Originally Posted by tomg
i am sad that this forum segregated vc from "advocacy and safety" in bicycle forums; did not review rants against this form (except a few about forester), but the technique needs to stand (with the law backing you). i don't understand why this legal method of road bicycling (and the only law following) was removed from an advocacy/safety section of bike inclusion. just venting some concerns,....thank you for explaining shift in advocacy!
Tomg, I know it's getting to be a long one, but if you wanted an idea about why the forum administrators did this, you can get it from
this thread. Brian is one of our administrators, and has spent a lot of time explaining the reasoning behind this decision.
I feel sad about it, too, but short of shutting the A&S forum down altogether, no one had an alternative solution that didn't involve moderators spending nearly all of their personal lives policing threads. We like to ride our bikes as much as anyone else on this forum.
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