Thanks for sharing. The road forum has insecurity and manhood issues. A couple of the more mature members behave like kids and it reminds me of the movie Animal House where all the brothers are smart-alecks and failing in college. Since most of them are young and on very limited budgets, they discuss technology they cannot afford and make up crazy stuff as advice.

There is another syndrome in many of the forums which is "use the search engine to get your questions answered and do not bother us with anything that is not cool." In this forum, we can discuss clipless pedals and Brooks saddles once a week if someone starts a post. This forum is a more social where members are interested in others than an equipment / Q and A forum.

I prefer the let's discuss it again approach. We have new members all the time and even though the archives are rich in content, they are in fact history not current thinking. History is interesting but not as much fun as making history