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If it was a dog, it would be off to the vets for a little lie down....
Did they get rid of all the Big hitters/characters leaving it to be terminally dull and then die a slow withering death?
Perhaps you and the soon to arrive bemoan ers could help by contributing a little?
Blimey. I seem to remember the "help my bikes gone wrong" threads used to be quite helpful and reasonably quickly replied to, but I don't think I have posted on there for five years.
[edit] good point kryton. Perhaps I will start a thread about my wife's new pink Cove Hooker. Nothing like a thread with endless possibilities of inuendo to bump up the post count. 😆
BTW flashy used to post a bit on BM, but he wasn't called CaptainFlasheart back then....
Did they get rid of all the Big hitters/characters leaving it to [s]be terminally dull and then die a slow withering death? [/s] grow fresh, freed from the cancer of incessant bickering
FIFY
Did people get married, have kids or move to Canada?
grow fresh, freed from the cancer of incessant bickering
nature abhors a vacuum, new keystone forumites will evolve to the fill the niches
BTW flashy used to post a bit on BM, but he wasn't called CaptainFlasheart back then....
There used to be a Flashy on BM back in the day? Who's the STW Flashy then? Is he an imposter?
Yes. I am. 🙂
Good to see the old mindless drivel threads still going eh?
BM had some top guys on, I had several thousand posts on there! People just drifted away as much as anything. Shame.
At least interesting pictures are allowed over there 🙂
Lady Gresley - Member
At least interesting pictures are allowed over there
Seems to be much less moderation, and more freedom of speech. As said though, needs more bike content.
Yes. I am.
Not....... FlaptainCasheart? 😯
I used to get mixed up between Bike Magic and Bike Radar and would inevitably end up on Bike Radar.
Eh, you mean there is/was another site, another forum?
You could be dunked in a well for that kinda thing..
I used to post there loads but it all got a bit dull when that barking mad Dylan chap got banned
Are you talking 1st ban or the subsequent ones Kato? His rantings caused at least a dozen folk that I know to leave - even Mr S gave up in the end.
Met a lot of good guys over there, rode with many & even raced with a few but a lack of control allowed the Turveynator to post the inane rumblings of a madman. MDT contains a mixture of insanity and profoundness but is breathing it's last as most of it's contributors now exist over here under various pseudonyms.
i was quite prolific once 😀
To be fair what finished it off for me was when they redesigned the whole forum. Just didn't like it after that
Mike Davis leaving saw the start of BM's demise, imo. The Kidderminster Clown was, initially, amusing but turned into a very disturb(ing/ed) individual. The redesign, which locked out a large number of people, was the final nail for many. I still post but it's becoming less frequent which makes me a wee bit sad as there is/were some good people over there. 😐
Did people get married, have kids or move to Canada?
Well, I managed two of those but have settled for a dog and two cats at the moment....
BM was the first forum I found IIRC and was Melvin Schmelvin for a short while. Was 42 (ginger lad that sent photos of his c0ck to women riders) on BM or here?
It appears to me there's enough former contributors on here to raise the proverbial Phoenix.
Dylan is currently serving his third ban, he never learns. The front page articles are pretty good and are arguably more frequent than STW's.
I have been wondering if all those "suffering" from STW's rule tightening may make an appearance over there.
Bike Radar is my other forum now, BM's just too quiet. It's a shame because I agree their nrews/articles are better than here, and I do like David Arthur.
At least it was a bike forum unlike here.
It was the first bike forum I visited and like others it all sort of went downhill with the format change and when Mike left. The rides section was always handy. Even though Dylan was barking mad he was entertaining. Gravity pulling you uphill on your bike anyone? Ice bullets?
Frequented there and here regular, then drifted away from BM staying with this place. Now I don't even post very much here.
used to be there - i was chocolate teapot. that was many many moons ago.
this place was still gofar back then iirc.
Dylan is currently serving his third ban, he never learns
I think it's more like his fourth or fifth ban?
I didn't even know BM was still in existence? I thought it was a early-mind 00's ting.
hora - Member
I didn't even know BM was still in existence? I thought it was a early-mind 00's ting.
Oh, it's still there, just. It's a bit like the Prefects Common Room at a (very) minor public school............in the school holidays.
The ride section used to be good as were some of the ramblings. The news section is still good.
The redesign didn't help IMO, and it's never good to see an ego implosion result in a banning or a flouncing (Dylan and JohnG spring to mind as examples). At least the bans there are not permanent. Although at time some of the recent folk on here who where smited by the hammer of ban could be annoying it'd be nice to see them back. It's easy to deal with annoying by not reading......
Used to be a great laugh back in the day, lots of personalities, lots of arguments but people just used to forget and move on. Seems 'banter' is taken too seriously, and the current folk aren't intelligent enough to be amusing, they try but fail dismally. I actually blame some of the current users for it's demise as they are so dull.
Ah, that's a shame. About 10 years ago, I was a very regular on there and it was a great forum with a good group on it.
Topov - Member
Used to be a great laugh back in the day, lots of personalities, lots of arguments but people just used to forget and move on. Seems 'banter' is taken too seriously, and the current folk aren't intelligent enough to be amusing, they try but fail dismally. I actually blame some of the current users for it's demise as they are so dull.
The worst troll ever Mr Boutros.... and current user.
Used to spend a lot of time there 9 or 10 years ago when I was in conventional employment but now I'm in the bike trade I only have much time in the winter and somehow this is where I usually wash up.
I'm serious.
But then you're part of the problem, aren't you. I seem to remember this conversation was had on BM itself, but no one really rose to the challenge.
At least 2 members sloped off becuase they fell out with each other, not the forum. Dylan and John G imploded and were banned / left respectively, Kato, Luke, Prince whats his name and a couple of others surfaced over the last few months and like yourself, stopped making the effort after 1-2 posts.
Not all of us are as gifted an talented as you in the world of comedy and trolling, like I said before, perhaps stop moaning and make and effort - if you can't be bothered to make an effort then you don't have the right to moan. :-p
FWIW, the reason STW survives over BM is volume. Thats could easily be addressed on BM, if people choose to.
But I'm not moaning I don't give a ****, that's just my opinion.
Topov - Member
But I'm not moaning I don't give a ****, that's just my opinion.
Weird that you should mention it on here then, yet point fingers at the current members. Leave well alone eh....
Not weird is it though, I had to have a peek after the excited Facebook message that I got from Stan, when in Rome!
Peek - not weird. Blaming those that contribute for not being "good enough" when you CBA yourself = weird.
Cest la vie.....!
Is it usually as much fun as this over there?
Lol at chakaping - no, more so as we are allowed swearing and shouting, soft porn and generally unacceptable graphics 😀
The rules here stifle things somewhat.
And the odd conversation about bikes of course.
Used to post over there a far bit 6 or 7 years ago - never seen anyone commit "Forum Suicide" as much as Dylan, there was a lot of goading at the time too.
A pity to see it die, was once a good forum but they changed it too much/often.
Anyone remember Chuck Furstburger?
or come to think of it, Terry the Troll?
The best troll on there was Emily Green if you can remember that far back
Just tried to log on font the first time in ages but it appears Kato had been deleted. Ah well
The single, best ever article on any bike website was Numpty's write up on his first foray into the Surrey Hills enhanced by a hangover and some ludicrous trackie bottoms over on BM - a true classic. 🙂
[url= http://forums.bikemagic.com/showthread.php/80791-Make-Mike-A-Bike! ]THIS THREAD[/url] showed it at its best.
Bmagic wiped the floor with this place for characters. Unfortunately this made it a little difficult when there was a disagreement as no one would back down.
This place wouldn't even get close to a mdt
I basically found the new layout and my inability to ride mountain bikes put paid to the enjoyment.
Fond memories of hobo style and I have friends from those days who will be friends forever
That thread was epic.
It was certainly full of 'characters', good and bad! There were fewer contributors than on here, and i guess when they went it was always gonna go downhill. Wonder what happened to Ti29er Tim **shudders**.
I have fond memories of all the forum rides I did though, and still thoroughly enjoy meeting up with the guys I met from there!
The best troll [s]on there[/s] ever was Emily Green
FTFY, Kato, old chap! 🙂
The single, best ever article on any bike website was Numpty's write up on his first foray into the Surrey Hills enhanced by a hangover and some ludicrous trackie bottoms over on BM - a true classic.
I led that very ride! 🙂 The BM guys loaned him a bike for the day, and he was very, very ill on it! Am still in touch with Numpty, top man. One of the funniest guys I know. Rubbish rider, but a really very funny guy!
One of the first threads I ever read. Numpty had no equals
So who India Jane?
Think she belonged to the that little Irish fella. Pete was it?
Started off as a troll and ended up being someone's permanent alter ego
Look at them all coming out of the woodwork! You do realise if you moved this conversation over there...
I'd have to ride the DeLorean back to about 2004
Look at them all coming out of the woodwork! You do realise if you moved this conversation over there...
Just what I was going to say. Go on, I dare one of you...
They deleted my account
I rode with wee Pete a couple of times and asked him who India was! He reckoned he had an idea but that was all...
Yes Stan, but we left for good reason.
Yes Stan, but we left for good reason.
I haven't grown up yet though.....
Emily Green. Oh yes. Toe curling embarrassing and more than a little cruel. But fantastic, nonetheless. My first forum. The Chiltern first 1XV used to hang about on there. Dan (dirtyrider), Clubber, Kato were all prolific posters. Dylan was the head of the uber-nutters although I never tired of his "I've made a 69r and moved a 2mm headset spacer and removed 1psi from my tyre and I'm 55% faster' threads.
I wasted so much time on there. But it was fun while it lasted. Before mike it was Cullen and either he or Mike told me there was a bug where banned people could still post but no one but other banned people saw their posts or something like that. It was like them going cold turkey in a room full of addicts 😉
[i]Wonder what happened to Ti29er Tim **shudders**. [/i]
IIRC flogged the ti29 and buggered off to Argentina.
I used to post there loads but it all got a bit dull when that barking mad Dylan chap got banned
😆
True, true.
So the lack of posts/posters on BM is due to the banning of Dylan - I bet the powers-that-be didn't expect that result.
a bug where banned people could still post but no one but other banned people saw their posts or something like that. It was like them going cold turkey in a room full of addicts
Mike mentioned that to me. Imagine doing that to [s]Mikeconnor[/s] Fred and TJ! 🙂
They'd probably still both get banned 😉
Lady Gresley - Member
So the lack of posts/posters on BM is due to the banning of Dylan - I bet the powers-that-be didn't expect that result.
He's probably watching this now genuinely believing he was / is the saviour of BM.
He's probably watching this now genuinely believing he was / is the saviour of BM.
Indeed!!
I liked Dylan, despite his rather bizarre theories about biking. I thought that [b]some[/b] (not all) of his bannings were a tad unfair due to the amount of goading that he took. I sometimes wondered that if he and Mike S alternated with being allowed on the forum then that might calm matters (i.e. make it duller!) 😉
He's probably watching this now genuinely believing he was / is the saviour of BM.
He claimed that on more than one occasion.
And CFH , I do still chuckle just thinking about Numpty puking, hallucinating and generally just falling off. 🙂
Can you stop taking about Dylan. That's me, not him 😉
poor old BM! i had a good few thousand posts on there too - kept me going through my GCSEs and A-levels... then moved over here as it got more interesting.
dylan was a proper funny one, but i met him a couple of times, and was actually quite a decent bloke! i dunno if dirty carlos drifted over here too, but he seemed a real decent bloke too.
shame its gone to the dogs, but i guess i'm part of the reason.
**** me! Emily Green... forgotten all about that. There were 3 of us with a log in for her. Me, Mike and and gf Anne, she was invented solely to wind up 42 (a seriously disturbed young man) I think she ended up going to spain to learn how to pole dance...
mike was give a bag as a pressie from BM for 'Services to trolling'...
I think 42 ended up working with children, 😯 did anyone else get threatened by his 'solicitor'?
this can only mean more GoreHound on here
like many here, BM was my 1st forum. I remember many of the characters and Alex and clubber at least that are now here.
It was hugely useful for me as I learned about bikes, but became increasingly purile and bitchy.
I remember having a massive 'dissussion' with some fool from the new forest who seemed to think it was the best riding in the UK and couldn't accept the possibility that it might not be, and a few other gems.
STW kind of drew me away if I'm honest, its just more grown up and bike related.
STW kind of drew me away if I'm honest, its just more grown up and bike related.
Er no, STWer's use different words to achieve the same thing.
STW is presented a different way due to the forum rules. I bet you a million dollars if the rules were relaxed they'd be pictures of Kylie, Jane 20 from Fareham and political arguments all over the place.
The rules 7-10 years ago here were much more relaxed I think you'll find.
Its only recent years where they've stamped their feet about it being their forum.
[i]Its only recent years where they've stamped their feet about it being their forum. [/i]
which may explain why
a) they've started earning more money from it
and
b) it's not gone the way of BM?