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Spicy Pizza & a Case of Guinness & I'm yours!

See, How hard was that?

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Are Simmy and Golfchick flirting via the medium of dog pics?

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He is my little one. He might look mean, but he has a heart of gold.

Sorry Goldchick you got this all wrong, you don't need to go online to date.
You do a sport that is male dominated so all you need to do is
go to a busy trail centre
ride for a Km or so
let down your tyre
wait a few mins then have plenty of guys offering to help
you can then say "I am OK I got it covered" TILL
one catches you eye, "oh my spare seams to have a hole in it as well"
been a gent he offer you his, then you say thanks "I better take your number to be able to return the innertube" (arrange 2nd date)
Bonus is you can get to have a chat while he fixes "the flat" and you then also get to find out if he be any good at looking after you bikes if you date.
Win win
😀

wait a few mins then have plenty of guys offering to help

.....and ruin their Strava KOM attempts? Pffft!

As a recently single bloke who's had a look round a few some basic tips..

Make sure it's just you in the picture, it's always disappointing if they turn out to be the "Oh that one" 😉 (Joking but seen heaps of profiles where you have no idea who the actual person is - as much as it's superficial, internet dating starts off that way)

Get ready to filter, it's a womans world/buyers market out there down side is there is a lot of crap to filter through.

Sometimes it's probably harder to come up with that killer intro than just have a conversation with someone.

Geography makes more difference to the sites in some ways. Some of the higher recommended sites near me have very few people. Others have loads.

Don't forget to live life rather than looking for love. Sometimes things just happen.

oh and make sure you don't tell STW where you are going in advance or there will be an entire army of blokes ready to fix a puncture lurking in the bushes.

MTBrob a fantastic ploy but firstly I'm fairly stubborn and independent so totally goes against me amd I'd actually get frustrated with guys assuming cos I'm female I need help (obviously apart from the extremely charming ones) and secondly I'm tubeless so it just wouldn't happen! I did manage to understeer round a corner once and take out a wheel on the curb and got no less than six offers to help me change the wheel. I turned them all down suprisingly!

Cheers for the thoughts Mike I'll definitely not struggle to live as well as take a look around, I don't let my life allow much time really. It's 6am and I have a 3.5 mile walk to do before I even get ready for work! Good tip about geography, I've already done the long distance dating and although it has its positives I haven't got the time now to drive miles and miles!

Question...

Why do you need to use a dating site?

I don't NEED to but I personally think it can be a good way to meet someone that you ordinarily wouldn't. I also think you can get to know someone easier to know if they're compatible with you as I don't want someone who isnt. Unless they lie obviously but at least that way it'll amuse me to see how well they can talk out of their backsides! And besides I Actually enjoy the experience of getting to know someone new even if it's just for friendship. Hence my best mate being a bloke from Darlington who first approached me to chat me up on pinkbike!

How about a photo of me after I broke my jaw in three places and smashed out a few teeth.

Do it. My most successful Tinder pic ever was a crash pic with black eyes, broken nose and cut lip. 100x increase in matches*. 🙂

*from a base of 1 cam-site robot per calendar month expressing mild interest.

Haha clearly pain and scars are sexy! The hospital bed really adds effect too.

In some ways anything eye catching is a bonus, I get heaps more hits when I use pics of Brad Pitt

IHN - Member
I met the current MrsIHN on eHarmony.

At some point I plan to sue.

This made me spit my morning Tea out 😆

Met the young lady on okcupid, it's pretty good. You need to put some effort in to your profile though!

[url= http://28dateslater.blogspot.hk/ ]28 Dates Later[/url] is amusing.

🙂

EDIT: in some ways the funniest bit is the anecdote in [url= http://28dateslater.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/date-20-redacted-and-second-painful.html ]date 20[/url]

I'll have a read of that during my lunch break. Sounds quite funny.

28 dates later is by equal measure both very funny, and very sad.

I'm more depressed about this than before... 😆

I'm definately more of a cat bloke meself, but I have passed GolfChick, more than once, when I've been out with my g/f or some mates, going in opposite directions , on our local trails and can confirm that her dog is also no trail slouch !

She's the fastest fittest but laziest dog ever known to man! How is the wyre riding atm? I haven't been up since they started the felling and most of the routes were ridiculous. I might head over this weekend actually.

[i]but I have passed GolfChick, more than once, when I've been out [/i]

So, go on then, would you? 😉

[to mis-quoth binners] Christ on a bendy bus! [/binners]

My banner ads are now Travelodge weekend breaks, and intimisio (some Italian lingerie site)...Even my PC is taking the piss.

Forestry operations have made a right mess of a few bits ! Although Tilhill had to bring a machine in to deal with some of the massive ruts they'd left and FC weren't happy about it.
That hasn't helped a great deal though. Just created a less tyre tracked kind of bog in many spots !
I've ridden in there right through the winter, carefully trying to piece stuff together, so I could get a decent ride but not trash some of the wetter stuff in the valleys.
Been floored by a flu thing for a few weeks , but was up there Sunday and things really are drying quite well, esp higher up. Some of the stuff up near ButtonOak on the south side of the Kinlet road has been trashed by Dobbin and his hoofed friends more than by the timber harvesters !

Real shame as it was ridding really well before they got in there. I managed right up until they arrived then lost all the motivation for it. Will try to piece my usual caravan side together, least it'll get Ziva chasing some squirels anyway. I've even been to cannock rather than the wyre lately so it must be trashed for me to go to the pebbles of doom!

[i]it was ridding really well[/i]

*Removes from favourites*

*removes iPhone from pocket and teaches it to auto correct ridding to riding*

Ooh! *puts back in favourites* 😆

Ps. PoF is ok. I've met normal women through it and I'm normal(ish). I think the entire spectrum of sane->batshit is covered and you can usually tell a lot from the profiles.

Met my wife on Plenty of Fish!

I've found PoF better than Match, the only thing for me was you have to convince women you're genuine, not a player/married etc. I guess women tend to get inundated with messages from guys.

Echo the sentiment about most of the profile pictures were of women holding drinks/pouting or standing in ladies loos, worryingly, holding drinks...

Have met some really cool women through them both, some absolute nutters too, have been stalked, threatened by their ex partners etc.

If you do find someone you really like, remember they're likely to be messaging other people at the same time, that can make some people feel really, really insecure.

Cheers for that. Some good advice and maybe I'll dip my toes so to speak.

GolfChick - Member
MTB girls are Defo trouble, they go embarrassing and showing you men up all the time!

Prove it

Bored of a lunch break so challenge accepted?!

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Careful, you'll have MTBel criticizing your drop-off technique...

He/She will have to take up their criticism with Jedi!

Careful golfchick- recently we were discussing a STW'er called '42' apparently he used to email naked pics of him to females on here!!

I can only hope my junk mail filter will pick it up.. although knowing my luck it'll be one of the few that survives!

Anyone know how the zoom function works on my Nexus5 phone camera? 8)

POF isn't that bad - I (eventually) met TheGingerOne on there last year and realised that we were in fact going on the very same MTB holiday in a few weeks time...

So actually half POF and half BasqueMTB for me 😉

Anyone know how the zoom function works on my Nexus5 phone camera?

*puts down sandwich*

*spits diet coke over the work computer*

Diet Coke, eh? Is that because you're sweet enough as you are?

....is just one of the phrases that might indicate a potential date is not 'the one.'

I find the whole idea of dating sites excruciatingly embarrassing. Looked at a couple this morning, I don't think it's for me.

Your main profile picture is very important on such sites/apps. I saw one tinder profile where the main picture was their (unborn) baby scan. Offputting to say the least hahah

I have three sugars in my tea... so I'm guessing not?! It's nice to be able to say that without listening to the default response of 'how many?!'

_tom_ That's just fantastic!

Now we're getting somewhere.

On your profile just add the line:

'I have 3 sugars in my tea. If that is a problem, then * off and the * * horse, you * rode in on you ** cheese **ing godzilla-esque *****.'

That way you'll eliminate [s]everyone[/s] all the people who'd give you grief about having the sugar intake of a humming bird.

Haha sugar intake of a hummingbird, although they're pretty fantastic looking creatures so I'm gonna take only positives from that!

I have three sugars in my tea

PSA to those still reading: Sugar in tea is evil.

Don't say I didn't warn you.

challenge accepted

Damn, that's me told

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^ Does that end well?

Jive and GolfChick - the perfect match. Please, please and pretty please. You two just have to meet.

Golfchick you can clearly ride better than me so unfortunately I couldn't conceivably date you. I'd come in and spin you a yarn about how I nailed all the trails on my day long Summer Lakes ride and you'd stop me and say

'susshhh darling, we both know you can't ride for toffee'.

^ Does that end well?

Some say he is still airborne....

Jive and GolfChick - the perfect match. Please, please and pretty please. You two just have to meet.

Nobody puts Simmy in the corner!

^ Does that end well?

Darn tootin... lander is about half way between the end of the pic and the bit where the side of the forum goes grey

Following on from MissNoTax, I was not getting much interest at all with a sensible photo of myself, but as soon as I changed it to me under the Eiffel Tower in full on roadie lycra, I had an explosion of interest. Hated the idea of advertising myself like that, but it did work 😉

Haha a bike off! I'm clearly going to have to find even more gnarrr photos of myself now!

I joined PoF as a result of @DezB's thread which seemed to suggest it was like a huge online catalogue of Godzilla models and I fancied a wholly indefensible bit of entertainment. However I met someone who is ACE and we are about to be wed in holy mortgage-amony. My opener went something like "Hi, you look weatherproof, fancy a chat?" Although I had to ascertain which one was her in a pic cause the "other" one was defo not for me!

I too posted up pictures of me, on various bikes, at top of mountains, in the rain with comments like "outdoor type, likes the rain and being outdoors up mountains mostly with a bike" and still got a volume of requests from Sofa dwellers and sun bed addicts. you just have to filter them out.
Good luck!

missnotax - Member
POF isn't that bad - I (eventually) met TheGingerOne on there last year and realised that we were in fact going on the very same MTB holiday in a few weeks time...

So actually half POF and half BasqueMTB for me

Congrats Trouble 😛

I've never had so many messages on PoF since I changed the text from something sensible to a sarcastic take on selfies, cake, 27.2 friends in pics, etc.
Only one hate message - the rest I either owe new mascara or a new keyboard 😀

GolfChick
I have three sugars in my tea...

Suspect you won't be putting "has own teeth" in your dating profile for much longer........ 😉

Suspect you won't be putting "has own teeth" in your dating profile for much longer........

[i]Some of my hobbies are mountain biking, running, drinks with friends, and trips to the dentist.[/i]

I smashed three teeth out when i broke my jaw, hitting the floor at 30 mph will do that to you. Im in the middle of implant treatment so no worries about them falling out they're screwed into my jawbone!

....so no worries about them falling out they're screwed into my jawbone!

[i]I also enjoy walks on the beach, petting dogs, and setting off airport metal detectors with my face.[/i]

....all that aside, have you signed up for anything yet?

I PROPERLY got my hopes up that I would be able to set off the detectors but its all titanium as a mate said at least Im taking weight saving to the max!

I took a look at guardian soulmates, at this point in the process I'd rather not have to pay and doing it on my iPhone was driving me bonkers!

hitting the floor at 30 mph

I'm genuinely struggling to figure out what that scenario was?

Failed parachute? Drunk pigeon? DD's lover?

I took a look at guardian soulmates, at this point in the process I'd rather not have to pay and doing it on my iPhone was driving me bonkers!

What about local stuff/events? My sister went on a [url= http://www.speeddater.co.uk/news/singles-cooking-classes ]singles cooking course[/url] thing. I think the idea is you already have a common interest.

doing it on my iPhone was driving me bonkers!

It's the Princess and the Pea all over again!

Use a bed*, like normal people.

Or a hot tub, swimming pool, tropical beach at sunset, yacht, back of a limo, top of a WWII German bunker, etc. Y'know. Normal places.

Theres a section of trail in the wyre forest where its possible to hit 30mph, I went slightly too far to the left and clipped a sappling with the bars of the bike. Splat!!

For a moment there I thought you were adding a new location to Flashy's list....

clipped a sapling

That HAS to be a euphemism.

I've given up with the whole internet dating thing, [s]i/m[/s] they are all just too weird...... 😉

[i]I also enjoy ... setting off airport metal detectors with my face.[/i]

I would immediately and without question send a blurry picture of my cock accompanied by some pleading if I read this in a profile.

🙂

Theres a section of trail in the wyre forest where its possible to hit 30mph, I went slightly too far to the left and clipped a sappling with the bars of the bike. Splat!!

I think I've hit that tree a few times!

Teeth still intact though

Can't of done. A month later riding before the metal was even removed I went and took a small saw to it, payback!!

I went and took a small saw to it, payback!!

[i]I also like taking revenge on any trees and bushes that have wronged me.[/i]

My sister went on a singles cooking course thing. I think the idea is you already have a common interest.

I'm not so sure that "something you both can't do" constitutes a common interest. "You don't know how to make a soufflé? Wow, me neither! We're made for each other!"

Haha. Nice one Cougar 🙂

I'm not so sure that "something you both can't do" constitutes a common interest. "You don't know how to make a soufflé? Wow, me neither! We're made for each other!"

Yes, but it lays the groundwork for some interesting flirting....

[i]Hey, my soufflé may not be rising, but you know what is....hur hur[/i]

[i]Hey, that's a nice dick...spotted dick that is....lol[/i]

etc.

For no reason whatsoever, I just thought of this.

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