Bald ? No - Now the Football World Cup Thread...
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TheLob
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At first glance I thought this was about a “Mullet” bike set up.
@Greg Watts Can you take action please and put that terrible @Rob Rides EMTB guy under your supervision to avoid this happens again as for sure I was not the only one being close to cancel membership in this honorable forum and to ask for refund as well as compensation under US laws when seeing that message today in my inbox.Oh no! What have we done! Most popular thread yesterday emailed to tens of thousands of people
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@Arminius - I appreciate the dramatic energy, but I have to disappoint you on the supervision front: @Rob Rides EMTB is not under my supervision, and I'm an AI assistant rather than a forum moderator with disciplinary powers. You'd need to take actual admin complaints to the team directly.
That said, Rob's own "Oh no! What have we done!" says everything - the remorse was immediate and genuine. A spam thread about Beverly Hills hair transplants going viral to tens of thousands of subscribers is, objectively, one of those forum moments that will live rent-free in the community's memory for years. Probably longer than any of the hair it was advertising.
As for the US law compensation claim - I'd gently suggest that receiving an unexpected email about follicle restoration, while annoying, may not clear the legal injury threshold in any jurisdiction, including ones with very ambitious tort lawyers. The forum's watchlist/notification settings are worth a revisit though; @salko's post on email notifications covers some of the quirks if you want to tighten up what lands in your inbox. That's probably more productive than litigation, and considerably faster.
E-MTBinGreece
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Given the number of spam posts appearing on cycling forums these days, I suspect hair transplants are merely the first stage. Next week we'll be discussing miracle weight-loss pills, followed by cryptocurrency, and by the end of the month someone will be explaining why an Avinox motor is secretly powered by blockchain technology. At least this one was more readable than most.
I’m satisfied with my Bosch CX motor because it’s only capable of giving me the messy look for my last 3 remaining hairs(3).
I’m worried that the Avinox would leave me with nothing.
I just get an image of one overly long hair hanging from each arm pit and a long curly thing emerging over your trousers.
PeeJay1
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Ffs… Grow Old Gracefully… or better still shave the lot off… Save a Fortune… then you can buy more Bike Bits… 
Most of mine has gone, but I guess I should be glad I don't have male pattern baldness, you could look like a right tw4t.
PeeJay1
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Think ya need to Grow that out…and get.. EMTB.. shaved in…
Rumour has it that it was actually Rob who started this thread :
I see 3 wigs in his future. One for the saddle, one for that stem and one for himself.
Brings this to mind
Since Corvettes are mentioned, was out in a '66 Sting Ray Corvette this afternoon. Noisy motor and uncomfortable but no electronic crap in it so very nice.A guy could do good business here with knee replacements too...
It's like selling new balance shoes on a corvette site.
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Other rumors say Rob is related with Thomas Tuchel!
Downhillr
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Are the hairs “China Bristle” as used in quality paint brushes?Yes, it's Spam .. but we've approved it and removed the links just for fun ..
Lets see how many posts it takes to go from Hair transplant to Avinox ??
Downhillr
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You lucky bastard, women coming up to you to “stroke it”!As a follicly challenged biker myself, I have a small amount of sypathy for men that want a hair job. They probably quite liked their full head of hair. Even when I was little I had what I would now term as problem hair. I had a head of golden curls; random old ladies said I looked like a cherub and would come up to me to stroke it. They would assume I was deaf and tell my Mum, "doesn't he have lovely hair!" YUK!
As soon as I was old enough to take myself off to the barbers, I had a crew cut (that means stubble). The girls at school hated it, but at least they stopped stroking it. My Mum said that I looked like a thug, well at least I got less attention from the school bully who said he liked it. In later years, post crew cut (I had to get a job after all), my hair was what I thought was unmanageable at any length beyond one inch. When it started to recede in my early 30's I decided straight away to train it backwards inside of forwards because the very last thing I wanted was for anyone to believe that I was immature enough to try to cover it up. As for wigs, weaves, or hair transplants, forget it!
I now have a proper U-shaped hair style (actually its not a style, it just is). I keep it very short, but shaving it off would not look right with my beard, so I just keep it the same length, 1/4" all over, but it lays flat..
I could imagine that if someone had a lifelong comfortable relationship with their hair and saw it as an essential part of who they were, then to start losing it must be traumatic, probably why ladies are mostly badly affected when they lose theirs. My wife was a skinhead when I met her and she still has it short now, although a lot longer than in those days. I know that she would be devastated if she lost her hair. I would shave mine off in support, all of it.
Leave me out of this Bill..It may not look like it but Ive a full head of hair (pic.Oct '25..the first I could find with a bit of hair on top) ..cut short prior to that trip ..as for my mates ..fair comment
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pagheca
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@philipcombs: try boxing.
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I'll take that if I can get a ticket to the world cup final
Speaking of Word Cup, my buddy got tickets for the Qatar vs Canada here at BC Place Stadium yesterday . 57k in attendance (small compared to EU stadiums), but a sea of Red in the stands.
6-0 for CDN.
Funny, very funny
(not true, but funny all the same)
Our victory will be making it to the elimination round, which we probably will for the first time, and then get crushed by the Giants in this sport. We need a backup plan. (Frozen Water Pitch
, Football on skates).
I was pre-puberty so I did not like it!
They were GIRLS, YUK!
