Re: [CR] CR List / Bikeforums.net duplication or overlap?

(Example: Racing:Wayne Stetina)

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Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 14:36:12 -0400
From: "Ken Freeman" <kenfreeman096@gmail.com>
To: John Betmanis <johnb@oxford.net>
Cc: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR] CR List / Bikeforums.net duplication or overlap?


I'm on Classic and Vintage over at Bike Forums. Last year I set up a vintage ride here in Michigan, and posted essentially the same announcements for it here and on BF. No problems were created that I could see, or maybe just nobody noticed.

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 8:54 PM, John Betmanis <johnb@oxford.net> wrote:
> Yes, I post in and follow the C&V Forum over there, as do a few other CR
> list members. It's a good resource, but mostly a younger crowd without any
> stringent rules about what classic and vintage means. However, I don't
> believe the majority of CR members go there. I know one of the CR list
> rules is not to cross post from other bike lists, but I take that to mean
> other bikelist.org lists. I don't think it would be redundant to pose the
> same questions here as you would in the C&V Forum because there's only a
> small overlap, but I guess the ultimate decision would be up to Dale the
> Listmeister.
>
> John Betmanis
> Woodstock, Ontario
> Canada
>
> At 05:52 PM 31/08/2009 -0400, peter stock wrote:
> >Please don't post this if it is not of interest or pertinent, and please
> >excuse my ignorance if it is showing.
> >
> >But do most CR List followers also follow the Vintage forum on
> >Bikeforums.net?
> >
> >I ask I guess because I had never heard CR List until was referred here by
> >someone on Bikeforums.net (in response to a frame identification question
> --
> >the faux-Tommasini -- I'd posted there that no one there seemed to be able
> >to answer. and which remains a mystery by the way.)
> >
> >I've posted a few bikes and questions there recently (like my possibly
> >unridden Puch which generated quite a stir) and didn't want to waste
> >anyone's time or eyeballs or bandwidth posting the same stuff here.
> >
> >But, I would also love to the reaction and expertise of CR List followers.
> >
> >Peter Stock
> >Toronto ON
>
> _______________________________________________
>

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Ken Freeman
Ann Arbor, MI USA