What's your first ever post on CC?

[theclaud]

My first post will be unrecoverable as it predates P&Lite's year zero, but I think I remember it well - "theclaud" is effectively the product of a rather angry intervention in an especially despicable thread of Patrick's entitled "Why the rape conviction rate is so low", which initially earned me the suspicion of being a sockpuppet, or (more flatteringly) a re-appearance of the disappeared Ravenbait. As far as making an entrance goes and effectively disrupting something unpleasant I think it was rather a good post, but its ferocity undoubtedly committed the character to a particular direction, and I occasionally wonder what would have happened differently had my first post contained a waving smiley and a vague apology for not knowing anything about cotter pins.

But I am enjoying this thread, despite not being able to find anything I have looked for. Usually the comparatively rubbish search facility of the newer software is a disadvantage, but this time it has sent me on a series of wanderings through old threads somewhat akin to going upstairs, having no idea what it was you'd gone to look for, and finding some forgotten books instead. So I found some hilarious skirmishes involving characters like Zimmers, Abitrary, Dom Tyler and Spindrift; some posts from Patrick about - wait for it - cycling; some incisive idiot-slaying by the likes of Canrider and domd1979; some early unnoticed hints that various members might be destined for DZ's legendary ignore list; User offering to slap Boris Johnson; a tour through the forum's five favourite cheeses, and the following little thing from a thread about The Best Thing That Happened Today - which I think is terribly sweet, but then I'm in a sentimental mood...

getting a text message from Mrs L. grabbing two umbrellas, putting one in the bag of the Brompton and the other over my head, and cycling down to the bus stop with brolly aloft, arriving just as she got off the bus.

 

[MontyVeda]

I've picked up some great advice today here... (spent the last 5 hours just reading!)

...as for the tent advice, I'm a tight fisted northerner and any tent that costs more than £50 is way over the odds.

How about the (currently named), Highlander Glen Orchy (they say 2 man it's a one man really), under 50 qwid, packs up to 45cm x 17cm (ish) wieght = not much, available at amazon, got one this summer and am happy with it (i'm 6'2"). Just be aware that the thicker your matress/mat, the less foot space yet get!

Quick to pitch and it opens at each side, so those hot summer mornings, instead of getting out of the tent at 6am coz the sun is too high, just open both sides a tad and a nice through draft you will have... tent bliss!

If money is tight or like me, you just begrudge spending loads of dosh on a couple of poles and some nylon and a few bits of string that you're going to use maybe twice a year for few nights, it's worth every penny.

BTW, Hello!

I should get out more.

 

[Baggy]

Evenin' all.....

Baggy and her floury baps here, reporting for duty

Am sure that must have related to a conversation that was happening on C+ before moving over here. I'm so classy

 

[slowmotion]

I tried to lend support to a fellow paedophile climate change sceptic on my very first post, I think. I was comprehensively pissed on and told I was "pig-ignorant". A right-royal kicking followed.
I just had to stay after that "welcome".

 

[summerdays]

As usual I have failed to work out how to find my first post ... if I look at postings by me ... it allows me to go back 15 pages which seems to take me to last year; if instead I use search using the newer than - it won't let me put a date earlier than 2008. I suspect it is probably best left in the past - just in case I find I haven't progressed on the bike since then .

 

[vernon]

As usual I have failed to work out how to find my first post ... if I look at postings by me ... it allows me to go back 15 pages which seems to take me to last year; if instead I use search using the newer than - it won't let me put a date earlier than 2008. I suspect it is probably best left in the past - just in case I find I haven't progressed on the bike since then .

If you clock on 'page fifteen' and go there you will see a link to older posts. Click on that and repeat the cycle (sic) until you get to the very earliest posting. It takes a while....

 

[summerdays]

If you clock on 'page fifteen' and go there you will see a link to older posts. Click on that and repeat the cycle (sic) until you get to the very earliest posting. It takes a while....

Thanks

 

[Night Train]

As usual I have failed to work out how to find my first post ... if I look at postings by me ... it allows me to go back 15 pages which seems to take me to last year; if instead I use search using the newer than - it won't let me put a date earlier than 2008. I suspect it is probably best left in the past - just in case I find I haven't progressed on the bike since then .

If you search your posts and go straight to page 15 you should see a link at the bottom for 'find older posts'. If you click on that it will take you to the next 15 pages, and so on.
It can take a while but I found that if I opened a second CC tab to search in I could go back a few pages at a time and then return to the current CC tab for a .

I should go back to find my first 'Arch is a girl!' moment but I don't think I posted about it, preferring to hide my ignorance.

 

[summerdays]

I can now reveal that my first post was: (drumroll)

The glass problem in Bristol I think has become worst since kerb-side recycling started. I was working in St George recently and going under the M32 where there was so much glass (by Ikea) on the road. I have since found out the recycling centre is just down the road hence why the road is covered in small slithers of glass which glitters in the sunshine. I have complained about glass before and Bristol City Council have done nothing about it. I'm glad I've got Marathon tyres.

23rd July 2007
I don't go that direction nowadays so I can't report whether there still is a problem but the recycling centre is still down there I think so probably.

And my third post:

That is how I started when I came back to cycling two years ago ... cycled only on the really really quiet roads, then pavements everywhere else, then gradually as my confidence improved started using bigger and bigger roads. The main mistake I made was that I should of read Cyclecraft much earlier, rather than 8 months after returning to cycle.
Why not help him to plan a route that is just near the edge of his cycling confidence on the road, to the shops or something that he can repeat and gradually gain some confidence on.

And I'm still in a thread talking about Cyclecraft so maybe not that much has changed.

 

[Archie_tect]

Mine was on Politics and Life, innocently asking why people were being so unpleasant to each other and was it always like that.... for which regulator took me to task for being so arrogant that a new member should come on here and try to tell people how to behave... I was stunned, but MacB explained it to me!

 

[subaqua]

My first post 20 Nov 2010

Hi,

new to this forum,well any cycling forum. after a 20ish year break am back in the saddle properly. used to be a bit of weekend riding in the last 20 years , but finally took the plunge in september and started commuting on the bike to work. suffice to say the 10year old 15 speed bike I had ( bought as a fad thing when i thought i should get a modern bike 10 years ago )didn't take too well to a hammering so when it creaked its last bought a Btwin rockrider 8.1 and haven't looked back. get out at the weekends now with the kids and am showing them a thing or 2

will try and join in as much as i can. used to be very active cyclist in my teenage years. bike 2 miles eah way to school, then 40-40 miles per night after school for fun, 100 milers at the weekend.

still getting my head round indexed gears and on the bars !! nothing like the old levers on the downtube and "feeling" for the gear, so if anybody does need some old school advice i might be able to help.

it has also helped me lose some of the excess poundage that 20 years of driving everywhere puts on you. well its helped shift 2 stone so have only got anoher 2 stone to go to ideal weight ( not that silly weight the BMI charts tel me i should be!!)​

 

[fossyant]

Not much has changed since this post

Yer not mid 30's now ! Hah hah !!

 

[summerdays]

My first post 20 Nov 2010​

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it has also helped me lose some of the excess poundage that 20 years of driving everywhere puts on you. well its helped shift 2 stone so have only got anoher 2 stone to go to ideal weight ( not that silly weight the BMI charts tel me i should be!!)​

And .... where is it now? I've lost some weight and I've now put some back on again in the intervening 5+ years and I'm probably back where I started but fitter I think!

 

[subaqua]

And .... where is it now? I've lost some weight and I've now put some back on again in the intervening 5+ years and I'm probably back where I started but fitter I think!

it sort of stayed where it was, but i got thinner with bigger thigh and calf muscles. concerted effort this year to lose the little bit of a belly i still have

 

[fossyant]

If you clock on 'page fifteen' and go there you will see a link to older posts. Click on that and repeat the cycle (sic) until you get to the very earliest posting. It takes a while....

Yeh 23000+ posts, It will take me a lifetime. I've got bikes to polish you know !