What on earth is he thinking, starting a blog in 2026. Well, I’ve recently been wondering if I’m
suffering from nostalgia or if things really were better back in the day. The enshitification*
of the internet is a particularly noticeable example.
We lost Blogs and forums to what initially seemed like the
nicer, more convenient, better connected social media options. I, like many
people I guess, used Facebook to keep in touch with people I knew and Instagram
to find new communities and share pics of events and the progress of my projects.
Over time these became just a way of companies serving us up
more and more adverts, I think the act of using social media changed the way a
lot of people went about things and a cool experience wasn’t cool unless you
had the pic for the gram.
I recently spent an evening looking over some of the blogs I
read often, sometimes daily, back in the day and thought about how different it
all was. Some of my favourites were Eat The Rich, 747 rider, Chvrch of
Choppers, Chopper Daves Loud Fast Rules, Sideburn Mag.
Some of these updated once a week, some daily, some less regularly
an array of content about bike builds, events, races, tools, history, poetry,
just cool stuff and sharing a culture among a community.
This Blog might just be a cathartic way of me shouting into
the void, or maybe some people will read it and enjoy it and maybe discover
something new.
What will it be about, well, stuff I do so Bikes, cars,
racing, shows, general arsing about and stuff I find interesting. Stuff it won’t
have, AI.
I thought we'd best start with a period correct pic.
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