e-group argument

by schmalz

Idots getting together

Let’s face it, occasionally commenters here at NYVC can be a bit rambunctious, for lack of an appropriate curse word to describe certain attitudes, but are we the only outlet for racing cyclist vexation?

The internet is clogged with numerous team message boards, places where compatriots can share information about races, tactics and the design and fit of their team clothes. Do these team message boards ever turn ugly? What’s been the biggest dust up on your message board? Was it about chamois? We are also instating another moratorium on mentioning specific teams and racers this week-if you’ve got a personal beef-take it to your own board.

 

44 Comments

Anonymous

Hey, let’s start with Pacifico. They probably have great stories related to the red bibs..
Andy, Schmalz?

Anonymous

we plan our race schedule, EPO shipment deliveries and whether or not we’re going streaking in the quad.

And we occasionally obsess about the general hotness of the lady racers. When’s the calendar coming out?

Anonymous

I used to be on a team where everyone just used the message board to sell erotic services. And pedals. Erotic services and used pedals.

Anonymous

My last team used their list server as sounding board to pronounce their dire love for such a great team and how great everyone was. Then off the list server they talked shit about each other.

Anonymous

The Ralpha does not need a list server. Everything they do is informed by its passion for the glory and suffering that lie at the heart of the sport, therefore, its members communicate strategy and talk shit via telepathy. They call it, “Ralphalling.”

Anonymous

we’re talking about what a lame argument this is over at the Motheship.

Google ‘Mailing it in’ and this site pops up as the #1 hit.

Anonymous

This feature is stupid when we should really be debating why the valve needs to be lined up with the tire label on all bikes……

Anonymous

except that it’s called Ralphing, pronounced Rolfing, in the true classic Continental fashion.

Anonymous

12:22–thank you for the clarification. i had stopped in to one of those $10 tarot card/fortune teller shops on my way home from an evening central park ride (i wanted to see how i was going to do at the rr time trial on sunday). during the session she said something along the lines of, “i’m seeing you finishing in…wait, what is this…what is this ‘ralpha?’ there’s chatter here, i can’t find the source…this ralphalling or whatevah….it’s beautiful…so elegant…from pain comes pleasure…ohmygod who are these people?”

she never did tell me how i was going to finish, as she suddenly rushed to the back room crying and laughing hysterically.

Anonymous

Lining the valve stem up with the label on the tire will help you find the flat quicker? How is that?

I thought bikers were supposed to be smart in general.

Anonymous

damn, are you a total noob?

you get a flat. you take out the tube and find the hole/puncture/whathaveyou. then you look at the same place on the tire for any glass/nails/sharp object that might still be lodged in there.

plus, it looks PRO.

Anonymous

seriously folks, everyone knows that lining up the label and the valve makes your bicycle faster.

Anonymous

If rambunctious is not right then what is desired? I think its dead on, even though I’m 3000 or so miles away people seem to feed off if it, I sure do.

Forum’s, listservers around my parts mainly consist of the very few who post anything vs the rest who are offended at pretty much anything, even jokes. Then there are the whack-os trying to either sell you something (non-cycling) or trying to convert you to some whacky religion (even Christianity is on that list). Eventually there is a Political/Religion flame war to deal with, that either results in a few bans or disintegration of the forum/listserv.

It seems that come Tour time the masses wake up from the coma they’re in and actually post, they they disappear till the next July.

Anonymous

but it does not help in changing the flat quicker other than knowing where the valve is for inflation.

Anonymous

it doesn’t help you change the flat quicker, it helps you find anything that may still be stuck in the tire. are you listening?

you don’t have to line up the label with the valve if you don’t want to, man.

Anonymous

If you put that thing on the spit when the fields first rolled out, you might have something by 10am. Maybe 11? But you know CP, there is probably some stoopid rule for slaughtering and pit roasting baby pigs near the Rambles.

Is it weird that my CAPTCHA is “meatball”?

Anonymous

From what we heard Doug has been released from the hospital, we look forward to his speedy and full recovery. Thanks to everyone for their concern I know he appreciates it.

Chris Castaldi

Anonymous

Didn’t you read my post? No site lasts long enough out West, must be the over exposure to the sun?

The interviews and Toto and the random joke keep me reading.

Anonymous

Thanks for everyone who stopped, carried me, emailed, called, txt, passed on messages and overall made me feel like someone cares. I am finally home and I am now testing my relationship with Caryl Gale who has scraped me up more than once and has been a Saint. Poor girl. My crash was all me and I am glad that I did not take anyone with me. I got loose in the gravel on the decent and broke a lot of things and punctured some others. The response from the cycling community to my mess has been extremely moving and I’ll never forget it.
Doug O’Neill

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