Mtbr.com

[tintin40]

And the site still wont remember my login details i click the box to remember and ever time i have write it in. Unlike this which remembers it ever time

 

[purplewicked]

Yep i had it commented on mtbr 'shame not a period' build :roll:

To me it is a period build. As i bought it as a frame only so leaving me a free agent what to fit. And if i had been lucky to have kept my frame then over the years i would have replaced parts with lighter/better so on So my first frame would quite possibley look not much different to my present bikes
It would be nice to visit across the the pond

lighter better does not necessarily mean newer. isn't there a beauty in sticking to a frame and parts that plain work and not be seduced by New/Better? if everybody "upgraded" to new parts then there would be no retro forums cause there would be no retro parts.
riding a vintage bike is a statement: means i don't believe everything new is better. means i am free from the marketing machine and have my own values. i know it's not the same for everybody but it's for me.

 

[Lid]

When this stuff first came out it was new and better.
Even just the concept of Mtb's was seen as The Devils Work by many of the old cyclists.
We used to be The Tribe, the free flowing/thinkers that mocked the stuffy segragated world of roadies.
Now we to are splintered.

 

[purplewicked]

When this stuff first came out it was new and better.
Even just the concept of Mtb's was seen as The Devils Work by many of the old cyclists.
We used to be The Tribe, the free flowing/thinkers that mocked the stuffy segragated world of roadies.
Now we to are splintered.

unless you decide you walk alone and set your own rules. even when you walk into a forum w/ their set of rules you can play by your own. ride what you like. just don't expect popularity...

 

[cherrybomb]

They're just bikes guys!

 

[pete_mcc]

Despite the fact that I do love MTBR, this is a prime example of why I never really want to post on it and why they'll never attract new members in the same way that we do. This thread seems to cover most of peoples negative comments about MTBR (mostly perpetrated by the usual over-zealous characters who spoil MTBR for me), though it was nice to see that the arsiness was nipped in the bud and the thread closed:

http://forums.mtbr.com/showthread.php?t=367186

never understood why people get shitty about 'outing' things on mtbr, for gods sake its a country of 301 million people and everyone on that forum still thinks they're the only on who's ever seen an advert on ebay or CL, the fact that we have an entire section of this site dedicated to outing shows that it's a thing of good surely? I've found more stuff through that than I'd ever find on my own.

Oh and Rumpfy, I think you'll find that your google fight was slightly out, we actually kick your arse ...

http://googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=mtbr.com+vcr&word2=retrobike.co.uk [/url]

 

[john]

mtbr and in particular mtbr vrc are both great resources.

without mtbr vrc there would probably be no retrobike.co.uk.

 

[purplewicked]

Despite the fact that I do love MTBR, this is a prime example of why I never really want to post on it and why they'll never attract new members in the same way that we do. This thread seems to cover most of peoples negative comments about MTBR (mostly perpetrated by the usual over-zealous characters who spoil MTBR for me), though it was nice to see that the arsiness was nipped in the bud and the thread closed:

http://forums.mtbr.com/showthread.php?t=367186

never understood why people get shitty about 'outing' things on mtbr, for gods sake its a country of 301 million people and everyone on that forum still thinks they're the only on who's ever seen an advert on ebay or CL, the fact that we have an entire section of this site dedicated to outing shows that it's a thing of good surely? I've found more stuff through that than I'd ever find on my own.

Oh and Rumpfy, I think you'll find that your google fight was slightly out, we actually kick your arse ...

http://googlefight.com/index.php?lang=en_GB&word1=mtbr.com+vcr&word2=retrobike.co.uk [/url]

yes. mtbr has less people. it's focused on high end bikes which were made in less numbers. everything is less there. less people, less friendly, less outing. less is more as mies van der rohe once said.

 

[orange71]

Despite the fact that I do love MTBR, this is a prime example of why I never really want to post on it and why they'll never attract new members in the same way that we do. This thread seems to cover most of peoples negative comments about MTBR (mostly perpetrated by the usual over-zealous characters who spoil MTBR for me), though it was nice to see that the arsiness was nipped in the bud and the thread closed:

http://forums.mtbr.com/showthread.php?t=367186

never understood why people get shitty about 'outing' things on mtbr, for gods sake its a country of 301 million people and everyone on that forum still thinks they're the only on who's ever seen an advert on ebay or CL, the fact that we have an entire section of this site dedicated to outing shows that it's a thing of good surely? I've found more stuff through that than I'd ever find on my own.

ooh that got a bit tetchy in the MTBR thread didn't it!

I flag up things on ebay etc quite often on retrobike and one or two people have said 'shhhh!' (no stronger than that I have to say), but far more people have said great thanks, never saw that and now I have the bike I was after.

 

[purplewicked]

Despite the fact that I do love MTBR, this is a prime example of why I never really want to post on it and why they'll never attract new members in the same way that we do. This thread seems to cover most of peoples negative comments about MTBR (mostly perpetrated by the usual over-zealous characters who spoil MTBR for me), though it was nice to see that the arsiness was nipped in the bud and the thread closed:

http://forums.mtbr.com/showthread.php?t=367186

never understood why people get shitty about 'outing' things on mtbr, for gods sake its a country of 301 million people and everyone on that forum still thinks they're the only on who's ever seen an advert on ebay or CL, the fact that we have an entire section of this site dedicated to outing shows that it's a thing of good surely? I've found more stuff through that than I'd ever find on my own.

ooh that got a bit tetchy in the MTBR thread didn't it!

I flag up things on ebay etc quite often on retrobike and one or two people have said 'shhhh!' (no stronger than that I have to say), but far more people have said great thanks, never saw that and now I have the bike I was after.

seems to work well here and not there. in Rome do as the romans..