Originally Posted by
carleton
Maybe he'll introduce himself.
Ah, now I understand.
FGF was great "because" it was literally littered with some world class talent and experience. Due to it's specificity, people knew what they were getting into there and, at least earlier in it's life, appropriate respect for that experience was generally shown.
I suspect there may be a bit more chaf with the wheat here in bikeforums.net. A couple things that would help immensely with sorting out which opinions to give more weight to is if individuals were comfortable giving up a bit more of their identity than an anonymous username and adding any palmares in their sig line.