Psycho posters---whats up?

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(snip)Post: Ferdly and Anonymous:

I see neither of you have a name or an email address. It’s easy to throw out trash but you guys obviously can’t take it.

Frank puts his NAME up front. He stands behind his product and will give you your money back if you don’t like the product.

Frank-10, F &A-0.

-Robert

WOW! now that’s a scathing intellectual response - thank you for raising the bar on this discussion.

“Personalizing an intellectual argument is the last refuge of the weak minded, the poorly informed, or the insecure…”

and to think - the title of this whole thread is Psycho Posters…

By the way, it’s “Fredly.”

(And yes, I am completely ignoring the whole issue of anonymity - if the argument or point of view is valid, who cares where comes from?)

PS - I’m done on this topic; I’ve said my piece, and I don’t want to get dragged into Robert’s flame war any more than I already have.

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looks like this thread is turning into a heated debate
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"Ferdly and Anonymous:

I see neither of you have a name or an email address. It’s easy to throw out trash but you guys obviously can’t take it."

Where is your email address, “Robert”?

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That’s a legitimate gripe. I had it logged on the old site, but must not have logged it here. It’s now up. Post yours.

-Robert

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Ferdly or Fredly or who knows? : I don’t find your arguments pursuasive. I also think people should identify themselves, particularly if they are going to take someone to task for being blatantly commercial or otherwise criticize them. Banging on Frank Day from an anonymous computer is pusillanimous, er, or some big word like that.

-Robert

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Jaylew and Ferdly:

Maybe you have, maybe you haven’t, but I’ll bet if you had invented something as cool as Power Cranks and put a bundle of money on the line to produce and market them, then you’d be doing the same thing Frank Day is doing. I’m sure you’re right, but I haven’t. That said, I still feel that the post was made in rather poor taste.

Let’s have a little tolerance, please, for these manufacturers who come onto Dan’s site and give us information that is almost always very helpful. Sheezh… Remember, some of these guys are paying to keep the site you are bitching on open. You must be confusing my post with someone else’s. If you read my post, you’ll notice that my overriding theme was that we can choose to read the threads we are interested in and ignore others. I have no problem with PC’s or Frank(Who knows, I may buy a set someday), just a particular post. It doesn’t bother me, though. As I said, I would never have read it in the first place if it wasn’t for this thread.

-Robert

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well this thread has taken an interesting turn. as for myself i dig my PC’s the most, and rank them right up there with index/sti/ergo shifting and front susp on mt bikes as far as addding to the quality and enjoyment of cycling goes. without mr day’s prolific posting i would never have experienced them and i am in his debt for that. time was i bashed both him and his product for similar reasons as the posters above and more - and again i am beholden to him for being as thick skinned as he is. the product is by its nature drawing of discussion and debate as everybody knows and so comparing mr day’s presence to mr demmerly’s or gerard’s is not really apprapo, IMHO.

by contrast, there is no amount of posts on drafting in draft free races or taking illegal performance enhancing substances that will EVER cause me to rethink those positions. isn’t that what the thread was about ???