Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Maybe you could trump the last post on the way out?
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Maybe you could trump the last post on the way out?
winjim
Straddle the line, discord and rhyme
I'm not sure I have that much control of my embouchure.
mudsticks
Obviously an Aubergine
Trouble is, when you quote a post.. The spoilers unspoil themselves
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've been on forums like that.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!
But not, like yourself, for very long..
Do people genuinely have such narrowly tracked minds ??
Not to mention the control freakery.
Ah well its nice to know there's a 'home' for everyone
Vapin' Joe
Formerly known as Smokin Joe
- Location
- Bare headed cyclist, Smoker
Was the OP issuing a cryptic flounce, perhaps?
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
This forum is about reuse and recycle 😒
vickster
Squire
You could always start your own forum with your own rules, see who joins up
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I prefer to think of them being part of me!
(Which they ARE forever, in the form of internal 'scar' tissue.)
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
I just went back and checked... Oops!Ah you're right it was 2014 (Spring into the Dales)! You actually were very welcoming and good company.
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
- Location
- East coast, up a bit.
No, and I have never had the wish to find such a forum.
IanSmithCSE
Guru
- Location
- Worcester, Worcestershire
Good afternoon,
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
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
biggs682
Itching to get back on my bike's
- Location
- Northamptonshire
That's a brutal one at the best of timesbest not click on the LFGSS site then
Rusty Nails
We remember
- Location
- Living in the slow lane
Disappointed with this thread.
42 posts in and no one has asked for the best brand of tyres.
42 posts in and no one has asked for the best brand of tyres.
Ming the Merciless
There is no mercy
- Location
- Inside my skull
Spoilet
DiddlyDodds
Random Resident
- Location
- Littleborough
I remember it was a howling Gail trying to get back over from Keighley to HebdenAh you're right it was 2014 (Spring into the Dales)! You actually were very welcoming and good company.
ebikeerwidnes
Guru
- Location
- Z’ha’dum
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
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
