Your post count suggests you’re not so bad at babbling yourself. I’ll go check out 50+ if you’ll be my babbling buddy over there.

Actually, if you were 50+ 6 years ago - my dad is 58. We’re estranged - I could use a good father figure. Whaddya say, pops? Hey, at least you’re into bikes.

On the other hand, he did used to complain that I’d talk too much. But he always told me as a kid if you can’t dazzle ‘em with brilliance, baffle ‘em with bull****.

His solution to a kid with too many questions was a hickory board. If he sounds like your type of people, PM me and I’ll hook you guys up.

Evidently you at least find it entertaining otherwise you’d not keep coming back to my thread. I aim to please you. I wouldn’t consider my babbling wisdom, but since you do, I’ll keep repeating it. Wisdom is best shared, no?

If you find yourself in the Fort and wanna chat bikes, look me up. I’ll buy any BF member a cup of coffee. I don’t drink anymore but there are a few good coffee shops, one particular favorite right along the greenway that also has a full bar and really good food. Google Old Crown Coffee Roasters. 20 minute ride from my house.

This thread isn’t a blog, and you’re the one who called it wisdom, not me. Have you ever thought about being a mod? Could be a really good fit for you. You’d have a lot more control over the things people say and where they say them. And it’d be endlessly entertaining. You, like anybody else on BF, may report my post if you find that it’s off topic or offensive, and a mod can delete it or move it as necessary. But the sentiment that I want other people to enjoy cycling, the frustration with cyclists cutting down other cyclists or groups of cyclists, and the other content in this thread provided by myself and other bike commuters about cycling seems pretty well-placed in the commuting sub. If you’re still taking something else from my sentiments and/or the thread in general, that’s quite literally your problem.

Somebody earlier on, I don’t remember who, mentioned it as a point of pride that they’d never blocked anybody on BF. If pro-cycling talk gets under anybody’s skin, maybe it’s time to consider using the ignore feature. I’ve never used it myself on BF but I’ve blocked people on Facebook. But frankly if pro-cycling talk gets under somebody’s skin, maybe BF isn’t the best place to find entertainment. I can think of at least a few members among the thousands here who are pro-cycling.

Bike Forums seems like a great place to convert people to cycling. Any luck here so far?

Round and round we go. Cycling is an activity, not a religion. Someone with more time on their hands than I have could have a lot of fun satirizing it as a religion though. Doing anything with a bike doesn’t require renouncing anything. There’s no conversion. It doesn’t require a change in anybody’s existing belief structure to ride a bike in any fashion or really to do anything with a bike at all.

That’s deep. Sounds like wisdom.

It’s almost entertaining.