Come Join In The Singletrack Women’s Forum!

It seems pretty clear on this post that most of the women want this new forum and several men aren’t happy for us to have it,

I think ‘men’ is stretching the truth in this instance. Petulant children may be a more fitting description?

I hope (and I am sure you do) you can see there is a lot of support for it as well, I haven’t been keeping score but I think the majority of posts from any gender have been very positive if disappointed in the need.

Would be interesting to see an update in a few months around how its working.

You have got to imagine that indicator would be more she/hers posting on the main forum?

😀 …..and people seriously wonder why women don’t partake in this forum?! This place is hilarious and ridiculous in equal measure!

Good luck with your forum, i bet it will be more fun than the regular one!! 😉

The FOMO is large in here eh?

The FOMO is large in here eh?

…just like when your missus is on the phone to a friend and you casually tab-hang to see if you are being talked about! 🤣 🤣

It is also not my role to start one just because I’m one of the few woman present

I think that problem is going to follow through into the new women’s forum. I suspect it will need at least a few enthusiastic people (or cajoled staff) to get some momentum going or it will not take off and will be as much of a ghost town as the member’s forum. So step up girls, Mark needs the revenue 😀

…just like when your missus is on the phone to a friend and you casually tab-hang to see if you are being talked about! 🤣 🤣

This has been playing in my head for the last three hours – the “but don’t let them talk about us in their forum!” part. Wild and hilarious

So step up girls, Mark needs the revenue 😀

Oh so Mark is exploiting women now 😂

One of the reasons I’ve been participating in all of the TdF threads, is to feel part of the way the race is talked about on STW. The race is still very much watched by more men than women (although this is definitely changing). As one of the few women on here, it was great to give my thoughts and observations and feel very much part of the daily theads. This sadly is not the case for most of the other posts.

@stwhannah just tried to post in women’s forum on your thread, but got an “error, you do not have permission to post.”

what have I missed?

There’s folk having the same issue trying to post on the open forum too.

Ah ok thank you. Maybe that. I added my pro nouns and everything!

@stwhannah – I’ve got the same problem as Anna-B (checked and my profile has the right pronouns!) I don’t have any problem posting on here

Thats why I suggested that you fix the forum first.  🙂

Our Anthony is currently under the hood tracking this frustratingly timed bug down.

@stwhannah – I’ve got the same problem as Anna-B (checked and my profile has the right pronouns!) I don’t have any problem posting on here

Cheers Mark 👍

Me too 😔

Have a go now. Anthony thinks he’s found the bug and put in a temporary fix.

but if the only harm in trying one is to erk some men

I’m a man who finds misspellings irksome. Do I get my own forum?

On a serious note – I can’t really see an issue here. 🤷‍♂️

Have a go now. Anthony thinks he’s found the bug and put in a temporary fix.

All good – thank you @Mark ☺️

Typical isn’t it ! All good now though, thank you and for the forum @Mark it’s a really good idea.

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Profile edit with the pronoun thing doesn’t save for me so I can’t view it ….

Rightly so…hover over the ? Icon and it says you have to email in to get that changed.

This would be a good time for avatars, with that little male/female etc. symbol if you want to show it.

Some forums have a stack of info on the side.

Good luck with the separate forum.

Shame it’s required. Saddens me it’s a required necessity as a male. But understand why!

RT
Male, Dyslexic and ADHD, and probably a whole load of other issues.

My pronouns saved fine @ART but today I’m unable to post again 🤔

I’ve reported this to Tech @mamadirt seems to be a possible bug.

Thank you @Drac 😊

Still excluded 😔 I can read but can’t post. I’ll get my pink bangs retouched and try again 😉

I’ve pointed Anthony at this now. Hopefully have this fixed in a moment.

Anyone else having the same issue?

If you are the quickest fix will be tech@singletrackworld.com

Hi Mamadirt,

You should be able to post now, there was a little glitch on our end with the Women’s forum, which I have now fixed

Thank you for bringing this to our attention 🙂

Yes, all good now – cheers guys 👍😊

Dear Single Track

It’s lovely that women can post on the women’s form.

Please could you restore my ability to add a topic to the chat or bike forum?

Best Wishes

Keith

Sorry problem solved I read the instructions. 🙁

I’m waiting to get the pronoun thing done and I should be good to go.
I am fortunate in that I have a good mix of folks to ride with. I do enjoy it all but I do like the relaxed energy of a women’s ride. Also, we’re of a similar age and can share stories and experiences of menopause etc.
I used to be pretty fearless and then a few years ago I noticed myself getting a tad anxious about drops and descents. It was on a ride with the ladies and one mentioned anxiety as her symptom of menopause. A light bulb moment.

I am all for “men’s sheds” set ups too. Men need places where they can speak freely about things too. I think the development of that programme was one of the best things I have ever seen for men.

I do subscribe to a few aviation forums. I’ll be honest, I don’t post as much as I could as the torrent of criticism is just something I honestly don’t need to read. By criticism I mean “back in my day blah blah” or “why do you need a special uniform?” or “you only got there because you’re a woman”…

As a side note, I recently went to Bike Park Wales by myself. A bit apprehensive at first. I needn’t have been. Every one was super supportive and helpful. It was a really fun experience.

How has the first week or so been? @stwhannah.

Not specifics obviously but it would be nice to know it’s started well, got some good/useful conversations started.

Not specifics obviously but it would be nice to know it’s started well, got some good/useful conversations started.

Would be interesting to know how many conversations and how many users – suspect/kind of hope* that the number of users is higher than was expected to show that it helping more women engage on the forum.

*that’s kind of hope in the sense that it will show that the separate forum was needed, which may make some of us consider our own posts and tone if we are putting women off from posting on the main forum.

Mrs NBT posts over there and saysit’s been really lovely and welcoming – I have no specifics to add in terms of frequency of posts etc, I’ve not checked it myself

Mrs NBT posts over there and saysit’s been really lovely and welcoming

But you should see what she says about you!

But you should see what she says about you!

She tells me that to my face 😀