More info about my bianchi?

I don't think I had an implied fuck you at the end of it. It was a curt response, but I thought it was a fair one.

The OPer has a good point that he put it in manchester's forum, which I didn't notice, and it would be likely that someone he knows would spare the time for an encouraging word. He isn't someone I know, so I gave some rather curt advice, but I stand by it being good advice none the less.

In this case, the OP was clearly looking for a discussion, he didn't ask how he could find out more about his bike, he asked if people knew about it. That's a wanting-to-talk post, not a I'm-too-dumb-to-research-what-do-I-do-next post.

So good advice indeed, just not what he asked for and impolitely delivered.

People come to discussion forums to discuss. If you went away and did your own research and kept it to yourself and never posted, then what would have been the point in joining a discussion forum be? Many poeple are shy and looking for friends on the net, people to talk to. They really aren't looking to be told to fuck off and use google. No really, it's true.

The problem is that the forum is so fikkle -if you're in, there's banter, if you're not, there's keyboard bushido. But if you're new, you don't KNOW who's in and who's not, how the fuck would you - you're new. So you post in the tone everyone else seems to and then suddenly you get bitten. That is just SO teen-clique behaviour.