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Yes, they posted a few days ago about it

Please move to Wanted section:

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/377434/#comment16585403

Done

Thank you

Is it time to stop referring to bikes as ‘slave’, hhsb etc? I know the forum history, tynan, fake article blah blah, but it just doesn’t sit right anymore. Longtime member, infrequent poster xx

I have also had this thought. There was quite a lot of soul searching at peak BLM (and rightly so) which lead to some changes in name for some threads, but weirdly all the “Slave” threads flew completely under the radar. Seems odd, you’d think they’d be the first for criticism.

Thirded

This did spark sound outrage (by one user anyway) some time ago (a long time), which didn't come to much
https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/131947/?offset=25

In the OG language snob thread no less

I appreciate that the forum was a lot less pc back then though

merge everything into gravel bike thread

Then make gravel a sub-forum, so I can ban amey

Always found this weird as well

What should I rename to?

cool bikes
pictures of nice bikes
bikes everyone likes no questions asked
live laugh bike

if you want to criticise a bike I posted subscribe to my Patreon

bikes approved by phildas and BareNecessities

bikes approved by phildas and BareNecessities

SSMTB thread?

Taking pictures of bikes to show people pictures of bikes to take pictures of

absolutely this

That covers all of current projects.

In the past several of us have advocated for a dedicated subforum for bike photo threads. Mostly so we can ignore them all with a single click, rather than the current piecemeal option.

What the forum needs now is a big 'I have no interest in bikes' button, which cuts out all that nonsense, so we can get on with the important job of complaining about stuff

Hip hop skidders
Hip hop road bikes
Hip hop gravel bikes
etc

Or replace slave with sled

This

I've honestly never understood the use of slave when discussing bikes. I assumed it was a code/slang thing. Where does it come from?