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S.K.C.

Turbo Monkey
Feb 28, 2005
4,096
25
Pa. / North Jersey
Guys - it's pretty simple: 1) Times change and people grow. 10 years ago you had more free time to post here - now you've got kids/mortgage payments/chemtrails. 2) -Understand this is from my perspective, the guy who started the "Sunday Thread"- If you check out most manufacturer's websites these days, they figured out how to effectively organize some kind of Tech library and/or FAQ that actually serves the customer. Did that start with threads like the "Sunday Thread"... I'd like to think so. =) 3) Pinkbike FINALLY sort of, kind of, go their shit together... and as much as some may not want to admit it - so did EmptyBeer in certain instances. So a lot of other info sources have risen to (our) level. With regard to PB: It's a lot easier for a n00b to click through the main page than wade though the millions of replies to thousands of forum posts.

Does RM need another intellectual infusion of users like Acadian and Sandwich/The Flyin' Fat Man? Sure. It's coming. So long as we, the keepers of the flame, the knowledge base that is our shared experience, continue to show the curious - the n00bs who are thinking about trying the sport we love, by posting here at RM - it's all good. Udi leads the charge in this capacity.

RM will always be the intellectual repository for all things MTB and DH. Show the new guys/gals the way, educate them, and be patient with them and RM will evolve and live on. =)
 

4130biker

PM me about Tantrum Cycles!
May 24, 2007
3,884
450
Guys - it's pretty simple: 1) Times change and people grow. 10 years ago you had more free time to post here - now you've got kids/mortgage payments/chemtrails. 2) -Understand this is from my perspective, the guy who started the "Sunday Thread"- If you check out most manufacturer's websites these days, they figured out how to effectively organize some kind of Tech library and/or FAQ that actually serves the customer. Did that start with threads like the "Sunday Thread"... I'd like to think so. =) 3) Pinkbike FINALLY sort of, kind of, go their shit together... and as much as some may not want to admit it - so did EmptyBeer in certain instances. So a lot of other info sources have risen to (our) level. With regard to PB: It's a lot easier for a n00b to click through the main page than wade though the millions of replies to thousands of forum posts.

Does RM need another intellectual infusion of users like Acadian and Sandwich/The Flyin' Fat Man? Sure. It's coming. So long as we, the keepers of the flame, the knowledge base that is our shared experience, continue to show the curious - the n00bs who are thinking about trying the sport we love, by posting here at RM - it's all good. Udi leads the charge in this capacity.

RM will always be the intellectual repository for all things MTB and DH. Show the new guys/gals the way, educate them, and be patient with them and RM will evolve and live on. =)
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Anal sars
 

S.K.C.

Turbo Monkey
Feb 28, 2005
4,096
25
Pa. / North Jersey
Hahaha - NO we're not... and Rectal SARS has nothing to do with it. That's just something that only effects people who haven't been vaccinated against The Kardashians.
 

JohnE

filthy rascist
May 13, 2005
13,550
2,180
Front Range, dude...
Hey what ever happened to that train wreck of a couple that rode Whistler all the time? The girl was some crazy, stripper, stoner with mad handling skills. You posted something from a North Shore forum a couple years ago. The word Sludge-pot comes to mind.
The chick who rode in the gogo boots and stripper skirt?

We need Bitingback to come back for giggles...send one of the single guys to meet here. PSP perhaps...I would put in for gas...
 

stevew

resident influencer
Sep 21, 2001
41,165
10,105
original poster looking for a better class of posters....not getting it.

win.
 

Pesqueeb

bicycle in airplane hangar
Feb 2, 2007
41,828
19,156
Riding the baggage carousel.
Hey what ever happened to that train wreck of a couple that rode Whistler all the time? The girl was some crazy, stripper, stoner with mad handling skills. You posted something from a North Shore forum a couple years ago. The word Sludge-pot comes to mind.
God damn those two were a train wreck. Wasn't there a baby involved as well? I also seem to recall there being a pretty big age difference between the two of them. Like Chris Hansen why don't you have a seat over there age difference.
 

kazlx

Patches O'Houlihan
Aug 7, 2006
6,985
1,958
Tustin, CA
It must have gone downhill. Obviously didn't go enduro or it would be more popular.

I can't express how much better teh RM is than mtbr or PB :(
 

AngryMetalsmith

Business is good, thanks for asking
Jun 4, 2006
22,057
12,786
I have no idea where I am
The chick who rode in the gogo boots and stripper skirt?
No, you might be thinking of Megan Black (?). There's a pic floating around here of a chick hitting the big drop at the bottom of Whistler in a skirt and fuck-me-boots. The one I'm talking about was the GF in a famliy that could make for an entire season of Jerry Springer.


We need Bitingback to come back for giggles...send one of the single guys to meet here. PSP perhaps...I would put in for gas...
She was only here to harass Stinkyboy and split when he got banned. I still think those two need to hook up.
 

kazlx

Patches O'Houlihan
Aug 7, 2006
6,985
1,958
Tustin, CA
No, you might be thinking of Megan Black (?). There's a pic floating around here of a chick hitting the big drop at the bottom of Whistler in a skirt and fuck-me-boots. The one I'm talking about was the GF in a famliy that could make for an entire season of Jerry Springer.
Not 100% sure, but think it might be A2A on PB. Their site search sucks.

 

Westy

the teste
Nov 22, 2002
56,016
22,047
Sleazattle
No, you might be thinking of Megan Black (?). There's a pic floating around here of a chick hitting the big drop at the bottom of Whistler in a skirt and fuck-me-boots. The one I'm talking about was the GF in a famliy that could make for an entire season of Jerry Springer.




She was only here to harass Stinkyboy and split when he got banned. I still think those two need to hook up.
TulsaTumblersGF? That there was some grade A trailer trash.
 

-BB-

I broke all the rules, but somehow still became mo
Sep 6, 2001
4,254
28
Livin it up in the O.C.
we really need some Old_Dude stories.

Do you mean, "I popped some viagra over the weekend and was about to "get down" w/ the lady when one of the kids came in bc of a nightmare." kinda stories? Or are you looking for more, That isn't a regular camelback, its the colostomy bag kind.
 

TN

Hey baby, want a hot dog?
Jul 9, 2002
14,301
1,353
Jimtown, CO
Do you mean, "I popped some viagra over the weekend and was about to "get down" w/ the lady when one of the kids came in bc of a nightmare." kinda stories? Or are you looking for more, That isn't a regular camelback, its the colostomy bag kind.
all of the above.