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winjim

Smash the cistern
Maybe you could trump the last post on the way out?
I'm not sure I have that much control of my embouchure.
 

mudsticks

Obviously an Aubergine
That has intrigued me because (sorry!) I don't remember riding with you... Have you changed your forum name? It could just be my awful memory letting me down though. I have ridden with probably 200+ CC members over the years and forget who many of them were. I could name maybe half of them if I took my time and wrote a list but it usually takes me 2 or 3 rides before I start to remember names and faces.

It definitely would NOT have been in 2012 because...

The clots that almost killed me were not until the summer/autumn of 2012 and I wasn't able to do a forum ride again until 2014!

Trouble is, when you quote a post.. The spoilers unspoil themselves:rolleyes:

Well I'm not surprised it was on your mind.

Just like if you've had a baby, you're obsessed with that etc..

Momentous life events, can do that to a person..


I joined one and I lasted about a month! It was a programming forum and they were ridiculously anal about staying On Topic.

I got a moderator's WARNING! for going Off Topic for the cycling equivalent of mentioning 12-speed chains in a discussion about 11-speed.

I then got a FINAL WARNING!! for the cycling equivalent of then mentioning SRAM 11-speed chains when the subject was Shimano 11-speed chains...

At which point I gave myself a lifetime ban! :laugh:
I've been on forums like that.

But not, like yourself, for very long..

Do people genuinely have such narrowly tracked minds ?? :wacko:

Not to mention the control freakery.
Ah well its nice to know there's a 'home' for everyone :smile:
 

vickster

Legendary Member
I might have missed something, but I've done a number of searches trying to find a forum that's just about cycling. Any aspect of cycling will do, so long as it's about cycling.
The Cycling UK forum comes closest, but even that's got a lot of non cycling stuff.
Has anyone come across such a thing?
You could always start your own forum with your own rules, see who joins up :okay:
 

ColinJ

Puzzle game procrastinator!
Ah you're right it was 2014 (Spring into the Dales)! You actually were very welcoming and good company. :okay:
I just went back and checked... Oops!

Definitely my dodgy memory, then. I looked at Skud's photos and can remember one or two of them being taken but the ride as a whole is a distant blur, and that includes many of the people on it!

It is a nuisance when trying to remember good things like that ride, but a blessing for bad things such as my illness. For a couple of years the memories of the trauma were very raw and immediate, but they have now faded and that is a GOOD thing!

PS I have just checked something... My accidental attempt to clot myself to death came about 10 years after accidentally nearly gassing myself to death with carbon monoxide fumes from a faulty gas fire installation! Apparently severe CO poisoning can cause long-term memory loss, so I have a good excuse for forgetting names, faces, and places... (It was a severe case - the fumes rendered me unconscious for several hours, so I was lucky to survive.)
 
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snorri

Legendary Member
I might have missed something, but I've done a number of searches trying to find a forum that's just about cycling. Any aspect of cycling will do, so long as it's about cycling.
The Cycling UK forum comes closest, but even that's got a lot of non cycling stuff.
Has anyone come across such a thing?
No, and I have never had the wish to find such a forum.:smile:
 
Good afternoon,

I might have missed something, but I've done a number of searches trying to find a forum that's just about cycling. Any aspect of cycling will do, so long as it's about cycling.
The Cycling UK forum comes closest, but even that's got a lot of non cycling stuff.
Has anyone come across such a thing?

https://www.webwiz.co.uk/web-wiz-forums/forum-hosting.htm can get you up and going for around £6 per month if you do want to run your own, cheaply, just to try it our

The forum software works and is well established but it is fairly basic and the people who created have moved on to specialise in web hosting rather than develop the forum software further but it is a way to get going.

Be warned, its hard :-) A long time ago The Motley Fool had a forum section on their site, they closed it down and a few prolific users got together and to create their own forum. It is still going but it never became a goto place for many that used to go the Fool forum or for new users.

Unless you plan to add content yourself you are reliant on other people providing it and what's the point of them in doing that if there are no members to read it. One bit of content that I expect would get you many members would be to scrape ebay etc and automatically pick out interesting buys, interesting the the 531 brigade, the broken bike for spares brigade, the .... but something unique and difficult to do.

Bye

Ian
 
WOW - just been trying to catch up with this thread

seems to have gone off topic a bit


suits me fine - I only came here because
a) it is about bikes and I try to ride most days (OK OK OK - it's an ebike - so shoot me - I'm still pushing pedals)

and

mostly


b) the politics and trump and brexit stuff
when my normal forum banned all politics and I got threatened with being turned into a frog (no - seriously - one of the mods is a proper real witch - I am serious!!!! - OK modern witch - spells MAY not be that bad and she may not be serious but - I've met her - red head - seriously don't mess)


so it was a great thing to find a forum with real people who are not nutters (errrrrrrrrr) and it allows discussion of 'other stuff')

The correct use of gears and gear ratios has its place - but it does tend to wear after a bit - as do gears
and the number of people asking what bike they should get when the answer is always - go to several LBS's - and avoid Halfrauds can tend to get tedious after the first few dozen
 
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