Well Done Commuters

I agree Matt, it just aint the same, surely its up to us though to make sure Cake Stop lives on in spirit On Bottom Bracket.

I m minded of The William Wallace speech in Braveheart, but after watching the tennis and it being so late I just cant be arsed to find it, but basically , we can only let the commuters kill us off if we allow it to happen.

The Mods have done what they had to do, so now lets get some spice into B/B.

T.M.H.N.E.T wrote:

This thread needs more tits

Obvious, I know. But it had to be done.

...BMW nipple hub caps, impressive twitching

Yeah. I can't see the point of setting up a whole new sub-forum and then moving (nearly) all the Cake Stop threads into it was. Why didn't they leave the Cake Stop as it was, put the health warning/parental advisory sticker on it, and then set up a more heavily moderated sub forum (no naughty pictures etc) for general chat (although I don't think there was a demand for it)?

Kendal Black Drop wrote:

Yeah. I can't see the point of setting up a whole new sub-forum and then moving (nearly) all the Cake Stop threads into it was. Why didn't they leave the Cake Stop as it was, put the health warning/parental advisory sticker on it, and then set up a more heavily moderated sub forum (no naughty pictures etc) for general chat (although I don't think there was a demand for it)?

err that is NOT what happened.

as was discussed the CS was renamed and a few suitable topics were moved out to the new cakestop.

it was changed to have to login to see the BB so as to keep any topic headings from appearing in the front page news feed.

so all that happened was a name change. but if you read what some people post you would think the world had ended.

Would I get banned if I asked nicklouse how he would feel if he was forced to change his user name and they gave it to someone else?

The new forums are total sh1t!!

Commuters kicked up a fuss, caused our forum to be changed. Now it's modded like Germany in 1935 and the people who kicked started the whole thing (the communters) still just talk about helmet cam footage in the communting section and still don't bother with cake stop or BB.

It should just go back to the original cake stop.

I went over to Cake Stop in response to Matt's invite, even started a thread. I have no doubt it is populated only by a lone piece of tumbleweed. I then came over here as it's more interesting. I also don't get the point of all the changes, so I'll just have a browse through here on occasion when previously I may have gone to Cake Stop.

Hi guys
This is my first visit to Bottom Bracket so I do hope you’ll be gentle with me. I was one of the original complainers when I agreed with DDD when it all kicked off a few months back, and when this topic reared its head in CC I thought I’d pay a visit to BB and see why it had been brought up again. I thought the more rational of you might want to hear my perspective.

As an introduction, I’m a girl. I’m a roadie. I commute to work. I cycle at weekends. I do sportives. I’ve cycled through the Atlas Mountains in Morocco. I watch the TdF and can understand it. I wear Rapha (yeah yeah, I know). I don’t have a Pashley, wear floral dresses or stick a puppy in my handlebar basket. I’m almost the same as you, apart from when I accidentally fall on my top tube it doesn’t hurt quite as much, and I need to wear a sports bra (although maybe some of you guys need them too!).

If I want to know say, the best cut of women’s shorts for women’s bums, then I’ll go to Women in MTB because they’ll give good feedback even though I don’t have a mountain bike. If I want to have a rant because some sweaty builder in a white van has slapped my @rse on my commute, I’ll go to Commuting Chat. If I want advice on what to take on a tour, I’ll go to Touring. If I want to rave about Bradley Wiggins, then I’ll go to Pro-Race. If I want a bit of an off-topic laugh, I’ll go to Cake Stop.

I stopped going to Cake Stop because it just got really full of the Girls in... threads and it stopped being relevant to me. It made me feel slightly uncomfortable having to wade through all these threads just to get to something else. It made me even more uncomfortable when a seemingly innocuously named thread was hijacked and suddenly I had some girl’s cleavage in my face on my lunch hour or a harmless thread about stereotypical women’s shopping habits that gradually turned misogynistic. And for those of you who say there wasn’t porn on the site, there was – I complained about a picture of a girl getting shafted from behind and it was taken down. So where am I supposed to go? There wasn’t a “clean” off-topic thread for roadies until the thread was split, so I came back and I like the new way – I can avoid Bottom Bracket completely.

Don’t get me wrong – I’m no shy retiring wallflower (or a lesbian, in case you were presuming I’m some Millie Tant type character). I’m just a normal girl who rides a bike. I ride it to work, I ride it at weekends, and I ride it on holidays. As I explained in the original argument, I’ve had the @rse slap twice on my commute. I’ve been flashed at four times. I’ve been locked in a walk-in fridge when I was a chef and had my erm, undercarriage groped. I’ve had a gang of male chefs all whack their c0cks out on a table and ask which one I preferred when I was still a teenager. This kind of stuff happens a lot more often than you guys probably realise. But I can hold my own and I can give it back. I don’t want to have to do it on a cycling website though. I just don’t want t!ts and @rses in my face when I’m on BR. Is that so hard to understand? Cycling is still a really male-orientated sport, although this is starting to change a little. I’d be interested to know if you welcome this, or if you see it as an exclusive blokes club that women aren’t supposed to be a part of?

Caroline