold almost immediately, and I think it was because of the tag line I placed in the ad that said “featured on Jalopnik’s Opposite Lock” in honor of my OppositeBlog nominated post about it:

!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!

In other news, the AC2Mobile II (My bigger, better, free successor) was running fine, until the chain snapped on me downhill and almost make me go splat onto a Dodge Super Bee Charger. I ordered a new chain, which is going to come in a week. How great.

DISCUSSION (8)

XJDano > AC2 - The Now 15 Year Old Jalop
08/03/2018 at 13:11

It’s actually a Kinja blog, not Jalopnik.

HammerheadFistpunch > AC2 - The Now 15 Year Old Jalop
08/03/2018 at 13:12

An important distinction. It is NOT “Jalopnik’s Oppositelock”. W e are t otally unaffiliated with Jalopnik, m ainly for stuff like this . For important legal reasons please do not reference that oppo is affiliated with Jalopnik.

Glad you sold your bike though.

LOREM IPSUM > HammerheadFistpunch
08/03/2018 at 13:25

What’s the story behind the split anyway? I just remember the url changed one day and we no longer showed up in their sidebar. Never really knew specifically why, but presumed the GMG vs HH scenario was behind it.

jimz > LOREM IPSUM
08/03/2018 at 13:27

the site address used to be “oppositelock.jal****k.com” until IIRC someone on Oppo managed to weasel press credentials claiming he was from Jal****k. so that association was cut, and (also IIRC) at the same time Jal****k stopped sharing any content from Oppo to their page.

HammerheadFistpunch > LOREM IPSUM
08/03/2018 at 13:28

for stuff exactly like this. People were using the Jalopnik name to get press passes/cars/etc. misrepresenting GMG.

LOREM IPSUM > HammerheadFistpunch
08/03/2018 at 13:30

I see. Quite u nderstandable then. Unfortunate perhaps, but understandable.

XJDano > jimz
08/03/2018 at 13:32

There also was a thing around that time where other sub blog authors were crying plagiarism by sharing to main pages, and not getting paid and all that. Where here, a few of the oppos got hired and was like the Busch and Truck series for the NASCAR Cup.

AC2 - The Now 15 Year Old Jalop > HammerheadFistpunch
08/03/2018 at 15:01

Thanks for the explanation. Kind of stinks that we lost that connection with the main page because of some idiots using the Jalopnik name