Fixed or single speed

Hey! what's with the aggro?
I think, Torpedo Contsruction, you need to check out the border between civility and hostility. For the vast majority of people (I know(and like)) the boundary has become quite flexible, a spacious and fertile ground, like a park, where fun can be had. (Have you ever felt the joy of fluent interpersonal skills? Imagine sarcasm, imagine irony, imagine a world where we can revel in our contrary ways. Cant you enjoy taking a dent in your defenses sometimes, for that's where humour lives) I feel that boundary has become a salt encrusted razors edge for you. a barbed wire pain in the face or maybe just a brick slap. If you could give everyone here a little give, you would immediately receive a fair bit of slack. Ya Get Me?

NO

Thanks for trying to explain what ever it was you were trying to explain. The last time I looked this thread was about fixed vs single. I haven't been asking for advice. When I need some I'll create a thread. Then by all means give me some of your advice, for whatever it is worth.

Why have all TC's posts disappeared?

ill bet he has been banned.

Yeah, it looks like he has been DELETED. There is some weirdness on the number of pages in the thread, it says that there are 9 but only 7 are viewable.

Just going to check the members list...

...

He is still on the list. What gives VB?

Hey! what's with the aggro?
I think, Torpedo Contsruction, you need to check out the border between civility and hostility. For the vast majority of people (I know(and like)) the boundary has become quite flexible, a spacious and fertile ground, like a park, where fun can be had. (Have you ever felt the joy of fluent interpersonal skills? Imagine sarcasm, imagine irony, imagine a world where we can revel in our contrary ways. Cant you enjoy taking a dent in your defenses sometimes, for that's where humour lives) I feel that boundary has become a salt encrusted razors edge for you. a barbed wire pain in the face or maybe just a brick slap. If you could give everyone here a little give, you would immediately receive a fair bit of slack. Ya Get Me?

+1

Sycophant.

cunt

BTW, as you may have noticed, I have realised that replying 4 times to the same thread is a good way of getting your

post count up :-)

Yeah, it looks like he has been DELETED. There is some weirdness on the number of pages in the thread, it says that there are 9 but only 7 are viewable.

Just going to check the members list...

...

He is still on the list. What gives VB?

lots of threads have extra pages at the moment, VB has 16 chimps working around the clock on it.

hippy is fit

Well that certainly threw me..

Why have all TC's posts disappeared?

ill bet he has been banned.

Yeah, it looks like he has been DELETED. There is some weirdness on the number of pages in the thread, it says that there are 9 but only 7 are viewable.

Just going to check the members list...

...

He is still on the list. What gives VB?

Where's the fun in sending somewhere into forum purgatory if you're going to point it out to them?

There's this magic button I have that can make the whole forum universally ignore someone. They see their posts, they can carry on posting... but no-one else even knows they're there. Unless of course you point it out to them!

I've just gone and banned him in the traditional sense now rather than play with him. You guys ruin my fun.

mmmm

nothing to stop him coming back under a different name though is there?

VB probably blocked his IP address, and did some other tecky stuff to counter that.

I'm a twerp. Your a cunt.

you drop it.

For the record I wasn't looking for a fight. Just won't be pushed into a corner thats all.

Whats virtual about it anyway? Your not a bot. Your a real life breathing human being who happens to cycle past my place on a regular basis. Doesn't seem very virtual to me.

Tomorrow after my Sunday ride I'll put some pics up. Let the reality of it all sink in.

Get it into your head that I don't go round looking for trouble. In the fucking pub or on an internet forum. Someone gets in my face here or in the pub then I stand my ground. This idea that I'm hiding behind the internet is bollocks and I am happy to prove it so.

Step down or ban me. I really don't think that you appreciate that I probably approach things in quite a different way to yourself.

This man has issues! Thankfully this forum no longer has to deal with them.

Mad ranting London cyclist. Hmmm.....I think he might have be Boris?

was Boris a twat too then?

another boris thread?

Originally Posted by Torpid Construct
I'm a twerp. Your a cunt.

you drop it.

For the record I wasn't looking for a fight. Just won't be pushed into a corner thats all.

Whats virtual about it anyway? Your not a bot. Your a real life breathing human being who happens to cycle past my place on a regular basis. Doesn't seem very virtual to me.

Tomorrow after my Sunday ride I'll put some pics up. Let the reality of it all sink in.

This is actually quite scary. I presume it is all bluster, but it is veering towards some pretty nasty threats.

Watch out for someone chasing you down with a mad look, on an exercise bike. You'll probably lose him round corners, mind.

Funny thing is that he said that after spouting all his entirely fictional piffle about the 'threatening behaviour act' (which, to the best of my knowledge, doesn't exist). There have been some test cases around online harassment, but as far as I know it's virtually impossible to commit assault online (as in, put someone in fear of immediate injury) because you're not physically there (as in, there's no immediacy in it).

I suspect that if he posted a bunch of pictures of people and made intimations of the potential for violence you might be able to get him ASBO'd off the forum, though I doubt it has ever been tried before. If he did it long enough there might be harassment.

Anyway, I'm just musing on the legal issues, no real point to make...

Where's the fun in sending somewhere into forum purgatory if you're going to point it out to them?

There's this magic button I have that can make the whole forum universally ignore someone. They see their posts, they can carry on posting... but no-one else even knows they're there. Unless of course you point it out to them!

I've just gone and banned him in the traditional sense now rather than play with him. You guys ruin my fun.

It did cross my mind after asking where his posts had gone, that they'd still be visible to him; and hence I'd rained on VB's evil-moderation parade.

Next time, VB, you'll have to make sure you private message every other thread contributor first to let them know how sick & twisted you're about to be (because this forum runs itself and you need some stuff to keep you occupied).

VB you spoilsport! I was really enjoying this. Oh well.. back to drowning kittens it is..

YOU miss the point.

unfortunately their is an extreme bias on the forum and people have resulted to insults and intimidation in order to defend that.

Why then would I want to go on a ride with such guys?

Then why bother talking to such guys?

Also, you keep talking about pedal stroke upsetting the grip - if you ride clipped in or straps then you don't really take a stroke, thats one reason people ride fixed, you apply power continuously through rotating.

Power through the wheel also provides grip, thats why you have to apply constant power in a velodrome to avoid slipping down the bank.

Love and Kisses x x x

haha, didn't read that he'd been banned when i posted. boo hoo

VB, just out of idle curiosity, was TC ever posting as anybody else?

Yeah, analpleaser.

i can't believe this is still going!