I love Usenet almost as much as I love bicycles.

[Dan O]

On Apr 5, 9:19 pm, Zoot Katz <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Have any others found alternate outlets for their biking banter?

Yeah, I talk to no one in particular - myself? my alter ego(s)? -
while pedaling down the road

I tried talking about bikes to actual people, but they couldn't care
less. They usually just go, "Uh-huh", or something like that, and
refer to my beater as a "nice bike".

 

[still just me]

On Sat, 5 Apr 2008 20:59:33 -0700 (PDT), Dan O <[email protected]>
wrote:

>
>I tried talking about bikes to actual people, but they couldn't care
>less. They usually just go, "Uh-huh", or something like that, and
>refer to my beater as a "nice bike".

Better than the "jersey boys" who think of my nice bike as a beater
(mostly because it was built before they found out that bikes
existed).

 

[Zoot Katz]

rec.bicycles.* will probably always remain my Usenet fix though
lately the groups have been lacking the activity they once saw. The
OT and x-posted **** sometimes outweighs the topical subjects.
Some names have changed, others disappeared in the eight years I've
been subscribed. I'll always do my best to point newcomers to the
wealth of information I've gathered here. A newsreader is my
preferred interface for online text.

Recently I've been invited to a social networking interface and been
spending more time on a local forum chewing the fat, expounding,
helping, arguing and quipping with fellow cyclists.

It doesn't make Usenet irrelevant but it opens doors to different
ways of linking with other cyclists.

http://www.meandmybicycle.com/ is sorta like a Facebook for
bicyclists. It's growing rapidly and it looks like it has potential
when more cyclists learn of it. It's based in the U.K. but has
posters from all over the world.

Have any others found alternate outlets for their biking banter?
--
zk

 

[Dan O]

On Apr 5, 9:15 pm, still just me <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Apr 2008 20:59:33 -0700 (PDT), Dan O <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>
>
> >I tried talking about bikes to actual people, but they couldn't care
> >less. They usually just go, "Uh-huh", or something like that, and
> >refer to my beater as a "nice bike".
>
> Better than the "jersey boys" who think of my nice bike as a beater
> (mostly because it was built before they found out that bikes
> existed).

I think I can relate. I have four bikes. The newest one is 17 years
old (that's my beater, BTW ;-)

 

[Tom Keats]

In article <270b4027-dc8b-4159-b96b-11bc10ee7d87@i36g2000prf.googlegroups.com>,
Dan O <[email protected]> writes:
> On Apr 5, 9:19 pm, Zoot Katz <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>>
>> Have any others found alternate outlets for their biking banter?
>
> Yeah, I talk to no one in particular - myself? my alter ego(s)? -
> while pedaling down the road
>
> I tried talking about bikes to actual people, but they couldn't care
> less. They usually just go, "Uh-huh", or something like that, and
> refer to my beater as a "nice bike".

Sometimes people ask me why I always have my right trouser
cuff rolled up.

Sometimes I tell 'em the truth, but mostly I give 'em
a bunch of jive.


cheers,
Tom

--
Nothing is safe from me.
I'm really at:
tkeats curlicue vcn dot bc dot ca

 

[[email protected]]

On Apr 6, 5:59 am, Dan O <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Apr 5, 9:19 pm, Zoot Katz <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Have any others found alternate outlets for their biking banter?
>
> Yeah, I talk to no one in particular - myself?  my alter ego(s)? -
> while pedaling down the road

Oh, that's you I'm talking with out on my rides?

Joseph

 

[still just me]

On Sat, 5 Apr 2008 23:59:08 -0700 (PDT), Dan O <[email protected]>
wrote:

>> Better than the "jersey boys" who think of my nice bike as a beater
>> (mostly because it was built before they found out that bikes
>> existed).
>
>I think I can relate. I have four bikes. The newest one is 17 years
>old (that's my beater, BTW ;-)

In one of my favorite encounters, a CF-boy looked at my bike and said
with incredulity "are those _downtube_ shifters?" - then he spotted my
tubular tied up behind my seat and his jaw dropped.

 

[Jym Dyer]

> Have any others found alternate outlets for their biking
> banter?

=v= I get most of my "fix" from email lists. Every time I vist
a place and meet Critical Massers, people invite me onto their
listserve. Usenet was actually original considered to be
newsgroups -and- email lists (with some of them gatewayed),
and I find it easiest to follow certain of my lists with gnus,
my Usenet newsreader. (Filters out the uninteresting, too.)

=v= Some good people on BikeForums, but I can't stand web bbs
systems in general. :-| One of these days I'll set up an
RSS-to-gnus spool and read BikeForums in my newsreader, too.
<_Jym_>