OldEd
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Reged: 02/05/04
Posts: 117
Loc: The Great South
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I'm from RoadBikeReview, which just changed its interface to something so unreadable a lot of us are bailing out. Several of us hope to find a home here.
We come in peace ...
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OldEd
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Reged: 02/05/04
Posts: 117
Loc: The Great South
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beginning.
ex-RBRers, where ARE you? 
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FTMD
new member
Reged: 02/05/04
Posts: 3
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I'm here, nosing around.
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OldEd
contributor
Reged: 02/05/04
Posts: 117
Loc: The Great South
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you might come across. Be alert.
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PdxMark
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I feel like a Siberian migrant traipsing into North America across a land bridge with millions of big slow animals quietly waiting for the spear... We're gonna eat like Kings...
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OldEd
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Reged: 02/05/04
Posts: 117
Loc: The Great South
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for this rugged terrain. Don't believe my road bikes are stout enough.
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OldEd
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Posts: 117
Loc: The Great South
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preferences to show threaded and expanded and descending. That should look familiar to you.
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Dave_Thompson
prophet
Reged: 12/19/03
Posts: 717
Loc: Spokane, Washington
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Glad to see you guys here. I hope my post on RBR brought you over to explore this pretty nifty bike site.
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Steel lover, but then I like Ti with carbon too.
Licensed bike geek.
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OldEd
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Posts: 117
Loc: The Great South
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going!
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Dave_Thompson
prophet
Reged: 12/19/03
Posts: 717
Loc: Spokane, Washington
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Ya', I noticed you trying to exhort the thundering herds. See we have set a trap for you all when you migrate here. As one of your tribe said, he thought you would eat well here. Because this is a much more 'modern' forum, we have created a 'black hole' into which you will be sucked into as you cross the electronic divide. You will remain in there as we will slowly absorb your energy. Not only will we live longer, we will be able to climb better, sprint faster and our bikes will be prettier!
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Steel lover, but then I like Ti with carbon too.
Licensed bike geek.
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cyclopathic
new member
Reged: 02/05/04
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was not required. It really sucks what they've done to old RBR.
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Pat56
new member
Reged: 02/05/04
Posts: 2
Loc: Boston MA.
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RBR's new forum was unloadable so... here I am.
Any thoughts on building a Fixie from a '67 Raleigh 3 speed,
I weighed the frame last night, It came in at a hefty 7 lbs. oof!
Gotta love those horizontal dropouts though...
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Gregario
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Reged: 02/05/04
Posts: 6
Loc: Kalamazoo, MI
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Another refugee from RBR board. I see Old Ed is here so all will be right with the world. My alter ego is "Landru" as in "Landru, guide us!"
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Dave_Thompson
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Reged: 12/19/03
Posts: 717
Loc: Spokane, Washington
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Bring wit, wisdom and money. Plus some good topics to talk about.
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Steel lover, but then I like Ti with carbon too.
Licensed bike geek.
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OldEd
contributor
Reged: 02/05/04
Posts: 117
Loc: The Great South
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a magnificent city.
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Kahuna
Forum Admin
Reged: 12/11/03
Posts: 162
Loc: Maui, Hawaii
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You guys are all welcome of course. These forums were created for owners of individual bicycle brands but that doesn't mean we can't create other categories such as this "General Discussion" area. If there's other topic areas you would like to see here, please post your ideas in the Suggestion Box and I'll be happy to oblige. I'm not the fastest to get things done but eventually I'll get `em done if you're patient.
The nice thing about these forums is the fact that while you can hang out in your favorite specific forum but tools like searches and displaying new topics posted in the last N-hours allows you to co-mingle and get information you're looking for very effectively.
Aloha,
K
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OldEd
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Loc: The Great South
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A Raleigh 3-speed fixie? You'll have tree trucks for thighs sure enough! You live in flat country, I hope?
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OldEd
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Posts: 117
Loc: The Great South
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pick up after ourselves!
This really is a nice site you've built here. Single-handed? Let us know if we can do anything to help YOU.
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TJeanloz
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And don't make promises I can't keep.
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OldEd
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would have appended 'except for TJ, who can be a very bad citizen indeed.'
Go back and get some others. Use your influence.
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TJeanloz
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I have no influence and I have not yet committed to your grand experiment.
But this one does seem better than the "new" RBR.
Not as good as the "old" RBR.
Maybe I'll get used to it. Maybe I won't.
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OldEd
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Posts: 117
Loc: The Great South
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But your contribution will certainly be welcome, should you choose to grace us.
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Kahuna
Forum Admin
Reged: 12/11/03
Posts: 162
Loc: Maui, Hawaii
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Ed,
Thanks much. As for building the site, all I do is host the webserver and tweak the software. The site is really built by its participants - in this case us fellow cyclists! It is what we make of it as a community.
Some differences between these cycling forums and others is; you see no flashing banners, no pop-up windows, and is run by a cyclist (ie. your's truly) with no other agenda other than using these forums to meet friends, participate, and have fun.
Also, you will notice these forums are the only ones linked to by some of the manufacturer's websites. Calfee, Strong, Spectrum Cycles, are some examples. I used to host the Serotta forum here until Ben decided to do his own thing. That was unfortunate but I invite any manufacturer who wants to use this website to host "their own" forum. In nearly every case, these companies have been delighted to do so and maintain a very respectful presence. They use their forums to provide feedback without spamming people with marketing hype. Check out the postings by Tom Kellogg in the Spectrum Cycles forum as one example. There are other frame builders who lurk here as well. Richard Sachs, Kirk Pascenti, Dave Kirk, and others. They even have their own "framebuilder's" forum that's visible only to them. Over time I hope these forums will grow by virtue of the fact that they're going to remain non-commercial and free. I'm using the same philosophy that dates back to the old days of the Internet where everything was done in the spirit of sharing. Yeah there will always be the trolls but that's where I hope I can step in and help out. Once again, enjoy!
Take care,
Gary (aka Kahuna)
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EdScott wrote:
pick up after ourselves!
This really is a nice site you've built here. Single-handed? Let us know if we can do anything to help YOU.
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ColnagoFE
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test...last post didnt show up. not ssure i like this place
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BowWow
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Timidly looking around... is it OK if I drop in from time to time?
This place still looks a lot like the new rbr...
Steve (feeling lost with the recent demise of RBR)
Edited by BowWow (02/05/04 10:22 PM)
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RWBadley
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Good work Ed! Nice place to be. I used to hang out often at the old Serotta forum, so this feels just like being home (in a way)
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Kahuna
Forum Admin
Reged: 12/11/03
Posts: 162
Loc: Maui, Hawaii
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ColnagoFE,
But you must try it out for a while. Y'know, kick the tires a bit. Besides the non-commercial aspect of these forums, there's other (ie. technical) reasons why this could become one of the better cycling communities out there. To show you what I mean, try a simple experiment; Go to Google and type in something like "Seven Axiom" and see what comes up. OK so Bikefanclub shows up pretty high in the list, what difference does it make you might ask? Over time, the search engines are going to make this place become a treasure chest of relevant information - trust me on this. Most other forums exist as islands unto themselves for the most part - not all, but many of them.
Anyway have fun! 
-K
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TJeanloz
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I've just been there, trying to respond to Gregg's pleas not to leave, and I can't reply to anything on the old board.
The new board won't accept my screen name/password.
So, after having been there from the day it was born, I'm done with it. I hope this is an adequate replacement.
But since I can't respond to Gregg on his board, I'll do it here. The request has been made to "stay at RBR", and we've been told that "it's not cool" to encourage people to leave. As far as I'm concerned, RBR just shut down their forum and replaced it with something not remotely comparable. I didn't leave because I wanted to. I liked it there. The new forum, however, wouldn't even let me login. What's a guy supposed to do? It wasn't a question of "staying" anywhere. If I had a choice, I would have stayed where we were. It was a question of moving to a new site, sponsored by RBR, or another site, sponsored by somebody else. This site appears superior to the one RBR is offering - but at the end of the day, I'd rather be on the old RBR.
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The_Walrus
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It won't be complete without Doug and Steam, although the latter could probably get us all booted off for guilt by association.
Now get out the mash, and let's talk some trash!
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Kahuna
Forum Admin
Reged: 12/11/03
Posts: 162
Loc: Maui, Hawaii
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TJeanloz,
I sympathize with your plight yet as the admin here all I can say is I find it gratifying when people realize some of the technical benefits of these forums. At the same time I recognize that most of these forums have very similar features. It's the participants who provide the real value. They can turn the worst forum (technically speaking) into gold by virtue of the personalities who contribute the content and create their own close knit community. However, having a technically good forum AND a great community at the same time is rare and something that deserves to be tried.
Aloha,
K
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TJeanloz wrote:
This site appears superior to the one RBR is offering - but at the end of the day, I'd rather be on the old RBR.
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Cory
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I tried to do an (nm), but it won't fly without something in this space.
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Spoiler
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Posts: 15
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This forum was created for general biking questions. I think we'd be cluttering it up if we tried to resume our sociopolitical/off topic discussions we had at RBR. I'll certainly post and answer general biking questions, but I'll limit it to that.
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Spoiler
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nm 
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Derick
new member
Reged: 02/06/04
Posts: 3
Loc: Jacksonville, Florida
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This looks similar to the old RBR software but with all the features of the new one. This is what RBR should have done. hopefully they will get it straight.
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terry
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Reged: 12/18/03
Posts: 47
Loc: Southeastern MA
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try it you'll like it. i must admit tho, the guys at RBR (& MTBreview) were/are pretty funny at times. kahuna's done a great job/service with this and the serotta forum.
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Starliner
new member
Reged: 02/06/04
Posts: 15
Loc: SF Bay Area CA
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The energy here is calmer than the new RBR site - I immediately felt like I could breathe easier and in peace unlike the other place which is dark and monstrous. But this place is far from being like the way things were, and maybe it shouldn't be forced to change too quickly. There's a pristine feel here which I hope remains, protected from slash and burn efforts to bring change. I'll still go to the other site and try to participate, even though its format has become so cluttered I feel as lost as a country hick who just got off the bus in Emerald City. This place I'll come to for other reasons, which remain to be defined. Meantime, thank you Kahuna for welcoming me to your cool retreat.
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Derick
new member
Reged: 02/06/04
Posts: 3
Loc: Jacksonville, Florida
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such a sence of loss over something like a discussion board. I find myself clicking back to RBR throughout the day and missing the familiar set up and people.
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Dave_Thompson
prophet
Reged: 12/19/03
Posts: 717
Loc: Spokane, Washington
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This board is pretty new, only a couple of months. What I like is the willingness of the administrator, Kahuna, to plug in features and forums that we ask for. He wants this place to become a very bicycle-centric hangout for people of all stripes who want to learn from each other and be a social group too.
The 'old' RBR forum was great, but had a some limitations that I think this forum has overcome. There is room for good bicycling forums of all kinds, it's not an either/or situation.
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Steel lover, but then I like Ti with carbon too.
Licensed bike geek.
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Kahuna
Forum Admin
Reged: 12/11/03
Posts: 162
Loc: Maui, Hawaii
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Actually I was just over looking at the RBR forums for the first time and was shocked to find they have copied the almost exact same idea of our manufacturer's forums.
I'm sure Gregg Kato is probably an OK guy but I'm not sure I agree with copying another site's concept in an almost identical fashion.
-K
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Pat56
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Reged: 02/05/04
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Loc: Boston MA.
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Actually, I live in New England, not known for its level terrain.
I was a bit shocked at the weight of the stripped down frame. I thought " well i bet i'll get really fit peddaling
this bugger around".
I'm beginning to re-think my fixie plans,
The 'ol Raleigh will probably be restored and used as a occasional commuter rig.
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Mel_Erickson
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WTF happened to the old RBR?
Chill out, Ed--we're straggling over