I'd like one where people discuss bike related stuff in a mature and open minded way. Where people aren't shot down for having different ideas or not being niche enough. One where, even if you have a different point of view, you don't have to belligerently fight to the death for your point to win.
Stay here and learn to ignore nobbers. The good stuff outweighs the bad stuff.
One where people discuss things online as they would over a pint?
Let me just grab Hob Nobs....
be the change you wish to see.
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Warriors, lay down your keyboards...
genuine laugh at that kitten in a barbie jet Matt 😆
I've had a few overly personal/meaningless criticisms on here and I've just bailed from the thread and not gone back... same tactic if you get some ranty driver when you're riding, just walk away from them...
There's so much positive advice and knowledge on here, you can't let the negatives outweigh the positives. IMO
This thread needs more politics.
So, Alex Salmond, she's a bit of alright, eh?
This place is actually ace, loads of great people, knowledge and bants ( 😛 ) on here. As above just ignore the nobbers and threads you're not interested in.
That'll be [url= http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/ ]bikeradar[/url] then. I actually much prefer the pointless arguments and general shoutiness you get on here to be honest
To be fair this is the friendliest one I've found.
genuine laugh at that kitten in a barbie jet Matt
Me too
This is by far the least shouty, least argumentative, and actually full of folk with genuine experience who want to help...bike forum I've found.
why is discussing bike related stuff all about winning ?
you don't have to belligerently fight to the death for your point to win
nickc - Member
This is by far the least shouty, least argumentative, and actually full of folk with genuine experience who want to help...bike forum I've found
No, it isn't.
genuine laugh at that kitten in a barbie jet Matt
+1 brilliant.
This one is pretty good. But Net forums have always been a haven for shouty-ness. It's sometimes very difficult to not be misinterpreted, depending on your skill with the written word (ignore that rather lumpy sentence for a start).
Back when news.net was the 'thing' I stumbled into an argument with Juliana Furtado, who thought that my amateur analysis of her racing career in some thread or other was in some way a stinging criticism. Far from it, I was SUCH a fanboy of hers!
This is by far the least shouty, least argumentative, and actually full of folk with genuine experience who want to help...bike forum I've found
No, it isn't.
Neatly done, CFH 😉
Its ok- pinkbike looks like it could be good but it has a immature element too. Saying that you get alot of 30-50yr olds on here who are stuck in their ways/can't see anyone elses view which is worse.
how d'you it isnt?
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If you want a serious answer, MTBR is pretty good and diverse. Millions of different sub-forums to tickle your niche.
pinkbike looks like it could be good but it has a immature element too
I dont want to see the forum you consider to be immature 😛
You get opinionated folk on here be it politics,football, cars , food. gears , tyre size etc but the hive mind is a font of all knowledge.
I think we also forget that a lot of folk know each other in the real world so the bants is between friends rather than rivals.
That'll be bikeradar then. I actually much prefer the pointless arguments and general shoutiness you get on here to be honest
BR is all but dead now too, about 10 posts a day. Dunno what happened, seems there was a mass exodus sometime late last year.
This is far and away the best IMO, sticking to the bike forum will keep you away from most of the belligerent knobs. Except me.
Don't take this place too seriously, we're all clearly middle-class, upper-middle income knobbers and a few baby-boomers chucked in for good measure, everyone gets all upset and huffy on here from time to time...
But it's only strangers on the internetz if it really upsets you then you could always just use another website, or simply stop being a thin skinned baby...
I'm not in a flounce or taking it too personally. I've just noticed a few threads recently that could have been technically interesting but have then gone down the usual path. As always, I just leave the thread quietly at that point. I've found the mtbr forum to be very helpful and we'll mannered, it's just the turn over of posts seems quite slow.
I have used stw forum to successfully answer some very diverse questions in the past.
Onza, STW is like a box of chocolates, you don't know what you're gonna get
IGMC
The good outweighs the bad on here generally I find. Also you might like to check some of the political threads, you may have a more favourable view of the bike ones then
Wot cheep carbon weeelz fer me roadz byke, max spends £150..
Cheyrz 😉
I have to say I'm a member of a couple of forums for another hobby and they're so dull it's not true. Any sort of personal discussion gets culled, no one has any personality whatsoever, off topic posts are deleted.
It's informative, but it's not somewhere I'll kill time because it's so unbelievably dry.
I think we're in a bit of a lull of cocks on here at the moment (in a good way), which probably means that I've moved up the scale of cockishness.
nickc - Member
This is by far the least shouty, least argumentative, and actually full of folk with genuine experience who want to help...bike forum I've found
CaptainFlashheart
No, it isn't.
[b]YES. YES IT IS
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Retrobike has far less bell ends on it then this site does and is much friendlier. It peaked a year or two ago though and is much quieter then it used to be.
It's a funny old place this really.
Having been on here for about 10 years. I am VERY circumspect about which threads I bother to read and/or interact with now. So many of them you can predict exactly how they will run without ever wasting time clicking on them. There are a number of tediously predictable STW 'groupthink' tropes that appear relentlessly - and daring to speak against them seems to be often much like peeing in the wind.
I'm pretty sure that other people have a range of more interesting opinions in some threads, yet don't dare speak of them, because of a percieved nature of the fixed tide of opinion on STW.
There are a lot of nobbers out there, plus a few simple creatures who seem to spend most of their lives vicariously on here, but I find if you are judiciously selective with thread choice [i]some of it[/i] is actually okay.
It's alright on here. I gave up with BR a bit back ad that did get really poor.
This is a great place - I've been on the receiving end of the so-called big hitters a few times when my views have not agreed with theirs, but I've learnt to ignore it.
When someone genuinely needs advice, or has a real serious problem, the knowledge and understanding of the strangers on here can be amazing.
I do think we need a no-holds barred AIBU sub-forum like the scary women on mumsnet though!
As a fairly infrequent poster on here I would say the comments given are actually about right. I am like some others very selective what I post. Also on a local Forum as well where I know all the riders which leads to a more relaxed feel and taking the Mick is widespread but as everyone knows each other is all taken in good part.
STW is one of the best OT forums. A really great, diverse, bunch of people. Ask a question and you'll get it answered.
It was a bit of a culture shock when I first signed up. The first forum I used was a biscuit powered music forum for a band called Frost*. That was a very small close knit social club of a place. Thread derailment was actively encouraged and posting as off topic as you could was the order of the day. It's all gone a bit dry and serious now, the band haven't released anything new for 5 years so it's not what it was back when it was just fields..............
Every other forum I visit is just too serious or shouty. STW is the right balance.
LONG LIVE STW!!!!!