Thank you all..

[PIGEON]

..for being such a friendly community. I may seem a bit melodramatic but a recent experience on some other forum really reminded me what snobistic know-it-all pricks most cyclists really are and how special it is that there are so few of those people on here.

I recently picked up a Proflex, which came with Magura hydraulic rim brakes, one of which didn't seem to function properly. Having very little experience with mountainbikes and none whatsoever with hydraulic brakes, I decided to register on a mountainbike specific forum to ask what could be the cause of the disfunction (mind I was more specific as to what the symptoms were than I am here ). Seems like a normal scenario doesn't it? Well me asking for some help was met with semi-funny comments about how I should learn those things for myself (I'm sorry I know next to nothing about mountainbikes but there was also a time when I didn't know anything about roadbikes, and I'm sorry but I just don't have a socket on the back of my spine like in the Matrix where I can just download and instantly know stuff) and how I should have used google (really, you think I don't know how to use google? How do you suppose I found your shitty forum in the first place?). The thing that aggrevates me about this is that they could have used the time it took them to come up with their witty little replies to actually help me by answering my question. But they chose not to because they suck.

I'm just glad there's still RetroBike where questions are never dumb and people aren't as aggressive.

Sorry for the rant, just had to vent

 

[tintin40]

Interesting reading. Alas some people think they are perfect. They didn't know the answer to your problem so made fun. Rather than show they didn't know.
Did you fix the Magura?

 

[IDB1]

a recent experience on some other forum really reminded me what snobistic know-it-all pricks most cyclists really are

It's not limited to cyclists, in my experience it's across internet forums of any/every denomination (this is the only cycling related forum I frequent, I have no wish to have a virtual wander around the alternatives).

 

[skinnyboy]

I have to agree with you mate, If I want to find out about something, I will search for the answer, if the information is vague then I ask the question. What pisses me off is the sheer amount of armchair experts there are out there. They will swear blind that they are correct. What makes me laugh is if you met these people in real life they wouldn't dream of speaking to you or treating you that way. Being involved in the Honda scene for many years now and the amount of utter muppets that pontificate on forums is staggering beyond the dreams of avarice! Give them a 10mm spanner and tell them to do it practically and the vast majority of them would be crying within 5 minutes.

I love this site BTW, I think it stems from the majority of us folks being there when this sport/pastime was in its infancy and we felt part of it in some small way. The mouth breathing twatoids that make up a vast majority of today's cycling fraternity forget that, but its upto us to edumacate them!

 

[fagin]

It's hard to be a snobistic know-it-all prick when you found your bike in a tip, or most people think it belongs there.

 

[fagin]

ps I'm talking about my bikes not yours.

 

[IDB1]

ps I'm talking about my bikes not yours.

Yeah, yeah, rub it in why don'tcha . . I'm just jealous because there's no tip/skip finds round here. .

Was funny the other day, out walking the dogs with Wifey and we walk past a skip on someones drive.. the look on her face when I told her to keep 'em peeled for bikes was priceless!!

 

[PIGEON]

It's hard to be a snobistic know-it-all prick when you found your bike in a tip, or most people think it belongs there.

I suppose the mere fact that these people think our bikes belong in a dumpster because they're old is reason enough for me to stay well away from them. I have no desire to be accepted into the ranks of people who think there are two kinds of bikes: new bikes and shit bikes :roll:

 

[brocklanders023]

I've always found this site to be very friendly and helpful...... Just don't mention On-One or Ragley!

 

[fagin]

The idea is to have fun, whether you are building up a work of art, or riding a heap.
I'm poor so fall into the latter category, cheapish modern upgraded as necessary (brakes, dérailleurs, shifters, forks) for playing in the Surrey Hills, an 85 ratty Specialized, basically original (down to scrapes and rust) for more gentle stuff, and an early 90's roadbike, a £5 Ebay gem, for er the road.
While I wouldn't mind a modern carbony XTR equipped wonder bike, it would probably be wasted on me, mainly due to extreme cowardice.