State of the forum 2025

[fmk_RoI]

Jumbo have swept the podium without going all out and have played musical chairs with who was going to win.

I do realise that the Clinic, and especially threads like this, have just devolved into insider jokes, but come someonle please explain the humour here to me? I mean, there should be a little bit of truth in it - it's so funny cause it's true!!! - but where's the truth here? Kuss took the race lead without any other TJV rider having held it, and he's held the race lead since without passing it to another TJV rider in a game of musical chairs.

They finally came up with Kuss because it’s a “good” story.

Again, someone, please explain the joke as this is so divorced from reality it ought to be paying alimony.

Sport should be about a fair fight

Wah! Wah! Wah! 'Snot fair!!! The issue here seems to be someone's forgetting cycling is a team sport and TJV came into the Vuelta with the primary goal of winning three GTs in one year. Who won this one was a secondary objective which was overtaken by events. What's not fair here?

 

[topcat]

I do realise that the Clinic, and especially threads like this, have just devolved into insider jokes, but come someonle please explain the humour here to me? I mean, there should be a little bit of truth in it - it's so funny cause it's true!!! - but where's the truth here? Kuss took the race lead without any other TJV rider having held it, and he's held the race lead since without passing it to another TJV rider in a game of musical chairs.

Again, someone, please explain the joke as this is so divorced from reality it ought to be paying alimony.

Wah! Wah! Wah! 'Snot fair!!! The issue here seems to be someone's forgetting cycling is a team sport and TJV came into the Vuelta with the primary goal of winning three GTs in one year. Who won this one was a secondary objective which was overtaken by events. What's not fair here?

This thread is about what drugs forumites are on, their perceptions and hallucinations. Look at most of the prr forum and it’s full of hysteria. In fact, I would say truth and balanced opinion in there is not the norm. This is state of the forum 2023: angry and hysterical.
On a personal note, I consider the dominance of Jumbo obscene.

 

[RedheadDane]

I do realise that the Clinic, and especially threads like this, have just devolved into insider jokes, but come someonle please explain the humour here to me?

A part of the insider joke is that... sometimes, we barely even know what we're talking about ourselves. It's just non-sequitors, and going off weird tangents. Sometimes even tangents to the tangents.

 

[hrotha]

I do realise

do you though

 

[Samu Cuenca]

Commady is in the eye of the beholder.

 

[Ripper]

In general the entire forum looks ready to explode as fallout on the polemics regarding Kuss, Rogo, and Vigo, and Dumbo team management. It's a tenuous situation, with posters trolling each other in different threads.

Roglic was interviewed and was quoted as saying ya, ya, it's a difficult situation and feels weird. Jonas got a bit tearful and said he hopes the situation improves because he believes in the forum. Meanwhile, a relaxed and smiling Sepp stated the forum was good and was working well.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

It started with a Kuss. They never thought it would become so sus (performed by Hot Potato).

 

[the delgados]

I do realise that the Clinic, and especially threads like this, have just devolved into insider jokes, but come someonle please explain the humour here to me? I mean, there should be a little bit of truth in it - it's so funny cause it's true!!! - but where's the truth here? Kuss took the race lead without any other TJV rider having held it, and he's held the race lead since without passing it to another TJV rider in a game of musical chairs.

Again, someone, please explain the joke as this is so divorced from reality it ought to be paying alimony.

Wah! Wah! Wah! 'Snot fair!!! The issue here seems to be someone's forgetting cycling is a team sport and TJV came into the Vuelta with the primary goal of winning three GTs in one year. Who won this one was a secondary objective which was overtaken by events. What's not fair here?

Come and have a beer.
I can't speak for topcat, but it seems the "musical chairs" line was just a play on words. We all know that the jersey wasn't changing hands on the daily.
You're an intelligent person, but you're not exactly a barrel of laughs. Which makes me wonder why you're judging people based on their sense of humour.

 

[gregrowlerson]

So....is Libertine Seguros still with us?

 

[RedheadDane]

So....is Libertine Seguros still with us?

I think she got a shot of dopamine, but having several of her favourite riders on the attack on the final stage of Romandie.

 

[Samu Cuenca]

So....is Libertine Seguros still with us?

I believe there was a twitter poll, and they voted to resurrect her.

 

[Ripper]

In general the entire forum looks ready to explode as fallout on the polemics regarding Kuss, Rogo, and Vigo, and Dumbo team management. It's a tenuous situation, with posters trolling each other in different threads.

Roglic was interviewed and was quoted as saying ya, ya, it's a difficult situation and feels weird. Jonas got a bit tearful and said he hopes the situation improves because he believes in the forum. Meanwhile, a relaxed and smiling Sepp stated the forum was good and was working well.

OMG, the trolling in the race threads is hilarious

 

[ManicJack]

OMG, the trolling in the race threads is hilarious

It's quite obvious that 20k + posts give you free reign to troll and insult with free will. The place has become a joke.

 

[Red Rick]

It's quite obvious that 20k + posts give you free reign to troll and insult with free will. The place has become a joke.

Judging by the fact that you're still here you don't need 20k posts

 

[ManicJack]

Judging by the fact that you're still here you don't need 20k posts

I forgot to add the one actively posting mod who is right near the top of the troll pyramid. 🙄

 

[Samu Cuenca]

You don't have to be able to detect irony and/or sarcasm to post here, but it helps.
Or at least I assume that it does. I can't really detect it myself, to be honest.

 

[topcat]

You don't have to be able to detect irony and/or sarcasm to post here, but it helps.
Or at least I assume that it does. I can't really detect it myself, to be honest.

This is ironic or is it just high iron and a huge red blood cell count. How do you get through the rigorous anti-doping controls?
Sidebar: the forum has gone a bit crazy with many ppl losing the run of themselves. I’m wondering how far they’re going to push it. There’s been several posts longer than Libertine classics by these new kids. Libertine is from the EPO era, so what are these new kids on?
I disapprove strongly, pass the popcorn.

 

[RedheadDane]

It's quite obvious that 20k + posts give you free reign to troll and insult with free will. The place has become a joke.

"This place" meaning the whole forum, or just this thread? Because, I'm pretty sure this thread was meant as a joke...

I disapprove strongly, pass the popcorn.

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[ManicJack]

"This place" meaning the whole forum, or just this thread? Because, I'm pretty sure this thread was meant as a joke...



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Forum as a whole. Pro road racing in particular

 

[RedheadDane]

Forum as a whole. Pro road racing in particular

Things have always gotten a bit heated after race results that some may deem controversial.
That's nothing new.

 

[ManicJack]

Things have always gotten a bit heated after race results that some may deem controversial.
That's nothing new.

I've been reading this for more than ten years but never participated because of a conflict of interest in my industry work situation. I've never seen it so toxic.

 

[Tim Cahill]

I've been reading this for more than ten years but never participated because of a conflict of interest in my industry work situation. I've never seen it so toxic.

La Pierre Saint Martin 2015 was quite the day on the internet, well worth a read.

I think many are just being a bit hyperbolic at the moment, those Bertie fans used to get the knives out.

 

[SHAD0W93]

You had the Sky/Froome, Contador, Evans, Nibali, Colombian, and Dutch with Schleck for a little at each others throats.

 

[Cookster15]

I've been reading this for more than ten years but never participated because of a conflict of interest in my industry work situation. I've never seen it so toxic.

Nah, been a member for 12 years and a lurker even longer. It was most toxic during the heights of the Froome years. But others copped it. Contador was a wonderful rider but his fans would not tolerate an ounce of criticism of their hero here.

You would note in the Jumbo / Vingo threads that people keep bringing up washed up Froome. That is symptomatic of the lingering toxicity and resentment of rival fans of that period.

Plus, the forum isn’t as popular as in the period of 2010 to 2017 or so. There are a number of prolific and knowledgeable posters from the period who have dropped off.

Personally, I say JV don’t get as much criticism as they deserve. But I am fine with Sepp Kuss winning the Vuelta. Just my opinion.

 

[Moose McKnuckles]

Yep, things often get heated but this year seems that's true more than usual. Lots of people seem upset that Kuss either beat their favorite mutant or that he deprived them of the entertainment of watching two mutants from one team fight it out.

I think at this point, the pro cycling establishment has realized that people just want to be entertained. The whole charade of dope testing and the occasional small fish being reeled is just part of the show. I think we had a chance for a change back in 1997 and later after Armstrong was busted. Then we got Sky and now Jumbo.

Might as well enjoy the show at this point. It's *** but at least it's better than American football.