Forum for Anal-Retentive restorers?

[GoldenEraMTB]

Your poo has to smell of cycle lube to get in there.

I don't like the members only forum idea, and for that I won't try to join (see avatar) but having said that...I watched MTBR-VRC go astray over the last few years so I understand why Rumpfy and the others went that route. I would rather they have an open forum and take the liberty to moderate it into what they want, but you know what they say...different strokes for different folks...

Pitfall of a forum that had to abide by the rules and guidelines of a parent company (Consumer Review).

Retrobike has the freedom to pull the forums in any direction it wants...but happens to not be a direction that the old timer VRC'ers are in to.

So there's IVMTB. Anal, detail oriented, highly critical, lots of knowledge. We're mean and snobby. All those things that get people bent out of shape....no sense making that open to the thin skinned masses to complain about.

I know you're not taking it personal...but its nothing personal to those who do take it that way.

:roll:

I like testing my thicker skin on more important matters (relatively speaking), and do so on a daily basis. The forum stuff is just annoying, not personal, when looking for answers...kinda like a mosquitto, when Bug Off is readily available. IP bans are effective to keep out people who don't post according to the guidelines, and the guidelines can be as strict as you like them to be. But whatever...

Whats vrc?

http://forums.mtbr.com/forumdisplay.php?f=39

THE "Vintage/Retro/Classic" thread at MTBR.com

Is it some kind of watered down version of Retrobike, but for people who ride mainly modern bikes and cant face the fact that they're shite?

No. It came first and was anything but watered down. Gotta cruise the older threads though.

one can't stress that enough.

 

[SeeingisBelievingGTMuseum]

Pitfall of a forum that had to abide by the rules and guidelines of a parent company (Consumer Review).

Retrobike has the freedom to pull the forums in any direction it wants...but happens to not be a direction that the old timer VRC'ers are in to.

So there's IVMTB. Anal, detail oriented, highly critical, lots of knowledge. We're mean and snobby. All those things that get people bent out of shape....no sense making that open to the thin skinned masses to complain about.

I know you're not taking it personal...but its nothing personal to those who do take it that way.

Well put and understandable.

 

[utahdog2003]

Pitfall of a forum that had to abide by the rules and guidelines of a parent company (Consumer Review).

Retrobike has the freedom to pull the forums in any direction it wants...but happens to not be a direction that the old timer VRC'ers are in to.

So there's IVMTB. Anal, detail oriented, highly critical, lots of knowledge. We're mean and snobby. All those things that get people bent out of shape....no sense making that open to the thin skinned masses to complain about.

I know you're not taking it personal...but its nothing personal to those who do take it that way.

IVMTB could be that way too. Like Retrobike, you have the ability to shape what it could be and still have an open forum.

I guess the thing that weirds me out the most about your chosen path with IVMTB is that it risks a sort of inbreeding fostering solution. Think about it. You are a fountain of useful information now (albeit wrapped in a sometimes prickly package ) but your earlier posts on VRC show much less understanding. Your membership only solution prevents new and informed folks from joining the conversation easily. Do you think you've learned enough and you're done? I'd like to think that there's always something new for me to pick up, and sometimes that 'new' comes from a surprising source. I wouldn't want the source filtered by membership, I'd rather give them the benefit of the doubt and then throw them out if they ask if Altus is good stuff.

That and the winged crank-arm avatars...I feel like I went on holiday and came home to find all of my friends have been assimilated by the Borg, or maybe they all ran off and joined the Army like Bill Murray and Harold Ramis. "I gotta dry out or I'll be dead before I'm thirty."

my unsolicited 2 cents...

 

[andrewl]

That and the winged crank-arm avatars...

I had no idea what those things were about until now

May have to see what the fuss is about

 

[john]

The other discussion has been done to death now I think. So lets all move on.

just post it here as we always do. Anyone so inclined and bats that way will answer it.

Yes, about right really. Some people on here do their restos period correct to the nearest nut and bolt. Others are quite happy with 'the general idea'.

 

[GoldenEraMTB]

Pitfall of a forum that had to abide by the rules and guidelines of a parent company (Consumer Review).

Retrobike has the freedom to pull the forums in any direction it wants...but happens to not be a direction that the old timer VRC'ers are in to.

So there's IVMTB. Anal, detail oriented, highly critical, lots of knowledge. We're mean and snobby. All those things that get people bent out of shape....no sense making that open to the thin skinned masses to complain about.

I know you're not taking it personal...but its nothing personal to those who do take it that way.

IVMTB could be that way too. Like Retrobike, you have the ability to shape what it could be and still have an open forum.

I guess the thing that weirds me out the most about your chosen path with IVMTB is that it risks a sort of inbreeding fostering solution. Think about it. You are a fountain of useful information now (albeit wrapped in a sometimes prickly package ) but your earlier posts on VRC show much less understanding. Your membership only solution prevents new and informed folks from joining the conversation easily. Do you think you've learned enough and you're done? I'd like to think that there's always something new for me to pick up, and sometimes that 'new' comes from a surprising source. I wouldn't want the source filtered by membership, I'd rather give them the benefit of the doubt and then throw them out if they ask if Altus is good stuff.

That and the winged crank-arm avatars...I feel like I went on holiday and came home to find all of my friends have been assimilated by the Borg, or maybe they all ran off and joined the Army like Bill Murray and Harold Ramis. "I gotta dry out or I'll be dead before I'm thirty."

my unsolicited 2 cents...

well stated.

but moving one, and back to the main thrust of the thread as John has suggested:

Perhaps an Anal-Retentive highly technical sub-forum can go through a trial run here on RB, then again, maybe not.

 

[sq_root_of_2]

Thanks G.E.MTB.

Good idea. Just where the original question was intending to lead the discussion.

 

[FluffyChicken]

Thanks G.E.MTB.

Good idea. Just where the original question was intending to lead the discussion.

Why does it need to be separate from the Retro MTB Chat section, what is wrong with just posting it as per normal. You could add a please don't spam with crap, piss take, loads of bollocks and please back you knowledge up message at the top if you wanted.

 

[sq_root_of_2]

Why does it need to be separate from the Retro MTB Chat section, what is wrong with just posting it as per normal.

You could add a please don't spam with crap, piss take, loads of bollocks and please back you knowledge up message at the top if you wanted.

Good name for the forum 'Please don't spam with crap, piss take, loads of bollocks and please back your knowledge'

 

[utahdog2003]

The other discussion has been done to death now I think. So lets all move on.

Sorry Guv'ner!....

Having restored a number of classic sports cars I know how particular some can be about this.

Since some folks are really into the details of a restoration on classic bikes and really are concerned about each part, should there be a forum for these discussions?

....I misunderstood and thought the original poster was looking for the forum under a different site, and not proposing a new group under Retrobike. I agree with Fluffy, the status quo here is fine by me.