nutz.

Can't believe that guy has revived his old thread

Mods should delete threads after a couple of weeks inactivity.

Yeah, or just lock them and/or archive them.

Problem is new members get on and read everything, and find some old thread they reckon they can contribute to.

Correct. At bb.com you get slammed for reviving old threads.

Sometimes I do that when I'm bored. You can get some pretty interesting posts up until someone points out the initial post was 5 years ago!

531...I know you're a big footy fan. Check some of these out for a larf.

https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/showth...8&page=1&pp=15

I've seen Joe Gardner, the "curator" of this site, tell people off for doing it

with good reason.

Ha...I like the Wakelin one....uncanny!


Is that the biggest AFL forum?

i think so.

some of them are pissers....John buchanan and Ned flanders
Adam Gilchrist and a wingnut.

I was flaming vegies on the hippy forum for a while, but it's not really my nature to shit-stir

https://hipforums.com/forums/index.php


Did you notice that Ric Stern is a vegy? Not all that common for rational, scientific dudes
to be vegies

What good reason? How does one determine when the currency of a perfectly good question dies?

There are many decent posts from yesteryear that should be regurgitated so you have a single collection of ideas in a single thread. But instead you get the same questions asked over and over again. The answer you might be after could be hidden away in any of them never to be found again (eg. Koffee's post for help a week or so ago).

I have a lot of respect for big Ric. He's got his head screwed on straight.

remember Dave Macca and the Linda McCartney's? had to sign a vego contract when they signed on.


I take Anthony Bourdain's stance......"We shouldn't punish vegetarians for their views. They've suffered enough already."

People don't use the search function, so you're always going to get new posts on the same topics over and over. If I see one more "I'm Cat 5...about to do my first race!!!" or "What wheels?" I'll spew.

If someone is looking for an answer to a problem or a query, the first 4 or 5 posts will have answered it. From there, it's people banging on and on with their own agenda.

Threads off the first page might as well not exist.

Hey Ed, got another one for ya:
https://www.bikeforums.net/33-road-bike-racing/98969-lemond-s-bike-tampered-86-tour.html

It's your big chance....again

You're kiddin right? It's a modern day version of a party line dressed up in the guise of being a useful reference. It generally isn't. None of the crap on forums should exist as far as I can see! But us humans have an inexplicable desire to spout forth plumes of dribble.

Now if you'll excuse me I need to drain my dribble gland on another unsuspecting thread...

Cool photo....all my childhood heroes are represented.

Munchie, know any builders in the area? Hillbrick maybe (Sydney?) I'm still tossing up the idea of getting my Falcon spread to 130mm to take my old components for a commuter. I was going to do it myself but as it's only 120mm right now, I think it's a bit too much to spread without professional help. I'll continue to ride "one speed" until I decide if it's worth it or not.

If nothing local, I can always see wha Thylo can do for it.

Hillbrick re-sprayed my Merckx in about 1998. He's an artist. Super job.

I've got plenty more.

Did you chuck ALL your old mags?

Bicycle Recycle have just got a nice old 56cm Columbus Max Eddy Merckx frame.

Only a few hundred bucks

Just about. I kept a couple for sentimental reasons. The 1989 Classics edition of Winning, A 1998 Bicycling Buyer's Guide, A copy of Winning from 1991 I got Phil Anderson to sign. Some others.

The rest is an increasing pile of Cycle Sports, Rides and Procyclings in my garage. Oh....and the occaisonal Cigar Aficionado.

Sh1t.....it's probably mine!! Nah...mine was 57cm and repsrayed pearl white with Billy's ubitiquous Sugoi logos on it. I did get the Merckx lugs highlighted, though.

onya, Arnie