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@herohirst
Crickey. It REALLY doesn’t take too much to get a serious rise out of some of you lot does it? I go off to the workshop for the day only to come home to find that I’ve initiated a complete car-crash of a reaction! At least it’s better than apathy I suppose.
OK, here it is. I’m a long time cyclist but a relative newbie on this forum. Believe it or not my primary purpose in posting here isn’t to piss people off. I’ve got something I might keep or sell and the price I was looking for is wrong in your opinion(s). Fine. What’s the problem? Some of the early reactions (Marcho) are reasonable and realistic. Then a bizarre mob mentality takes over like a fever. One person leads off with a bit of excess, then the floodgates open and the rest follow like sheep each one trying to trump the last. Cock fighting, pure and simple. This disproportionate avalache is a tendency that happens every now and then on this site and it must have a negative effect in the long run? Newbies will keep finding LFGSS and some will make basic errors and/or errors of judgement & if they just get flamed for it they’ll fuck off somewhere else and not come back. And eventually the clique will isolate itself; surely a bit of a tragedy in the long run?
In anticipation of a boringly predictable tide of further abuse and HTFU’s, I just want to state for the record that I’m not that bothered what some other people think (life’s too short) and I’m sure it won’t stop me coming back here and reading. As for the frame, if nobody else sees value in it then I’ll just ride it and enjoy it myself. I’ve given it enough time and attention already so it will be a pleasure. I just wanted to try and encourage the loudest shouters to keep their hair on. If I’ve helped some people to get rid of today’s ration of bile then maybe I’ve done something. Have a beer. Punch the wall. Anything, but keep life in perspective. It’s just a bike.
H.