New Cycling Social Network

[Spokesnet]

Check out Spokes - The Cycling Social Network. It's free and easy to use. Sign up and post pics, blogs, discussions, video. The next Facebook of the cycling world. We need your support! www.spokesnet.com

From the home page: "I started this network because I love to cycle, talk about cycling, and listen to others talk about cycling. Dirt, pavement, jumps, berms, trails... doesn't matter. As long as you're pedaling you belong on this website. Please enjoy this community and share as much or as little as you like. Welcome and enjoy the ride!"

Members are welcome nationwide so tell your friends and your friends friends no matter where they are!

[Trek420]

Hey, I thought that's what we have here

Welcome to TE

[jobob]

My thoughts exactly

[Crankin]

+1here

[Bike Chick]

Ditto!

[Trek420]

And we can "click to shop" (see above)

I'm just sayin' if I join another social network how would I have time to ride, walk, eat or work. This place has proven somehow over and over to be the best dang place in cyberspace for women (and a couple of men) endurance athletes.

Long live TE! Thanks Susan and Jeff

[Trek420]

Wrong way to network Spokes. All you did here was alienate.

Uh oh, competing forums Where is the thread in which someone got scolded for what we (affectionately) call another bike forum. I can't find it because BJ is too short to be searchable.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9jHa...eature=related

[ny biker]

Wrong way to network Spokes. All you did here was alienate.

Wait what? I didn't see anything wrong with the OP. I also didn't see it as "come to my forum instead of this one." It's a big internet. Forums don't have to be mutually exclusive.

As for not knowing how to run a website, you can't see anything on Facebook until after you create an account, and it seems to work fine for them.

I don't understand why people are attacking someone who has actually been rather polite here. If you're not interested in their site, just ignore it.

[Trek420]

It's a big internet. Forums don't have to be mutually exclusive.

There are many things I find here and only here. Like others I surf elsewhere for a variety of reasons.

Perhaps ideally someone would create an id, lurk around, get a feel for the "culture" (we're friendly, really we are ), eventually post something in the "getting to know you" thread (did I ever do that? ), get to know us and we get to know you .... and then "oh by the way, I have this site" or put it in a footer.

But the world's not perfect

There are a lot of valued members here who have a vague or direct professional interest in the board; trainers, coaches, bike fit, cycling advocates, tour leaders, bike builders, LBS owners ... and we in turn benefit a LOT from their being here.

As OP's site takes off TE itself may want an ad there. There is a business that supports our TE addiction after all.

Welcome onboard!

[tangentgirl]

+1 on not minding the solicitation. It wasn't terribly spammy, and it's a legitimate site that people here might find interesting and useful.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

New websites need to be as user-friendly as possible to attract viewers. So, requiring a login before viewing is inadvisable. Security levels can be changed as often as necessary to accomodate the amount and type of web traffic...
...Spam-bots don't bother a forum much if it is viewable, but requires a login to post. Unless the website is so big it's constantly bombarded with spam.

I must disagree with your statements about spam-bots. That is not my experience. Sorry, I didn't mean to veer off from the subject of this thread, however, which is not spammers and their methods, or even social network security.