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Originally Posted by
Machka
If we have a Bikepacking forum, then I think there should be a Hub-and-Spoke touring forum and a Credit Card touring forum and a Short Tours touring forum and a Long Tours touring forum and an Organised tours touring forum and a Self Sufficient touring forum ... and maybe a Europe touring forum and Asia touring forum and Australian touring forum and a North American touring forum and a South American touring forum and an Africa touring forum ...
Or maybe we should just have threads for each of these.
As a similar example, there is a well-subscribed thread on the Northeast Regional Discussion Forum,Metro Boston: Good ride today?,” with over 8500 replies since 2009. I have described it:
Originally Posted by
Jim from Boston
…See also this very active Northeast Regional Discussion thread
”Metro Boston: Good ride today?” to discover many interesting areas, with a lot of great photos;
the de facto Boston subforum
That should get you started, and consider me a resource. Welcome to “the Hub.”
Originally Posted by
Jim from Boston
...I like to write up my rides, as do others on a
local discussion thread here in Boston, and for me, it’s more a journal for myself, than for the amusement of other subscribers, though I hope others would find it interesting.
Of course we in Metro Boston all know the region, and each other, at least electronically, so we are a ready receptive audience for each other.
I have thought of that thread as the cycling equivalent of “apres-ski” after a day on the slopes, where we gather to exchange stories, routes, photos, ribbing, and (?) tall tales.
Last edited by Jim from Boston; 12-02-19 at 08:26 AM.