New Users Welcome: July membership campaign

[admin]

Thanks for joining VSalon where superiority is the new black.

VSalon members please note as of today we have more than 1700 members. Further, everyday hundreds of eyes read VSalon without logging in.

Today begins a campaign to sign up new members. Please take a few moments to send our link to friends who might have interest.
www.velocipedesalon.com/forum

Thank You for your continued indulgences and enthusiastic participation, VSalon Team

[Ben]

I'm one of the new guys, and primarily just a lurker. But I've had a paean to Vsalon rattling around in my head for a long time. This thread seems like as good a place as any to put it.

Let me just say what a revelation this place was when I first stumbled across it. I had spent a little time at some other bike forums, but mostly those places were characterized by screeching and stupidity and hubris and misdirected venom. Mostly, those places just made me sad -- for our sport and for the people who posted there.

I'm sure you've all experienced it, but I can't even explain what it was like to discover this place for the first time. It's full of people who love bikes -- just about all bikes, including a sick love for those in the Haters thread -- and know what they're talking about from long experience in the saddle. People who get (and in some cases made) the history of our sport and who don't accept as axiomatic that Carbon 'n Cunego are "better" than Moser and Alloy. People who have healthy (and, in most cases, well-earned) egos, but who also have enough respect, good humor and bonhomie to make this place work, so that ball-busting almost never begets hurt feelings and petty grudges. A place where somebody knows the answer to every technical question you could think to ask. A place where legit pros and hardmen associate with and are -gasp- friendly with, fat slow dudes like me.

A place where there is a Correct Way (or Ways, depending on the day) to design, build and ride a bike, but where the shared love of cycling is powerful enough to overcome a deviation from that appointed path. A place where white tape is de rigeur, but genuine and well-reasoned eccentricity is cherished above blind adherence to a norm.

I've learned more about the ethos of cycling here than I would have learned in a dozen years anywhere else.

This is a special place. I love it here. Thanks for being rad.

Ben

[54ny77]

this is by far the best bike web site on earth.

the wealth of experience & knowledge on here is unmatched.

civility reigns supreme (as does editorial discretion), which is so refreshing.

the only downside is the little annoying bug that now rests in my head about wanting to learn how to someday build my own frame....:hahaha:

[hampco]

well said, gents - this place is clearly superior

ben, i lifted your words for my blog, just doing my bit for the war effort

http://hampsten.blogspot.com/2009/06...ede-salon.html

[shorelocal]

I really enjoy coming to this virtual place, as I bet most of you do too. However, as much as I'd love to see it grow, I hope it doesn't lose it's current "small town" community feel.

[e-RICHIE]

I really enjoy coming to this virtual place, as I bet most of you do too. However, as much as I'd love to see it grow, I hope it doesn't lose it's current "small town" community feel.

it won't atmo.
when the volume gets too high we'll ban people.
hey - only kidding atmo.

[conorb]

it won't atmo.
when the volume gets too high we'll ban people.
hey - only kidding atmo.

Great, that's all I need - to get banned from another forum.

conor

[swoop]

cheers to the builders that put pics up and give this place so much depth and artfulness and cheers to all the folks that put the energy into making original content that has an energy and genuine effortful passion and desire to take the reader somewhere or share something genuine...


please keep it up.... more!!!!!!!

and thanks to Josh for hosting us all.

[suspectdevice]

[Too Tall]

Thanks Ben. Can I call you BenMo?

Talks cheap. Send links to 14 of your closest friends and something good will happen to you when the last email is sent.

Lucky number is 699

[Ben]

You can call me Shirley if you want. I have been quoted on the HampCo blog. Everything else in life is gravy. (Well, OK...)

I shall go forth and proselytize in the name of the Salon.

[e-RICHIE]

You can call me Shirley if you want. I have been quoted on the HampCo blog. Everything else in life is gravy. (Well, OK...)

I shall go forth and proselytize in the name of the Salon.

hey ben - here's the deal atmo...
what can we get you for lunch for the rest of your life?

[Ben]

hey ben - here's the deal atmo...
what can we get you for lunch for the rest of your life?

This. I feel about Pal's the way that one guy felt about that girl in The Notebook. I will be brushing its hair and reading it stories when it gets old. How can you not love a place that makes peanut butter milkshakes and features a 25' fiberglass hot dog on the front of the building?

So what's my end of the bargain?

[e-RICHIE]

This. I feel about Pal's the way that one guy felt about that girl in The Notebook. I will be brushing its hair and reading it stories when it gets old. How can you not love a place that makes peanut butter milkshakes and features a 25' fiberglass hot dog on the front of the building?

So what's my end of the bargain?

lower the price of the meivicis and blow IF out of the water atmo.
hey - just kidding.

[Ben]

lower the price of the meivicis and blow IF out of the water atmo.
hey - just kidding.

Wrong Ben, unfortunately.
At least I got the joke.

[woolly]

This. I feel about Pal's the way that one guy felt about that girl in The Notebook. I will be brushing its hair and reading it stories when it gets old. How can you not love a place that makes peanut butter milkshakes and features a 25' fiberglass hot dog on the front of the building?

So what's my end of the bargain?

Mmmmmmmmm, butter biscuits.

[Booger]

What if threads of the "not wanting to wear gay spandex" or "best craigslist bike for $400" theme start popping up?

[jamesand]

What if threads of the "not wanting to wear gay spandex" or "best craigslist bike for $400" theme start popping up?

I'm pretty sure there are some moderators around for that stuff.

[WadePatton]

What if threads of the "not wanting to wear gay spandex" or "best craigslist bike for $400" theme start popping up?

the banishment will begin! indeed.

i would hope.

hey, ben rocks. i fully understand that i'm mostly comic relief here.:adore::hahaha::cheers::biggrin:

[Ben]

the banishment will begin! indeed.

i would hope.

hey, ben rocks. i fully understand that i'm mostly comic relief here.:adore::hahaha::cheers::biggrin:

From one Tennessean to another: Keep up whatever it is you're doing.