How did you discover these forums? - Page 3

rskrobot · February 18th, 2008, 04:00 AM

Got tired of watching Google video and You Tube snip-its. Went searching for the full episodes, found finalgear and never left. (No need to, really)

trussyD · February 20th, 2008, 11:37 AM

i was on schoolies and one of my mates was talking about this site that had a whole bunch of topgear on it. i came here, signed up and have been reading the forums ever since.

zeroSignal · February 20th, 2008, 01:01 PM

Looked for TG episodes online.. Found the site before it was finalgear.com, helped with the design, and pretty much stuck around ever since.

Great place this. Excellent people.

Viper007Bond · February 20th, 2008, 01:02 PM

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Originally Posted by zeroSignal

Great place this. Excellent people.

How come you don't post more often then? images/smilies/cry.gif

TechZ · February 20th, 2008, 03:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Viper007Bond

How come you don't post more often then? images/smilies/cry.gif

He got a life!

I found this place like most and before it was finalgear.com

Wanted TG eps, after finding that BBC was only showing us 30mins instead of the full length, and found Vipers old site.

JakeRadden · February 21st, 2008, 01:16 AM

I was looking for TG torrents I believe, since I live in the US.
I've been browsing the forums (Although I haven't been active really, but going to try to change that) pretty much daily or bi-daily ever since.

jayhawk · February 21st, 2008, 02:01 AM

I remember exactly my journey.

I was on a Grand Am forum, and someone posted a Youtube link featuring the Holden Monaro (November 2004); the way it was presented, the filming, the presenter...I was hooked watching Top Gear. So refreshing from such bland staple here in the US. I scoured the internet for every and any available episode, and happily found this site.

For some reason, people seem to like me here. And I really like this community. Be in denial or not, we are, insofar as internet forums go, a pretty close knit community.

Because of this forum, I started taking photography seriously, I discovered Live For Speed and all the great people on team Final Gear, and I finally broke a 47 year family tradition and did not buy a Pontiac last year, but a Subaru.

So...thank you Alex, for starting this site.

Viper007Bond · February 21st, 2008, 03:44 AM

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Originally Posted by jayhawk

So...thank you Alex, for starting this site.

Thank you for making this community better! images/smilies/smile.gif

CrazyRussian540 · February 21st, 2008, 05:36 AM

My friend got me hooked on TG a few years ago (around 2003 I think). After that I was searching the web high and low for TG episodes. I found a few random sketchy geocities and angelfire pages that let me download really crappy quality videos. Then I accidentally hit "find related sites" on my google toolbar, and the first result was FinalGear. I think it was even before the site was called Finalgear.com, I subscribed to the RSS for a while.. and remember getting the news about the name change.

Thanks Viper!

zeroSignal · February 21st, 2008, 08:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Viper007Bond

How come you don't post more often then? images/smilies/cry.gif

I read the forums every day actually, and drop in, every now and then. images/smilies/smile.gif

Red_Bull · February 21st, 2008, 03:19 PM

Cant really remember. A friend got me into watching Top Gear, but he only had season 8. I then went looking for other episodes and discovered this site. I was originally looking to download the other seasons from the FTPs (needed registration *dammit*...fine then, I will) that are around. Another reason was the WTS resource which I continually find to be very useful images/smilies/smile.gif

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Didn't really intend to post on the forums until I fell into an argument in the then newly created F1 subforum. I quite like it here, so I havent left yet... images/smilies/tongue.gif

vikiradTG2007 · February 21st, 2008, 04:01 PM

Happened to see TG on TV (the studio-Verbier race), forgot about it after a while, then saw it again, started searching for it on YouTube, then finally I got to the website from a recommendation by a TG video poster there, on the SLR vs. boat race. Kept myself restricted to the videos, until I signed in on the forums, but it took a long time afterwards to post twice. But then I found the F1 subforum, just like Red_Bull, and here I am now.

monkeymax · February 21st, 2008, 05:43 PM

Ooooh - good thread!

Adunaphel got it pretty much spot on for me too...

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Originally Posted by Adunaphel

I was downloading the TG episodes when it still looked like in Bartboy's post. Read some thread about "hey, i want to move this to a new domain, any suggestions, i've got theis cool logo here.". Followed the site to the new domain, still leeching until May 2005, when Viper had to take the torrent downloads offline and downloads were announced in the IRC channel. I promptly joined there, and became a regular. It took me 6 months to join the forums after that, and another 9 months for me to start posting here.

I was reading posts on the old site loooong before I signed up. But I was signed up before this community became FinalGear and have good memories of some of the threads with the old regulars (fond memories of Renesis' bitching... images/smilies/lol.gif

). I remember VUKs early rips too and how superior they were (even the first ones) to "The Alternative"... images/smilies/lol.gif

I didn't really need to download - only way back when (think it was in the second series) I missed an episode and a mate suggested I search for it online. This (well, what it was then) was the first place I came to, and I've not found anywhere to beat it.

And it was this site, and the Widget program that got me into doing coding of any kind for fun (i.e. outside of work/Uni!)... (Hence the creation of that old RSS reader widget thingy I did - Alex, you still never put anything about that on the main page or anything... images/smilies/lol.gif

Too late now though - got no time (or a working copy of Windows) to sort it out...)

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Originally Posted by jayhawk

For some reason, people seem to like me here. And I really like this community. Be in denial or not, we are, insofar as internet forums go, a pretty close knit community.

Because of this forum, I started taking photography seriously...

Agreed on those points. I am now a mod on one other forum and admin on another, but both are smaller groups and many of the people on those forums have met each other. It still amazes me that here, a large group of people that have never met are all so close...

And although I used to do a heck of a lot of photography years back, I stopped for 4 years - not taking a single photo. It's thanks to Overheat's thread that I picked up a camera and fell in love with photography again! (I really ought to start submitting photos to the lens flair thread again...)

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Originally Posted by jayhawk

So...thank you Alex, for starting this site.

Yup - many many thanks Alex!

I may not post much at all (especially over the last couple of years) but I am here pretty much every day when time allows (I don't have internet at home; it's hard enough administering the other two forums without spending much time elsewhere online - all while at Uni).
Still, for some reason many of my posts are quite long anyway, so what I've not done in number of posts, I think I've made up for with length... images/smilies/wink.gif

mautzel · February 21st, 2008, 09:54 PM

I remembered a review of the Lancia Delta in a British Motor Mag that I must've seen in the late 1990s a few years ago (back then Tiff and Jeremy were presenting together as far as I remember), so I started searching the web for a review via google, didn't find that particular review but came across some other clips that I liked pretty much and discovered this site about 3.5 years ago during my search. Sometime later I was attracted by the guess that car game in the forums that much that I finally decided to sign up in order to participate.

viilaaja@pt cruiser · February 22nd, 2008, 11:51 AM

I found TG while i was downloading stuff from dc++ and saw link to the old site, then found out torrents and whoa, full eps faster than 5kb/s @ dc++.
i don't remember what season it was when came here, but i have now found more things in life than just irc.

thanks viper, i have liked this site.

edit 1. some typos

HM1988 · February 24th, 2008, 01:48 AM

I first found Top Gear on google videos, some years ago... than google video deleted all top gear content, some time after that I think I found on google, and start downloading the episodes, but I only registered on the forum later.

PelicanHazard · February 24th, 2008, 02:12 AM

I became interested in TG after they started airing episodes in the US; my brother (also a forum member here) looked up TG episodes online and came across this site, so he told me about it.

Lurked in the funny pictures thread for quite a bit before I decided to join...

brockster · February 29th, 2008, 03:14 AM

Looking for fellow people rebuilding Honda CB550s. Found BlaRo's thread about his and I keep checking it for more information. images/smilies/smile.gif

Susie · February 29th, 2008, 10:55 PM

Stumbled upon this site while looking for some Top Gear info. Nice place you have here images/smilies/smile.gif

KaJuN · March 1st, 2008, 02:07 AM

I found this place in a very roundabout way. It all started a few years ago when I caught an episode of Top Gear on the Discovery channel at like 3AM. I really liked it but I was never able to see it on again. Fast forward a bit to when I joined a fraternity at college. One of the other new members was big into cars and we got to talking about the show and he mentioned Finalgear as a good place to get the episodes. I freeloaded for quite a while until I noticed the forums link on the main page. How I didn't notice it sooner is beyond me.

February 20th, 2008, 01:01 PM	#43
zeroSignal Nerdcore Joined: Jan 8th, 2005 Last Online: 08:47 AM Location: Cybertron Age: 24 Posts: 458 Car: 2004 Seat Leon 1.9 TDI 110 Rep Power: 24	Looked for TG episodes online.. Found the site before it was finalgear.com, helped with the design, and pretty much stuck around ever since. Great place this. Excellent people. __________________ [Driven To Destruction]\|[Digital Phantasy] #gear - Where the cool kids are! It's all nonsense. Drink beer. Drive a metal car. Don't be a ponce.

February 21st, 2008, 01:16 AM	#46
JakeRadden Joined: Feb 12th, 2007 Last Online: 04:12 AM Location: Shawnee, Kansas Age: 17 Posts: 293 Car: 1997 Ford Explorer XLT, 1997 Mercedes-Benz E320 Rep Power: 10	I was looking for TG torrents I believe, since I live in the US. I've been browsing the forums (Although I haven't been active really, but going to try to change that) pretty much daily or bi-daily ever since. __________________ \|Gigabye GA-EX38-DS4 \| Intel E8400 Wolfdale @ 3.6 (400x9) w/ Tuniq Tower \| VisionTek 4870 512MB GDDR5 (750/1000) @ 790/1100 \| 4GB (2x2) Patriot Viper DDR2-800 @ DDR2-960 5-5-5-12 \| Coolermaster Cosmos 1000 (5x 120mm)\| 1997 Ford Explorer XLT - 148,000 mi - DD 1999 Toyota Avalon XL - 246,000 mi 1997 Mercedes-Benz E320 - 75,000mi “I think Koenigsegg is Swedish for: Oh no, my head has just exploded!” -Clarkson

February 21st, 2008, 02:01 AM	#47
jayhawk Cigar Smoking Man Joined: Dec 11th, 2005 Last Online: 02:04 AM Location: A-Town, Illinois. Age: 33 Posts: 5,115 Car: MY07 G11 WRX-TR WRB. Rep Power: 91	I remember exactly my journey. I was on a Grand Am forum, and someone posted a Youtube link featuring the Holden Monaro (November 2004); the way it was presented, the filming, the presenter...I was hooked watching Top Gear. So refreshing from such bland staple here in the US. I scoured the internet for every and any available episode, and *happily* found this site. For some reason, people seem to like me here. And I really like this community. Be in denial or not, we are, insofar as internet forums go, a pretty close knit community. Because of this forum, I started taking photography seriously, I discovered Live For Speed and all the great people on team Final Gear, and I finally broke a 47 year family tradition and did not buy a Pontiac last year, but a Subaru. So...thank you Alex, for starting this site. __________________ It is nice to have friends like you on this forum. dawn patrol on hungry hate...the mouse police never sleeps.

February 21st, 2008, 05:36 AM	#49
CrazyRussian540 Joined: Mar 6th, 2005 Last Online: 08:23 AM Location: Shrewsbury, MA Posts: 1,344 Car: 1997 Audi A6 Avant 2.8 quattro Rep Power: 40	My friend got me hooked on TG a few years ago (around 2003 I think). After that I was searching the web high and low for TG episodes. I found a few random sketchy geocities and angelfire pages that let me download really crappy quality videos. Then I accidentally hit "find related sites" on my google toolbar, and the first result was FinalGear. I think it was even before the site was called Finalgear.com, I subscribed to the RSS for a while.. and remember getting the news about the name change. Thanks Viper! __________________ "I beat a man on roller skates.... in an Aston Martin" - R. Hammond "You've just pulled the wobbly head off the former president of Nissan USA" - R. Hammond Vote for FinalGear's Most Evil-looking Car. Last edited by CrazyRussian540; February 21st, 2008 at 05:39 AM..

February 21st, 2008, 03:19 PM	#51
Red_Bull Joined: Jan 11th, 2007 Last Online: 06:15 AM Location: Adelaide, Australia Age: 21 Posts: 2,741 Car: Holden Commodore VS Rep Power: 42	Cant really remember. A friend got me into watching Top Gear, but he only had season 8. I then went looking for other episodes and discovered this site. I was originally looking to download the other seasons from the FTPs (needed registration dammit...fine then, I will) that are around. Another reason was the WTS resource which I continually find to be very useful . Didn't really intend to post on the forums until I fell into an argument in the then newly created F1 subforum. I quite like it here, so I havent left yet... __________________ Join the F1 social group here! Last edited by Red_Bull; February 21st, 2008 at 03:25 PM..

February 18th, 2008, 04:00 AM	#41
rskrobot Joined: Jun 21st, 2006 Last Online: December 12th, 2008 Location: Canton, GA USA Age: 26 Posts: 308 Car: 05 Scion TC Rep Power: 11	Got tired of watching Google video and You Tube snip-its. Went searching for the full episodes, found finalgear and never left. (No need to, really)

February 20th, 2008, 11:37 AM	#42
trussyD Joined: Mar 15th, 2007 Last Online: January 6th, 2009 Location: Brisbane, Australia Age: 19 Posts: 41 Car: '89 Mazda 323 that runs like a hairy dog Rep Power: 8	i was on schoolies and one of my mates was talking about this site that had a whole bunch of topgear on it. i came here, signed up and have been reading the forums ever since.

February 21st, 2008, 04:01 PM	#52
vikiradTG2007 Joined: Feb 8th, 2007 Last Online: Yesterday Location: Cluj-Napoca, Romania Age: 17 Posts: 2,995 Car: (as soon as I get my license) 2001 Focus 1.8D Rep Power: 33	Happened to see TG on TV (the studio-Verbier race), forgot about it after a while, then saw it again, started searching for it on YouTube, then finally I got to the website from a recommendation by a TG video poster there, on the SLR vs. boat race. Kept myself restricted to the videos, until I signed in on the forums, but it took a long time afterwards to post twice. But then I found the F1 subforum, just like Red_Bull, and here I am now. __________________ BRING BACK THE 3.5 L V12 ENGINES TO F1!!!!! "Racing at Le Mans is the equivalent of cramming an entire Grand Prix season in 24 hours." (Martin Brundle) The history of F1 engine awesomeness: one engine model, 155 GP wins over 18 distinguished years of activity. Mika Hakkinen is the Stig...

February 21st, 2008, 09:54 PM	#54
mautzel Joined: Jan 28th, 2005 Last Online: Yesterday Location: Frankfurt/M, Deutschland Age: 28 Posts: 2,456 Car: Golf IV TDI Rep Power: 22	I remembered a review of the Lancia Delta in a British Motor Mag that I must've seen in the late 1990s a few years ago (back then Tiff and Jeremy were presenting together as far as I remember), so I started searching the web for a review via google, didn't find that particular review but came across some other clips that I liked pretty much and discovered this site about 3.5 years ago during my search. Sometime later I was attracted by the guess that car game in the forums that much that I finally decided to sign up in order to participate.

February 22nd, 2008, 11:51 AM	#55
viilaaja@pt cruiser Joined: Dec 5th, 2004 Last Online: 12:05 AM Location: Vantaa, Finland Age: 22 Posts: 288 Car: Pt cruiser (not really) LFS Status: Rep Power: 20	I found TG while i was downloading stuff from dc++ and saw link to the old site, then found out torrents and whoa, full eps faster than 5kb/s @ dc++. i don't remember what season it was when came here, but i have now found more things in life than just irc. thanks viper, i have liked this site. edit 1. some typos __________________ only google knows, Galantti in the Gear irc channel. "no money, no funny, no life, just adsl and torrents" - c ME @34.90 € ~51.64 $ ~25.95 £ / month with no limits!

February 24th, 2008, 01:48 AM	#56
HM1988 Joined: Nov 14th, 2007 Last Online: January 6th, 2009 Location: Brazil Age: 20 Posts: 35 Car: VW Beetle Rep Power: 5	I first found Top Gear on google videos, some years ago... than google video deleted all top gear content, some time after that I think I found on google, and start downloading the episodes, but I only registered on the forum later.

February 24th, 2008, 02:12 AM	#57
PelicanHazard Joined: Feb 22nd, 2008 Last Online: 01:27 AM Location: Pittsburgh, PA, USA Age: 19 Posts: 112 Car: 2006 Nissan Sentra Rep Power: 5	I became interested in TG after they started airing episodes in the US; my brother (also a forum member here) looked up TG episodes online and came across this site, so he told me about it. Lurked in the funny pictures thread for quite a bit before I decided to join...

February 29th, 2008, 03:14 AM	#58
brockster Joined: Jan 23rd, 2008 Last Online: November 28th, 2008 Location: Bellbrook, Ohio USA Posts: 8 Car: 82 Vanagon 91 Miata 93 Astro 94 Safari Rep Power: 0	Looking for fellow people rebuilding Honda CB550s. Found BlaRo's thread about his and I keep checking it for more information.

February 29th, 2008, 10:55 PM	#59
Susie Not A Dude Joined: Jan 26th, 2008 Last Online: Yesterday Location: Ontario, Canada Age: 22 Posts: 119 Car: 2008 Pair of Sneakers Rep Power: 11	Stumbled upon this site while looking for some Top Gear info. Nice place you have here

March 1st, 2008, 02:07 AM	#60
KaJuN Joined: Jul 31st, 2006 Last Online: November 17th, 2008 Location: USAF Basic Training Age: 23 Posts: 4,628 Car: Land Rover Discovery, 1980 Yamaha XJ650 Rep Power: 91	I found this place in a very roundabout way. It all started a few years ago when I caught an episode of Top Gear on the Discovery channel at like 3AM. I really liked it but I was never able to see it on again. Fast forward a bit to when I joined a fraternity at college. One of the other new members was big into cars and we got to talking about the show and he mentioned Finalgear as a good place to get the episodes. I freeloaded for quite a while until I noticed the forums link on the main page. How I didn't notice it sooner is beyond me. __________________ D-Fence: Kajun is just outside caressing his Discovery....touching it gently, you know......it is such a dirty bitch.....but he seems to love dirty girls in high heels who are taller then him and have "quite a few pounds" on their hips ^^ Yes we can! Join my fan club. You know you want a piece of this action!