So many bike sites seem to loathe "retro". Why?

[pw_pw_la]

There is one other good one...

Do tell?

I wouldn't mind having an alternative option for wasting away the rest of my day after you Euro/UK lot have all gone to bed...

 

[pw_pw_la]

To be honest, LFGSS is pretty retro bike friendly. There is a bit overlap with this site.

I'm not a member there, it has it's own environment and humour which is cool.

Please tell me this stands for Lets F*&%ing Go Single Speed?

Tell you where I wish had a forum: The Radavist. I like a lot of what John Watson seems to be about.

 

[Tsundere]

There's one place that cannot be named, an image board situated on what many call the most evil website on the internet. A seething cesspool of far right anti vaccine anti Globalist pro Trump nazi's lol.

Personally I don't subscribe to that opinion, I'm not easily offended and am more than capable of sorting the wheat from the chaff. Some great threads on there and a lot of high quality posts, genuine gold, but there's an awful lot of toxicity that you need to sift through to find it.

 

[pw_pw_la]

If you're talking about Facebook (and its various subsidiaries), it's not the people on it, it's the people that are running it that are the problem.

A massive one.

So I'm good on that.

 

[Tsundere]

If you're talking about Facebook (and its various subsidiaries), it's not the people on it, it's the people that are running it that are the problem.

A massive one.

So I'm good on that.

Not Facebook, never had an account and never will. I value my privacy too much and like to manage my friendships in the real world with good old fashioned phone calls and face to face encounters

No, I speak of a place so reviled, so despised (by those of a certain political bent who just happen to align completely with the global power structure and international corporate media) that even mentioning its name will almost certainly get you permanently cancelled.

Those who know, know.

 

[pw_pw_la]

Are you telling me there's a vintage bike forum on 4Chan?

In which case...

Yeah, I'm good with that.

Sorry, I just can't separate my personal enjoyments from my personal politics. Or just basic human principles.

It's got nothing to do with being of a certain political bent, aligned with the global power structure and the international corporate media (massive LOL at actually writing that statement out), and a lot more to do with the fact that as much as I like looking and talking about bikes, I don't like it enough to look the other way and click on anything that's a safe haven for hatred, racism, and incels plotting mass murder. Nevermind the entire reason a certain, sad and lonely subsect of the world is brainwashed into thinking QAnon is actually a real f-ing thing.

Oh maybe you don't mean 4Chan. Or whatever it's now called. But if you're not going to say it, I am going to jump to conclusions.

 

[KermitGKona88]

Dunno I get ignored and nobody ever replies to my posts

eric_who?

 

[Imlach]

4chan is pretty mild now, used to be the real gorgonzola of depravity

 

[Lhatch4]

I guess it depends on why you ride. I don't expect any love from those trying to sell me new stuff. I ride retro because I enjoy single track and 26ers are what I have ridden since the 90's. Building a bike is half the fun. Retro suits me. It's less expensive. I'm not out to win races. Haters can hate. Not that I have met any haters in person on a trail. In fact I get smiles from other people who look at my bikes with stars in their eyes out of nostalgia.

 

[MattiThundrrr]

Do tell?

It is not a mountain bike forum, but any type of bike is welcome. The nicest place on the interwebs, ratrodbikes.com