[Closed] Forum members you'd like to go for a pint with.

In answer to my own post, what prompted this thread was, TJ.

Beyond that... Darcy, CountZero, Edukator, shit for all the grief I've given him over the years I'd really like to meet Chewkw.

I'd Poopscoop, Thols, Weeksy, whoever did the old mini rebuild was that Reluctant Jumper? I don't know what I could add to a conversation with any of them, but I find a lot of what they post interesting or amusing. And TJ, of course!

I don't know whether to be flattered or scared - wot meet real people in real life? Help ma boab!

I actually intend to do a uk tour in a few weeks and hope to meet up with bunch of you. Ha - call your bluff!

The same ones I always go for a ride & a beer with 😉

And I've already met TJ so 🤷‍♂️

Anyone really, cos no one is how they seem on forums.

I bet chewkw is a really nice guy.

Drac about to meet Chewk

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Stevethebarbarian

I've been for pints with many forumistas, all of whom have been pretty decent folks to have a pint with.

Never Perchy though, not yet, but to be honest I think the overbearing sexual tension would just make it awkward.

AA and TJ at a Wales v Scotland game.....

WCA - but I'd keep a safe distance

kayak - for a pint from a jug laminated from wood, carved into a ridiculously intricate shape

I’d go for a drink with most of you. This place is mainly populated by people who’ll help out strangers and show compassion to people they’ve never met. I’m judging most of you are pretty nice.

I’ve only met a couple of forumites when I’ve sold, bought or given stuff away. All were genuinely nice people.

Slight derailment but do you ever meet people whilst you’re out and about, have a little chat and think they could be from here? I always want to ask but if they aren’t it would be weird to explain.

I'd go for a pint with mist of you horrible lit. I imagine only a few would get to second pint status.

I have asked folk a couple of times but what is scary is I have been spotted and called out for being TJ a few times. Just riding down a trail and a group coming the other way shouted " its TeeeeJaaaaay"

I would say none, but thats me being a social pariah intolerant of uncertainty. I’m the kind of person that’d never enter a speed dating environment.

However, everyone I’ve met across two forums has been a pleasure to meet, last having a ride/chat with Mr Lebowski and a beer with AA at the weekend.

I have asked folk a couple of times but what is scary is I have been spotted and called out for being TJ a few times. Just riding down a trail and a group coming the other way shouted ” its TeeeeJaaaaay”

Whenever I am leith way I hope I se you so I can shout "wear a helmet" I am always disappointed and slightly worried I'll choke when I finally happens... Or get my head kicked in by someone who isn't in fact you.

Slight derailment but do you ever meet people whilst you’re out and about, have a little chat and think they could be from here? I always want to ask but if they aren’t it would be weird to explain.

You could post a ‘was that you,the nice bloke I met out riding’ post 🙂

Most people tbf.

Met a fair few over the years and I'm genuinely surprised its been a bellend free experience.

Which makes me think..... am I the bellend?

^yes.

Shame I can't make it up to "Dunc Fest" this weekend. I hope that you and the other bell ends have a grand time.

@Cougar I've been for (a lot more than) a pint with TJ. Prepare to be disappointed 😅

I've also met quite a few other forumites, many of whom are now absent from here. Makes you think...

Shame I can’t make it up to “Dunc Fest” this weekend. I hope that you and the other bell ends have a grand time.

I predict epic levels of bell-endery

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I've met loads of people off here for rides and pints over the years. All lovely.

I'd love to meet all the resident lefties* who I spend so much time calling arguing with on the politics threads. I've a vision in my head of what a number of them look like.

* Apart from DazH, obviously, who I regularly go out for rides and pints with, including last Sunday afternoon where, once again, we never ever talk about politics 🙂

I have asked folk a couple of times but what is scary is I have been spotted and called out for being TJ a few times. Just riding down a trail and a group coming the other way shouted ” its TeeeeJaaaaay”

I’ve done that, by Cramond Brig I seem to recall. Bloke on a tandem not wearing a helmet. The odds seemed pretty good.

Have been for a pint with a fair few, and have also made some good riding buddies.

If you ever think you have or may meet me i look like Uncle Festers evil twin...

Binners natch... although i think we have historically been in close proximity over many years at various Leeds "functions"

Also Drac although again i have my suspicions we have met in passing.

Never knowingly met a singletracker and i would like to keep my preconceptions intact.

somewhere there is a picture of a bunch of us standing outside a pub near rivington. right motley collection. I posted up I was going to be in the area and anyone fancy meeting for a spin. It looked rather like the excursion from " one flew over the cookoos nest"

If you ever think you have or may meet me i look like Uncle Festers evil twin…

So, like Binners then.

Bumped into Kryton at the Vittoria Marathon & would happily have a pint which him. Decent bloke 👍.

TiRed as well - to say thanks for his posts & his work. Lunge gets an honourable mention for his TDF posts.

I wonder how many people are lurking in this thread wondering if their name might come up. Like the last kid to get picked in PE.

Are they relieved, or disappointed to remain anonymous?

I wonder how many people are lurking in this thread wondering if their name might come up. Like the last kid to get picked in PE.

Are they relieved, or disappointed to remain anonymous?

*sobs*

Blooming 'eck- 9 years ago

https://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/the-tjs-at-rivi-with-photos/

I have been on a fair few STW rides of various sorts - we used to run a regular night ride in Edinburgh which often ended in the pub.

I can say hand on heart everyone has always been lovely and via STW I have ridden in parts of the UK I never would have otherwise

Anyone - I have no friends, that's why I comment on things on the internet 😁

Also noone, I'm a recluse, that's why I comment on things on the internet.....

I've met a few off here buying and selling, and ridden with a couple who became good mates.

There's very few I'd not want to meet, even the ones I've properly disagreed with over the years, as much to see what their life experience has been to make their view so different from mine.

I procrastinate here a lot but never really look at the usernames, just scanning through the ones on here, some maybe a bit more familiar than others but ive no idea who any of you are, what you may have posted about previously or what your 'forumality' is like? id be happy to go for a pint with anyone tho!

nbt

I think "a pint" is a bit unfair, I mean, for arguments sake, I'd quite like to go for *a* pint with corbyn just to see if my impressions of him are accurate. I don't imagine I'd stop for a second.

That being said I'm also much more inclined to be fussy about the pub than the people. I'd probably accept an invite to a decent tap room with farage* before I'd go to a flat roofed pub with Ranulph Fiennes.

So in summary, I'd go for a pint with any of you assuming the beer is poncey enough.

Binners. In the Rose and Crown, Ramsbottom. I'd bring a copy of the Guardian with me, so that I could be easily identified. 😉

I worry at times that i've met a fair few from here... but most haven't seemed to want to meet up again after that... So i wonder if i'm the problem 🙁

Bunnyhop
Free Member
nbt

Are you under duress? Is he there now forcing you to say that?

I've met a disproportionate number of people who've been banned from here, does that count?

So in summary, I’d go for a pint with any of you assuming the beer is poncey enough.

+1 & they are buying!

Genuinely, I would love to have a pint with most of you even those who I've had oppositional interaction with in the past - (TJ, Mefty, Edukator etc), for the most part you all seem like a pretty decent bunch.

Binners. In the Rose and Crown, Ramsbottom. I’d bring a copy of the Guardian with me, so that I could be easily identified. 😉

I'll have my Daily Mail with me. We can compare notes 😀

seriously considering a burner account just to send myself some love :p

Crivens - me mefty and edukator in the same room?

Actually like others I have respect for many I have crossed swords with on here

My experience is that I've always got on really well with people I've met IRL after squabbling with them on the interwebs - probably says that we have more in common than we disagree about.

Actually Edukator is one I would like to meet. I shall turn upon his doorstep one day "evil laugh"

I'd be worried that meeting people in real life would destroy the magic.

and Liverpool provides a venue

Are they relieved, or disappointed to remain anonymous?

Weird mix of both tbh!

probably says that we have more in common than we disagree about

I’m far more likely to argue the toss on the net with someone that I agree with on most things.

Slight derailment but do you ever meet people whilst you’re out and about, have a little chat and think they could be from here? I always want to ask but if they aren’t it would be weird to explain.

It crosses my mind every single time someone rides past me on something mildly better than a Supermarket Special.

Like the last kid to get picked in PE.

That was never me.

I was "well, it's Cougar or the fat kid, so I suppose we'll have to take Cougar." That should be my epitaph, "Penultimate Kid To Be Picked At PE."

Binners. In the Rose and Crown, Ramsbottom. I’d bring a copy of the Guardian

Worst game of Cluedo ever.

It crosses my mind every single time someone rides past me on something mildly better than a Supermarket Special.

Oddly enough me too. Though for some reason it always seems to be a roadie who smiles/nods on the way past, odd in that im on an mtb, and roadies are, well roadies.

Perhaps its recognized faces when out at wheelcraft or some such place.

Erm, probably anyone, I don't spend enough time on here to know any of you that well. The ones I have met have been through sales/wants.

Met quite a few forumites back when the MBR forum was still a thing. All very nice people, except one, he was a miserable arsehole online and a thoroughly miserable arsehole in real life. I still keep in touch with a few of them and we meet up when we can.

Got an approving nod from a roadie looking race whippet in Tesco the other day when I was wearing my ST Lockdown tee-shirt.

Assumed he recognised the design, rather than he found me attractive, I should add.

I’d go for a drink with most of you. This place is mainly populated by people who’ll help out strangers and show compassion to people they’ve never met. I’m judging most of you are pretty nice.

Same here, how people are IRL can be totally different to their online presence but their core values are the same. There's been countless examples of compassion and kindness shown on here over the years that it's hard to believe that anyone on here is anything other than a reasonable person in reality. I know there are lots of arguments going on on different threads all the time but I genuinely believe that if those same people met in a room and sat down to discuss it then the argument would turn into a decent discussion instead. The ones I've met have all turned out to be normal people so far!

Slight derailment but do you ever meet people whilst you’re out and about, have a little chat and think they could be from here? I always want to ask but if they aren’t it would be weird to explain.

A few times now I've overheard conversations between other riders and knew they had to be members on here from what they are saying! Recognised a few people from their bike or car too, even had a couple come up to me and ask if reluctantjumper meant anything to me while out in the Mini a few weeks ago! They had read the thread and recognised the car but they're not even a member on here and I forgot their names so couldn't give them a shout out.

Met quite a few forumites back when the MBR forum was still a thing. All very nice people, except one, he was a miserable arsehole online and a thoroughly miserable arsehole in real life. I still keep in touch with a few of them and we meet up when we can.

Same here, have no idea who you're hinting at... 🤣
Does remind me though that a North Wales trip is in order, had too many Facebook reminders about Revs and Antur the last few days! The Chatel ones will begin in earnest next week!

I’ve also met quite a few other forumites, many of whom are now absent from here. Makes you think…

I've made it through 🤣

@weeksy I'm not sure about a pint but I've certainly ridden with you and I'd be happy to again but you live very far south. Gies a shout if you're ever heading near the lake district. 🙂

I'm another stw survivor of drinks with scotroutes also!

I’ve met a fair few over the years, that philconsequence bloke, to name but one, was a terrific fella, arranged loads of rides. I’ve even been locked in a room full of beer with WCA, Singletrackmind, somarich (r.i.nz) (residing in New Zealand), andy and Poddy, (was TSTWerFKAFred there? no, but I know we’ll have naked hugs again one day). When I went through my ‘bad times’ I lost touch really, but hopefully it’ll happen again one day.
Oh, did a ride with DrP and SteveXTC and that other fella (plus dezb jr and stevejr) recently, that woulda been fun in a pub after, but it was in semi-covid times.
Yeah, most of the southerners are good blokes 😁

Never been for a pint with him but I have slept with @brads at least 7 times 😉

I have met a load of STWers over the years. Being old and daft I remember few names but every one has been lovely. ONly one person wanted to continue an on line argument which did get slightly tiresome

@weeksy that reminds me - I owe your a beer this weekend if you're still headed to Machynlleth

Teej, ride and beers mate when you go on your tour. and a bed for the night if you need one.

We are yes. Will ping you a pm

Replace the pint with coffee and mtbing, and I'd happily meet you people, + si affinité. 😉 I've posted more than enough info for anyone who wanted to find me to knock on the door so TJ's threat/promise is plausible, and welcome - there's a bell too. I reply to pms when they're working.

I met some BMers on a UK trip in IIRC 2006 breaking my patela on a ride with D but continued riding until I went for an x-ray in France. It's a bit odd meeting people for the first time already knowing so much about them, once past that it was all good with some great trails, not so good coffee and dreadful beer.

Ta Ton

I did meet up with Ton a couple of times - no fist pie involved 🙂

I definitely have met some STWers on group rides in Kent and Dorset. And I met someone off here in a hotel bar in Vegas. Unfortunately, I can't remember anyone's forum name. I don't think I have ever had a drink with another STWer.

It crosses my mind every single time someone rides past me on something mildly better than a Supermarket Special.

We should make a game of this. Take photo of random person on niche bike, post here. Is this you?

I live on the road approaching Macc forest so could probably post roughly a hundred pictures a day!

ONly one person wanted to continue an on line argument which did get slightly tiresome

That’s quite scary and odd.

It was a bit funkmaster

A topic we were both passionate about where we had very different outlooks. I had obviously got under his skin and he wanted to put me right. Drink had been taken in significant quantities

Scary? ****ing mental I’d say. Bad enough when TJ has his teeth buried in a row online, let alone in person 😂

😂

I didn't bite him you will be pleased to know. I didn't even engage.

Jedi, Mboy to name but a few back in 06

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WCA ironically injured!

https://flic.kr/p/6ih6om

I believe I took RD’s first photo 😊
Also in pic Richpenny, Ali behind (she used to be on here)

One day I'm going to do the Jenn ride thing, just to meet/stalk some more of you lot. But I've got a few under my belt already...

Spent the afternoon drinking coffee with Cinnamon Girl. It was a real pleasure.

Went on Chipps' 30 bithday party. Not sure I had a personal invite, but knew people he lived with at the time. I had massive imposter syndrome, everyone was so darn cool. Then, by strange coincidence me and some friends pitched up in a campsite for the night, in the adjoining field, Chipps was having his 40th.

I met loads of singletrackers back in the day. Although the only one I can recall bumping into accidentally on the trails was aP.

The list of singletrackers I'd like to meet is too long to mention but the one who particularly intrigues me is mefty.

If Binners is Uncle Festers evil triplet? Am i a Binner twinner...

Also Drac although again i have my suspicions we have met in passing.

Quite likely. Back when I bike I was fairly active and traveled to various venues and helped with events.

Am i a Binner twinner…

We may well have been separated at birth. What’s your opinion on Binners twinners dinners for winners?

I’ve also met quite a few other forumites, many of whom are now absent from here

Are you Dennis Nilsen?

Totally agree with funkmaster’s first post.