Track bars - an odd reaction??

So yeah get some nice brakes with hoods and enjoy the extra hand position.

Wouldn't it be easier to just says I overegged it and mention the SFW aspectvof it rather than writing a tl:dr post about it? I'd had listened and I did as that was the last time I've mentioned such person.

i don't even know what tl:dr means but the reason you got a heated post rather than a polite request was because it's a fucking disgrace to see that picture on this forum and you as the provoker needed a reality check. you shouldn't have needed it saying that constantly referencing a fairly bleak kind of pornography is not acceptable behaviour on a bike forum.

It's very odd coming from a bloke who sparingly appear on the forum every now and then to have a says rather than contributing? You used to be a regular who have some good point to said.
it's not odd from my position. I still come on here to look at stuff but after the geekfests, the shitstorms and the arguments that drag on for days about the slightest thing and the feeling I'd said enough about most things, I couldn't be arsed to post any more. not the same as contributing, ed. just because someone posts a fifty times a day doesn't mean their contribution is any more worthwhile in the long run.

I had put that stupid topic on ignore and it's the first topic I've ignored on the forum, it's very irritating and bothering reading comment about my poor used of English, so I ignored it, it work at school, it work for me here, so fuck off with your implicating that I'm 'loving' it.
fair enough, though i do think widespread forum approval has muddied your vision. There was a time you used to be a regular who to me represented the best of the forum. Now somehow you have come to represent the best and the worst of it, or at least had by yesterday when i found you coercing someone yet again into looking at something a lot of people wouldn't ever want to see.

That's what puzzles me unless posts have been edited: he suggested someone Google Veronica Moser but did not tell him it would be NSFW which was a faux pas. But the other guy then goes and posts a large pic of her and as far as I can see no one has asked him to delete it (though I now have in a PM).

i'm happy that the image stays long enough for people to see what a trough this forum has become and maybe do something about it. i don't believe the guy who posted it is on here regularly enough to have come back on this thread, whereas Ed is. Ed was at the root of it, and by all appearances loves the forum, so I addressed Ed to see exactly what he thought he was doing.

Am I missing something? If I image search for VM on google.co.uk on default settings, there is little to offend on page 1. So, people would have deliberately to have turned off safe search to see the offending material. The results of a web search are so obviously going to lead to potentially offensive material that only somebody deliberately seeking to be offended (or somebody who shares Ed's scat fetish) would actually click through to any of the results. The image posted is essentially indistinguishable from an image of somebody getting a mud pack at the spa without the contextual knowledge of VM's career.

i agree.

if you're browsing this forum at work well aware of its content you should have images turned off and if you get caught you have no one to blame but yourself, this is fucking LFGSS, if you're offended by a picture of a woman covered in shit you need to htfu.

mdcc tester: i don't think anyone in their right mind would read your post and nod sagely, so you'll forgive me if i don't respond in any concrete way to your laughable 3am attempt at justifying images of a woman covered in faeces for the sexual pleasure of others appearing on a forum that was set up for people to share their enthusiasm of fixed gear bikes.

edit: velo libre coming in with beautiful timing to reinforce my point.

i agree.

if you're browsing this forum at work well aware of its content you should have images turned off and if you get caught you have no one to blame but yourself, this is fucking LFGSS, if you're offended by a picture of a woman covered in shit you need to htfu.

ha, posted before i saw he image on the previous page, thought it was just alluded to. wheresmybeard is at fault for posting an image tha breaks the rules.

mdcc tester: i don't think anyone in their right mind

edit: velo libre coming in with beautiful timing to reinforce my point.

scatologicial porn ain't cool but making fun of mental illness is!

oh fuck off.

no you fuck off.

just trying to communicate with you at your level.

off you go to find an image of someone flipping the bird.

anyway.. all that said i actually came on this early to respond to ed, whose reply I saw last night and wanted to reply to in a manner that was constructive, so that i could get on with other things today as this kind of thing will just go on and on like everything else. i've made my point, i just wish others who found it unacceptable might have said something too.

This thread is appalling and Pajamas is right that this is an exceptionally low point for the forum. From the start it was fairly needless flaming of someone by those who are so eagar to offer their opinion that is often half cooked or secondhand.
As for Ed (and other over time) baiting people to google VM, I find truely abhorrent and completely indefensible.

Tragically, you can't even leave as there's no one to action your request, and hasn't been for about a week.

From the start it was fairly needless flaming of someone by those who are so eagar to offer their opinion that is often half cooked or secondhand.

So, what's your opinion on looking for a brake lever in a place where there's no lever attached? Please....

I don't think it's unreasonable to find it a bit sinister when a male-dominated cycling forum gleefully overposts images of a woman with shit on her face.

I'm astonished that I even have to type that sentence btw.

So, what's your opinion on looking for a brake lever in a place where there's no lever attached? Please....

I thpught the OP described an iteresting phenomenon, I think it may be that the shape / design of the bars encourages that particular movement, rather than, or as well as any anything subconscious.

It has happened to me riding brakeless on the road, but disappears the moment I'm on the track.

So, what's your opinion on looking for a brake lever in a place where there's no lever attached? Please....

I beleive the time for this discussion has passed and I'd be surprised if the OP returns. I also never said I had an opinion on the matter.

However for the OP to be told to just fit proper brake levers and bars by the man who has gone through more diferent set ups in the past 3 years than I have in the past 20 years of riding all manner of bike smacks of hipocrisy to me.
Then to be ridiculed by someone who has recently been pulled up for his attitude, who has also posted a fair amount of dumb questions when he started on here (has been pointed out many times before) also smacks of hypocrisy.

Basicly this thread is UGLY!

I beleive the time for this discussion has passed and I'd be surprised if the OP returns. I also never said I had an opinion on the matter.

However for the OP to be told to just fit proper brake levers and bars by the man who has gone through more diferent set ups in the past 3 years than I have in the past 20 years of riding all manner of bike smacks of hipocrisy to me.
Then to be ridiculed by someone who has recently been pulled up for his attitude, who has also posted a fair amount of dumb questions when he started on here (has been pointed out many times before) also smacks of hypocrisy.

Basicly this thread is UGLY!

^ this. How a thread can degenerate from an innocent question regarding brake levers is quite staggering. Still, this is the interweb...

I agree with Pajamas. EdScoble is getting toward Dancing James levels of annyoyingness.

a while ago

I thpught the OP described an iteresting phenomenon, I think it may be that the shape / design of the bars encourages that particular movement, rather than, or as well as any anything subconscious.

It has happened to me riding brakeless on the road, but disappears the moment I'm on the track.

I've observed an opposite fenomen, mainly amongst people who started with a "fixie" and then moved onto the road bike. They'd often ride in a sit and beg position instinctively searching for a short brake lever in the close vicinity of the stem.
I'm sure you've seen people who had a secondary flat bars type lever (or BMX one) fitted on the top of drops.

I'm sure you've seen people who had a secondary flat bars type lever (or BMX one) fitted on the top of drops.

Cross tops?

That's the tingy! Temporary blackout.

It has happened to me riding brakeless on the road

It's not just me then.

Did you maim yourself or anyone else during this momentary lapse as suggested was likely by early posters?!

Sorry about the pic of the fragrent Ms Moser, I thought the moderators (according to a message) had looked through the post before allowing it onto the board.

Where my beard, have you Google Veronica Moser before?

You'll *probably *understand the whole concept of the forum once you do.

wtf does this mean??

who's concept?

shit and giggles for you perhaps.

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just in case anyone asks you to do not google 'lemon party'.