I can't believe it! I am back on!

[Christopher Mann]

wow, after 8 months, I can't believe I am finally back on this forum. I have missed you guys!



I joined many years  ago because I had been riding a yellow Proflex 5000.



Last spring, I spent a lot of time on here because I was building up a 5500 carbon frame. shortly after I had finally completed the build up, with a lot of help from Simon  and others, I was no longer able to get on this idriders.com web page. the first few days I thought it was a technical problem. the next few weeks, I thought that it was a financial problem with the owner of this site. then I forgot about it. I just concluded that this site had permanently bit the dust. when I needed some info, I emailed Simon and asked him whatever happned to the site. He said "what do you mean? its up and running". then I knew I had a problem. I researched and researched and did some problem solving but nothing solved the problem. then I wrote the webmaster. he wrote back (dave Stewart), but couldn't solve it. And we just gave up. then a couple of months ago I had more need of information for my two Proflex bikes. I had to go to the library to post questions. That was no fun. So I contacted Dave again. and finally, last week, we spent an hour on the phone. He was intriqued and ultimately stumped as to what the problem was. I can't get on with any of my computers with my particular IP address. Dave finally threw in the towell and came up with a work around. I now go to an anonymous proxy site and log in through it! here is teh url: http://anonymouse.org/



anyway, just wanted to tell you all my story. I have been on the internet for over 10 years and nothing like this has ever happened before.



Dave thinks it might have to do with my ISP: Earthlink.net. Does anyone here access this site via Earthlink?



if you have forgotten what my carbon build up looks like, then here it is:



http://mannphoto.com/k2