Uk.rec.cycling

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uk.rec.cycling (nntp://uk.rec.cycling, aka urc) is a Usenet group for British cyclists. Despite living in the rec hierarchy it contains much discussion of transportational cycling, and is probably the best and quickest place to get an accurate and well-informed answer to any UK specific cycling question.

This Old Bike was a song created in a urc thread, and not bad either. Urc has a good, British sense of humour and makes heavy use of irony (and even outright sarchasm) on occasion.

Charter

The group has no formal charter. Just about anything even tangentially related to cycling in the UK is fair game, with a couple of reservations:

Tasteless death reports are not especially welcome
Adverts are a no-no, unless you are an established regular
Cross-posting to uk.tosspot and the like may make you humungously unpopular, and several regulars kill x-posted threads on sight.