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sail...@hotmail.com

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Apr 29, 2008, 5:17:01 PM4/29/08
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I've been away for a while and nothings the same in this NG.
There used to be ride reports, hints and tips for repairs, bikes,
places to ride. All gone? What happened here?

DTW

MattB

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Apr 29, 2008, 6:29:29 PM4/29/08
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Sadly, as a group we couldn't ignore the trolls. A few old timers are
still here but it seems many have moved on.
Spokejunkies has a few old regulars, and I imagine MTBR got some too.

Matt

LIBERATOR

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Apr 29, 2008, 6:30:45 PM4/29/08
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They left because they don't like me.

Danny Aldham

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Apr 29, 2008, 8:07:26 PM4/29/08
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"MattB" <somed...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> sail...@hotmail.com wrote:
> > I've been away for a while and nothings the same in this NG.
> > There used to be ride reports, hints and tips for repairs, bikes,
> > places to ride. All gone? What happened here?

> Sadly, as a group we couldn't ignore the trolls. A few old timers are


> still here but it seems many have moved on.
> Spokejunkies has a few old regulars, and I imagine MTBR got some too.


Greetings, I am new to the group, but have just been lurking for a few days.
The group is Troll infested.
But I am just getting back into mountain biking now, as my youngest child
(age 11) is now at the age I
can take him across the easier North Vancouver trails. So I am looking for a
community to talk
mountain biking with. What is Spokejunkies and MTBR? And are there still
mountain biking regulars here?

Danny Aldham


Moo

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Apr 30, 2008, 11:48:56 AM4/30/08
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I'm not at all surprised...

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My blog - http://degeneratemoo.livejournal.com

GeeDubb

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Apr 30, 2008, 12:45:09 PM4/30/08
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"Danny Aldham" <da...@aldham.net> wrote in message
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www.spokejunkies.com
www.mtbr.com

both are web based groups. SJ is more centrally located in Ohio, USA but
has recently expanded west as some members have moved.

MTBR is a multi-national website with a lot of different localized forums
such as
http://forums.mtbr.com/forumdisplay.php?f=84 for western canucks.

Just add LIBERATOR to your plonk list along with Mike Vandeman & Ed Dolan or
any one that replies to them and you'll cut out 90-95% of the crap.

Hope this helps.
Gary (one of the middle aged regulars since 2000)


LIBERATOR

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Apr 30, 2008, 3:35:22 PM4/30/08
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On Apr 30, 9:48 am, Moo <rodneyl...@roonster.wanadoo.co.ukREMOVEME>
wrote:

> LIBERATOR wrote:
> > On Apr 29, 3:17 pm, sailo...@hotmail.com wrote:
> >>         I've been away for a while and nothings the same in this NG.
> >> There used to be ride reports, hints and tips for repairs, bikes,
> >> places to ride.   All gone?  What happened here?
>
> >> DTW
>
> > They left because they don't like me.
>
> I'm not at all surprised...

You just shaddap...! u fred...!

LIBERATOR

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Apr 30, 2008, 3:37:39 PM4/30/08
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> > "MattB" <somedud...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> >news:67plqbF...@mid.individual.net...

> >> sailo...@hotmail.com wrote:
> >> > I've been away for a while and nothings the same in this NG.
> >> > There used to be ride reports, hints and tips for repairs, bikes,
> >> > places to ride.   All gone?  What happened here?
>
> >> Sadly, as a group we couldn't ignore the trolls. A few old timers are
> >> still here but it seems many have moved on.
> >> Spokejunkies has a few old regulars, and I imagine MTBR got some too.
>
> > Greetings, I am new to the group, but have just been lurking for a few
> > days.
> > The group is Troll infested.
> > But I am just getting back into mountain biking now, as my youngest child
> > (age 11) is now at the age I
> > can take him across the easier North Vancouver trails. So I am looking for
> > a
> > community to talk
> > mountain biking with. What is Spokejunkies and MTBR? And are there still
> > mountain biking regulars here?
>
> > Danny Aldham
>
> www.spokejunkies.comwww.mtbr.com
>
> both are web based groups.  SJ is more centrally located in Ohio, USA but
> has recently expanded west as some members have moved.
>
> MTBR is a multi-national website with a lot of different localized forums
> such ashttp://forums.mtbr.com/forumdisplay.php?f=84 for western canucks.

>
> Just add LIBERATOR to your plonk list along with Mike Vandeman & Ed Dolan or
> any one that replies to them and you'll cut out 90-95% of the crap.

GIMMEE YOU BIKE U CANNOT USE U NOT KNOW HOW YOU LANKY CYCLOPSE!!

GIMMEE GIMMEE GIMMEE!!

GIMMEE NOW!!

> Hope this helps.
> Gary (one of the middle aged regulars since 2000)- Hide quoted text -

GIMMEE YOU BIKE!!

Corvus Corvax

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May 1, 2008, 10:43:14 AM5/1/08
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On Apr 29, 6:29 pm, MattB <somedud...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Sadly, as a group we couldn't ignore the trolls. A few old timers are
> still here but it seems many have moved on.
> Spokejunkies has a few old regulars, and I imagine MTBR got some too.

I still check back with reasonable regularity, but there hasn't been
much going on besides Libby ranting to an empty house. There's not
much motivation to post when it's not clear that more than one or two
die-hards are going to even see it. FWIW, I have never really liked
web-based forums: Usenet, despite its age, is still technically far
superior to any web forum I have seen.

Last one out, turn out the lights.

CC

PS: Matt, I'm not sure if I will be swinging through your neck of the
woods. I'm pretty much settled on hitting Tabeguache when I'm out in
CO, despite the Freak's misgivings about towing a load on my old
Fisher frame. I'll get in touch out of band.

Mike Vandeman

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May 2, 2008, 1:02:49 AM5/2/08
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You are only allowed to talk about ME in this newsgroup. Shame on you.

>DTW
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Mike Vandeman

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May 2, 2008, 1:03:50 AM5/2/08
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On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:07:26 GMT, "Danny Aldham" <da...@aldham.net>
wrote:

No, you are only allowed to talk about ME here. Obviously.

>Danny Aldham

dardruba

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May 3, 2008, 2:41:08 PM5/3/08
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We got cross posters. Thats what.

Years ago we learned to killfile posts from The troll.
That helped us to killfile the morons who tried to take him on.
We could even killfile the posts from the emotionally stunted.

What we've not been able to do so far is to killfile cross posting on a .alt Group
- unless you know a way to do that.

LIBERATOR

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May 3, 2008, 8:30:15 PM5/3/08
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GIMMEE YOU BIKE!!!

The_Nelson_Paradigm

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May 8, 2008, 5:27:23 AM5/8/08
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I left because I left the bike industry completely. Except for a couple
errands while my car was in the shop, I didn't even ride ANYTHING for a year
after International Bicycle closed down.

I miss the days of the AM-Bar!


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