B r i f t e r s

[s.monaco]

Funny one of my 1st few posts had naughty wordnaughty wordnaughty wordnaughty wordnaughty wordnaughty wordnaughty word in it and it was replaced with naughty word,naughty word etc. I wasn't sure why, but thought wow maybe they really don't like that word either....It just doesn't sound right. ATMO of course.

[Gradient]

I get it. Being edited is humbling, being robo-edited is humiliating.

Sheldon Brown, RIP

[chasea]

Sorry, but I think on a forum where the people are pretty cool, and the mods take it pretty easy, robo-editing the word naughty wordnaughty wordnaughty wordnaughty wordnaughty wordnaughty wordnaughty word is pretty effin' funny.

[Dorman]

Funny one of my 1st few posts had naughty wordnaughty wordnaughty wordnaughty wordnaughty wordnaughty wordnaughty word in it and it was replaced with naughty word,naughty word etc. I wasn't sure why, but thought wow maybe they really don't like that word either....It just doesn't sound right. ATMO of course.

You're living in a world ruled by a giant ape. Take it or leave it. Go check out the 'naughty word' thread for a little amusement.

[Dorman]

Sorry, but I think on a forum where the people are pretty cool, and the mods take it pretty easy, robo-editing the word naughty wordnaughty wordnaughty wordnaughty wordnaughty wordnaughty wordnaughty word is pretty effin' funny.

Yeah, what he said.

[jerk]

Well, sort of...
Over in the General population I responded to a thread about Ritchey travel bikes (I have one and like it). In my response was the statement that I built it up with indexed bar end shifters as I don't like B R I F T E R s. I thought it was changed by a mod without first PMing me and I couldn't see what was wrong with my post in the first place. Then they tell me of the filter device and I still don't understand why the word B R I F T E R would be so disturbing as to require sensorship. Since it was obviously deemed OT, this was where I came to see exactly what the problem might be.....still don't know....

because it's not a word and i don't want you to look like a fucking illiterate idiot on a public forum. call it harsh love. actually, just call it harsh.

[e-RICHIE]

son, we live in a world that has walls, and those walls have to be guarded by mods with guns. who's gonna do it? you? you, witcombusa? i have a greater responsibility than you could possibly fathom. you weep for sheldon, and you curse the serotta forum. you have that luxury. you have the luxury of not knowing what i know. that the phorum's death, while tragic, probably saved lives. and my existence, while grotesque and incomprehensible to you, saves lives. you don't want the truth because deep down in places you don't talk about at parties, you want me on that wall, you need me on that wall. we use words like cabal, lunch-table, effbuilder. we use these words as the backbone of a life spent defending something. you use them as a punchline. i have neither the time nor the inclination to explain myself to a man who rises and sleeps under the blanket of the very freedom that i provide, and then questions the manner in which i provide it. i would rather you just said thank you, and went on your way, otherwise, i suggest you pick up a weapon, and stand a post. either way, i don't give a damn what you think you are entitled to atmo.

[sharkboyrob]

naughty wordnaughty wordnaughty wordnaughty wordnaughty wordnaughty wordnaughty word is brupid.

[GrantM]

Is that the phrase?

Well, yes. They are integrated shift and brake levers.

Shimano calls them "STI" - Shimano Total Integration
Campganolo calls them Ergopower Control levers
Sram - i don't really care because they are shit.

Anyway... come back with the manifesto when it's the law
we all have to use them, until then - ride whatever you like.

-g

[wcu]

Well, yes. They are integrated shift and brake levers.

Shimano calls them "STI" - Shimano Total Integration
Campganolo calls them Ergopower Control levers
Sram - i don't really care because they are shit.

Anyway... come back with the manifesto when it's the law
we all have to use them, until then - ride whatever you like.

-g

For me, they're ALL shit but whatever.

It's clear as mud now!

[Bob Ross]

I'm trying to think of a sentence where the word "shifters" as it relates to bicycles isn't specific enough, and failing.

Well, in fairness, I have a dear friend I've known since 1975, he's played in 3 or 4 bands with me, was my roommate for several years, blah blah blah... And we cycled together a bit in our youth. In fact, he was the guy who taught me how to ride through traffic like a meth-crazed messenger decades before there was such a thing. (Or at least a trend.)

Anyway... his awareness of cycling hardware ended right around 1986, when he bought a matched pair of BMX bikes (one to leave at the office, the other at home). Fast-forward a bazillion years, and here I am trying to describe my (then) new Cannondale Synapse with its mixture of circa-2006 Ultegra & DuraAce components.

believe me, if I'd used the word "shifter" -- or "STI", or "Integrated Shifter" etc. it just wouldn't have helped. At all. He was completely blown away by this entire concept of integrating the shift lever with the brake lever!!!!

So yeah, I called it a br!fter. It helped.

[corko]

SHART.... a small, unintended defecation that occurs when one relaxes the anal sphincter to fart (blend of "shit" and "fart")

source: Urbandictionary

[nahtnoj]

Someone keeps missing the joke.

My fucking piece of shit naughty wordnaughty wordnaughty wordnaughty wordnaughty wordnaughty wordnaughty word broke on my damn bike yesterday.

And what got edited? If you can't get behind that I feel sorry for you.

[maunahaole]

If the profanity got edited out, it would effectively eliminate about 80% of jerk's posts.

Shevers rule.

[Ben]

I don't object to editing out juvenile, useless neologisms.
I object to leaving humorless, entitled bitching undisturbed.

[Too Tall]

sheverssheverssheverssheverssheverssheversshevers

Schools out for ever.

Good night gentlemen.