What's happened to this forum?

seanoconn

BikeRadar elite.

Top ten most liked members

Jezyboy

I want to see an award for the most flagged!

MattFalle

seanoconn said:

BikeRadar elite.

Top ten most liked members

lies, lies and statistics?

I presume February was a quiet news month?

pblakeney

Coolio!
(I'd have never looked)

shirley_basso

they got it right when they called them members

First.Aspect

shirley_basso said:

they got it right when they called them members

I will make a point of liking all your posts from now on.

Stevo_666

I'm top of the league...

Stevo_666

But where is Pinno?

pinno

Stevo_666 said:

But where is Pinno?

Coopster was your No.1 fan but now he's gone, you'll slip down the leader board.

veronese68

shirley_basso said:

they got it right when they called them members

Shirl' makes a late bid for most liked comment

pblakeney

veronese68 said:

shirley_basso said:

they got it right when they called them members

Shirl' makes a late bid for most liked comment

In a bid to become a member?

womack

Just returning to the more important point of holiday homes if you watch day 3 of the Volta ao Algarve on Friday about four mile from the finish in Tavira the race goes past the bottom of our road.

Unfortunately I will be in sunny Cheshire 😟

pinno

womack said:

Just returning to the more important point of holiday homes...

Yeah, must keep the thread on topic.

Have you ridden the Monchique?

seanoconn

Stevo_666 said:

But where is Pinno?

“But where is pinno?”

Very good question.

Born and raised in Kenya, the young pinno showed great promise as an athlete running the 10miles from and to school every day. He was home schooled but managed to escape every morning. Turning down an opportunity to represent Kenya in the olympics, preferring instead to relocate to Scotland and dedicate himself to the BikeRadar forum. Quickly rising through the ranks with ruthless efficiency, aided by the deaths of several high ranking BB members, pinno, riding a wave of popularity, ascended to the throne in 2013 and reigned for 5 more, crushing all challengers.
Then in 2018 disaster struck. Losing a battle to become the highest post count holder, closely followed by the loss of his big girls thread was a double bitter pill to swallow and a huge blow to his colossal ego. Later that year, the disappearance of his beloved seano would be the final nail in the coffin, sending Pinno spiralling into a drug fuelled Lego building despair from which he would never recover.

Some say on a quiet dark night the ghost of Pinno wandering the forum boards can be heard lamenting his demise and quickly changing the subject when posts counts or popularity are mentioned.


Next week on ‘Behind the forum’ The inexplicable rise of Stevo.

Stevo_666

seanoconn said:

Stevo_666 said:

But where is Pinno?

“But where is pinno?”

Very good question.

Born and raised in Kenya, the young pinno showed great promise as an athlete running the 10miles from and to school every day. He was home schooled but managed to escape every morning. Turning down an opportunity to represent Kenya in the olympics, preferring instead to relocate to Scotland and dedicate himself to the BikeRadar forum. Quickly rising through the ranks with ruthless efficiency, aided by the deaths of several high ranking BB members, pinno, riding a wave of popularity, ascended to the throne in 2013 and reigned for 5 more, crushing all challengers.
Then in 2018 disaster struck. Losing a battle to become the highest post count holder, closely followed by the loss of his big girls thread was a double bitter pill to swallow and a huge blow to his colossal ego. Later that year, the disappearance of his beloved seano would be the final nail in the coffin, sending Pinno spiralling into a drug fuelled Lego building despair from which he would never recover.

Some say on a quiet dark night the ghost of Pinno wandering the forum boards can be heard lamenting his demise and quickly changing the subject when posts counts or popularity are mentioned.


Next week on ‘Behind the forum’ The unfathomable rise of Stevo.

😀

Spot on, apart from the use of the word 'unfathomable'

pinno

Yes, 'inexplicable' would have been better.

seanoconn

spooky

womack

pinno said:

womack said:

Just returning to the more important point of holiday homes...

Yeah, must keep the thread on topic.

Have you ridden the Monchique?

Bit far west from where we are based pinno.

This is a good ride though

https://www.abiliobikes.com/en/tracks/track/Road81km/

pinno

womack said:

pinno said:

womack said:

Just returning to the more important point of holiday homes...

Yeah, must keep the thread on topic.

Have you ridden the Monchique?

Bit far west from where we are based pinno.

This is a good ride though

https://www.abiliobikes.com/en/tracks/track/Road81km/

We stayed near Armacao de pera .
Had that lovely traditional (to the region) Portuguese fruit cake and coffee at the top.

pinno

seanoconn said:

spooky

Not really. XK posts in the word association game.

womack

pinno said:

womack said:

pinno said:

womack said:

Just returning to the more important point of holiday homes...

Yeah, must keep the thread on topic.

Have you ridden the Monchique?

Bit far west from where we are based pinno.

This is a good ride though

https://www.abiliobikes.com/en/tracks/track/Road81km/

We stayed near Armacao de pera .
Had that lovely traditional (to the region) Portuguese fruit cake and coffee at the top.

Must admit missing the cycling, empty back roads and numerous coffee stops that Portugal offers.

The two negatives are the never ending wind (we are on the coast) and the loose dogs that think it is good sport to try and attack you as you cycle past them.

homers_double

pinno said:

elbowloh said:

johngti said:

Yes. Pourquoi?

You should be riding a people's bike from China you commie

Well, I wouldn't go that far.
I thought it was only Dentists and Lawyers that rode Treks.

I'm neither and own one, my wife also has a Trek MTB!

tailwindhome

I think having one 'Big Politics Thread' would be an improvement

elbowloh

tailwindhome said:

I think having one 'Big Politics Thread' would be an improvement

For the whole of the internet?

pangolin

tailwindhome said:

I think having one 'Big Politics Thread' would be an improvement

There would almost immediately be a referendum to split it up.

ballysmate

shortfall said:

It's a bit like the Oscars. The people who are still taking part think it's wonderful but they haven't noticed that everyone else has switched off.

A pity there is not a facility to like this comment twice.

ballysmate

shortfall said:

surrey_commuter said:

shortfall said:

surrey_commuter said:

tailwindhome said:

Am I to understand there are too many woke people and not enough diversity?

I am reeling from discovering that other than RJST I am the only one without a holiday home

Just to clarify. I have nothing against centre left middle class white blokes with holiday homes and good pensions, just that it would be nice to see a more diverse body of opinion sometimes. On the holiday homes thing, there was recently a thread dedicated to buying a second home abroad and another about a bloke with a double glazed shed and I thought those two topics were the perfect metaphor for cakestop.

I am nowhere near centre left
middle class
white (but could not pass for it)
bloke
not even the hint of a holiday home

the audience is self selecting as you need to be able to have access to a computer throughout the working day with no monitoring

You know that people can log into forums outside of work hours though right? The fact that most of the activity seems to take place amongst the demographic and times you have identified raises the question why other people choose not to? There are probably tons of reasons for this but if one of them is that some people feel like their opinions arent valued for whatever reason, then that's something that can be easily addressed. Robust debate is fine and what we're all here for but condescension not so much. it's not always overt and it's probably not even done consciously most of the time but it exists. Just my thoughts, I'm sure I'd get on fine with most of you if we were sat in a pub (or the wine bar obviously 😉)

Don't envisage many on here agreeing to meet up at Wetherspoons.

ballysmate

seanoconn said:

BikeRadar elite.

Top ten most liked members

But will we see another Arran?

seanoconn

That’s very impressive! Where did you dig that up from?

ballysmate

Was in a junk folder buried on the hard drive.
I assume I posted it years ago and never got round to deleting it.