Originally Posted by
joseph senger
bump, a camping forum makes sense, especially since this forum gets far too much traffic, and embodies already all types of cycling tech and as well cycle camping issues. im not a separatist, but i think this idea really makes sense.
As a non-touring cyclist, I respectfully disagree!
I have a touring bike because I like the geometry. I also harbor thoughts that I may do some short weekend tours some day, and share an attitude with the typical bicycle tourist that speed is not the ultimate goal of cycling.
However, the traffic is so light in this forum, that I keep up with it even though I don't even tour... simply because there may be something in here that I enjoy. With some similarities in attitude, I find this a nice forum, and frankly the 10-20 messages per day is hardly unmanageable when compared to other forums.
Take a hop into some of the other forums for real message volume... Road Cycling being I think the worst... On a busy day, it has more new threads than this forum has new messages in an average week. And some of those threads have more messages per day than this forum does in a week.
I read Road Cycling... and in Road Cycling, the threads that automatically don't interest me are easy to spot... the ones with "Look at my new bike." "How do I ride faster?" "Should I upgrade?" and any thread title with the words carbon, training, bling, porn, or any brand names in them that I don't own.. Sudddenly, there are about five active threads at any given time that may interest me instead of the usual 50 or 60 active threads.
Perhaps, for those who think this forum is too busy, a change in your technique of reading the forum would be helpful. On most days, I "read" at least 8 or 9 forums. In only about 3 of those forums do I open as many as half of the threads on a given day, and that only when I am really interested. For most threads I read only the titles to determine there is nothing I am interested in. For some, I will read the first message due to a poor title.
Especially with the low volume here, I would suggest that if your intrerest is only camping, then ignore the threads that are unrelated to cycle camping. That is how I read some of the other forums... I sure hope that nobody spends enough time in Road Cycling to read all of the messages there!!!