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@cornelius_blackfoot
tuppence being thrown into the ring.
When travelling Spotted was one of the threads, that kept me connected to the forum, the lovely daily greetings and viewings of other forumengers, made me feel like I hadn't left london and helped put off any feelings of homesickness.
For a while it descended into a you're doing it wrong, you're shit, slanging match, a way of showing how much better you (the gloriously widespread you) were at everything from bike control to bike creation than your less beknighted peers. I don't like this. Yeah its nice to vent sometimes, but...
It all got a bit depressing. Personally if you get cut up or someone does something on a bike that you feel is dangerous, and potentially life threatening, best to have a word then and there, each one teach one and all that. Yeah you might come across as condescending/patronising and or just plain weird. But "anyone on two wheels is a friend" and its upto us others who have maybe more confidence and savvy to help out anyway we can. Point it out and they might think twice about it in future, say nothing and they keep going on about their merry I'm a cyclist way..
Anyway just like to say that reading about the people who I knew and didn't know making those connections across london town made me smile on a regular basis