Topic: Forum member Wobbly has checked out from the forum?

[seanbarney41]

Weird #$%*...getting attached to internet personalities that may not even be real people

[madmtnmotors]

We could always implement an official grievance procedure using an official form like this one:

[dhall57]

 

[grcamna2]

It might be too easy to delete the profile? One button and it's over....  a verification one week later of the request can save members of loosing friends for small things.
Respect to each other is important when this is about real things and real experiences.

I think it's also very difficult to speak about a bike(or personal problem)problem or have certain discussions over the internet.When you've got the bike right there in front of you and you're both looking at it together and making eye contact things seem a lot simpler to me imo.
I think there's a type of 'non verbal communication' that gets missed-out on if you can't really look at the stuff you're speaking about.. 

[edwardmorris]

Sorry folks, I tried,but looks like Wobbly may never return.

[754]

Tell him , I wish him the best...

[PeWe]

Sorry folks, I tried,but looks like Wobbly may never return.

Really sad and a really good competent and helpful guy less in this forum.
Send him my regards, I hope we can get in touch within a close future.
//Per

[joeyvans]

Really sad and a really good competent and helpful guy less in this forum.

No doubt. Really missing those pics from the Alps!


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[FunJimmy]

Sorry folks, I tried,but looks like Wobbly may never return.

Ya, that sucks. It's really #$%*ty when people feel attacked, threatened or discriminated against and leave.

[Lostboy Steve]

Opinions... Idk guys, if you like it, and you feel good about it, then it really doesn't matter what other people think. Is it dangerous? Ugly? Maybe. But again if it's ok by your standards than whatever... Politics and religion ruin relationships. You just have to take everything less seriously. After all, it is just the Internet. You know how many 14 year old losers I've probably argued with? A lot. Back in the AOL dial up days I'm sure there was a lot of explicit chats with young women (old men) when I was a minor. It's just the nature of the beast. You can't take anything online super serious.

[BobbyR]

Some threads have gone hot. Oil threads is one and I can never stay out, I must comment my experiences and oils are not same as back in the 70-80's.
Another missing very competent member is TwoTired. Not deleted, only not been here since Jan 2015.

While I did no t care for Lloyd, his information was very good and correct. People have to learn to dela with each other politely. This is not Jerry Springer.

I didn't care for Lloyd either Bobby, and only some of his information was ever "correct". He didn't know sh1t about the benefits of oil coolers, steering dampers or electronic ignitions, so he declared them all as "Snake Oil", and attacked anyone who didn't agree with him. Funnily enough, it's hard to find a modern bike that that doesn't come with those items from the factory nowadays............  I miss Dave and Wobbly a lot more.

Upon reflection you are right mate. OK I take it back. 

[Short shins]

Sorry folks, I tried,but looks like Wobbly may never return.

A shame
He did me a good deal on a mint tank and side cover set for my JDM 750K7. He seems a fairly straight up guy and he was always interested how my resto was progressing. I will have to send him updates privately as well as to you guys

[BomberMann650]

moomoo..............

Someone say moomoo?

[Terry in Australia]

Some threads have gone hot. Oil threads is one and I can never stay out, I must comment my experiences and oils are not same as back in the 70-80's.
Another missing very competent member is TwoTired. Not deleted, only not been here since Jan 2015.

While I did no t care for Lloyd, his information was very good and correct. People have to learn to dela with each other politely. This is not Jerry Springer.

I didn't care for Lloyd either Bobby, and only some of his information was ever "correct". He didn't know sh1t about the benefits of oil coolers, steering dampers or electronic ignitions, so he declared them all as "Snake Oil", and attacked anyone who didn't agree with him. Funnily enough, it's hard to find a modern bike that that doesn't come with those items from the factory nowadays............  I miss Dave and Wobbly a lot more.

Upon reflection you are right mate. OK I take it back. 

Ha ha, to be fair to Lloyd he was a very knowledgeable guy Bobby, none of us can deny that, but he was a hard man to get along with. As has been said before, the internet is to some a place where you can say things to people that you wouldn't ever be game to say to their faces, and Lloyd often stepped over that line.

Anyway, I'm glad that you're still here mate. Incidentally, I work with a guy who was an Aussie chopper pilot in Vietnam, and when he tells me about his experiences there I can't help but think about what it must have been like for you. Cheers, Terry.

[kmb69]

"Sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me" especially from someone I never met on the internet.

Yeah, that's right! Slap some Vagisil on it and get over it! 

Removed, too insensitive. 

[BobbyR]

Some threads have gone hot. Oil threads is one and I can never stay out, I must comment my experiences and oils are not same as back in the 70-80's.
Another missing very competent member is TwoTired. Not deleted, only not been here since Jan 2015.

While I did no t care for Lloyd, his information was very good and correct. People have to learn to dela with each other politely. This is not Jerry Springer.

I didn't care for Lloyd either Bobby, and only some of his information was ever "correct". He didn't know sh1t about the benefits of oil coolers, steering dampers or electronic ignitions, so he declared them all as "Snake Oil", and attacked anyone who didn't agree with him. Funnily enough, it's hard to find a modern bike that that doesn't come with those items from the factory nowadays............  I miss Dave and Wobbly a lot more.

Upon reflection you are right mate. OK I take it back. 

Ha ha, to be fair to Lloyd he was a very knowledgeable guy Bobby, none of us can deny that, but he was a hard man to get along with. As has been said before, the internet is to some a place where you can say things to people that you wouldn't ever be game to say to their faces, and Lloyd often stepped over that line.

Anyway, I'm glad that you're still here mate. Incidentally, I work with a guy who was an Aussie chopper pilot in Vietnam, and when he tells me about his experiences there I can't help but think about what it must have been like for you. Cheers, Terry.

Yeah he was very knowledgeable with some #$%*ty people skills.  Give my regards to that fellow. It was an interesting time in both our lives I am sure. It would have been more fun without a war going on. 

[edwardmorris]

Tom/Wobbly sure is a very good guy to know. For my current build, I was merely contemplating asking him for some help in a thread somewhere, and he found it and reached out to me before I even got to asking him. I'm relatively new around here, but many of you know him better so I'd imagine you'd agree that it had less to do with opinionated people and more to do with inexperienced folks making authoritative assertions while actively denying real world experience. IIR that damned damper threat correctly, I totally understand the frustration.

Still, no denying its a shame losing good contributors.

[PeWe]

A very friendly person too, sharing peronal views of life. He gave me the address to www.fourever-classic-parts.de to restore the clutch with new rubber, work included.
http://www.fourever-classic-parts.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=26&Itemid=31

It is very nice to know others with same passion in old CB's and make them run and look good again.

[kmb69]

Jesus Christ! Enough already! I always thought this was a big boys' forum. 

This kind of boo-hooing might make some consider checking out from the forum!   

[FunJimmy]

Jesus Christ! Enough already! I always thought this was a big boys' forum. 

This kind of boo-hooing might make some consider checking out from the forum!   

Bye

[FunJimmy]

Jesus Christ! Enough already! I always thought this was a big boys' forum. 

This kind of boo-hooing might make some consider checking out from the forum!   

Bye

What's the matter, Jim, can't get everyone to drink your Kool-Aid?

I don't have anything going on here Cal. Just responding to those who feel a need to piss on others for the sake of it. You know the ones, right? If kmb69 wants to check out because others don't appreciate trolls. I'm ok with that.

[754]

What always impressed me about Wobbly was how fast he would ride, and how late/early he would traverse the high mountain passes..
We dont have many riders like that over here.. The cold part..
And the fast part..over here they will take your bike away...

[kmb69]

Jesus Christ! Enough already! I always thought this was a big boys' forum. 

This kind of boo-hooing might make some consider checking out from the forum!   

Bye

I'm not going anywhere unless I get thrown off for being a smarta$$.    You can call me anything but late for dinner! 

I read the forum multiple times daily but it's not my GOD, my life, my wife, my kids, my grandkids, my tranquilizer, my gotta have it and everybody loves me or die kind of thing.

Just blown away that somebody can get their panties is such a wad over interaction on a forum that they find no recourse but to bail - quit.
Also blown away at all the post bemoaning this guy leaving and raving about all his grandeur. He must have walked on water and I missed it! 

[seanbarney41]

Its pretty #$%*ed how far back you have to search and dig in this forum to find real, truthfull, correct information.  The unlimited, easy  access of the internet really seems to breed unreality.

[BobbyR]

Its pretty #$%*ed how far back you have to search and dig in this forum to find real, truthfull, correct information.  The unlimited, easy  access of the internet really seems to breed unreality.

That is true. A lot of good solid information was offered over the years. While this version of the forum stated in 2005, the group started several years earlier. It was a crude email based group. These bikes were not a popular and the members were fairly good at problem solving and the solutions were very practical and inexpensive. A lot of the members were running on a shoestring budget.

If you dig back you find people creating photographic tutorials. When I did my steering bearings, I had it in front of me step by step and I avoided having to ask questions about which washer went where and how to drive out the races.

Having said that, some of the newer and younger members have brought some amazing skills. People have access to CNC and other sophisticated  machine shop equipment. 

In someways this is a better place, in other ways the culture has changed a bit. Probably due to what you see on some other forums which are large on attitude and short on information.