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  • Too much Roadie content?
  • donsimon
    Free Member

    I’m all for more forums, can we have a **** forum where I can hang out and just generally hurl abuse at everyone I don’t like… ?

    I’m not sure that an “I’m a miserable c*** forum” has any type of ring to it though. 🙄

    oldgit
    Free Member

    I’ve taken my posting elsewhere lately, as I was clearly upsetting some folk here with my road biased posts. And admiting to wearing lycra seemed to confuse some men on here.
    Road is usually ‘big’ over the summer. Come winter all that changes, that’s all.

    sc-xc
    Full Member

    To be fair, the fat knackers that ride mountain bikes would panic if a few superbuff roadies starting taking over. I’m all for it.

    Junkyard
    Free Member

    I’m all for more forums, can we have a **** forum where I can hang out and just generally hurl abuse at everyone I don’t like

    what like a complete copy of the real world but where you can be brave without the risk of the kicking you so richly deserve 😛
    Oldgit i missed your posts

    Kevevs
    Free Member

    no. I like bikes. I like riding bikes. one of my bikes is roadbike shaped that I ride on a surface that it will accommodate. The other bikes accommodate different surfaces and have different labels. It’s all good healthy fun and all the same to me 🙂

    loddrik
    Free Member

    Don simon & junkyard, I trust I’ll be seeing you both in there when it opens… ?

    donsimon
    Free Member

    I doubt it.

    Junkyard
    Free Member

    Mine was said mainly in jest I will take your comment in a similar light.

    Nick
    Full Member

    DUUUUHHHH IT’S REALLY SIMPLE

    Bike Forum for stuff about bikes
    Chat Forum for stuff not about bikes

    loddrik
    Free Member

    Mine was said entirely in jest, and as for don simon, he’s just a fool I’m afraid.

    mboy
    Free Member

    The fact that this forum is busy enough to even debate whether or not some topics should even be included on it is testament to it’s health IMO.

    I read topic titles, if it’s something that interests me, or something I think I might be able to help out on, I’ll click on it. If not, I don’t. Do all you non roadies that are complaining about the number of road bike threads have “must look at the car crash” syndrome or something? I can pass a thread title by and if it doesn’t interest me I couldn’t care less, I’ll read the ones that do!

    captain-slow
    Free Member

    not enough roadie for me – there are no other decent roadie forums imo. Although with most roadies being in their mid 40’s they probably dont know that the web is much use away from porn.

    you mean I can use the web to find porn – what am I wasting my time here for?

    Bregante
    Full Member

    What are people thoughts?

    (oh, Im not a roadie hater, I own one and regulary ride it but this isn’t the place for it)

    But surely, if there are regular roadie threads, this would suggest that it is popular, thereby disproving your point that this isn’t the place for it?

    Just saying, like

    rOcKeTdOg
    Full Member

    It says “bike” forum not MTB forum, last time i looked any bicycle was classed as a bike, lets leave it as it is

    Dobbo
    Full Member

    More roadie stuff required, I’m looking forward to the day the last MTB’er is forced out of this place.

    Judging by the what road/CX bike threads a lot of people are moving to road bikes. I wonder how many MTB riders have moved over from road riding compared to the other way round?

    mrmo
    Free Member

    Judging by the what road/CX bike threads a lot of people are moving to road bikes. I wonder how many MTB riders have moved over from road riding compared to the other way round?

    what i hear from shops is that road is where the market is growing. MTB is last decades fashion.

    donsimon
    Free Member

    Mine was said entirely in jest, and as for don simon, he’s just a fool I’m afraid.

    Don’t be afraid Lodders, there’s always room to throw in a quick insult here. 🙄

    Dobbo
    Full Member

    what i hear from shops is that road is where the market is growing. MTB is last decades fashion.

    Got to believe that, the home page of Keswick Mountain Bikes says it all..

    Keswick Mountain Bikes[/url]

    singlespeedstu
    Full Member

    I don’t own a road bike.
    I have no interest in road riding.
    I don’t see anything wrong with people that have an interest talking about it on here though.

    What’s the problem? Are some of you worried that it might ruin your radsik image.

    mcboo
    Free Member

    Scarily stw is just about my favourite website in the whole world, dont change it.

    Need a new dishwasher but not sure what to get? Ask stw. Lots of great folk on here, don’t try and divide us.

    Dobbo
    Full Member

    Scarily youporn is just about my favourite website in the whole world, dont change it.

    FTFY

    stevemtb
    Free Member

    I like the fact that when you click on Biking it’s about bikes and Chat and it’s general chat.

    Sites like BikeRadar have so many sub categories that it’s difficult to get an answer to a very specific question (it may have to be posted into Road, Workshop or something like that) on here it’s posted, answered, job done.

    As others have said, don’t read topics that don’t appeal to you.

    Only downside to this approach for me is how quickly topics can be 5 pages down with so much new stuff appearing all the time.

    ononeorange
    Full Member

    It’s easy enough to avoid the roadie threads where they get all evangelical about what must be worn and what mustn’t and stuff. I did accidentally read that one yesterday though where someone had the effrontery to overtake someone else wearing jeans or something, but generally can dodge them. I found the recent threads on Camelbaks very odd for the number of posters getting het up about what others dare to carry around. Very odd.

    1freezingpenguin – that picture is terrifying. Ruined my day!

    TheSouthernYeti
    Free Member

    OMG LOLZ It’s so true… this place, the OP is sooo right. There’s way too much road bike content. Infact there’s way too biking content full stop.

    It’s why I don’t come here anymore

    bikebouy
    Free Member

    Ya’s need to leave this forum alone man.. It’s a totally brilliant place to hang out in.

    Inclusion not exclusion.

    cynic-al
    Free Member

    What kind of lame tool gets so wound up about the fact that some enjoy a different form of cycling that he needs to post up about it?

    I am embarrassed for you.

    yunki
    Free Member

    I think it’s something to be actively encouraged whenever possible..
    hopefully leading to:

    more roadies.. less MTBers.. quieter trails (if it’s even possible for the trails to be quieter around here..)

    andytherocketeer
    Full Member

    Last time I checked the nearest sort of equivalent roadie forum, there was a throughput of about 3 posts per day. And most of those were forum member challenges chat stuff in the off-topic/misc section.

    For sub-forums, forget bikeradar… try a German forum. If they have many more sub-forums they’d have 1 sub-forum per thread! PITA having galleries and “show us your” in about 3 main places too, plus about 20 brand specific ones too.

    Technically I’m ex-roadie crossover to MTB, but that was in about 1996. It’s only a few roadie thread here anyway. More CX afaict.

    stilltortoise
    Free Member

    No

    Next question

    In qualification of my answer, I ride road bikes and mountain bikes. I like having one forum that covers my cycling.

    winterfold
    Free Member

    The roady threads on here are definitely an MTB perspective on roadying though – very kit oriented and totally clueless on pro racing.

    If you dont like them, dont click, it’s easy.

    andrewy
    Full Member

    I don’t have a problem with it. If you don’t want to read the road threads, don’t click on it. As for road bikes being the big growth area, well that’s been clear for a while, but I think it’ll probably change in a few years and then there will be lots of threads along the lines of “I’ve been riding on the road for a few years, but I just dusted off the mtb and went for a ride, and it’s great! It’s actually fun, and there’s no cars!” Just a thought.

    Leave this forum as it is, I quite like climbing, but one glance at UKC’s forum always sends me back here.

    cynic-al
    Free Member

    winterfold – Member
    The roady threads on here are definitely an MTB perspective on roadying though – very kit oriented and totally clueless on pro racing.

    😀

    stilltortoise
    Free Member

    The roady threads on here are definitely an MTB perspective on roadying though – very kit oriented and totally clueless on pro racing

    FTFY

    That’s just STW. Even with MTBing, most users don’t seem too bothered about the fact Josh Bryceland came 2nd last week or that Danny Hart is having a great season so far. Ditto for XC racing, but I’m totally clueless on that 🙂

    chipps
    Full Member

    I like road bikes. All bikes are great, surely?

    andrewy
    Full Member

    I like road bikes. All bikes are great, surely?

    Would this be a good time to mention my Brompton 😀

    mboy
    Free Member

    I like road bikes. All bikes are great, surely?

    Hold on Chipps, are you suggesting you guys run this forum to be all inclusive, non elitist, and for people who “just like riding bikes”?

    Cos I got the impression that I had to agree with everything the nay Sayers said, otherwise I would be chastised and scorn would be heaped upon me!

    😉

    muppetWrangler
    Free Member

    most users don’t seem too bothered about the fact Josh Bryceland came 2nd last week or that Danny Hart is having a great season so far.

    Just to help prove stilltortoise’s point. I’ve never heard of either of those two people. Doubt I could name more than 6 off-road pros across all disciplines. When it comes to riding I like both road and off-road equally, but as far as spectating/following goes it’s just road riding that keeps me interested.

    mcboo
    Free Member

    Watching mtb racing is about as interesting as watching downhill skiing only not as interesting.

    Road racing on the other hand…..I mean just look at these guys….doping/not doping WGAF. These guys are nails….

    bikebouy
    Free Member

    Someone up there mentioned “other” cycling forums..

    If you really want to get all angsty about roadies take a peek at CyclingNews dot com and stick your head in The Clinic..

    I think you’ll find that there are factions in our lovely sport/passtime that can and do stab each other with venom filled verbal typed syringes all on thier own.. Ewe..

    thomthumb
    Free Member

    but where would “road bike for mtb race training topics go” id we had a separate forum.

    bikes is bikes

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