Us vs them

biondino

While the commuting forum isn't as heavily trafficked as the road and MTB fora, I noticed the following statistics:

MTB forum - 269277 posts on 28,589 threads = 9.42 posts/thread

Road forum - 286,804 posts on 24,270 threads = 11.82 posts/thread

Commuting Forum - 67,463 posts on 3,643 threads = 18.52 posts/thread

We are therefore twice as interesting as the rest of Bikeradar - official!


(Also I just noticed the newest Bikeradar member is stephen_hawking. Welcome, Professor, and I look forward to finding out what bike you ride!)

markshaw77

Or simply a tendency to wander OT within threads with alarming regularity

chuckcork

Commuting forum has 2 forum areas, road and mtb have considerably more to talk about hence the larger number of subforums with a larger number of posts + threads overall.

I think they win by total volume....

biondino

No, we win. We're the best.

alfablue

better at talking trivia? (symptom of boredom at work?).

Jay dubbleU

Its not trivia - its a greater interest in the outside world 8)

Crapaud

biondino wrote:

No, we win. We're the best.

Ah, but our threads are quality.

Also, it's very Londoncentric - your all making up for not talking to each other unless there's some catastrophe that's the biggest thing since the Blitz!

:twisted:

alfablue

Crapaud wrote:

biondino wrote:

No, we win. We're the best.

Ah, but our threads are quality.

Also, it's very Londoncentric - your all making up for not talking to each other unless there's some catastrophe that's the biggest thing since the Blitz!

:twisted:

Yes, the threads are usually very amusing! And Londoncentric, fair enough, but I am quite envious of the Christmas Party

ansbaradigeidfran

Londoncentric it may be, but for tonight it belongs to us yokels!

redddraggon

I think the commuting forum is boring. Too much London talk, too much talking about work, too many rants, too many moans, and too many people cycling on the footpaths or with no lights going through red lights..........

Crapaud

alfablue wrote:

Yes, the threads are usually very amusing! And Londoncentric, fair enough, but I am quite envious of the Christmas Party

Don't be. You'd just feel out of place texting the person across the table on your Blackberry.

ansbaradigeidfran wrote:

Londoncentric it may be, but for tonight it belongs to us yokels!

[redneck]

Yup, ah do believe yur right, Billyjoe!

*plays banjo*

[/redneck]

ansbaradigeidfran

I think we've gone off-topic enough on this thread that 'Us vs Them' now means 'Yokels vs Londoners'...

Crapaud

ansbaradigeidfran wrote:

I think we've gone off-topic enough on this thread that 'Us vs Them' now means 'Yokels vs Londoners'...

There's more of us. Yokels win!!!

itboffin

Not as much fun is it when Team SCR are not here to add flavour to the forum

Yes it's London centric but not exclusive for a start quite a few people myself included travelled far to be there last night and look at Jen J's latest thread on regular rides, see it's mostly out of town.

Don't forget the yokel unite thread, i'd say there are as many West Country members as there are Londoner's.

ChrisLS

...I was at the SCR Christmas Party, and I'm an out of towner...SCR is a national pastime...or dare I say international? Come on 'fess up someone, there are people from all over the world on Bike Radar...next year we go global! 8)

linsen

biondino wrote:

While the commuting forum isn't as heavily trafficked as the road and MTB fora, I noticed the following statistics:

MTB forum - 269277 posts on 28,589 threads = 9.42 posts/thread

Road forum - 286,804 posts on 24,270 threads = 11.82 posts/thread

Commuting Forum - 67,463 posts on 3,643 threads = 18.52 posts/thread

We are therefore twice as interesting as the rest of Bikeradar - official!


(Also I just noticed the newest Bikeradar member is stephen_hawking. Welcome, Professor, and I look forward to finding out what bike you ride!)

You're a patient counter - did you read them all too?

ansbaradigeidfran

itboffin wrote:

Don't forget the yokel unite thread, i'd say there are as many West Country members as there are Londoner's.

I'm not so much West Country as West of Offa's Duke, though.

ChrisLS wrote:

...I was at the SCR Christmas Party, and I'm an out of towner...SCR is a national pastime...or dare I say international? Come on 'fess up someone, there are people from all over the world on Bike Radar...next year we go global! 8)

I didn't feel that I'd been in the game long enough when arrangements for this one were made, but I'm very eager to come along to the next one. Train times will probably mean I'll have to leave the party at 9ish to avoid a night on the platforms. :?

dav1

does this mean us MTBers have a short attention span?...

W5454

Fortunately I've only been to London three times.It's so unfriendly and aggressive,the people just stare at you and scowI,and nobody speaks English.I couldn't wait to get back up north.
Having said that,the Londoners on BR seem like a decent bunch so maybe I've been unlucky.

cjcp

Fortunately I've only been to London three times.It's so unfriendly and aggressive,the people just stare at you and scowI,and nobody speaks English.I couldn't wait to get back up north.

Very similar to my first impressions 14 years ago!

Were you on the tube (a grim place to be)? Or an equivalent place above ground, like Leicester Square? Or The City (but people speak English there).

Having said that,the Londoners on BR seem like a decent bunch so maybe I've been unlucky.

Sounds like it; we're perfectly normal

W5454

cjcp wrote:

Fortunately I've only been to London three times.It's so unfriendly and aggressive,the people just stare at you and scowI,and nobody speaks English.I couldn't wait to get back up north.

Were you on the tube (a grim place to be)? Or an equivalent place above ground, like Leicester Square? Or The City (but people speak English there).
l

Yes,I was on the tube.My experience of London is limited to the Tube, tourist attractions and a funeral.
Anyway,today is frosty but sunny with blue skies so I'm off for a ride in the Dales.

biondino

W5454 wrote:

Fortunately I've only been to London three times.It's so unfriendly and aggressive,the people just stare at you and scowI,and nobody speaks English.I couldn't wait to get back up north.

You must be thinking of somewhere else. In London we avoid eye contact like it's something contagious.

(the flip side, of course, is that when we do make friends we can let down our guard and become just as fun and kind and generous as you provincials :P )

Belv

Or the commuting forum spends half as much time actually riding?

hisoka

Interesting stats there.
Envious to the SCR party too. Oh well, maybe next time I can make it down to one. hehe

addicted to Langbar

W5454 wrote:

It's so unfriendly and aggressive,the people just stare at you and scowI,and nobody speaks English.

Sonds like Leeds when I moved here 10+ years ago from the sunny side of the Pennines. I keep telling people that I am here on missionary work!

Greg T

Tykes think that "Missionary work" is a sexual position for posh people who don't have bus stops.

Be careful

Surf-Matt

I think you have to have lived (or still live) in London to be able to comment on it.

I have so am qualified.

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