Any one on two wheels is a friend

You see, traditionally, forum etiquette would frown upon this ^^^^ sort of off-topic private conversation in someone elses thread. The irony of this thread being about whether or not it is going to the dogs is not lost on me. Yeah, it's just traditional etiquette, and its all a lot more informal here, but it came about for good reasons. LFGSS really does feel like the private playground of about 20-30 members. Can you not keep general chat to general chat threads?

Bah, fuck it. Maybe my suggestions would just turn this place into BikeRadar, and there is a good reason I never read that.

Should I paint my bike green or some sort of buscuit? If biscuit, which is your favourite type?

I'm going to ignore the stuff about lynx, and go back to this^.

It's a very salient point, but will countered it with a decent question: Maybe we're like we are for a reason? How can we assume that the atmosphere around here is a bad thing? (I should add that I did ask teenslain if he wanted a pint as a half-joke, a deliberate derail/personal conv that really ought to be in pms. To make a point.)

I think the thing about cliques is that they represent strong bonds. Friendship. But they can lead to mob mentalitiy, as we have seen, and also are susceptible to being trolled, as we have also seen, in this thread.

But this forum is a collection of loosely connected cliques, essentially. And I'm all for it. Would you rather we all just vaguely knew each other in the keyboard warrior mode, but didn't actually have anything to do or say with each other out of the forum? Bikeradar is that way >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>