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Cycling splintered on Usenet
Seems not all cycling topics have been collected under
rec.bicycles.*. For example, there is: alt.rec.bicycles.recumbent rec.sport.unicycling fitness groups where cycling - at least indoor cycling - comes up time to time Anybody think this is an issue? -- Risto Varanka | http://www.helsinki.fi/~rvaranka/ |
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wrote: Seems not all cycling topics have been collected under rec.bicycles.*. For example, there is: alt.rec.bicycles.recumbent rec.sport.unicycling fitness groups where cycling - at least indoor cycling - comes up time to time Anybody think this is an issue? Doesn't bother me at all. Leave well enough alone. In my opinion the worst problem with rec.bicycles.* is the fact that rec.bicycles.off-road is completely ruined. It would be best to just delete it. (FYI I am one of the moderators.) If we could unmoderate it I would support doing that. But we are left with a situation where some news servers think it's moderated, others don't, and we can't influence their choice one way or the other. It's just hosed. There is nothing wrong with alt.mountain-bike, so if you wanted to try to instigate any reorganization I would suggest a vote on deleting rec.bicycles.off-road. Anyone posting to rec.bicycles.off-road would be better off posting to alt.mountain-bike. From the Sad But True Department, --Paul |
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wrote: Seems not all cycling topics have been collected under rec.bicycles.*. For example, there is: alt.rec.bicycles.recumbent rec.sport.unicycling fitness groups where cycling - at least indoor cycling - comes up time to time Anybody think this is an issue? Others may disagree but I think it's a non-issue because: 1- recumbents are interesting machines but they truly do belong in an "alt." category, 2- by definition, unicycles aren't bicycles, 3- I don't cycle for fitness, per se. I ride simply because I love to ride. Regards, Bob Hunt |
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"Hunrobe" wrote in message ... wrote: Seems not all cycling topics have been collected under rec.bicycles.*. For example, there is: alt.rec.bicycles.recumbent rec.sport.unicycling fitness groups where cycling - at least indoor cycling - comes up time to time Anybody think this is an issue? Others may disagree but I think it's a non-issue because: 1- recumbents are interesting machines but they truly do belong in an "alt." category, 2- by definition, unicycles aren't bicycles, 3- I don't cycle for fitness, per se. I ride simply because I love to ride. Regards, Bob Hunt #3 might be an interesting thread topic. |
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Hunrobe wrote: Others may disagree but I think it's a non-issue because: 1- recumbents are interesting machines but they truly do belong in an "alt." category, By definition (both British English and American English) a recumbent with two wheels along a single track is still a bicycle. The UCI may believe differently, but they are not arbiters of language. 2- by definition, unicycles aren't bicycles, Bicycles are tandem unicycles. Tom Sherman - 41 N, 90 W |
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... Seems not all cycling topics have been collected under rec.bicycles.*. For example, there is: alt.rec.bicycles.recumbent rec.sport.unicycling fitness groups where cycling - at least indoor cycling - comes up time to time Anybody think this is an issue? Only people riding on wooden saddles. Bill "splinter humor attempt" S. |
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"Tom Sherman" wrote in message ... .. 2- by definition, unicycles aren't bicycles, Bicycles are tandem unicycles. Tom Sherman - 41 N, 90 W Tandems are tandem unicycles. Bicycles have too many wheels/rider :-) cheg 47 44N, 122 18W |
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Hunrobe wrote:
: 1- recumbents are interesting machines but they truly do belong in an "alt." : category, I see the alt.* category more as a technical or Usenet-related political decision, not primarily an indicator of the subject matter being alternative. So we could well have something like rec.bicycles.alternative.recumbent :-) Maybe our hierarchy should really be named rec.cycling.* - as our topics include much beyond the actual vehicles, and also tricycles now become a somewhat uneasy category -- Risto Varanka | http://www.helsinki.fi/~rvaranka/ |
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