C+ forumers treated with contempt.

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  • Red Lemon
    Red Lemon Posts: 3,433
    Patrick Stevens wrote:
    I came within a whisker of having one myself . As I was cycling in this morning, a taxi driver came out of a side road and had I not anticipated that she hadn't seen me and swerved, I wouldn't be typing this. I proceeded to give her a brisk earful, but she apologised very gracefully which shut me up rapidly.
    Women shouldn't be allowed on the roads at all, let alone as a professional driver...

    *hides from the potential fallout*
    King Kikapu / Fire Mountain
  • Patrick Stevens
    Patrick Stevens Posts: 13,398
    Red Lemon wrote:
    Patrick Stevens wrote:
    I came within a whisker of having one myself . As I was cycling in this morning, a taxi driver came out of a side road and had I not anticipated that she hadn't seen me and swerved, I wouldn't be typing this. I proceeded to give her a brisk earful, but she apologised very gracefully which shut me up rapidly.
    Women shouldn't be allowed on the roads at all, let alone as a professional driver...

    *hides from the potential fallout*

    Had she not been so quick to apologise, I would have made these points myself. :wink:
  • Peyote
    Peyote Posts: 2,189
    I'm struggling to understand why she was off her lead. Some owners can be so irresponsible!



    Hides under Red Lemon.
  • Patrick Stevens
    Patrick Stevens Posts: 13,398
    Peyote wrote:
    I'm struggling to understand why she was off her lead. Some owners can be so irresponsible!



    Hides under Red Lemon.

    Peyote, a horrible thought has struck me. This isn't C+. By now we would have been denounced by outraged feminists and earnest academics (easily spotted by long and incomprehensible posts) but here in Bikeradar, we might find hundreds of eager supporters from the MTB section. :wink:
  • Fab Foodie
    Fab Foodie Posts: 5,155
    Patrick Stevens wrote:
    Peyote wrote:
    I'm struggling to understand why she was off her lead. Some owners can be so irresponsible!



    Hides under Red Lemon.

    Peyote, a horrible thought has struck me. This isn't C+. . :wink:

    You're right, by now FM would have rushed-in on a wave of irrefutable logic and many of the usual subjects would (in between the main thrust of debate) be arguing statistics with an SS troll .... I miss the old days :roll:

    Anyway, congrats to Messrs blacksun and Stevens for playing a good game.
    The pessimists of this world are rarely disappointed....
    Fab's TCR1
  • Peyote
    Peyote Posts: 2,189
    Patrick Stevens wrote:
    Peyote, a horrible thought has struck me. This isn't C+. By now we would have been denounced by outraged feminists and earnest academics (easily spotted by long and incomprehensible posts) but here in Bikeradar, we might find hundreds of eager supporters from the MTB section. :wink:

    Cool!

    I'm scared, but excited by these new possibilities! :twisted:

    An army of MTBers could be a useful addition to any prospective Megalomaniac...
  • Red Lemon
    Red Lemon Posts: 3,433
    Keep us supplied with pies, cake and fuel for the flamethrowers and I'm sure you'll have a loyal following.
    King Kikapu / Fire Mountain
  • Patrick Stevens
    Patrick Stevens Posts: 13,398
    Red Lemon wrote:
    Keep us supplied with pies, cake and fuel for the flamethrowers and I'm sure you'll have a loyal following.

    How do we get you all together? If I post something on the government's plans to require MTBers to pass a test (with four 3 hour written papers :D ) and have comprehensive insurance, will that get their attention?
  • Simon L2
    Simon L2 Posts: 2,908
    perish the thought, but it occurs to me, in all seriousness, that the elderly amongst us might benefit from exposure to those who ride bikes purely for the joy of it.

    I'm not entirely past taking corners at ridiculous speeds to scare the living shit out of myself, but cycling has always been something that I care about - and caring can be quite debilitating (and if you want to know how debilitating, why not run for CTC Council :wink: ). People who throw themselves off hills while sitting astride those ridiculous scaffold pole contraptions with (gasp) tread on their tyres do so for the thrill of it. Just that and nothing else. Which one of us over 50s can honestly claim to get in their monthly quota of thrills?

    This could be the start of a great adventure. It's just a pity that the design and the technology is so utterly pants.

    and as for 'shoot' - no, I didn't type that, but somebody at Future believes that the use of firearms is more respectable than defecation.
  • Matt
    Matt Posts: 5,288
    Patrick Stevens wrote:
    Red Lemon wrote:
    Now, now, enough of the intellectual snobbery. I might not be able to speak Latin, but 1 b37 ¥0µ $µr3 4$ h3££ (4n'7 $p34|{ £337. ƒ34R M3h!!

    I'd say that just about makes us even :D

    By the way, I had an accident that wasn't my fault. Can you arrange a nice cheque for £4000 please? :wink:

    I came within a whisker of having one myself . As I was cycling in this morning, a taxi driver came out of a side road and had I not anticipated that she hadn't seen me and swerved, I wouldn't be typing this. I proceeded to give her a brisk earful, but she apologised very gracefully which shut me up rapidly.

    Someone managed to shut you up rapidly? :o






    :P
  • jibi
    jibi Posts: 857
    Simon L2 wrote:
    p People who throw themselves off hills while sitting astride those ridiculous scaffold pole contraptions with (gasp) tread on their tyres do so for the thrill of it. Just that and nothing else. Which one of us over 50s can honestly claim to get in their monthly quota of thrills?

    .

    I'm 58 and regularly throw myself off hills. With tread on my tyres.

    OK not every month, but whenever I can

    george

    https://picasaweb.google.com/georgeidf50
  • Patrick Stevens
    Patrick Stevens Posts: 13,398
    Matt wrote:
    Patrick Stevens wrote:
    Red Lemon wrote:
    Now, now, enough of the intellectual snobbery. I might not be able to speak Latin, but 1 b37 ¥0µ $µr3 4$ h3££ (4n'7 $p34|{ £337. ƒ34R M3h!!

    I'd say that just about makes us even :D

    By the way, I had an accident that wasn't my fault. Can you arrange a nice cheque for £4000 please? :wink:

    I came within a whisker of having one myself . As I was cycling in this morning, a taxi driver came out of a side road and had I not anticipated that she hadn't seen me and swerved, I wouldn't be typing this. I proceeded to give her a brisk earful, but she apologised very gracefully which shut me up rapidly.

    Someone managed to shut you up rapidly? :o






    :P

    The apology took me by surprise. :shock:
  • Mark Alexander
    Mark Alexander Posts: 2,277
    this forum is impersonal, too 'bubbly, ackward and there was NO need to change.

    MY NAME HAS BEEN CHANGED WITHOUT ASKING OR INFORMING ME.

    My surname is Alexander, not Alexandercp.
    it seems to be ok for someone else to take my name.

    :x :x :x :x :x :x :x :x :x :x :x :x

    im a roadie, I want to talk to roadies, If I wanted to be on a MTB forum, id register on one. (to any MTB riders, please don't take offence)
    I want my name back. without getting into too much playground petulence, I was first.

    P.s. I'm a little miffed :)
    http://twitter.com/mgalex
    www.ogmorevalleywheelers.co.uk

    10TT 24:36 25TT: 57:59 50TT: 2:08:11, 100TT: 4:30:05 12hr 204.... unfinished business
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Hi Mark,

    Better?

    Bookmark this page too: http://www.bikeradar.com/forums/index.php?c=4
  • Gavin Weeks
    Gavin Weeks Posts: 321
    Beat me to it :)
    My Ride
  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,675
    while you are fixing names. do you want to delete my CP log in. as i forgot i had a different mail addy on that one.

    if you cant guess the ID then heaven helps us! :wink:
    "Do not follow where the path may lead, Go instead where there is no path, and Leave a Trail."
    Parktools :?:SheldonBrown
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    done
  • rustychisel
    rustychisel Posts: 3,444
    Oh, for Christ's sake... those web designer chappies are actually HELPING OUT now.

    What are you going to have to complain about now? :wink:

    Oh shit, they've changed the smileys. :twisted:
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    I\'m only escaping to here because the office is having a conniption
  • seumasleahy
    seumasleahy Posts: 2
    Didn't even know C+ forum was gone, ok if they wanted to do that with a new site why coudn't they just have renamed the main oage of the C+ forum and we could have kept our user names and sign offs.
    Seumas
  • seumasl
    seumasl Posts: 100
    Ok ok why don't I just look before grumbling, that is exactly what they did, being a stick in the mud I prefer the old C+ forum but hey, fdaresay I shall get used to it.
    Seumas
    Just hold it there,don\'t move and don\'t drop it, I\'ll be back in a while.(If it\'s safe).
  • Hairy Jock
    Hairy Jock Posts: 558
    seumasl wrote:
    Ok ok why don't I just look before grumbling, that is exactly what they did, being a stick in the mud I prefer the old C+ forum but hey, fdaresay I shall get used to it.
    Seumas

    Too late most of the old C+ crowd who made the forum what it was have left and show no sign of wanting to come back, trouble is they have taken a lot of knowledge and useful information with them. A real lost to any forum.
    **************
    Best advice I ever got was "better get a bike then"
    Cycle commuting since 1994. Blog with cycle bits.
    Also with the old C+ crowd at Cycle Chat.
  • seumasl
    seumasl Posts: 100
    Ah, but to where have they gone ? :?
    Just hold it there,don\'t move and don\'t drop it, I\'ll be back in a while.(If it\'s safe).
  • Yorkshireman
    Yorkshireman Posts: 999
    seumasl wrote:
    Ah, but to where have they gone ? :?

    Mostly here:-
    http://www.cyclechat.co.uk/forums/index.php
    with a few here :-
    http://www.anothercyclingforum.com/home.php
    Though a few of us are 'flitting' about a bit :wink:
    Colin N.


    Lincolnshire is mostly flat... but the wind is mostly in your face!
  • Tangent
    Tangent Posts: 19
    1 b37 ¥0µ $µr3 4$ h3££ (4n'7 $p34|{ £337. ƒ34R M3h!!

    Yes we can and no we don't.
  • seumasl
    seumasl Posts: 100
    An ancient form of script ?
    8)
    Just hold it there,don\'t move and don\'t drop it, I\'ll be back in a while.(If it\'s safe).
  • itisaboutthebike
    itisaboutthebike Posts: 1,120
    Sorry I've come late to this thread .................the new site/forum is a bit of a mess(I emailed C+ several weeks ago to tell them but didn't get a repsonse - what a suprise !)............did C+ consult with its target audience about switching to a new site ? Er nope...........................so like many previous C+ forumers I'm off to the the new cyclechat website..............this will be my last post (pardon the pun !) on this mess of a site. It's too big for it's own good, and I'm, afraid C+ are a little bit arrogant for thier own good too.
  • Monty Dog
    Monty Dog Posts: 20,614
    There's certainly nothing like the quality of discussion as on C+ - I expect difficulty of navigation and sheer size of the thing means we repeatedly see the same innane Q&A's. The whole board appears to be a 'beginners' section. The only reason I'm probably still here is the fact that I can't get Cyclechat at work - so have to stay here in sufferance. :? Two things that have annoyed me is that in the 'merger' I lost 5000 posts and somehow my e-mail address has now changed and I can't re-register with the old one. :x
    Make mine an Italian, with Campagnolo on the side..
  • Yorkshireman
    Yorkshireman Posts: 999
    Monty Dog wrote:
    There's certainly nothing like the quality of discussion as on C+ - I expect difficulty of navigation and sheer size of the thing means we repeatedly see the same innane Q&A's. The whole board appears to be a 'beginners' section. The only reason I'm probably still here is the fact that I can't get Cyclechat at work - so have to stay here in sufferance. :? Two things that have annoyed me is that in the 'merger' I lost 5000 posts and somehow my e-mail address has now changed and I can't re-register with the old one. :x
    It would appear others had the same problem ... Hence :- www.Cycle-Cafe.net worth a try?
    :wink:
    Colin N.


    Lincolnshire is mostly flat... but the wind is mostly in your face!
  • John Stevenson
    John Stevenson Posts: 962
    Monty Dog wrote:
    I lost 5000 posts and somehow my e-mail address has now changed and I can't re-register with the old one. :x

    Posts now restored.

    What are your new and old email addresses?
    John Stevenson
  • mattsccm
    mattsccm Posts: 409
    Corperate penny pinching.

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