[Closed] Do you ever think you might be seeing someone from STW?

How can I gauge my STWness?

I am over 50, BMI of about 26, balding. So far so good

I used to own an Orange 5 and an Audi A4 Avant, even better (for a short while I had both at the same time)

However, I now own a Skoda and a Cotic Rocket.

So am I more or less STW than I was five years ago?

I bumped into the Tunnel Hill Trolls once in the woods. Having discussed the Trolls previously on here I asked 'Is any of you Peter Poddy?' Most of them looked baffled and said 'no, we don't know him', but a couple of people sheepishly said 'er no he's not out tonight' to strange looks.

I saw Ronnie Pickering the other day....surely a STWer?

I went on a Peaks Pootle ride once - I’d swear a few there were from STW…

😉

Rachel

I used to have my forum name on the toptube of my bike. It never once got me any STW 'attention' 😯

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(I know this is a very sad thing to do, but we had 3 near identical Fattys at one time, and stumbling out of the pub in the dark often got them mixed up. This seemed a sensible approach)

I once recognised Peterpoddy and his bright orange on-one at Bristol bike fest and said 'Hi! I recognise you from STW', but he looked at me like I'd just wiped my arse on his trousers whilst he was wearing them and grunted at me.

I thought 'Fair enough' and haven't bothered trying since!

All of us in our little group of riding fools have either or nick name or forum name on the outside collar of our jerseys, but thats more to do with our in-house piss taking than anything else.

Work in IT, over 40, got a bike that far outclasses my skills or fitness (I do have a health excuse for the latter though).

Reckon I'll be easily visible sat gasping next to some flat trail somewhere. Still faster than being sat on the sofa rotting 🙂

That sort of thing would never happen here

Hello sailor!

I once recognised Peterpoddy and his bright orange on-one at Bristol bike fest and said 'Hi! I recognise you from STW', but he looked at me like I'd just wiped my arse on his trousers whilst he was wearing them and grunted at me.

I thought 'Fair enough' and haven't bothered trying since!

😆

Once bitten twice shy, eh?

Just think of all the simmering bromance you might have missed out on as a result though?

I saw a chap riding a fat bike near Stile Cop over christmas and thought "He must be on STW"

My local trails are Cwmcarn, BPW, FOD and Cannock and I ride a Capra so I must be easy to spot for most STWers!

I use a false name in real life, just incase someone off STW recognizes my real name and then forces me to engage in awkward conversation.

I met Blower in the Alps once as he was sleeping in his van just down the road from my mates chalet where I was staying. Thankfully he was sound and we had a good craic from the off.

Also saw Grum taking photos at a music event I was at. I shouted "Grum!" at him quite a few times, but I was hammered and the music was loud so was quite glad he didn't hear.

molgrips - Member
I've chatted to people who I'm sure were STW only to be looked at in stunned disdain when I ask them if they use internet forums.

Been there / done that with riders that have spoken to me while out riding.

I have been identified by my road bike in bike shops on about 3 occasions. But that was due to the bike / comments on purchases etc. on road.cc at the time.

Plus when I joined up here I thought I would never post and used a stupid username based on a bike I had many bikes ago (a Commencal if you were wondering) so I won't be getting any stickers made up either!

Also, apparently someone pretended to be me in an MBUK slopestyle competition years ago. What a complement!

Just think of all the simmering bromance you might have missed out on as a result though?

To be honest, I have plenty of MTB boyfriends much closer to home that keep me busy :p

I once rode with STW Barney on the Quantocks too, before he went north. He didn't do tongues either.

Maybe we need an MTB version of grindr?!

Jump into a taxi in Cardiff and you can play a game wondering if the driver is me. It'll be obvious really, I'm probably the only taxi driver you'll meet not moaning about the bloody cyclists 😆

STW = fat grumpy sod on a poorly fitting cannondales trigger with failed ghetto tubeless and a MASSIVE camel back full of useless shite.

I haven't gone tubeless.

I'm seeing someone from Mumsnet.

I like to live dangerously.

Maybe we need an MTB version of grindr?!

The STW version would be called "whingr", surely?

Thinking about it, I've ridden with a few people who I'm sure use the forum but I've never got round to asking their usernames.

Probably been involved in a flamewar with them without realising.

🙂

[i]Probably been involved in a flamewar with them without realising.[/i]

This is always my fear when anyone mentions it "Have I ever upset them?"

I may start saying I'm hora if people ask.

It'll be obvious really, I'm probably the only taxi driver you'll meet not moaning about the bloody cyclists

And, judging by your Strava, the one without a huge fat gut.

Over on the UKSSER forum members are known as ‘tossers’

So if you are out and about on your BMW GS motorcycle and you happen upon another rider on a similar steed you break the ice with the greeting "Hello, are you a tosser?”

Can’t say I’ve tried it though.

I shouted "Grum!" at him quite a few times, but I was hammered and the music was loud so was quite glad he didn't hear.

I've met Elfinsafety a few times and chatted a lot on FB. He still calls me Mol, in real life!

so there's a stw strava group?
is there a link and any criteria to join or can anyone have a go?

This is always my fear when anyone mentions it "Have I ever upset them?"

"Are you the Ben Cooper on STW?"

"Yes, have we argued online? I'm much nicer in real life."

True conversation.

"Are you the Ben Cooper on STW?"

I drive past your place quite often Ben .
Next time i'm stopping and coming in for the five minute real life argument. 😀

Probably been involved in a flamewar with them without realising.

so there's a stw strava group?
is there a link and any criteria to join or can anyone have a go?

https://www.strava.com/clubs/3229

Bring it!

I thought I'd met Aracer, but I was wrong.

I think I've ridden past Flashy's pad.

I've met Oxnop and his Mrs on the Snowdon Ranger and at Penmachno, few years apart.

See Muddydwarf commuting quite regularly.

Met a very serious individual from here with a beard and a Pickenflick at the TdF, but I can't remember if he said who he was.
Said hello to crossjunkie who was there with his family.

See various members of the HtN/Monday Night massive out now and then.
Met the lunatic we camped next to at the first HtN at a festival last year.

I went on a ride with Junkyard and did not argue with him.

I've been watching you all sleeping ........

I went on a ride with Junkyard and did not argue with him.

Ditto. Politics wasn't mentioned at all IIRC.

🙂

That reminds me... Somebody came up to me on a steam train in Somerset last year and recognized me from here!

I ran away. I don't do nutters.

I've met a few, no big hitters though 😉

Sadly I'm even more boring in real life than on here so nobody has ever "are you ..."'d me while out on the trails, although a few people have recognised one of my bikes!

[Not a euphemism]I’ve been in Binners’ back room with Mrs Binners watching. [/Not a euphemism]

I was amazed, I've met several and you're all lovely. Some of you think you can fly the last few meters to the pub.

Didn't happen.

I've never met anyone from here who wasn't either lovely, fascinatingly odd or both.

Oh, met ratswithwings at a gig.
Lovely fella.
As is xherbivore, who drove me back to my car.

Need to see more of Mr Overshoot and the West Coast crowd when I'm mended.
🙂

8 of you in this one, plus me 🙂

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Met a couple at a race - Earlstoke 12 and had a chat with MindlandTrailQuestgraham (I think - the Vegan guy) and Redders as he was crusing along doing a solo and I shot past in my team 40min sprint of gnar!
I guess I've met a few more but I try not to talk about being a sad forumite!

There I was getting bike out of car in a Hampshire village when this random bloke on a bike started talking to me. It was CaptainFlashheart and he recognised my bike. 😀

I was admiring your frame, CG.

😈

Some of you think you can fly the last few meters to the pub.

I thought it worth a try though.

Lol, it's as curvaceous as me. 😉 The weirdest thing though is that I usually ride a ht from an uncommon manufacturer, suspect it must have been poorly hence the Summer bike.

that is the thing.... we are all lovely in real life 😀

that is the thing.... we are all lovely in real life

Nope, I'm actually a total #### in real life 😛

Had quite a few stwers come up to me usually noticing a bike I used to ride a lot and post pics a lot on STW driving a noticeable van usually gives you away. Shame I have lost both 🙁
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that is the thing.... we are all lovely in real life

having actually met the junkyard in real life he is rather sweet really, I was very disappointed as Id got a body bag and shallow grave in woods ready and eveyfink 😀

Anyone sees this bike out and about:

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Stop the rider and ask if it's me. If it's not, lamp him.

It's a recent model frame with some nearly 10 year old kit on it including such antiques as a triple chainset, a USE Alien seatpost and Mono Mini brakes.

Re Junkyard he was indeed very kind, gave me a long lift back to where I was staying. A bit quickly mind 😉

On road I'm on a green Kona Zing carbon, you really don't see many of them about. I could be pretty much anywhere in the country though near areas of Govt or IT industry 🙂

I walk my dog twice a day on the Quantocks, I quite often arrive at the car park and see people faffing with their bikes. I walk the dog for 20 minutes and arrive back at the car park only to see the same people still faffing.
Obviously STW'ers.

When I was the policeman in Glencoe I tracked down bullheart on his LEJOG (or JOGLE) to give him some cake.

I also got some for a bloke who was trying to ride the WHW overnight, but when he passed me at the ski centre he just ignored me so I ate it all.

And when TJ was having a wild camping trip down near Bridge of Orchy somewhere I took my dogs and for a nice surprise was going to quietly put them in his tent to keep him warm overnight, because he loves dogs, but I couldn't find him.

EDIT - I once overtook that ^ red bike on a busy trail...

...that's when the fight began.

I've been nearly spotted enough times in this thread to realise that I've succeeded in passing myself off as an annoying **** to the point that everyone thinks the first annoying **** they see is me.

A dubious badge of honour indeed.

We have all met fellow stw'ers, surely?
I have been accosted on the summit of Munro's, parties, car parks and trail centres and with 'are you matt_outandabout...?'...

Shame I have lost both

What happened to the bike?

We have all met fellow stw'ers, surely?

not knowingly, although I often see a badly dressed social misfit with an Audi and think they must be on STW...

Kryton57 - Member
I've been nearly spotted enough times in this thread to realise that I've succeeded in passing myself off as an annoying * to the point that everyone thinks the first annoying * they see is me.
A dubious badge of honour indeed

I don't think so. The only ***ish thing I can ever remember you doing was being a bit slow to realise how hilarious the constant no pudding refererences were, but you did in the end 🙂

flogged it!! it tried killing me several times in my new riding location it was ok to mince around Cannock Chase on 🙂

Harry_the_Spider - Member
[Not a euphemism]I’ve been in Binners’ back room with Mrs Binners watching. [/Not a euphemism]

... 😯 . That Binners entered my back room just last week while the Mrs was at work....

I didn't think we were supposed to acknowledge each other in the 'real world'. Quoting from the forum rules:

The first rule of STW is you do not talk about STW
The second rule of STW [s]is you do not talk about STW[/s] no running in the corridors
The third rule is - no diving, no bombing and no heavy petting.
The forth rule is if you meet Hora - don't let him any more sugar.

I have met you all muhahahahaha.

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I've been on a peaks pootle and didn't realise Hora was there until everyone was waiting at a gate and we realised he was no longer with us.

I've got to say everyone I've met off here are ace.

saw Ronnie Pickering the other day....surely a STWer?

MidlandTrailquestGraham is one I've chatted to at events (where is he, incidentally?!). Bit awkward to be honest, he's not that chatty IRL, or wasn't to me at least.

Damn right. I said change the route but the ride was destined to go to cutgate in hurricane winds on exposed wet terrain 😆 so I went the wooded route.

Everyone I've met off here has been lovely. I still remember robdob doing the handbrake turn and mounting the he kerb on his jackpoints in the carpark 😀

I do,every time I visit my dentist,GP or Lawyer.
And also whenever I see an advert for expensive and hardly-used Golf Clubs for sale

Is it time for the full Matt_oab story [i]again[/i]?

I met a couple of people from here riding with the Rough Riders when I was briefly living in Dorset.

I met a man at a hotel bar in Vegas who noticed I was reading STW and introduced himself. I was a bit drunk and nervous and have forgotten who he was.

I've met a handful after arranging rides but only one accidentally and I didn't know he was on stw 'til well afterwards

Is it time for the full Matt_oab story again

Go on...

Thought this before...

THE SINGLETRACK SHOP SHOULD SELL SMALL LOGO STICKERS FOR HELMETS!

They could even send them out with subscriptions?

I drunkenly introduced myself to allthegear in a bar in Morzine.

I had to go to a Ciclo week to meet fellow stw'ers. Although used to ride with Alex and NickC when they were chilternites for my sins.....

From memory, I've met:

NickC
Maccruiskeen
Fieldy
Gofasterstripes
Binners

All have been thoroughly lovely, polite and generous people.

I've also have 'conversations' with many others. All of which have been very pleasant.

So it must just be the rest of you that are w*nkers 😀

ht orange on-one at Bristol bike fest and said 'Hi! I recognise you from STW', but he looked at me like I'd just wiped my arse on his trousers whilst he was wearing them and grunted at me.

Lucky escape. I got a whole hour of why everything on my bike was set up wrong and how I should be raising my kids. 😐

I met a man at a hotel bar in Vegas who noticed I was reading STW and introduced himself. I was a bit drunk and nervous and have forgotten who he was.

You promised you'd call.

I hate you.

I'm pretty sure I surfed past surf-mat once.

A stw member pointed out Njee to me once ,on top of Leith Hill.
He's very dishy. 😉

And where do I sign for the "whinger"forum?

🙂

Must have met others, but yes met Legolam on Blanchland moor

My brother lives in Manchester and bought some Audi roof bars from Ebay.
The seller lived about 10 miles from my work so I picked them up.
When he opened up his lock up and there were 5 bikes inside , including a couple of Cotic's I said ' Whats your STW forum name then ?' 'Oh its AndysBlackShed' I think he said. Nice bloke actualy , knew a few Soton forumites as well.

I know alot of people on here, and Im not even a big hitter

I've met a few locals, Jam Bo, Yunki, Agency Scum and others, mostly through classifieds deals or replies for WTDs or at local races, have probably ridden with loads more at races and not known it...
Oh and Eviljoe gave me my first tour of Lustleigh after a call for help on here.

Everyone's always great in person 🙂

I had the excitement of passing Hora going the other way near South Head a few years ago. The extent of our conversation was "Are you Hora?" and "Yes". Still it was good to see Singletrack royalty out on the trails.

have forgotten who he was.

You promised you'd call.

Still it was good to see Singletrack royalty out on the trails.

Queen?

Tomtomr you and I were going quite quick in opposite directions!