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ADVrider not what it use to be

So i dont post much anymore over on ADVrider even in the ride reports from the massive influcks of mostly arm-chair riders and non-big endrou bike riders... The Ride Reports and the tech stuff is still great but JM is beyond out of control... and the mods there now are worse than a second class vegas lounge bar fly looking for a 7am hook up with least amount of crisco in their hair and under 5lbs of gold chains....

so i finally find the youtube video of what would be the JoMomma theme song by a group in Australia called Machine Gun (Purposely left out last part of group name) and their song played on Austalia music tv program Rage called something something on a Motorcycle... which is a quite quirky weird song of Australian humor... i viewed the video and thought that its lead singer had Power Pasties covering what is required by ADV and i choose the non-age restricted Youtube verson... and it i guess had nips in it and the power pasties were just above

so i get a 1 week ban from the cheese-poof mods who have nothing better to do but to beat up the one-eyed worm to the TB thread that shows so much more in so much more sexually explicit manners... for the most part not many of the oringal users are active anymore and even in the Rides Reports if you dont have something sexual in a thread report no one really cares what great ride you do...:banghead :mad


It saddens me that A great site is now fully on its way "falling" or more stubbling down the staircase to lesser places in the human mind... :(

Nonsense.

Back in the day before digital tuning, we'd fine tune the signal with the little ring around the channel changer dial. ADVRider has some excellent content you will not find anywhere else. You just have to filter out the noise.

Here is my Rx:
Pick and choose the ride reports.
Spend lots of time in the Regional Forums
Use the wrenching forums for informational purposes only
Ignore Jo Momma. It might be good for entertainment, but nothing "good" happens there.
 
I saw the videos this morning - good way to start out my work day. :)

It sucks that they banned you (this is the second banning I've heard of that sounds rather unwarranted), though I find it a little funny that you complained over here, when we usually see people from here complaining over there. Not that I find the banning itself funny, mind you.

I agree some of the ride reports have gone downhill. There are a few good ones, but I started to get tired of searching for those when a certain persons high profile "adventure ride" consisted of drinking a lot, being escorted place to place, attempts at debauchery, and staying with other members with the very occasional camping. I didn't see any adventure in that. I still like browsing through and finding the good ones, but there are other sites you can read stuff on - HU for example.
 
Ignore Jo Momma. It might be good for entertainment, but nothing "good" happens there.

LOTS of good happens there. Hell, most of the GREAT happens there. If someone needs help, that's where it takes place. When folks are zipping across the country for some meat space time together, by and large, they're folks that have spent time in Jo Momma. It's where the inmates are people and don't spend their days talking incessantly about -yawn- motorcycles. You just have to deal with a lot of tedious crap to get there. Hell, our club's president is a former mod in Jo Momma.

But it has gotten a bit much since about a million n00bs have invaded and decided that the hug is the greatest human achievement.
 
Nonsense.

Back in the day before digital tuning, we'd fine tune the signal with the little ring around the channel changer dial. ADVRider has some excellent content you will not find anywhere else. You just have to filter out the noise.

Here is my Rx:
Pick and choose the ride reports.
Spend lots of time in the Regional Forums
Use the wrenching forums for informational purposes only
Ignore Jo Momma. It might be good for entertainment, but nothing "good" happens there.

+1!:thumb
 
p.s. Mike, as far as the banning goes, nips get you banned. Period. Those are the rules, however arbitrary they might seem.

On the flipside, we had people here offended by the photo of a woman's back. :dunno

We should start our own forum and call it -a name I can't repeat here-. :ha
 
I have this one linked on my blog, I think it's the best damn ride report, ever. :thumb

Absolutely agreed, Gail. A friend sent me a link to that report while the ride was still going on and additions were still being posted. I got hooked FAST and could not wait for the next installment. Mind-boggling adventure ride, amazing photography, excellent writing. Easily the best damn ride report ever.
 
LOTS of good happens there. Hell, most of the GREAT happens there. If someone needs help, that's where it takes place. When folks are zipping across the country for some meat space time together, by and large, they're folks that have spent time in Jo Momma. It's where the inmates are people and don't spend their days talking incessantly about -yawn- motorcycles. You just have to deal with a lot of tedious crap to get there. Hell, our club's president is a former mod in Jo Momma.

But it has gotten a bit much since about a million n00bs have invaded and decided that the hug is the greatest human achievement.

Still a mod, actually. In fact, I'm a supermod there and get to roam the site enforcing the rules as needed.

Fortunately, I don't have much to do there these days. Mostly, Rider and I are Moderators Emeritus and we chip in our advice when needed.
 
Still a mod, actually. In fact, I'm a supermod there and get to roam the site enforcing the rules as needed.

Fortunately, I don't have much to do there these days. Mostly, Rider and I are Moderators Emeritus and we chip in our advice when needed.

That's cuz Rider has a billion posts and you're old.

:whistle
 
Change happens - get used to it.

So, your definition of an Adventure ride is a big enduro bike and camping out?
 
I spend way too much time reading trip reports on ADVRider, have for years. I like reading about riding in places I will not likely ever get to visit on a bike, some of the ones I am currently following:
- WorldRider, the cream of the trip report crop.
- Over the Great Wall, under the Iron Curtain
- South America: Until our Luck or Money Runs Out
- In at the deep end (From the UK to Aus)
- CaveBiker -No Return Ticket ÔÇô Just a Ride Report /w Pics
- Solo TAT on F650
- Roamin' The Rockies: a woman's solo adventure

There are more, but these are the ones that are regularly updated. Some that aren't really updated anymore but great reads nonetheless...

- Took a little ride...
- 13 days of Romania
- Morocco the real report
- The Lure of Zanzibar
- Two up - Going down +1: South America Bound

There are literally tons more, and it is easy to search them.

I have been in JM once or twice, never really had the interest to linger.
 
LOTS of good happens there. Hell, most of the GREAT happens there. If someone needs help, that's where it takes place. When folks are zipping across the country for some meat space time together, by and large, they're folks that have spent time in Jo Momma. It's where the inmates are people and don't spend their days talking incessantly about -yawn- motorcycles. You just have to deal with a lot of tedious crap to get there. Hell, our club's president is a former mod in Jo Momma.

But it has gotten a bit much since about a million n00bs have invaded and decided that the hug is the greatest human achievement.

IMO, it's not worth posting in JM. Everyone there wants to be a wise-ass or an e-thug, and frankly my time is better spent elsewhere. Sure I'll take a peek from time-to-time, but the truely good stuff happens elsewhere on the site, with an occasional link into JM for the help requests and such.
 
IMO, it's not worth posting in JM. Everyone there wants to be a wise-ass or an e-thug, and frankly my time is better spent elsewhere. Sure I'll take a peek from time-to-time, but the truely good stuff happens elsewhere on the site, with an occasional link into JM for the help requests and such.

:dunno
I've been known to thwack someone that's being silly or stupid, but I'll take Kbasa's cleaning out the fridge thread over all but the rarest and most extraordinary ride report ANY day.

Translation: "Yay! You ride a motorcycle! Now tell me something that actually matters."

And yet I'm here and there and other motorcycle sites and places. It's all very confusing. :ha
 
Change happens - get used to it.

So, your definition of an Adventure ride is a big enduro bike and camping out?

Not necessarily. The bike doesn't matter. It doesn't even have to be an enduro. The location doesn't matter as there is plenty of "adventure" to be found here in the US (though I'll admit I find rides through other countries more interesting - still nothing wrong with a "local" ride). The attitude does. If all a "ride report" consists of is drinking, taking photos of women at a bar, making lecherous comments, and generally sponging off of everyone else, that's not an adventure. I've seen a number of reports that stress the middle two. It gets old.

As I said, there are good reports on there - some where people don't even go very far from home. I enjoy them, but I see too many of the "other ones".
 
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