Foffa Bikes

James is always the little spoon

Or are you implying he's shit stirring

I would rather just say stirring. You beast.

suitably chastised

I see it is still quiet here, a simple change replacing one character in the thread title, removes the post from the front page of google .
Amazing !!

But the bikes are still overpriced shit!

Guys, with the ruble in free fall, you can get a Foffa from russian shops for just Rb23,999.00 (£220!!)http://ukbikes.ru/bikes/foffa-bikes/single-speed-black

I don't particularly mind that we are punishing the Russian people for supporting the Putin kleptocracy and its invasion of Ukraine, but even I draw the line at selling them Foffas.

Problem is i heard they are recycled from old T34 tanks and their fucking heavy,the postage would be prohibitive.

I'd rather support the Greek economy than Russia's.

You'll probably have to wait a few months for the Greeks to have a currency which can collapse, meanwhile it's €505 με Φ.Π.Α.

That's very clever actually, and I guess it's fair enough.

Did I edit the title? No.
Was it censorship? Hell no.

But... it was edited. The editor in this case was Wicksie, and yes I believe that thread titles reflect the community and so the community should be able to make them clearer and more useful.

However, you do realise that every time this thread hits the top of Google, or is bumped, that it is Wicksie who faces the continued harassment and whining from those who perceive themselves to be on the short end of it (Ian springs to mind). It's all fine and dandy for the usual trolls to carry on flogging this dead horse, but it's Wicksie that is in the front-line.

I've chatted to her, and she's pretty sick of getting the kicking, and she also thinks that after 5 years this is a tired thread that deserves to fade away.

Given that restoring the thread would certainly continue to cause issue for Wicksie, I'm not going to do it. I don't care about Foffa or Ian, but I do care about how members of the community get flak from others and I prefer she didn't and think it's pretty cowardly of the trolls to let her take that flak.

A few things:

1. If you want to set up another Foffa thread, feel free... let the biggest troll do so, you will get flak from others down the road and given 5 years of history you seem to be giving Ian strong grounds for considering it harassment... watch your words carefully, it is your liability.
   
2. There really is no point trying to fill posts with links about Foffa and trying to keyword them, the forum uses rel="nofollow" and links no longer count against external sites.
   
3. Re-read these last few pages, hell the last few years... aren't you all embarrassed?
   
   

Do as you please, but censorship did not occur as at no point did I intervene to edit the title. Given it has been edited, and given that I understand totally why Wicksie did so, I also will not be editing it back... she deserves some peace, and you guys get to whip up a hassle that she takes whilst you bask in your (self-perceived) glory.

@Wicksie can you do a better job here, I like your other work more.

http://www.lfgss.com/conversations/250023/

€505 inc Greek VAT is a lot for that.

Google Translate says:

HIGH QUALITY SKELETOU CROMO 4130 AND TERRIBLE PRICE WITH THE SIGNATURE OF DANI FOFFA

at least they're honest.

So who will start the "lfgss Foffa Review" thread, linking to this and the price fixing threads?

The shitting was the important bit, I think we've all lost sight of that.

It was a CRAP thread anyhow..................

A few things:

If you want to set up another Foffa thread, feel free... let the biggest troll do so, you will get flak from others down the road and given 5 years of history you seem to be giving Ian strong grounds for considering it harassment... watch your words carefully, it is your liability.
There really is no point trying to fill posts with links about Foffa and trying to keyword them, the forum uses rel="nofollow" and links no longer count against external sites.
Re-read these last few pages, hell the last few years... aren't you all embarrassed?

Really well said.

I've never ridden a foffa and never would, not because of this thread or it's content and not because of the bike's quality or lack thereof, but because of Dani et al. reaction, comments and bullying.

I've not seen any foffa's recently, but the ones this thread was originally about were death traps and totally missold.

I don't think the reaction on this thread (which is just words) is excessive compared with basically ripping people off and selling dangerous bikes. It would be like macdonalds knowingly selling food they knew was bad for people or American British tobacco knowing about the health dangers of smoking or oil companies... Oh, never mind.

Ha.

So who will start the "lfgss Foffa Review" thread, linking to this and the price fixing threads?

So I take it that's you pussying out of doing it then?

I thought Ian had been apologised to already anyway.

http://www.lfgss.com/conversations/130481/

Please stop stirring James.

I'll say one thing, them I'm out. A more peaceful life beckons outside of London.
Things between the original mechanic and myself have, I hope finally been sorted out after 5 years. Forgiven and moved on. My livelihood was also threatened because of this thread, so don't think for a second that it is just words... I actually don't see any connection to this thread and his business at all, not for 4 and a half years.
Dani can't move on because his business continues to be damaged because of this thread. I do not believe in censorship either but I also think no company deserves to have 5 years of abuse, which is perpetuated because most see it as a game, not just because you think his bikes are no good. You've got that message across, the rest is just spiteful and effects a lot of people.
Is it my place to do something about this thread? Maybe, maybe not. I could have closed it, but I didn't.
I'm certain none of this will make any difference what so ever and you'll all carry on being so very funny and ensuring that the world knows the highly important opinion on Foffa bikes from LFGSS.

It is embarrassing though.

http://www.theguardian.com/science/head-quarters/2014/feb/25/internet-trolls-are-also-real-life-trolls

Food for thought

[edit:Velocio]Quoting 95% of an article is not an excerpt, and links work perfectly well.[/edit]