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August 20, 2006

New Bicycling Forum Debuts

I get e-mails. ;-D

Bicycle discussion where bike riders of all ages and skills can come together and exchange tips, share experiences, chat, and further their knowledge and spirit of the sport with each visit.

That is the description of a brand new Cycling Forum that has recently debuted.

As the webmaster writes:

Hello,

I’m the webmaster over at the new Bike Coalition website.

We are still a very young community forum but are already growing larger everyday.

We will soon become a great place of Bicycle discussion where riders of all ages and skills can come together and exchange tips, share experiences, chat, and further their knowledge and spirit of the sport with each visit.

I have recently added your wonderful website to our link section and was wondering if you might do the same.

Since the site is just a forum, for now, I have decided to make a topic at the top of each section with links that I and my moderators feel would benefit the community.

Your website link with a description is included in every forum under the General Bicycle Discussion category.

In the near future, I also plan on making a separate link page as well.

If interested,  please email me back a short description that you would like to be found under your link.

And if possible, please consider putting up our link so that Bike Coalition can continue to grow and become a great resource online.

Look forward to hearing back from you,

Mike

In a very short amount of time Bike Coalition has gathered 59 users, contributing 589 posts to 151 threads so far.

The forums cover a variety of topics of interest to cyclists of all varieties, and levels of knowledge, and skill.

All forums that have come before this one began simple, and grew to become the great resources, and communities, they are today.

I've added a link in my sidebar, and encourage anyone interested to check them out.

Here's hoping this one joins their ranks as a successful addition to the Cycling Community!  ;-D

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Kiril, where do you usually hang out? I'm usually on usenet at rec.bikes and sometimes at bikeforums.net.

Posted by: Fritz | Aug 21, 2006 3:32:25 PM

Fritz, to be honest, I have not been on message boards for a while.

Maybe it's finally time for me to get back in.

I went online in 1998/9, and was a member of several Yahoo Cycling Lists, and still get e-mail from a couple, I think.

It's been a long time since I last contributed anything.

I don't even remember the last time that's how little I've thought of them.

I was a member of forums on the old Time.com site until around 2003, and those times changed my life, positively, in ways it would take too long to explain.

My writing there led to my becoming a Blogger in 2002.

I found myself spending too much time on the forums, or reading e-mails, so left that world behind, and don't regret it.

When I started the Dude, in 2003, I registered on several Forum sites, and directory sites, that were just getting started, and some older ones,but never kept up with it for reasons related to a busy life, and to being overwhelmed by the shear size of the world I was seeking to enter, and the knowledge of the people who flocked to these places.

So I have spent the last 3 years writing about stories I find, and sharing rides, and my opinions, on Dude, and building Dude's collection of links.

I realize that joining in the Forums would bring me more knowledge, and make more folks aware of the Dude, thus increasing its readership, but I don't think I was ready before.

What I've done here has expanded my horizons, and built up my confidence.

Maybe it's time I check some places out, and update listings info on all the old Directories. ;-D

Maybe I can find a comfortable way to be a participant again on Forums, and not let it take up all my free time.

Regardless, I think The Cycling Dude should get a little Pro-active on his babys behalf. ;-D

Posted by: Kiril, The Cycling Dude | Aug 22, 2006 12:01:11 AM

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