There's another new cycling forum website that just launched. I received an invite yesterday from the founder, a local racer named Waylon.

http://www.chicagocycling.net/

It does seem to be more explicitly geared towards the racing scene, but I was kind of hoping that the Chainlink would be the kind of universal regional forum. Nevertheless, I wish him luck and will watch how things go. If this new site does catch on, I suppose it's not the end of the world to double post announcements, but actually monitoring two forums would seem too time consuming.

It's based on phpbb, which is fine -- but I must admit that this ning platform is surprisingly nice, having never used it before. The calendaring and photo components are really cool.