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I love Usenet almost as much as I love bicycles.
On Apr 5, 9:19 pm, Zoot Katz 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". |
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I love Usenet almost as much as I love bicycles.
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 crap 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 |
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I love Usenet almost as much as I love bicycles.
On Apr 5, 9:15 pm, still just me wrote:
On Sat, 5 Apr 2008 20:59:33 -0700 (PDT), Dan O 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 ;-) |
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I love Usenet almost as much as I love bicycles.
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Dan O writes: On Apr 5, 9:19 pm, Zoot Katz 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 |
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I love Usenet almost as much as I love bicycles.
On Apr 6, 5:59*am, Dan O wrote:
On Apr 5, 9:19 pm, Zoot Katz 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 |
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I love Usenet almost as much as I love bicycles.
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_ |
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