Quality forum

[madscot13]

the road forum on BikeForum is terrible, but I think the touring and long distance cycling is really helpful. I have also pm'd a few people and they have responded promptly, helpfully, and kindly.

[Velobambina]

There is a women's invitation-only bit there, but from excerpts I've seen, it is literally the home of chicks who complain about how TE is nothing but a bunch of godless pagan vegetarian lesbian witches.

(I get a kick out of the fact that the one who posted *that* comment still comes back to TE and quietly hangs out. Guess we're not so bad, after all?)

What's wrong with being a godless pagan vegetarian lesbian witch?

OK, I can claim only one of those attributes now (occasional witch)....

[lph]

Just wait till the grammar & punctuation grinches (sp?) catch up.

Oi! What's wrong with being a grammar grinch now then! Us grinches need a place to be too!

[OakLeaf]

This forum reminds me of the old days, before The Internet As We Know It, when people were required to use their real names and that rule, as well as general good manners, was enforced by moderators known as SysOps because they had to take care of a lot of the technical details of the forums, too.

The good old days, back when we had hand-cranked 300-baud modems and steam-powered computers, and we had to WALK to the socket to plug in a PHONE cable to connect and it was UPHILL both ways and we paid by the MINUTE and we LIKED it.

I love you guys.

-Oak, godless pagan christian, vegetarian who occasionally eats meat, grammar witch who uses run-on sentences

[sbctwin]

I love this forum

[Andrea]

Isn't godless & pagan an oxymoron? I don't know that much about paganism, though, so I could be wrong, but I thought there were many pagan gods & godesses?

Anywho, I stick with this forum & roadbikereview. I often refer people to this forum for advice, because RBR doesn't have near the collection of helpful gals that TE does (although the few that are there are pretty cool).

[SouthernBelle]

Aside from our group wonderfulness, I really prefer the BB software used here. Other boards that use other stuff don't tend to keep me for long because I just don't want to wade through them.

[jobob]

BikeForums has some good regional forums.

The Northern California forum, for instance, has a lot of very nice people. Many group rides are planned, and it's a good place to find Northern CA - specific cycling info.

And I agree with madscott - the LD and touring forums are pretty good too.

[Pax]

...-Oak, godless pagan christian, vegetarian who occasionally eats meat, grammar witch who uses run-on sentences

[divingbiker]

The old folks in the 50+ forum at BF are great, too. There's an ongoing thread now about a 66 year old man who's riding across the US (with a group) doing centuries+ every day. One man has died, his wife broke her pelvis, and another had to withdraw because he was on the verge of a heart attack. It's riveting.

[bacarver]

No, I wasn't on Bike Forum. Since I discovered TE, I haven't even looked for another cycling chat group 'cause this one is #1.
I was searching for a social phobias chat room and realized that my toughest days aren't worth the abuse that experience put me through. If I wasn't a wreck before participating, I would be afterward. (Shudder/Shudder) I think I even learned a few new bad words!!
Silver - I'm on my way to Colorado soon for a change of scenery. Steve and I are going to put 3000 miles on the SUV in 12 days. Ask me later if we're still speaking! I'm sure we'll be ok. We're good travel pals. No cycling during the trip darn but we will hike as much as possible.
I don't know how we got on the topic of "godless pagans", but I recently had the chance to meet an earth-based pagan wiccan and she is a genuinely nice, caring, interesting person! I did some reading and learned about the goodness that exists within their beliefs. So, there is a complement here in the midst of the name calling war!

Keep being the best group ever!
Barb

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

Don't forget godless atheists!

[ginny]

we're a bunch of godless lesbian witches? Awesome! I find it so tedious to deal with the right wingers... am I being inflammatory now? Has anyone planned a pagan naked summer solstice ride yet?

[Zen]

And Pagan atheists.

[Pax]

Has anyone planned a pagan naked summer solstice ride yet?

I'm trying to wrap my head around the idea of riding a bike nekkid! I don't mind being nekkid...I just can't imagine what sitting on the seat would feel like.