bear the bear
Is a real bear
Nope sorry. Looks as though they are doing everything through the FB page.
Bruce Ridge ACT
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People need to stop doing that shit and accept that not everyone wants to/should use social media - particularly FB. People treat it like a webpage. They need to use a platform that DOESN'T REQUIRE A SUBSCRIPTION.
Sorry to make you a middle man, mate, but can you see when the next work day is?
dancaseyimages
Mountain bike pornographer
Majura pines understood that assignment as few blokes who show up are defence force or legal eagles.
Yeah, I'm pretty privacy conscious, as many others are these days. But even aside from that, using a subscription service like that inherently reduces your reach and ability to attract people.
I'll go there next build day, if I can make it and suggest that I repost in this thread if they can forward me the info.
Scotty T
Walks the walk
Or the opposite and you increase your reach beyond what a website can do because market penetration is so huge, it goes both ways. It also lets you manage fuckwits pretty easily, and mo monetary cost. All websites, especially ones with interactive features, cost money.
It's also possible to sign up and interact with Facebook without telling them who you are, plenty of people on here do it and just follow their MTB groups and look at bikes on Marketplace.
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Well, no need to be coy about it, make with the IT wizardry and spill the beanz.
[Yes, I know how to google, but other than using Tor, which I'd rather not do for my own reasons, there is often a lot of conjecture around what works and what does not. So if you are confident of what works, I'm keen to hear it]
Scotty T
Walks the walk
I would go incognito/private mode on a browser, make a gmail (johnnyfacebook666) and use ot to make a FB (Johnny Robbins Esq. DSc AOM) and then just use the PC to do the browsing in incognito mode.
They can't find out much about you if you're not keeping their cookies and incognito does that. Even use the browser you never use (Safari Mac, Edge Win) to keep em even more separated. You don't need the app for casual FB browsing, it's the thing that will up the level of privacy invasion, and while clunky you can still use the site in browser on mobile in incognito mode.
They can't find out much about you if you're not keeping their cookies and incognito does that. Even use the browser you never use (Safari Mac, Edge Win) to keep em even more separated. You don't need the app for casual FB browsing, it's the thing that will up the level of privacy invasion, and while clunky you can still use the site in browser on mobile in incognito mode.
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Do they not still have your IP? This approach also links your IP to your FB account for Google, which is possibly worse. It also doesn't protect against fingerprinting (although using a single browser will assist). I suppose stuff like Containers, CanvasBlocker, Badger, VPN and whatnot might go some way to helping with that.
Some more questionable decisions by the folk maintaining the Bruce Ridge trails.
- Daveisia Down, where the trail runs parallel to Reservoir Ridge track (the dirt road) one of the fastest sections of trails: there's a super-fast flat left-hander you can take without braking if you have the nerve. But not anymore, there's now a 300mm high water bar on the run out of that turn. You have to slow down into the turn to be able to get upright in time to hit the water bar. An incredibly poor decision to put the thing there.
- The lower part of Daveisia Down, just before you cross the road for that really fast tuck drop, they've put in a pretty little crappy kicker/floater. This means you are now landing to flat not far from hitting that big tuck drop. Why anyone thinks that's a good idea I'll never know.
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Yep, they've groomed some trails like this is a gravity-fed flow trail, and they've bermed some really nice off-camber drifters.
I could be wrong, but it feels like it's been done by a bunch of johnny-come-lately E-biker types more than people who have been around longer than the latest trends.
I make these complaints as one of the original trail builders and some one who has spent countless Sunday mornings doing maintenance there over the years.
I could be wrong, but it feels like it's been done by a bunch of johnny-come-lately E-biker types more than people who have been around longer than the latest trends.
I make these complaints as one of the original trail builders and some one who has spent countless Sunday mornings doing maintenance there over the years.
That sucks, I haven't ridden it in quite a while due to time/fitness, but it's one of my favs. I use it bi-directionally, but the jankiness was it's value. Indeed, the original agreement was that the outer-loop was to be accessible to all levels of MTB rider and the internal network was for advanced riders looking for technical trails.
Again goes to the theory that the current workers are late to the party and not aware of the foundations the network was built on. Is what it is, though, nothing lasts forever. In saying that, they'd better have an eye to sustainability given that it'll get shut down if it doesn't.
The new development sound awful. It use to be a great spot for a work trip ride on the HT when I had limited time.
I guess you can’t blame the people turning up to volunteer making it their own now.
I don’t understand why every trail must remove the risk of pedal strikes and be super fast for e bikes climbs and all. You only remember the challenges on a trail not the smooth stuff.
I guess you can’t blame the people turning up to volunteer making it their own now.
I don’t understand why every trail must remove the risk of pedal strikes and be super fast for e bikes climbs and all. You only remember the challenges on a trail not the smooth stuff.
It's still worth the ride, I shouldn't talk it down too much. I just get annoyed at what should be obviously bad placement of features and when everything has to follow the latest trend (which usually means dumbing things down). I'm 100% for natural features, jankiness and challenge.