How long did you lurk here before you started posting?

[Red Rick]

I'm curious.

My first memory here was the outrage at Leipi wining Suisse, probably the GOAT moment on here . Then I was pretty hooked. Followed much of the 2011 on here because the stage threads were better up to date than other places I knew

 

[Jspear]

I lurked for about a week and then joined. I used the main site cyclingnews for a couple years without even knowing that the forum existed.

 

[Carols]

Hum I spoke up very soon, but my welcome was less than cordial so I lurked for a while before testing the water again.

 

[LaFlorecita]

A few months I think. Then I signed up because I wanted to vote in the polls

 

[Jspear]

Re:

Hum I spoke up very soon, but my welcome was less than cordial so I lurked for a while before testing the water again.

What! You're one of the nicest individuals here....not to make it sound like others aren't.

 

[Red Rick]

A few months I think. Then I signed up because I wanted to vote in the polls

Lawl. I wanted in on the bandwagons, hype trains and lame jokes

 

[Carols]

Re: Re:

Hum I spoke up very soon, but my welcome was less than cordial so I lurked for a while before testing the water again.

What! You're one of the nicest individuals here....not to make it sound like others aren't.

LOL I won one of the contests where you pick podiums and there was an uproar that this outsider came in and took the prize. The Pippo signed Italian Champions jersey is safe with me .

 

[Jspear]

Re: Re:

Hum I spoke up very soon, but my welcome was less than cordial so I lurked for a while before testing the water again.

What! You're one of the nicest individuals here....not to make it sound like others aren't.

LOL I won one of the contests where you pick podiums and there was an uproar that this outsider came in and took the prize. The Pippo signed Italian Champions jersey is safe with me .

Ah, very nice!

 

[red_flanders]

Immediately. I came from another forum where I was very active, but it was wing-nutting out and this place seemed much better and more active. I enjoy the back and forth and exchange of ideas, as well as reading the more knowledgeable posters.

 

[Afrank]

I originally joined because I couldn't decide whether to pick Purito or Nibali in a fantasy cycling game. So I made a thread about it here.

After that I lurked for quite a while until I felt confident enough in my cycling knowledge to start posting more.

 

[Zam_Olyas]

I never joined.

 

[Benotti69]

Re:

I never joined.

I was in the queue behind Zam so couldn't join.

 

[42x16ss]

I got banned by the jerks at Road Bike Review for being a bit cheeky regarding a certain former hero there. The forums here had a reputation for actually allowing varied opinions so I joined on the spot.

 

[Eshnar]

Started lurking in 2010... wondering if there were people outside Italy actually watching the Giro. Turned out there were, so I kept lurking. Started posting on the 2011 Giro preview thread iirc.

 

[Zam_Olyas]

Re: Re:

I never joined.

I was in the queue behind Zam so couldn't join.

Good to know you have my back

 

[Brullnux]

I was on the site for a year or two, then I found the forum. So I joined after a couple of months.

 

[hrotha]

I joined almost immediately so that I could change the godawful default posts-per-page setting.

 

[Christian]

I thought Iurked for a while, but then at one point I saw that I have one of the earliest registration dates possible, so I think I must have registered right away but then not posted for a while.

 

[Frank1]

6 months reading.

*Edited by mod: Keep politics in their own thread please*

 

[Angliru]

I was initially on Bicycling mags forum and Podium Cafe's but was always visiting the Cycling News site because they had the most detailed and timely race reports at the time and I eventually joined. Christian and I joined at about the same time. I'm thinking that they may not have had a forum until that time or maybe they upgraded the forum. I can't remember exactly.

To the OP: The Levi moment has to be one if not the highest moment of the Pro Cycling Forum. Just classic!

 

[peloton]

@Angliru I joined a couple days after the forum was launched, in March -09. You've gotta be some of the first ones here

 

[SafeBet]

Tour 2011 if I'm not mistaken. I googled Europcar doping? and the first result was a topic on this forum (not in the clinic)

I got hooked by the stage threads where I could follow the race even when I couldn't see it live. Great stuff. A couple of months before my first post I guess.

 

[aarnold517]

Looking back through this thread, I have one of the earliest join dates with Christian, yet only 300 something posts

Really I guess you could say I'm a continual lurker who pops in every few months to post something

 

[Põhja Konn]

Started lurking in spring 2010, after a search for info about Landis' allegations lead me to the Clinic. It used to be a very good source for new info about anything doping related back then. Discovered rest of the forum soon after. Joined during the 2012 Vuelta, but soon after the issue with logging into the forum arose. After that I went back to lurking mode.

After the major forum change last year I was able to log in again and started posting more regularly.

 

[PremierAndrew]

Re:

I lurked for about a week and then joined. I used the main site cyclingnews for a couple years without even knowing that the forum existed.

Same, I used to lurk first in the old comments section under each article between like 2011-2013, then I started commenting there in 2013, and only found out about the forum back in 2014