[Closed] Singletrack Issue 100

Ton, being spanked by the staffers

There have to be spokey dokeys and rainbows

Include a Mint Sauce keyring! 🙂

A fleet of audis and orange fives not being ridden!

Mincer wobbling away from his audi? Possibly on a bike made out of filing cabinets.

Surely that's the stereotypical depiction of this place?

EDIT: beaten by everyone. Damnit.

a picture of me in the bath

actually, a thumbnail of every current subscriber as a thank you for their support?

If only there was a funny picture of a tubeless tyre blowing gunk all over an angry looking fella..............

Can I suggest a white background with a massive 100. The 100 graphic however would be made up of thousands of tiny pictures with each one being a different bike that Hora has owned since the magazines conception.

To make it easier to whittle down the list of included bike photographs, you could just use the ones he has put on the classifieds at some point.

Similar in style to this

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2 Suggestions for the moment, I might add more later.
.guy martin and terrahawk in their urine stained tandem.
.a clown on a bike with really big wheels (or something typifying the debate surrounding wheel sizes which has dominated the industry for the last few years)

use the front cover from issue one?

Hora looking sad, on a bike with 650b wheels with Renton hucking over him on his Five29 grinning with a sparkle in his eye, staring wantingly at masses of STWers who are waving cash at him to buy his bike off him, most of which are holding pairs of 27.5+ wheels in their hands, ready to put them on Renton's bike.

Oh and robots, lots of robots.

A baby Robin.

A man on the loo with some picolax!

Might wanna get the 'artist' to flip riders face so it's pointing away from the spine (unless you're breaking the rules by doing a poor cover design 😛 )

Can't offer any useful suggestion for content as i've never read the mag.

Caricatures of all your staff who've had input over the years doing bikey stuff.

The Badger and his amazing exploding tubeless tyre.

I was going to suggest a modern recreation of issue one - latest tech bike, same rider, same location but issue one's cover was pretty dark!

A dead kitten for every forum topic that ends up in a wheelsize whingefest

A 'where are they now?' feature on TJ, fred and surfmat

A dead kitten for every forum topic that ends up in a wheelsize whingefest

It's only a double cover.

A raffle. Winning ticket gets a special one-off printed copy of the magazine which is 17 times bigger than usual copies.
RM.

A coded message giving the location of some treasure, which when found entitles you to a free subscription for life.

A 26" Hardtail with 80mm travel, to remind everyone what they're missing (and how much money they've spent "upgrading" over the last 100 issues).

Pixelated Japanese porn

Screech owning someone with a set of Bombers.

Ask readers to send in a picture of themselves on their bike. Put them all on the cover .

What tenfold said in the style of what scandal42 said generating a picture of the guy "owning with bombers"

That badger photo with the exploded tubeless tyre.

Surely a mosaic made up of the previous 100 cover photo's?

That'll give your photo layout minions a bit too do!! 😉

If you follow the link in the OP you see... oh I can't be bothered. Follow the link.

If you follow the link in the OP you see...

A short list, now overshadowed by this one.

A picture of All the big hitters, so you have to collect the set

A short list, now overshadowed by this one.

That asks you to post in here or on the story.

Lenticular printing and turn it into an ‘animated GIF’ 😀

Someone asking someone "what PSI...?"

A picture of a road bike as that seems to be the most popular forum threads?

Reprint/extended article on whatever the most read article was on here in the last 1/3/5+ years?

bomber ownage is a must!

A giant foot and mouth bonfire

Or Martyn Ashton

A cake.
100 candles and the words 'Inspirational & Aspirational' in purple icing.

Stoodley Pike made out of flakes.

And Steve Worland.
🙂

Staffers, past and present recreating a still from Queen's Fat Bottom Girls video on the front cover

A road legal hovercraft article.

An emergency union jack flag as a free gift.

(Do I win curation of the centenary edition, I could come up with plenty more)

The magazine and forum have lost a fair few friends and contributors over those years,some friends and others just felt like friends. I think most regulars have been touched in one way or another.

Edit: misplaced attempt at humour

And that is why I love this forum 🙂

*That* badger pic?
A reproduction of the Picolax thread?
Mint Sauce rides Hebden?

someone weeing into a shoe?

Stoodley Pike,- bikes new and old- must have a sub 5, a Pace. Not just blokes riding bikes.. range of different tides on differing bikes

Some fit bird with her norks out.

On a bike, obviously.

I think most regulars have been touched in one way or another.

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Mark , not really bothered what's going to be on the cover as long as it's inspirational 🙂 . Would like to think that all of us who've subscribed from day one are recognised and rewarded with a special little token of your appreciation for our stoic support
😀 You have our contact details 🙂
After all new subscribers get a freebie so a loyalty gift would be a nice touch .

I do think a repreint of the picolax thread should be included inside, and the sudocreme cat.

Liking the idea of a montage of subscribers photos on the cover.

Dammit Drac, that was my joke! Damn my sense of decency and decorum!

Seeing as people are listing things relating to the forum, some badly made DIY lights [i]a la[/i] troutie but made by a fool instead with wires poking out, smoke etc

and maybe this
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In terms of mountain biking from 2001 to now, I dunno, V Brakes, Judys, someone shouting Straaavaaaaaa,

Could you check the front page story that I've linked to at the start of this thread before you make suggestions for the cover as there's something particular we are doing there.

Yes! Changed my mind.

Mint sauce, mint sauce MINT SAUCE!

Picture of a typical mountain biker from 2001 riding up a climb with his 40psi 26" tyres, narrow bars, bar ends, seat pouch and elastomer front suspension, probably wearing pair of ronhills, probably not wearing a helmet alongside someone from 2015 with a current full suspension carbon dream bike with super wide bars, 15psi 650B tubeless setup and 1x11 electronic shifting, full face helmet, elbow/knee protectors and a full to bursting back pack head down pushing their bike up the same hill.

A Tudor Century Chronograph - waterproof of course

Could you check the front page story that I've linked to at the start of this thread before you make suggestions for the cover as there's something particular we are doing there.

You'll be tuning in on your iPad then TH 🙂

Trying to Mark, trying to!

Please could the Fabulous Fuschian Fresian make a "Foot & Moouth" memorial flypast somewhere in the image?

If the FFF is not availible, some lush landcsape vista's + singletracks woukd be ace too

N+1 somewhere cheeky

Summer.. we need summer..

Mark - Resident Grumpy
Could you check the front page story that I've linked to at the start of this thread before you make suggestions for the cover as there's something particular we are doing there.

I thought you wanted something unique & special, as much as I like Mr Burts work it's hardly an original idea.

He'll ask you if you want it made in silver too probably

Oh, a silly little cartoon cover 🙁
Thought you might do something inspirational rather than use an artist associatd with another publication!
Oh well it means so much more to you than us so go with your JB reacharound then.......

Get him to add in someone sat at their desk angrily typing arguments about wheel sizes whilst pretending to work

Mark wearing an orange bra whilst snorting coke off Chipps moobs using a rolled up copy of issue 1.

Perhaps something more lateral? What conjoins mtb then and mtb today (and all other pedalling that STWers do) is the search for open spaces and freedom (mental as well as physical).

Perhaps something more lateral? What conjoins mtb then and mtb today (and all other pedalling that STWers do) is the search for open spaces and freedom (mental as well as physical).

Yep, that. With an orange bra and a badger.

Badgers, I like badgers.

Or, someone shredding the gnar on a 26" short travel hardtail, smiling like a loon. Ideally they will be giving the finger whilst overtaking someone riding 27.5" enduro sled.

Or a Mint Sauce keyring, any of the above are fine.

A nice big picture of an Audi RS6 'making progress'.

A road bike. Mtbing is so over.

Or under the headline "Why Mtbing sucks in 2015" a table listing all the so called 'standards'.

Seriously - something that looks to the future and not the past.

Perhaps the best thing is keeping it simple nd representing the freedom and pleasure of simply riding a bike in th coutryside, irrespective of standards, wheel size, technology or forums. It was what Jo always did best with Mint Sauce.

The BAN HAMMER!

a photo of Mark, Teej and Fred sharing a nice conciliatory pint of ale.
with the moto, 'forget the past, and look to the future'.

😀

A Magic Eye/Stereogram square with a hidden message 😀

STW 100 cover should be a cartoon. Drawn by a roadie. .. Oh.

A nice big picture of an Audi RS6 'making progress'.

Past molgrips Passat on the back of a recovery truck?

I just hope there are less photos of un necessary wheelies and tail whipping. There are far too many in issue 99.
Please leave that sort of thing to mbr and remember your target market.

I just hope there are less photos of un necessary wheelies and tail whipping. There are far too many in issue 99.
Please leave that sort of thing to mbr and remember your target market.

Approx a dozen pics that could conceivably fit the wheelie/whip description in an issue of 130 or so pages. Slopestyle Monthly it ain't. 😆

Is the ST target market exclusively "wheels on the ground"? I'm not really the "jumpy sort" but I don't want to deny anyone else the pleasure!