This bikeradar thread from 2010 gave me quite a chuckle

u wot m8>
UTFS and find me an arguement
Ill fight ypu over this.

Im fukcin done with you shisters.

/etc

I was more miffed with myself for being drawn in, so thought I'd rather take a break.

I just woke up one day and thought "what the fuck am I doing?" and just stopped going on there.

Same story here, place was toxic and a massive time waste. Where as here..

So much this. It just got controlled by a couple of pretentious people and no one else's opinion was considered valid. "No Ragrets" in leaving

He ain't heavy, he's my Shister.

I have a vague recollection that there was a thread specifically dedicated to turning your commute along the embankment into a time trial or getting together with other carbon-commuters to form a peleton.

That seemed a bit much in the end.

it was the best of times, it was the worst of times

What the dickens are you on about?

Silly Commuter Racing? Before it became an app / Strava
That was the only interesting bit of BR

That's the one! My interest in it waned when I realised that 50% extra effort down the embankment reduced the duration of my commute by about 5% so I may as well get some panniers.

It's a while back by my recollection is that the whole place felt a bit city-boy-ish.

TBF the SCR thread was absolutely tongue in cheek. None of it was actually serious if you read it. e.g. overly exaggerating every time you overtook someone as being an epic sprint to the line, even if the other guy had no idea he was supposedly in a race. No one took it seriously and doing anything dangerous or actually doing something stupid was totally frowned upon.

Fair enough. There may have been other reasons why I left (possibly the horrendous price of things in the classifieds, I dunno), that thread was just my abiding memory of the place.

So overall, it is quite nice here overall.

Lol'd hard, thanks lfgss