Bike Radar forum refugees

[TLW1]

Needed a new forum as how else do I know what I’m doing each day?

 

[sevenfourate]

Why is the BikeRadar forum stopping; please ?

 

[KingstonGraham]

Why is the BikeRadar forum stopping; please ?

"continually rising operational costs mean we are very sadly no longer able to support the BikeRadar forum. "

There wasn't that many left on there posting, and I'd guess it wasn't driving people to look at the main website. I know I never looked at it.

 

[briantrumpet]

Moderator Note:
Welcome to our new members from Bike Radar
Just for your info, your first few (5) posts will have to be approved by a human moderator when one of the mods team comes online.
Cycle Chat has been set up this way to prevent spam.
If you could familiarize yourselves with the forum's rulz and regs please?
To keep the main forum relevant to cycling, current affairs and politics must be discussed on the dedicated, not moderated, sister forum NCA&P.
You will be able to ask for a log in to NCA&P after your first 5 posts.
Cheers from the mods!

Thanks @Pat "5mph" . Yup, I've just alerted potential refugees about the dedicated politics sister forum and the need for a separate log-in for that. It's sad to see the BR forum disappear, but it had shrunk a lot, and we'd all congregated around the last working valve radio. The CS fogeys had been not (or self) moderated for quite a while, so should slot right in without too many problems, I think.

 

[VinSumRox]

And another refugee arrives....

 

[Pblakeney]

Hi y'all.
Chat more next week. Have to log into that other thread too.

 

[briantrumpet]

"continually rising operational costs mean we are very sadly no longer able to support the BikeRadar forum. "

There wasn't that many left on there posting, and I'd guess it wasn't driving people to look at the main website. I know I never looked at it.

Yeah - TBH I was surprised that it restarted after the last (minor) revamp, but at least they've given a few days notice of the demolition. Ditto, I'd not hopped over to the main BR site for years - I just went in the CS bar to have a beer and a chinwag with all the weird people in there.

 

[Pinno718]

Wot no decal thread?!

 

[Pinno718]

Howdy Mr Webbo. Bienvenue !

Webbo, yay!

 

[sevenfourate]

Needed a new forum as how else do I know what I’m doing each day?

You’ve come here for inspiration ? God help you….

 

[oxoman]

And another BR refugee. Nice to see a few from BR and a forum that appears to be used unlike some.

 

[briantrumpet]

Hi y'all.
Chat more next week. Have to log into that other thread too.

From @Pat "5mph" 's note, I think you'll need to make five posts in this moderated part before being let loose with a log-on in the news & politics bit.

 

[briantrumpet]

You’ve come here for inspiration ? God help you….

I think we're all blinking a bit as we emerge into the daylight... someone had turned down the lights really low in there in case we actually saw each other.

 

[mjr]

"continually rising operational costs mean we are very sadly no longer able to support the BikeRadar forum. "

There wasn't that many left on there posting, and I'd guess it wasn't driving people to look at the main website. I know I never looked at it.

Did the £11m potential fine under the new Online "Safety" Act give it the final push, maybe?

 

[Drago]

Just for your info, your first few (5) posts will have to be approved by a human moderator...

The human moderators were re-hired in a hurry after the new fangled robot mods went all Westworld in the forum. It was messy.