If there are no newbies asking the same questions BF would be dead. The best you can do is not answer the question: If he is really looking for an answer then he'll peruse the pages or do a search. If it's a troll then he'll fade away

I think topics in BF # 41 can be sorted into 30 or so categories:

Which bike to buy, CF vs others, shimano, campy, SRAM, BD, Average speed, show and tell, groin issues, CAAD-9, Lance, clipless, passenger cars, look at what I spent, I am well to do, I am poor, my first century, fall, group ride etc

Then there are the threads started by all the A types. Plus the grammar corrections and upmanship/bragging here and there. Forum rhymes with scrotum. I had been lurking since 2006/7 I think and joined Jan 2008. It has not changed much. I had been gone for 6 months and it seems I logged on last week.