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The Inevitable Question... Where is everyone?


dann2707

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I've deleted my facebook. No twitter (have an account but I don't use it), no blogs etc. I only have an Instagram account and I hang around on another guitar based forum. I don't miss facebook at all. I'm just on my phone less now and actually doing more stuff in real life.

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I've been riding for about a year now and get out probably once a week. My local riders seems to be recovering from injury or just starting out. One other oldschool rider has come back and now gone as far as i can tell. Think he has family comitments.

The Weather has been very shitty lately. Enthusiasm has gone down as its either raining or blowing a gail.

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I may not post on the forum but it's definitely not the same. The whole trials community seems to have disappeared. I miss the good old CLS days with that permanent orange residue from brick walls on the chainstays! 

I wonder how the UK sales figures look for tartybikes when compared to a couple of years ago?

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1 minute ago, Dman said:

I really don't get why people are still here when they don't ride. Get your bikes out for a change, remember it's what brought you here. 

Not many of us have bikes anymore so that might be a bit hard :P

Just because you don't have one doesn't mean you can't socialise on here? 

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I haven't ridden the triton in a good while, getting married and developing a family has taken most of the spare time for the last 3 years.  I still have it and wouldn't sell, I recently dusted off my bmx after 10 years of not riding it, had I sold it I now couldn't pop to the local skatepark to ride.

The mountainbike has seen most saddle time of all of my bike over the last couple of years, it's less abusive to an old body and keeps fitness levels up better than bmx or trials :)

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1 hour ago, Dman said:

I really don't get why people are still here when they don't ride. Get your bikes out for a change, remember it's what brought you here. 

I don't know about everyone else, but I kinda grew out of it as soon as I could drive, cars are considerably more fun, more rewarding, cooler, faster etc etc :P

I've gained fewer scars and kept more teeth in my face with cars so far too :lol:

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1 hour ago, Dman said:

I really don't get why people are still here when they don't ride. Get your bikes out for a change, remember it's what brought you here. 

It's not always quite so straight forward as that though. You seem to have a good grip on it though so if you can find me the extra finances, add a few hours to the day, transport the bike around the country, take care of my other priorities so I could get back into it that'd be great though. 

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53 minutes ago, Tony Harrison said:

The availability of social networks means that people don't need to live on forums.

Also for the riding content there are more outlets, more places to find videos etc. Forums used to be the 'go to' place for info, friends, connections when it came to a sport or hobby, not so much now.

 

I think this is it really. Back when I started riding trials and joined this forum (2003!) the entire internet revolved around message boards. If you were looking to find people with a common interest as you, you'd have to look for an appropriate message board, or try and find these people in person. Likewise, if you wanted to find 'How-To's' you'd come to a message board and someone there would have typed one up, or the community would know of the otherwise obscure website to go to. But now everything can be quickly done over Facebook and YouTube, and if people still can't find what they need, I bet the majorette of new web users don't even know what a forum is.

And remember back before YouTube, before Google Video, in the days of eengoedidee and Trials-Shack? The internet was spread about, but now, you can be sure everything this forum used to do can be done by Facebook and YouTube. BOTI used to be my go-to source for hilarious web content, but now it's all on Facebook and I'll probably scroll past it all at some point now.

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7 minutes ago, Luke Rainbird said:

It's not always quite so straight forward as that though. You seem to have a good grip on it though so if you can find me the extra finances, add a few hours to the day, transport the bike around the country, take care of my other priorities so I could get back into it that'd be great though. 

Are you trying to tell me there isn't room in your sub?

Reminded me of this old pic (nearly 4 years ago... sheeeeeeeet).

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1 hour ago, Jolfa said:

I don't know about everyone else, but I kinda grew out of it as soon as I could drive, cars are considerably more fun, more rewarding, cooler, faster etc etc :P

I've gained fewer scars and kept more teeth in my face with cars so far too :lol:

You wasn't really into it then, if you really liked trials you'd do it as well as these cooler faster hobbys.

1 hour ago, Luke Rainbird said:

It's not always quite so straight forward as that though. You seem to have a good grip on it though so if you can find me the extra finances, add a few hours to the day, transport the bike around the country, take care of my other priorities so I could get back into it that'd be great though. 

Few less car mods could have you a bike easily, I'm pretty sure there's time in any week, your just sat on your arse doing nothing, you could ride instead, doesn't have to be hours. Also you don't need to travel anywhere, I often just throw myself around my garden or street at front. I know about priorities, house, work for myself, wife, 3 kids, dog, van, car, motorbike, quad and I still ride. All the above is more reason to ride get away from it all.

Not trying to start anything, I rarely post in this part of the forum, just trying to get people to think about getting back into what brought you all here, riding bikes. Try it you might like it.

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19 hours ago, dann2707 said:

The south doesn't seem to be suffering with this problem though? Team toast seem to be going strong, riding often etc?

It is more social media hype than actual two wheel activity. 

The Team Toast barn is gaining popularity and there are two new boys on the scene thanks to Christmas. woo stunts

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Bit odd to say I wasn't into it, I rode every spare minute I had for 3 years or so, then grew up and my priorities and tastes changed.

That's about as weird as saying I wasn't passionate about Pogs because I left them behind when I was 10...

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31 minutes ago, ItsMatt said:

It is more social media hype than actual two wheel activity. 

The Team Toast barn is gaining popularity and there are two new boys on the scene thanks to Christmas. woo stunts

What happened to George? Apart from turning rather try hard weird. 

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