More sport news, less doom?

Agree.
The article on the guy
Agree.
The article on the guy getting beaten unconscious by a white van diver and then having his bike stolen did it for me.

I’m not particularly fussed
I’m not particularly fussed about the sports reporting either way but I’m finding the balance of content increasingly gloom laden and intentionally provocative, not just the articles but some of the bickering and bullshit that is more frequent in the comments section.

It’s a tricky balance because road.cc’s USP is its cycle advocacy slant and without it they’d pretty much be another news and press release portal but honestly, there is nothing on this website that would encourage me to take up cycling if I was considering getting into it. The article mix is often quite surreal: Nice shiny things! But you might get crushed or attacked for using them… not very compelling message.

Utterly agree. I tend to
Utterly agree. I tend to turn to Cycling Tips’ excellent Rocacorba Daily these days as Road.cc seems far less bothered with the actual sport of cycling. Perhaps it’s what some people want but personally I have no interest in Daily Mail level community rabble rousing that a high proportion of the articles on here seem to now be. Most notably the tenuous ‘Bloke on bike robs bus of nuns’ type stuff. Perhaps that’s validated by the amount of hi-vis / helmet ‘debates’ and rants about pricing in the comments sections which seems to provide an indicator as to the site demographic.

Not necessarily a bad thing nor saying there’s no place for it, just not for me. Still, I’m sure Road.cc will still exist long after I and others have ceased to visit.

Agreed. I find this site
Agreed. I find this site quite depressing at times.

Agree
Agree