Re: Are RR's Going the Way of the Dinosaur ??

On Jul 17, 10:05 pm, Wudscrasher <wudscras...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
...And I am a Culprit...

I don't know about y'all, but when I found RMD 5 years ago, it was
rife with Ride Reports (RR's). I enjoyed writing up my
(mis)adventures, just to read your reactions, wit, and "I've done
that's". I lived vicariously through the RR's when I was bored,
injured or bikeless. Basically, you guys kept me pumped when I wasn't
riding. <snip> I love to write,
and assume my eloquence can convey the feeling of being on the ride
with me....but...I just don't think anyone gives a rat's-ass anymore.
Tiago and a few others post RR's, but it's not the same as a few years
ago (no disrespect, Tiago, et al). What happened ??? My excuse is
maybe being lazy, but in reality, I don't write because I don't think
anyone cares.

That's pretty much why I don't bother most of the time anymore. I can
take a couple of hours to write, edit, re-arrange and clarify a ride
report to try and make it entertaining and/or informative, post it,
and get no replies at all, or with a good one, maybe I'll get a reply
from Tami or Joe, both of whom I keep in touch with via e-mail and
other means, so why jug up RMD? There just doesn't seem to be any
point.

80-85% of the posts these days are OT or impersonal -
or just friggin' stupid. I've done more riding, trips, adventures,
etc. than ever before (being plated helps ;) in the last year, but
feel RMD is....just...not the same as it used to be.

Yep. When some totally stupid off-topic post can spin off a 100 post
thread, and your laboriously crafted ride report dies at 3, it doesn't
provide much incentive to write. Apparently, as a group we are more
interested in flaming each other or discussing, well, anything BUT
dirt bikes and riding them, than in sharing the ride with each other.
Or maybe I just really, really suck at descriptive writing. Whatever.

Those of you who are going to Baum soon...I'll be there in spirit.
I'm booked up for rides the next 3 weekends, and if anyone cares, I'll
type up a RR for you. I'll be looking for Idaho posts, so maybe
that'll motivate me. In the mean time, go ride, and write about it
HERE. I want to read about your adventures...want to read about mine?

Yeah, Chris, I want to read yours, and most everybody else's too. I
just feel guilty when I reply to something in a healthy, active thread
and kill it dead in it's tracks. Probably 4 out of 5 posts I've made
turned out to be the final post in that thread, or at least to the
particular branch of the thread I was responding to. (I'll probably
kill this thread, too; sorry Chris.) Unlike some people around here,
I'm not into forcing my views on others, and if they show no interest
in my opinion as almost everyone here consistently has, I'll just keep
it to myself. I delete easily 90% of my replies without sending them,
because I realize there's no point to it. Scott and I had a double-
header race weekend last weekend, 2 enduros in one day, one at night.
As much as I'd like to write something, I just can't justify wasting
my time when the only people who seem to care will be sitting across a
campfire from me in a week. We'll talk then.
It must be nice to be like Levy or Buckley, where you can just pop in
occasionally, spew some arrogant opinionated bull*** about something
you have no real qualifications to comment on, insult the hell out of
anyone else in the thread, and spawn dozens of replies and adoring
comments. Or like Rick, where you can just make *** up and then
refuse to admit when you're wrong, hiding behind your work history
like that somehow imparts infallability upon you. Either way, they
generate more apparent interest than attempts to actually talk about
riding.
I think the group is getting what it wants. It's sad, really. I feel
bad for the O.G. rmd'ers like Deeney and Baxter; it must be like
watching one of your kids progress from cutting school to stealing
cars and going to jail, all of that early promise gone to waste...

Tim H
More disappointed than disgruntled

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