Chicago Fixed Gear Forum is go!
 

http://www.chifg.com

Chicagoans, if you trembled in fear of LoFarkas making a withering remark, post your "Wednesday Night Ride?" threads there! We're having a blast discussing Oury grips, the Summer Race Series, and teadoggg! Thanks to absntr for making it happen!

copycats :)

An homage, if you will. ;)

All praise and inspiration be to 128 for getting me off my arse to get it done.

how's that to be pronounced again?

chee-eff-gee.

Come on now.

That looks really nice. What's the backend on it?

edit- nevermind, i found it. nice job!

absntr - you ever figure out what the deal was w/ firefox and having to keep signing in?

can I ask: Why? The 'CHI:' prefix wasn't working? Isn't this already pretty much the Chicago fixie-riders forum?

Vanilla. I used it a while ago for another project. Then 128 used it for SFFG, and that reminded me that I wanted to do something similar for Chicago. And Vanilla was in v1.0 so it was a no-brainer.

http://www.getvanilla.com

128 -- No idea but my install doesn't have that issue. It doesn't have the "go to discussions" or "go to categories" issue. I'm thinking that it might be some odd bug with one of the plugins. I don't have nearly as many as you set up so could be one of those?

wierd. i think it must be how i set the cookie and the fact its in a subfolder of my server instead of the domain.

minkah - alot of the people on the SF forum dont like dealing with bikeforums drama and bs. its brought a lot of people out of the woodwork. i imagine its the same in chicago. plus we can sell each other crap without having koffee shut down threads.

and we can cuss like pirates.

+1.

Since I'm on SFFG, I love how friendly it is and great for fostering local community. I want some of that for the local Chicago community and bringing in more of the locals together rather than be slightly displaces by the vastness of BF. The silliness, friendliness and swearing is welcome. A place to let our hair down and not get bent out of shape.

I have a huge amount of respect for BF. I've been here since 02 and love this place. But I want something for the locals.

OK, I'm with you. And I already signed up for CHIFG. And you know what? I REALLY like cursing on the internet.

yea. asterixes are so emasculating.

we have dropped the f bomb enough times already in the last 5 hours to keep me content for quite a while

i was stalking the site over the weekend but was waiting to see if there would be some sort of official announcement or post here. i have been a bit quite online for a bit other than all the (non bike related) stuff i spent the weekend trying to get rid of.

also had some time off, and not surprisingly i do less posting when i am not at work.

F bomb de bomb bump.