noonievut said:I guess my point is I expected more activity here and don't see it. I also check out MTBR (as I'm a mountain biker) and theres many people who post about rides, trails, routes and what not, just about the GTA.
Oh well...
[font=Bookman Old Style]Forums are a funny thing, to borrow a metaphor from cycling activists who borrowed it from nuclear physists, you need a certain critical mass to make them happen.
All that is needed is a small core of regular writers exchanging a few thoughts and them things snowball.
So far on this forum it appears quite few people (over a hundred per topic) come take a look but do not post a comment. Without the posting of comments few people come back regularly.
The topics tends to be non-controversial as well.
While some may find that pleasant, it doesn't generate much traffic.
I am posting stuff slowly and selectively trying not to get banned again but nevertheless trying to promote some changes and improvements for the sport in this country. My interest is almost exclusively competitive and my thought is we once again need a vibrant, dynamic, profitable and commercial domestic road racing scene to as we had in the early 1990s to attract more media which in turns attracts more sponsors and more racers.
Others wil advocate a grass root approach. My criticism of that is it ends up being all you get, grass root racing. It attracts few riders and retains even fewer. What kids in their right minds would aspire to compete in a sport whose highest level has them racing around cornfields with hot, tired digs under trees as spectators?
Also, the sport in Canada is being undermined by talentless, selfish, young Master riders (under 40) who exhaust the limited resources available to the sport without giving anything back to the youth that are needed to carry the sport at an international level or offering them anything to aspire to...
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