Post your ride pics

[consularrider]

@dbb 51582 wrote:

Isn’t that what the happy face emoticons do?

But then you actually have make the effort to make a reply. Takes way to much time away from work. :p

[mstone]

@Subby 51572 wrote:

Last pic from this weekend – MAH RIB!

Unexpected forum functionality: this post has now been replaced with the message “this post has been downranked”. I think the dislike button needs a tweak.

[Tim Kelley]

@mstone 51590 wrote:

Unexpected forum functionality: this post has now been replaced with the message “this post has been downranked”. I think the dislike button needs a tweak.

Interesting…do we want to have a downvote system in place? If not, I can try to have our TOP MEN tweak it.

[dbb]

@americancyclo 51583 wrote:

A player may shrug a shrug or Shrodem a Shrodem, but may never shrug a Shrodem or Shrodem a shrug.

I think I am way too old for ths!

[americancyclo]

@mstone 51590 wrote:

Unexpected forum functionality: this post has now been replaced with the message “this post has been downranked”. I think the dislike button needs a tweak.

americancyclo liked this post and voila, now I can see it again!

[KLizotte]

On a serious note, any newbie coming on to this site who views a ton of “dislikes” for someone describing their recent accident/injuries would assume that the regulars don’t like seeing those kind of posts and would walk away with the impression that we are not sympathetic or nice people.

I think the dislike button should be used for the spammers and trolls only.

I like someone’s idea of a “hugs and kisses” button though. That would be far more transparent as to what emotion the user is trying to convey.

[mstone]

@KLizotte 51613 wrote:

I think the dislike button should be used for the spammers and trolls.

Note that there’s an exclamation point in a triangle button for reporting inappropriate posts.

And since I’m trying to be a good person, I managed to refrain from “disliking” the idea that people would think we’re mean.

[KLizotte]

@mstone 51614 wrote:

Note that there’s an exclamation point in a triangle button for reporting inappropriate posts.

I always thought the ! triangle was a coding error; not something we were supposed to use!

[lancito brazofuerte]

Yeah, the dislike button is a bit vague. Does it mean “the guy who posted this is a jerk”? Or “Oh noes. Bad stuff happened. I don’t like bad stuff”?

[ShawnoftheDread]

We all clearly have way too much time on our hands. Let’s go out and get jobs as litigators.

[bobco85]

I’m saving up using all three (like, dislike, and ELITE) for a post that I find enjoyable, detestable, yet bada$$ at the same time. It’d be like a really horrible joke that you still laugh at (one you feel ashamed for laughing at) and has some superhuman element to it.

[mstone]

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Successful muddy-trail test ride of the little guy’s fenders; we should be all set for bike camping on the towpath this summer. Side note: it’s ridiculously difficult to find 20″ fenders.

[Amalitza]

@lancito brazofuerte 51616 wrote:

Yeah, the dislike button is a bit vague. Does it mean “the guy who posted this is a jerk”? Or “Oh noes. Bad stuff happened. I don’t like bad stuff”?

It’ll very quickly come to mean what we use it to mean. So long as we mostly don’t start calling each other jerks for what we post, it’ll mean “ouch, that looks painful” and “yougottabekiddingme, 25mph winds AGAIN?”

[jabberwocky]

@mstone 51623 wrote:

Side note: it’s ridiculously difficult to find 20″ fenders.

I’d have thought most recumbent oriented shops carry them (since lots of recumbents run 20″ wheels).

[mstone]

@jabberwocky 51626 wrote:

I’d have thought most recumbent oriented shops carry them (since lots of recumbents run 20″ wheels).

There are some planet bike ones with separate front & back in different sizes. Whether for that reason or because they say “recumbent” on them, they’re fairly expensive for a kid’s bike. You’re also not guaranteed to find both a 20″ front and a 20″ rear in stock (larger rear wheels are common, and a lot of places stock only some combinations). There are others which seem to be custom for particular kinds of recumbents, and it doesn’t look like they’d fit a normal diamond frame. I ended up with some SKS bluemels which are presumably intended for regular bikes (they come in pairs in 20, 24, 26, and 28 inch sizes, in various widths). But those don’t seem to very available outside of europe…

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