Was just reading the Inbred size post and thinking that you've grown a nice little online forum; that's on my daily 'to read' list.

It just keeps growing and getting better

Matt :)

I concur!

Three cheers I say. :D

By far the best forum I have found.
Very well done for staring it up, and long may it continue!

*It's the people who use it, that make it.



*But thank you.

Yup, ace forum, I've learned lots. The lack of STW-style arguments is also quite refreshing

Yeah nice one peeps. I'm addicted.
Definitely less willy-waving on here than other forums.

Stu, feel free to use that as a strap line:

"Bear Bones Bikepacking, 99% less willy waving than your usual branded forum"

Agreed, no arguing just an Irish ROW!

I like it :twisted:

I wish I used my gear more :evil:

Have given up on STW for a while. So much potentially good stuff, so much melodrama and cobblers, such a shame 8-)

s8tannorm wrote:It's the people who use it, that make it.

On that note, I thought I'd round up some forum stats

Forum active for around 340 days, during which time there has been total posts 7923 posts across 845 topics. That's 23 posts per day, averaging 9 posts per topic.

There are 170 members, which is a new member every other day.

The top 10 members by posts (% of total in brackets) are:
1. s8tannorm 1418 (17.8%)
2. didnothingfatal 664 (8.3%)
3. Ian 661 (8.3%)
4. flatfishy 529 (6.6%)
5. gairym 397 (5.0%)
6. valleydaddy 358 (4.5%)
7. Anthony 355 (4.4%)
8. Fantasticmrmatt 307 (3.9%)
9. Pedalhead 242 (3.0%)
10. Ray Young 192 (2.4%)

The Top 10 members contribute 64.6% of the posts to the forum, and 34.4% are made up of the Top 3 members.

Topics are broken down across each of the fora as follows:
General Banter - 684 topics (80%)
Anyone Playing Out - 43 topics (5%)
Your Trips & Adventures - 34 topics (4%)
Classifieds - 81 topics (10%)
Announcements (1%)

The ratio of posts to topics is as follows (i.e. the number of replies you're likely to get, on average, if you post a new topic):
General Banter - 10:1
Anyone Playing Out - 12:1
Your Trips & Adventures - 7:1
Classifieds - 4:1

There's probably lots more you could do with the figures, but that's a start 8-)

Well done Stu & Dee - we wouldn't know what to do with our days/ evenings without you :D