Steve,
i agree that the signal/noise ratio of many of the articles in the other sections leaves something to be desired, but as every such community, when you hang arounfd a while you learn to filter the useful stuff (and the knowledgeable people :) from the rest.
While the level of knowldge of course here in the CR list is way higher, it still could serve as a useful addition for some of us. (It allows direct attaching/linkinbg of pictures as well, what is maybe the most important advantage over a mailing list; but these have their merits, too, like offline reading capability...)
Like all new institiutions, it will evolve; i hope to something useful!
And it might serve to addict some of the younger folks who still think the latest taiwanese CFK-frame is the nicest thing to ride on earth :-D
Martin Appel Munich, Germany
Steve Maas <stevem@mail.nonlintec.com> schrieb:
>Archive-URL:
>http://search.bikelist.org/getmsg.asp?Filename=classicrendezvous.10510.1253.eml
>From: "Martin Appel" <martin@camelot.de>
>Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 10:46:13 +0200
>Subject: [CR]German language Forum opened at "Tour Magazin" Website
>
>Dear Listmembers,
>
>Looks like this might actually be useful. Thanks for posting the info.
>
>I've had Tour Magasin bookmarked for some time, but when I look at it,
>I always seem to end up with an article that belabors the obvious or
>just points me towards something to buy. Not terribly useful. So,
>maybe this is a change in the right direction; hope so.
>
>Steve Maas
>Dublin, Ireland
>
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>Dale has kindly allowed me to post this little piece of Advertisement
>here; thanks again!
>
>The Forum of the german magazine "Tour" has opened a section dedicated
>to the classic racing bike. The "Tour Forum" is the largest BB for
>racing bikes and bike racing in the german language, it has currently
>over 10.000 registered Users and close to 1Mio postings.
>
>You can find the "Klassiker Forum" at
>
>http://forum.tour-magazin.de/forumdisplay.php?f=34
>
>The board has no dedicated timeline (yet), but has a similar goal as
>the "classic rendezvous" mailing list.
>It only opened this week's monday, but it already has a few
>interesting
>threads.
>
>It is german language, although i suspect many participants also can
>understand and write english as well. As far as i'm aware of, this is
>the first such forum in the german language.
>
>So for those of you who can read german, it may well be worth a visit!
>:-)
>
>thank you,
>
>Martin Appel
>Munich, Germany
>"martl" at the tour forum