Forum Recommendations?

[Big Dave laaa]

I can recommend Singletrack it's full of really pleasant people and totally non judgemental

 

[Venod]

You need to get out on the bike more.

 

[Dogtrousers]

I clicked the link thinking it sound interesting

Ha ha ha ... er ... cough

So did I

 

[fossyant]

Bike Radar if you fancy being ripped to shreds !

 

[lutonloony]

I hadn't thought of that, there's gaffs and then there's golf gaffs

Apparently plus fours is a golf GTI gaff

 

[classic33]

Bike Radar if you fancy being ripped to shreds !

Never busy enough!

Plus we're "old un's" on there.

 

[rich p]

Mumsnet?
They're all pussycats...

 

[SpokeyDokey]

Can anybody recommend a good cycle forum?

Ideally I'd like to find one without grumpy keyboard warriors, passing judgement on all cyclists who they don't approve of, condemning people riding too posh bikes, or too expensive lycra.

It would be nice to find a forum which saw cyclists as a group of individuals, an affinity group, of whom you don't have to like every member, but you might appreciate that everybody has their own views, abilities, and opinions on what cycling is to them.

The forum I'd like to join would not be full of condemnation of middle aged men in lycra (especially Castelli), it would appreciate that it might be better for cyclists to band together, rather than form cliques and bitch about eachother. It would not contain rants about 'wannabees' (which seems to me to echo the motorists who hate cyclists) doing popular sportives, but would celebrate the success of cycling and the new people getting involved and enthusiastic about cycling.

I guess there's a place for a forum which is dominated by a few forum obsessives, who seem to have each created their own version of 'the rules' which each maintains only in their imagination, from where they can condemn anybody who's got into cycling as it's become more popular, or who rides a bike which is considered in-appropriately expensive for their level of fitness, or lycra too expensive, or who rides 'too fast'.
But increasingly I'm thinking such a forum is not a place for me, hence my request for recommendations.

Why not start your own and you shape it as you see fit?

 

[Profpointy]

can I recommend liberal use of the "ignore" button.

I don't practice what I preach, as I can't resist seeing what ignorees have said after reading others' replies to them, but it's still good advice.

the ctc forum or whatever it's called now, used to be far more genteel than this place, but despite being strict on (mildly) bad language is now rather nasty and best avoided - basically there some obsessed misoganist dinosaurs who are a bit much in this day and age, so I now mostly give it a miss.

 

[rich p]

...obsessed misoganist dinosaurs

Should we propose those on here who might qualify?

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Blimey, have you tried www.shangri-la-cycling.com?

I clicked the link thinking it sound interesting

Are you new to the internet?

 

[AnneW]

Are you new to the internet?

 

[Smokin Joe]

This place is as mild as it gets. Try a swingers forum if you want to see the real sparks fly.

 

[AnneW]

bozmandb9 I know what you mean, I don't get why people have to post such negativity, but I guess that's just's folks. I doubt you'll find any forum that isn't the same.

I don't like everything I read on here, but it would be dulll if we were all the same.

Keep posting, you're as entitled to your likes as the next poster, and there are bound to be people who agree with you. If you find stuff that you don't agree with either wade in and fight your corner or scroll on by.