Bike Radar forum refugees

[Pinno718]

I'm still banned, even though I got my waste carriers license.
Vehicle remains unregistered, so they refuse still.

? PM me.

 

[fossyant]

Welcome, I used o be on BR many moons ago - surprised it was still going.

 

[Jameshow]

I think we're going to need bouncers pretty quick round here! if not Dragos crew!🤣🤣🤣

 

[Pinno718]

There is a real, genuine MAGA in the NCA&P thread... Please speed up my registration mods

 

[briantrumpet]

Welcome, I used o be on BR many moons ago - surprised it was still going.

I think we ended up like the cast of Cheers in the final season. We knew it was going to end, but kept the banter going.

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Mod note:

Welcome aboard refugees!

Please do not apply for NCAP access until you have made 5 posts here on the main board.

Many thanks.

 

[rjsterry]

Evening all, another refugee émigré BR here. Feels a bit like being kicked out of a closing pub, and have wandered down the road.

 

[rjsterry]

Thanks for the note about NCA&P.

 

[briantrumpet]

Mod note:

Welcome aboard refugees!

Please do not apply for NCAP access until you have made 5 posts here on the main board.

Many thanks.

I'll remind them!

 

[Drago]

Is it true that Shaun invested in Bike Radar and shorted the shares?

 

[rogerzilla]

17 March is the deadline for performing a risk assessment for the Online Safety Act. That is why they're closing. The costs of compliance and the potential fines are too much for them.

I did the risk assessment for one of the other cycling forums, which I don't really own (nobody does, but I renew the domain name) yesterday. The CTC forum has also done their risk assessment, and posted it.

If BikeRadar had a lot of under-18 members, the risk assessment could come out quite high and mean they needed to proactively scan posts and PMs. You can count our under-18s on one hand. We don't host images, either, which really helps from a "safety" point of view. We've had only one hyperlinked porno (not child or extreme porn) image in 17 years. The post and the member, who had joined that day, were both deleted as soon as it was reported.

The OSA is killing forums. LFGSS was going to close but someone else has been found to run it.

 

[pangolin]

Hello all.

Congrats to cyclechat for the dubious honour of being lifeboat of choice.

 

[ianrauk]

Used to enjoy the lively and fun SCR thread in the commuting forum over there. It died a death a couple of years back.

 

[VinSumRox]

Mod note:

Welcome aboard refugees!

Please do not apply for NCAP access until you have made 5 posts here on the main board.

Many thanks.

Noted!

 

[rogerzilla]

It was the best forum in the early 2000s, while it was still the C+ forum. It went downhill after some very heavy-handed moderation (prompting a bit of an exodus) and later rebranded to BikeRadar and became very commercial.