Yeah, when I was helping my friend research some stuff for his Honda, I came across like a billion Solbros posts over at honda-tech. He’s just as annoying over there, but he doesn’t stand out because pretty much everyone is horrible.
I still keep in touch with him. He’s a nice kid… with issues. I still say, “no” when he asks to rejoin.
I remember Sol on Honda-Tech from like '03/04. It was funny bumping into him here.
I found this site when I first bought a Langster and only had BMX/MTB forums in my morning queue. After some Googling BFSSFG brought me here.
So I guess he never wrote that paper on Civil Disobedience?
Scott posted a photo of my bike and I saw the link-back to tarck on my flickr.
Nah, some things went over his head.
Saw someone call a shitty fixie a tarck bike, googled to find more shitty fixies, found tarck.
I have learned from these recent posts that, had I not been on BF during the May Day Massacre of 2008, I would never have found tarck. Thanks Brian.
I don’t remember how the fuck I wound up here. Pretty sure it had something to do with bikeforums.
Early 2010 sounds like the time around which we did a new round of BF infiltration. Wasn’t that when we discovered the word filters were still active?
Story I’d like to hear since i was not around.
The days before Tarck were desolate and dark. Tarckbear be praised for delivering us from the pit of despair known as Bike Forums.
The day of deliverance was not unanticipated, for the great Brian had decreed that all those who stood in defiance of the Laws of Inclusion and Pacivity would be banned. But a small band of souls from the SSFG forums would not relegate themselves to the Off Topic section. A community is what they desired. A community where they were free to heckle and troll the insipid masses and their stupid debates about the merits of bullhorns versus risers. A community where they were free to hack each other’s photobucket accounts and post pictures of other members’ girlfriends reading Harry Potter in their thongs. Alas, it was this last act that broke the camel’s back. The hand of Brian landed with such force that the forum cracked. It started small, with only a few tasting the fire of the perma-ban. But Brian soon learned that we would not go quietly into the night. For, like the great Sheldon, SSFG had a posse. A general uprising took place and, on that fateful May 1st, a great number were banned for arguing with moderators.
All thought the community was dead. The most vociferous and great were banned, never to return. But Almighty Tarckbear rose up and gave us a home of our own. On a unknown server, created by unknown hands, Tarckbike.com rose from the ashes of the May Day Massacre to become the preeminent fixed gear and single speed forum on the wide world of the interweb.
Tarckbear be praised.
Amen, brother.
You should post like that all the time. I can feel the power of tarckbear in me now. Well done.
And lo, Tarckbear said to those gathered,
Be not afraid of the shift lever. Embrace the dangler and pusher.
For when the count of miles does pass eleven, you will be on a long ride.
Ride forth, but not without fenders and front racks.
For the weather will not be dry.
And the weight will not be carried to the rear.
Tarckbear be praised.
Holy shit.
I’d already left BFSSFG by that point for a fledgling local forum so I missed the drama. Amy mentioned tarck to me when I met her in PDX way back in mid 2009, didn’t get around to joining for a few years, just lurked occasionally.
Metal-tarckbear somewhere between Eugene & Florence watches over me:
Thank tarck for Endpoint yolobikes, Seattle-cru, dyno answers and all the rest.
I was hanging out on RoadBiekReview during the exodus but they were insufferable in a different way from BFSSFG.
Blessed are you, tarckbear.
I drove through Vallejo for work today and couldn’t help but think of him.
Remember the Tommasini affair? I think that was the start. Deathhare became Thomas Sini, or something similar, and we all made it our mission to fuck with Brian. I only vaguely remember the Photobucket dramatics.