Well, I think that's it for me...

[Moderator]

That makes our job easier.

The OP was on the probable ban list for using "Fxxxing" in nearly every post.

Animal abuse (in his profile he says he rides a small dog) I realise that's probably normal in Aus/NZ (his IP address is both and lots of VPN) but it's frowned on in many places in the world.

He's been reported Twice.

Despite complaining about the Avinox threads, he was trolling most of them.

Therefore he's now banned incase he changes his mind.

For the sake of everyone on the forum, if you have no interest in something, remember you don't have to go into every related thread and tell everyone that and give your opinion on it - this goes doubly for everyone who has zero experience on the subject. Then we won't have all the endless defensive Avinox replies - simple really isn't it ??

Thanks.

 

[Paulquattro]

Got to love family guy

 

[Mario Antony]

I was on this forum a couple of different times in the past and it was very different. I'm looking for a place where I can talk about riding, get motivated, look at cool new components, help people new to make good decisions because it's really easy to get the wrong bike. I'm on my 9th and that's not from choosing well. But those bad choices have literally never been about the motor. Even when I got one I didn't really like.

But now this is all just about Avinox. There's a bunch of people on here with very high post counts and you can skim through the history it's all the same thing. Like a horny Jack Russell just at everyone's leg the whole time about the Avinox motor. For months and months on end, unceasingly. It starts to look like a psychological problem. I don't have the energy or inclination to fight.

I get you love your bike, but I love mine too. And while I think I'm about 40% as emotional about my motor, I don't want to have it constantly berated. As said above - I'm here to get MORE motivated. Not to get upgraditis. The discussion of frames, the most important part of the bike, is dead. And a lot of these posters are super narrow minded. Maybe it's about not being a MTBer before being an eMTBer. That's a weird phenomenon we're only going to get more of I guess. But this constant bickering and shit fighting over the motor - not even the majority of what matters about the bike - is just doing my head in. It isn't stopping. It hasn't stopped, the history is there to see. I find myself arcing up because I'm a bit on the spectrum and things that don't make sense cause me emotional damage . And maybe that's a big part of the problem for me, admittedly.

So I'm out. I'll find some riding videos to get enthused. Probably every forum is just going to be this tribal "mines better that yours" bullshit, I would imagine.

This is still a valuable resource for info about bikes, how tos and that kind of thing. But Gemini indexes it all. I can get the info without the emotion. Perfect.

Flame away, I won't see it.

This isn't an Airport!
No need to inform about departure!

 

[Mario Antony]

For those looking for inspiration... some photos of my last ride.
No Avinox...
Power limited to 300W and 40Nm on most used mode (Tour)

PS: Photos from the trails are from Trailforks. Didn't had time to take pics all the time

 

[Fangs2k]

This isn't an Airport!
No need to inform about departure!

Rusty did your gag in post #26…

 

[Mario Antony]

Rusty did your gag in post #26…

Missed it... sorry

 

[Fangs2k]

For those looking for inspiration... some photos of my last ride.
No Avinox...
Power limited to 300W and 40Nm on most used mode (Tour)

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That’s quite the ride with your fork uppers missing!

 

[Mario Antony]

That’s quite the ride with your fork uppers missing!

Ahahahhaha!
Must be Avinox doing it's things, after checking the power used

 

[notaninfluencer]

I totally agree with this post. Crazy how a motor can completely disrupt a community

CCP post truth world....

 

[Supratad]

I stopped posting on here quite a while back but that was mainly because of that Gary character, who I found to be quite toxic. Even to the point that if I was out riding and had a slight pedal strike, I would think of him.

What I did though was very subtle. I just stopped posting . It required minimal effort.
I’ve never heard of Avinox. Is it one of those chemical companies that only make the news when a factory in Asia blows up?

 

[skizzian]

I think there's a few vocal Avinox haters and people get riled up by them because they behave pretty much exactly like hikers/equestrians that want to ban mtb from trails.

I think you've completely missed the point - whilst high-lighting one source of the animosity
People are concerned that legislation in Europe will change for the worse because Avinox (in particular) are stretching the definition of rated to '250W continuous'
they DON'T want eMtb's banned - they are scared of blanket knee jerk legislation that will affect their trail access

I await the 'Face Palm' and 'Poo' emojis from the devotees

 

[Paulquattro]

I stopped posting on here quite a while back but that was mainly because of that Gary character.

Come on you miss Old Tartan Bollocks really

 

[PSeMTB]

I post this in jest, but every time I see something like this thread I think of this:

Replace Facebook with EMTB Forums and near the end replace “we just had a baby” with “I just got a new bike”