Love forum??
05-14-04 | 04:00 PM
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Originally Posted by SipperPhoto
Yeah I've heard about Ride around the Bear... just a bump here and there.. a walk in the park 
A few guys in my club just rode GMR 2 weeks ago... said it was a pretty good ride.. better than when they rode it a few weeks before that in the rain.
jeff
A few guys in my club just rode GMR 2 weeks ago... said it was a pretty good ride.. better than when they rode it a few weeks before that in the rain.
jeff
Hey, I did that ride up GMR when it was pouring. I froze my butt off and thought I was going to die up from hypothermia. I probably rode with the guys from your club. Were they from OCRR? The only name I can remember was Richard, or Rick. I plan on doing it again May 31st. You should do it!
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05-14-04 | 04:45 PM
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Originally Posted by TCR
Hey, I did that ride up GMR when it was pouring. I froze my butt off and thought I was going to die up from hypothermia. I probably rode with the guys from your club. Were they from OCRR? The only name I can remember was Richard, or Rick. I plan on doing it again May 31st. You should do it!
Yeah, it was Rick from OCRR... that's the club I ride with... Rick is pretty fast
I'd do it, but it doesn;t sound like a heck of a lot of fun.. isn;t it like hills 75% up for 20 miles or something ridiculous like that ? :-)
jeff
05-14-04 | 05:56 PM
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Originally Posted by SipperPhoto
Yeah, it was Rick from OCRR... that's the club I ride with... Rick is pretty fast
I'd do it, but it doesn;t sound like a heck of a lot of fun.. isn;t it like hills 75% up for 20 miles or something ridiculous like that ? :-)
jeff
I'd do it, but it doesn;t sound like a heck of a lot of fun.. isn;t it like hills 75% up for 20 miles or something ridiculous like that ? :-)
jeff
Yea, but it's never gets very steep, 3 - 5% most of the way I think. Great view, very few cars, and an awesome downhill.
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05-22-04 | 03:11 PM
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Originally Posted by N_C
Just a warning about the Love forum over in Bicycling. You enter it & engage in conversation at your own risk. When it is actually up & running that is. There have been problems with Rodale's forums lately.
What I mean by risk they are not nearly as moderated as they should be like here. And any reported problems can take way to long to be dealt with, if at all. In some of the forums almost no one follows the rules that everyone is supposed to abide by & agree to when they register & sign-on. If you like the kind of conversation that is equal to a 7th grade boys locker room then Bicycling's Love Forum is just the place for you.
Some of those people have come here to these forums and tried the same stuff and found out the hard way it is not tolerated.
Yes here you can say what you want within reason. At least that's my interpritation of the rules. The good admins. & mods. here are pretty reasonable folks, easy to get along with, not to mention very diplomatic.
What I mean by risk they are not nearly as moderated as they should be like here. And any reported problems can take way to long to be dealt with, if at all. In some of the forums almost no one follows the rules that everyone is supposed to abide by & agree to when they register & sign-on. If you like the kind of conversation that is equal to a 7th grade boys locker room then Bicycling's Love Forum is just the place for you.
Some of those people have come here to these forums and tried the same stuff and found out the hard way it is not tolerated.
Yes here you can say what you want within reason. At least that's my interpritation of the rules. The good admins. & mods. here are pretty reasonable folks, easy to get along with, not to mention very diplomatic.
John, The Love Forum is moderated and people have been banned for getting out of hand. YOU do know that because you were banned many times for it. There are a few people that post over there that get moderated more than others, but very rarely does it end up where someone is banned outright, unless they use workarounds to the censorbot (which you've done), or post personal information about other members (which you've done also), or make threats to people there (ummmm...yeah).
The only times the forums over there have been down is during their upgrades, which are now essentially complete.
You've started off on the right foot here and I hope that you keep in mind your expeirences from Bicycling.com.
Best of Luck.
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05-22-04 | 03:29 PM
#30
I couldn't car less.
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Hey, there's no "love forum" over here. How do you people survive without one? Where am I supposed to post all my useless witty rhetoric?
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Woohoo- Man, Oscar Wilde would've been proud.
from the Importance of being Ernest.-
Rich snobby girl visits country girl\ tea in the garden:
Rich girl:" Why I never imagined you would have such lovely flowers out here in the sticks." or to that effect.
Country girl:" why flowers out here are as common as people are in the city."
Urbane sophisticated putdown.
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Originally Posted by The Fixer
Next step: install seat post, no saddle, no Tylenol.
from the Importance of being Ernest.-
Rich snobby girl visits country girl\ tea in the garden:
Rich girl:" Why I never imagined you would have such lovely flowers out here in the sticks." or to that effect.
Country girl:" why flowers out here are as common as people are in the city."
Urbane sophisticated putdown.
05-22-04 | 06:40 PM
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From: Vancouver, BC
Originally Posted by N_C
Just a warning about the Love forum over in Bicycling. You enter it & engage in conversation at your own risk....If you like the kind of conversation that is equal to a 7th grade boys locker room then Bicycling's Love Forum is just the place for you.
Not only do some act like that, many more have no reasoning or arguing ability and if you want to discuss something or learn, you're out of luck.
There is a lot of traffic and there has been some good writers and interesting topics there, but too few for me to be worth wading through so much crud.
05-26-04 | 06:41 AM
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Y'all mean there are other cycling forums?
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