This Forum is Dying?

[chickenstrip]

Actually, the organisation skills of the Suntans have made every one I've attended (3, or is it 4 now?) excellent. It's worth paying up front for that kind of attention to detail. Not everyone would achieve as much, although I'm sure they wouldn't mind a break from it and let someone else sort it all out once in a while. Not me though. I'm useless
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[hellkat]

Yeah but its a lot of hassle for whoever takes it on, the Suntans not least of all cos they did all that for quite a few of them. I mean, its just a party, not the bulldog fuckin bash.

It's much easier if someone jsut says "I'm havin a housewarming, whoever is close enough to come, then come and I'll save you a sofa else you'll have to park your tent out in the garden."

A succession of smaller parties around the country is much less hassle and much more entertaining for everybody concerned, everyone can relax and have a good time, and not stress about counting heads.

Has the BBQ not taught you that, at least?

If I'm goin down to Maggies, I'm likely to say "Oh, goin' to Maggies, she's always up for chaps turning up, and does good grub", and a few of you might tag along if you live local enough or want to ride from here to there for a weekend jolly. I'm more about your impromptu event.

I had an awesome time at Siggi's once, took Shaun with me cos he was visiting town, gave him a spliff and he was wasted on that while Siggi and various others got twatted on all sorts of other things. It was less than a dozen of us, I met some top-hole chaps, and it was fun.

Same with the paintballing, even if I did fuck up my achilles tendon for the next two years slightly more organised but still able to say "oh yeah, I'll go" only the weekend before (talked into it by G if I remember rightly, as they needed to make up numbers).

It always seems better to do something on short notice than say Yes months beforehand and then back out, to the disappointment and inconvenience of the organisers.
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[chickenstrip]

Everyone seemed pretty relaxed at the ones I went to. Some took relaxation to whole new level
Yeah, small gigs have a different vibe but that doesn't mean the bigger ones don't have their charm.
Why not both?
Actually, I'll duck out of this now, cos I don't know when I'll next be able to afford anything, big or small.
Btw, I think it has been better than the Bulldog Bash, cos everyone had a connection through this forum, which made it seem more intimate, and nobody got their bikes nicked by the Angels. Or whoever used to do the bike nicking at those.
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[andyscooter]

ive been quiet of late on here due to not having a bike so not much to say


starting to look again at moment so may suddenly start again

but all the forums i used to use most are now dead


12 posts since yesterday on here


modern vespa has 30 since yesterday and that is an american forum thats hevaliy modified
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[chickenstrip]

[chickenstrip]

[MahatmaAndhi]

Do you know what's killing this forum for me (aside from being bikeless right now)? Rainpal jokes.

They're not funny. At all. That horse has been flogged to death, resurrected lord-knows-how-many-times and flogged back to death again.

It's like being asked if you've ever seen the 'Charlie bit my finger' video, then having it repeated several times a day for the next year. But there's a whole group of people here that seem eager to chuck it in to completely irrelevant threads for the sake of a quick laugh.

Please, let it die.
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[stevo as b4]

Forums need more show and tell project threads. Its this and an archived technical resource that most people come back to them for. There's too many watchers and not enough builders.

As I said forums that are doing well, are often those where everyone is building stuff, showing off their work, skills, and projects. Or its techy forums for electronic devices that are doing well.

Everything else is going dead. There's less people wanting non OEM custom stuff, as everything is available to almost everyone on a PCP rental, and people don't bond with stuff long enough to really get to know it, change or develop it. They just want the next new car or bike etc etc.

[chickenstrip]

[grr666]

In this day and age, who really wants to advertise what they have locked away in the shed to all manner of scumbags and
tea leaves. I'm very careful to make sure there's little to identify location in any of my posted pics including turning geo
tagging off. But tbh it's a chore and takes something from the whole thing. I'd spew if I thought that pics I'd posted
had led thieves to my door. Especially in the Bristol area with our resident biketaker and his cohorts. Sign of the times unfortunately.
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[recman]

Maybe biking is dying.

[Fisty]

This forum has gone the way of PB magazine.

It has got old and is full of the same recycled bollocks.

BUT. It will always be a special place for me.

I have made some genuine life long mates, in the last 24 hours I have been given some paddock stands by a member, arranged a fishing evening with another and regularly go out for rides with several others.
They have stuck by me through thick and thin and made my life better for it.

Fuck I even fell in love with one.

There are some amazing people on here that will go a long way out of their way to help people for no reward and I for one am happy and honoured I have met some of them.
The BBQ's at Bubbs were genuinely amazing events and I will never be able to thank him enough for them

Barely any of them post any more, the trolling and shock picture days are long gone. It is just a resource now.
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[Jewlio Rides Again LLB]

See, point proven, the mard, intellectually stifled, arse fingering fuckwit has un-ignored to downrate my posts.

Still, keeps him from interfering with roadkill I suppose.
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[Itchy]

[Ste]

Stop giving him a reaction and then he'll have to find someone else to wind-up for his lulz.