Quote Originally Posted by luv2climb View Post
This is a cycling forum. I don't feel comfortable sharing other things about my life with random strangers on the internet. I know there's no risk in sharing the climbs. And yes, I have posted in other people's threads about other subjects. I don't have the time to go through every thread on every forum though.
I highlighted a portion of your comments in green as a reference for mine, before..I get misunderstood.

Hopefully luv2climb you will continue to participate in other forum members' subject threads. Or even initiate topics that are outside of cycling hills.

While, true that it is probably this group of women who also cycle often, would appreciate your hill-climbing, it is after all, an Internet informal community virtual group.

Making it a place that is dynamic for ongoing dialogue, does need the lubricant of other side cycling topics or nothing to do with cycling. I think this is why TE forums has remained an active forum with a decent wide number of regular participants ("regular" can be thought of as only a few times per month/year even).

If we all stuck to just announcing our cycling achievements on the forums, it would be a pretty dry, boring place, after all.

Consider the "social lubricants" or other topics that are related and not related to cycling, that make TE a great place for women cyclists to dialogue and connect --globally.

We need to remind ourselves this..occasionally.

I actually don't care about the guy, etc. and his cycling. I just care about how TE forums hang together and not fall apart.