Don’t feel bad, over the years many have struggled with the unconventional format of this thread. It ‘s simply a thread that has been granted exclusive permission to freely stray from cycling topics to discuss virtually any- and everything else, politics excluded. The reason this exception to the rules was allowed was to accommodate this one individual user who was judged to be an asset to the overall forums . He was an exceptional talent, who stayed within the rules generally, so we let the subject matter in his threads stray wherever.

It all started with a bench . . . . . Addiction I

Note: The original thread was named “Addiction”, started by the cyclist named Patentcad. This, the Affliction thread, has been allowed to inherit the exclusive rights of the Addiction thread in honor of the late Patentcad.