the nature of this site

I like forum.. I BS on here
I like forum.. I BS on here while dreaming of a nice comfortable rest after a ride. Riding is awful.. Pedal strokes.. Breath in during 4, breath out during 3. A 7 stroke recycling of breath makes me uncomfortable, yet I think my guts are getting stronger..
Hence riding sucks.. But.. Riding also blows..
Woahs to go from woah to go and back to woah.
I want a carbon fibre bike.. But can’t think of how to get rid of unit after service. Alloy does me well. Giant melt pot in 50 years? 7 kg almost the lightest bike I’ve ever had..
Titanium looks awesome.. We had a race boat fitted with titanium. Lead blocks to bring sail dinghy up to race weight. Same deal per recycling yet hopes that we learn how to keep earth clean . Singapore looks nice. Giant melt pot. Ash into secured lake.. Let nature do her job!
She was toxic before discovery, letting her breath riding a bicycle feels great.

+1 man towards bicycle torque.
I like tricycles.. Are tricycle torques allowed here. 🙂

OldRidgeback wrote:

the (ongoing) helmet debate

The science is settled 🙂

So, anyone reckon RR had a

So, anyone reckon RR had a bet with some of his pre-teen pals on how fast each of them could be banned from random web forums?

To criticise the name of the site by stating it isn’t for road bikes or for roads (when it definitely seems it is mostly Road bikes with some into from sister sites), then post another seperatly criticising the CC hosting. 

To criticise site design yet use text speak/spelling and no capitals or spaces on lines in any of his posts as not needed.

And then this one.

simonmb wrote:

road.cc has been part of my cycling world for the past ten years. During that period I’ve been on (and subsequently off) a number of other cycling websites, but I always keep coming back here. 

I don’t come back here for breaking news, I don’t come back here for incisive and data-driven tests of bikes, tyres, and equipment. I come back because it’s a bit of real-world cycling shite (in a good way) with a bit of (mostly) well-meaning banter thrown in.

To me, every time I open the site, it’s like walking into a favourite café filled with familiar faces. Some I like, some I don’t. Some are knowledgable, some spout nothing but bullshit. But it’s real, and doesn’t try to be anything other than what it is.

If I didn’t like it, I’d quietly move on somewhere else in the same way as if I didn’t like a café I’d walked into.

I can’t see the sense in standing up and complaining about the coffee or the customers. Where’s that going to get you @redrobot? Find a new café, or open one of your own.

A final note to @redrobot: when you’re paying for something, you buy the right to complain. What has road.cc ever cost you? 

 

 

Seconded – I post regularly on this site. I’ve been on other cycling (and motorcycling) websites and this is the one I keep coming back to as well. I like it the way it is thanks. The banter, the regulars, the (ongoing) helmet debate all help to make this site what it is.

If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

I like it here. Many

I like it here. Many different topics are discussed, often with huge differences of opinion, and on the whole, contributors remain respectful. Well, about as respectful as Internet discussions get.

Even if road.cc was “just a forum” (it isn’t), I’d visit weekly.

I don’t like the advertorial or near hits of the day, but I just ignore them and enjoy the bits I do like.

It’s frankly bizarre to post a complaint about a free website that you’re not compelled to visit. OP, genuinely interested to hear what you thought the result would be? A heartfelt thank-you for the advice and editorial control?

hawkinspeter wrote:

I think you’re missing the subtle sub-texts hidden in the lengthy arguments for and against helmets, which is really just a proxy for arguing about how much we want to follow a leader versus forging our own destiny.

If you don’t read between the lines, then you’re just consuming propaganda.

You can’t be talking about me, I don’t do subtle, particularly not in helmet debates. 😉

But I really like your ‘follow vs forging’ description.

Maybe redrobot is a student’s

Maybe redrobot is a student’s machine learning project, released into the wilds of this forum (ok maybe not wilds, maybe light undergrowth) to develop new trolling skills. If it starts to pop up with rambling opinions on helmets before concluding that no-one is allowed an 11 tooth sprocket, then the student gets their degree.

I think it may have reused the grammar algorithm from a Minecraft trollbot.