Who let this noisy rabble in?

[Smokin Joe]

This is the second influx from Bikeradar. I was part of the first wave back in 2007, when this place was just an empty room before we showed up.

 

[TLW1]

Nice to feel so welcomed 😂

 

[Smokin Joe]

Nice to feel so welcomed 😂

The more who join, the merrier.

Apart from the online safety bit, was the Bikeradar forum dying?

 

[Pinno718]

The more who join, the merrier.

Apart from the online safety bit, was the Bikeradar forum dying?

It was like a Wake for an unknown with no relatives.

 

[briantrumpet]

The more who join, the merrier.

Apart from the online safety bit, was the Bikeradar forum dying?

In short, yes. The last bastions, which were lively, were Cake Stop and Pro Race. We could probably all have fitted in a Wetherspoons and had a jolly good evening, with few fights.

 

[MadMalx]

Couple of platform “upgrades” meant re-registering, plus random lock outs and spam attacks. Probably less than 20 regulars by the end, and we’d already discussed emigration at the beginning of the year.

 

[Pinno718]

In short, yes. The last bastions, which were lively, were Cake Stop and Pro Race. We could probably all have fitted in a Wetherspoons and had a jolly good evening, with few fights.

Why didn't you suggest that earlier? Damn.

 

[cyberknight]

The more who join, the merrier.

Apart from the online safety bit, was the Bikeradar forum dying?

I came here as the members were more welcoming and supportive

 

[briantrumpet]

I came here as the members were more welcoming and supportive

Wandering into BR towards the end might have been more like going into a pub where all the locals are chatting to each other, and the moment you walk in, they all stop chatting and start muttering about who's just walked in. There was the Pro Race crowd, and the Cake Stop crowd, with some overlap, but there were a lot of shared understandings that might have been baffling to anyone stumbling through the entrance doors.

But genuinely fun to be part of, and enlightening points of view to help clarify one's thinking.

 

[cyberknight]

Wandering into BR towards the end might have been more like going into a pub where all the locals are chatting to each other, and the moment you walk in, they all stop chatting and start muttering about who's just walked in. There was the Pro Race crowd, and the Cake Stop crowd, with some overlap, but there were a lot of shared understandings that might have been baffling to anyone stumbling through the entrance doors.

But genuinely fun to be part of, and enlightening points of view to help clarify one's thinking.

it was over a decade ago i left

 

[classic33]

it was over a decade ago i left

Nearly a decade ago for missen. Although as a regular poster, that'd be two years longer.
Forum upgrade resulting in a twin tier verification, new password required.
Signed in using a password that hadn't been used in ten years, in its final week.

 

[briantrumpet]

Ha, the Bike Radar Forum is still there, in read-only form. Thought it would have gone by now.

https://forum.bikeradar.com/categories/the-cake-stop

Amusing that the Brexit thread in Cake Stop is still on p1, and that the Tory-bashing thread ended up with twice as many comments as the Labour-bashing one.

 

[Smokin Joe]

In short, yes. The last bastions, which were lively, were Cake Stop and Pro Race. We could probably all have fitted in a Wetherspoons and had a jolly good evening, with few fights.

That's a pity, because in it's early years when it was the C+ forum it was a very worthwhile place with a huge amount of knowledge on tap and some very entertaining posters. The initial wave of us left after it changed to Bikeradar and it was down for over two weeks during the switchover. This place was virtually empty back then and we took it over and made a home of it. Others went across to ACF, as YACF was before they had a falling out with the founder and split.

 

[Mike Ayling]

Great to see all the extra activity on the site!