Names and faces to bikes

prepare to get creepy pm's galore.

luckily for you chainbreaker is in south africa atm

prepare to get creepy pm's galore.

luckily for you chainbreaker is in south africa atm

probably get a few pigeons then...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8248056.stm

hahah, excellent i'll bare that in mind

wrong attitude.

i speak from experience, you should have seen the messages xander XH sent me, filthy, honestly i had google space docking.

PM'd

probably get a few pigeons then...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8248056.stm

SA pigeon 'faster than broadband'

I'm faster than broadband. If I cycle my 500GB hard drive to Brighton, I'd beat broadband by a long shot.

Fuck it, Royal mail's faster than broadband. Whoopty tits

aaaand, heres me!

prepare to get creepy pm's galore.

luckily for you chainbreaker is in south africa atm

Too late; she's already being stalked:

I signed up to Bimmerforums a little while ago- needed to ask a question about a manifold, excitingly enough.

Anyway, during the sign up process there were stern warnings about username- you were advised that you should not, under any circumstances, reveal that you were female, so to use a male name, otherwise the level of harassment that you would receive would be off the scale.

^
Registering now.

This is in the agreement
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Give it a fucking rest.

Give it a fucking rest.

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Give it a fucking rest.

This, many times over!!!

I like to think of this forum as one of the finest I found on the internet then moments like these make me realize it's just another place that is populated by far too many sad men!

my first road bike project: built with patience, mistakes, corrections and a lot of love.

Welcome, Hannah. That is some fork rake.

Confirmed my suspicions that the majority of this forum are middle aged, desperate, misogynist men. No wonder more women don't cycle when this is the welcome they get to a community.

Finding it hard to reconcile that with my post, frankly. Had just been looking at the old Dropout thread and thought I saw a resemblance. Irrelevant? Yes. Not funny, quite possibly. Misogynist? Away and take yourself a little less seriously.

Not solely directed at you, but to post that in the context of being greeted with the information that you will get creepy PMs and down thread that people will imagine you naked is not going to make a new comer feel particularly comfortable. Sorry if it is an overreaction on my part, but I do find it ridiculous that women should get this shit.

Anyway, I'm not a moral arbiter and could have left it to Andy and Furious Tiles comments. Clearly I reacted with an antagonistic comment, but I think the broader point stands.

Me too.

And there was me thinking that making light of it was defusing the situation. Whether you think that's right or wrong, being nerged for alleged misogyny really annoyed me, since I'd normally be on the "it's unnecessary" side of the "did you really need to post that pic of Victoria Pendleton" debate. Certainly not going to be held accountable for the likes of Scorch's creepy comment.

Ok - sorry. I reacted to the broader set of comments and interpreted yours wrongly. I hope we are in agreement now.

I quite like that mixte bike.

I thought it was only a mixte if the top tube(s) went all the way down to the rear dropouts. Or is it any ladies' bike with a sloping TT? I like it as well anyway, cool paint job.

MIXTE
One particular type of step-through frame is called a mixte. In a mixte frame, the top tube of the traditional diamond frame is replaced with a pair of smaller tubes (lateral tubes, or lats) running from the top of the head tube all the way back to the rear axle, connecting at the seat tube on the way. The normal seat stays and chain stays are retained. This provides the lower standover height of a step-through frame bicycle while avoiding some of the additional stresses the step-through frame bicycle places on the seat tube.
"Mixte" (pronounced [mikst]) is a direct appropriation of the French word meaning "mixed" or "unisex". The usual North American bicycle industry pronunciation of this loan word is /ˈmɪkstiː/.

I actually used to think it was the generic term for a fixed gear based on a step through frame, if you can kind of see my logic in that.

am i in the right bloody forum? have you lot just moved to US or something, being all politically correct and shit? what happenned to good old British sarcasm, the one we all come here for?

it's all in a good play on words, innit, but you had to ruin a great pun, right? whatevs

Itsbruce, I've pm'd you.

After a few confrontations on here I prefer to sort things out privately.

I hope it has cleared the air.