John,
I definitely have interest in a resource to road climbs. I have not
maintained my Southern Appalachain Road Climbs web site as much as I
would like. But I envisioned expanding this site to cover the entire
appalachians at some point. I could not do this myself and I will
depend on input from others who can measure profiles and pertinant
information.

All are free to submit. I want to build in direct links to all the
great sites in Europe and other areas too. I want the world to
become obsessed about climbing.

Southern Appalachian Road Climbs.
http://www.mountainmapper.com/sarc.htm

I think we can keep this KOM list going!

-Frank

--- John Summerson <jsummers@...> wrote:

> Didn't take long to get this group active again so good to hear
> that
> folks are still around. I recently returned from a New England
> trip
> where I was able to get on some steep hills that I had never been
> on
> before (Frank, I also was able to climb Beech Mt and Roan Mt (north
> side) in Sept).
>
> I would hope that this forum would be kept alive simply because of
> its
> climbing discussions. As mentioned there are many cycling forums
> but
> none that evolved around climbing specifically (at least that I am
> aware
> of) which is my main interest within the sport.
>
> On that note, I was approached to consider putting together a book
> about
> road bike climbing, including listing the top US climbs in some
> fashion,
> and was wondering if the interest level was out there. Anyone
> think
> that information would be useful?
>
> JHS
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: kom_@yahoogroups.com [mailto:kom_@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
> Of
> Nige White
> Sent: Wednesday, October 19, 2005 3:20 AM
> To: kom_@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [kom_] Re: No posts
>
> Brian Tomlin wrote:
>
> >there are plenty of such forums around, and maybe that's part of
> why
> >things are so quiet here now. But the atmosphere of most forums is
>
> >different and you risk losing direct contact (or at least feeling)
> with
>
> >prominent participants. Kom is more about Francois and Nigel than
> about
>
> >Ventoux and Rosedale, if you get my drift.
> >
> >Other such groups are feeling the pinch too. My suggestion would
> be to
> >merge with some similar group and try to regain critical mass
> without
> >losing all identity.
> >
> >An obvious candidate is Eurobike, which is in many ways a sister
> group,
>
> >with many common posters, very similar interests, fairly similar
> >atmosphere, identical location on yahoogroups and similar
> (although not
>
> >yet as severe) problem of declining volume of posts.
> >Eurobike has a strong tradition of getting members together to
> ride and
>
> >is also a bit more sophisticated about "forum" features like
> photos and
>
> >votes. It might be a profitable marriage for both groups.
> >The alternatives look bleak to me.
> >
> >Thoughts, anyone?
> >
> I know what you mean about the other forums available. They tend to
> be
> racing-orientated, and look down upon touring, and riding just for
> fun!
>
> They also seem not to take seriously issues which I take seriously
> such
> as problems with motorized traffic.
>
> The Yahoo groups web interface is very clunky compared to the more
> modern forum software available. the php forum software used by
> veloriders and others maintains threads ordered by date of last
> posting,
> so that current discussions stay at the top of the first page until
> they
> drift down.
>
> A few cycling forums (cyclingplus.co.uk) have attracted resident
> petrolhead trolls and have become unfriendly.
>
> I like the idea of a merger with Eurobike - European touring
> appeals to
> me.
>
> Speaking of which, who wants to take over the Trento Bike Pages?
> Andreas
> Caranti has stopped maintaining them, and nothing new has been put
> on
> them for months!
>
> Nigel
>
>
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