zootracer
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| 05/13/2020 08:20 AM |
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| Was it bamboo or damboo? That's going back a few years..... |
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Cranky Tom
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| 05/13/2020 11:35 AM |
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| Let's not forget Old&Fat and the legendary Goatroaper . . . |
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Cosmic Kid
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| 05/13/2020 12:12 PM |
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Was it bamboo or damboo? That's going back a few years.....
Started as Bamboo because he supposedly had a bamboo bike....switched to Danboo after one of the VN server changes and he lost his profile.
Another asshat.
Funny how accurate O&F turned out to be about almost everything....wonder if it really was Jeff Evanshine after all. |
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longslowdistance
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| 05/13/2020 12:38 PM |
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I remember O and F:
"I know something you don't know!"
x 1000
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mondonico
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| 05/13/2020 03:44 PM |
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| danboo? was he the photo guy who had such beautiful photos of nature. Got into a few toast ups with him. |
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Orange Crush
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| 05/13/2020 04:03 PM |
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Yes, Danboo was the beautiful photo guy with a lot of rants. I don't know any of the other characters, those must predate my presence. You guys have memories like/hold grudges like elephants.
Forget why exactly I joined this place but it was probably somewhere between Dave's adventure in Spain and politics (probably around election time). It certainly wasn't for all the bike mechanic geek stuff. |
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longslowdistance
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| 05/13/2020 04:17 PM |
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| He was not right in the head. |
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longslowdistance
Posts:2881
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| 05/14/2020 07:34 AM |
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| OC, Old and Fat deserves some explanation. He (I'll assume this person was a he) presented himself as an insider in pro racing, probably a racer himself, with an extra large amount of double secret knowledge about doping details and other even more rotten stuff going on. He scolded us, over and over and over, for our blindness and our not knowing what he claimed to know. But when we pressed: OK, tells us already, let's hear this bad news!, he would dissemble and deflect. I don't recall him sharing a single specific that wasn't already in the public record. That act got old really fast and made him a Cassandra - a true profit (maybe, who knows what he really knew since he never shared it) with no credibility. Too bad, because spilling the beans would have been good for cycling in the long run. The sport now is a laughing stock to Joe Sixpack in the US, just a bunch of skinny dopers. |
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longslowdistance
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| 05/14/2020 07:42 AM |
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| As for the super knowledgable Jennifer, I had wondered if she was more than one person - amazing amount of information, and always shared gracefully and generously. |
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Cosmic Kid
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| 05/14/2020 12:31 PM |
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You guys have memories like/hold grudges like elephants.
It was more that a couple of these characters were such trolls, and engaged in such childish behavior, that they stick with you. Goatroper had a monumental breakdown on the forum, Frog was a self-admitted troll who stated multiple times that he was just there to p*ss people off (and assumed multiple identities over time) and Danboo was just a flat-out whack-job.
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Dale
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| 05/14/2020 12:42 PM |
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Danboo was unhinged for sure, he’d go off on tangential rants like a mad man.
After Jennifer left she messaged me to edit some stuff she was writing. We had a couple of nice email exchanges and *poof* she was gone. Headed to Canada iirr.
The many variations of Mandy/ Fons de Wolf/ whatever. I ran into one of his rants in a letter to the editor of some newspaper editorial. He was using one of his many screen names and the style further identified him. He was just as big of a pot stirrer in the paper as he was on the forum.
I used the screen name watermoccasin on a couple of forums but followed Ben’s lead and just used my real name after the forum did a reboot.
There used to be two forums, Tech Talk and everything else. After the TdF the regulars there seemed to drift over to our TT party and prattle on about stuff we tired off years before. It was always a dreadful couple of weeks.
BZ, I’lll be back in SLC to visit my daughter a couple times this year if the C-19 lays low. We’ll catch up in real life then. |
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Cosmic Kid
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| 05/14/2020 01:06 PM |
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There used to be two forums, Tech Talk and everything else. After the TdF the regulars there seemed to drift over to our TT party and prattle on about stuff we tired off years before. It was always a dreadful couple of weeks.
LOL.....I had totally forgotten about that phenomenon. |
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zootracer
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| 05/14/2020 02:54 PM |
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| yeah, danboo was not right in the head. Although I liked reading his rants as it made me feel like I was not as crazy as I thought I was...if that makes sense.... |
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Cranky Tom
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| 05/15/2020 01:17 PM |
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| CK - Goatroaper not only had a monumental breakdown on the forum - he faked his own death! Do you remember the post from his "wife" announcing his demise? That guy was a special kind of crazy. |
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Cosmic Kid
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| 05/15/2020 04:14 PM |
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he faked his own death! Do you remember the post from his "wife" announcing his demise?
LOL....a classic moment in the VN forum history!! |
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