[Closed] How long have you been frequenting the forum?

About a year or so, but my mind is being affected already. I feel for you. 😉

2 years here

I was banned for life from STW in 2005, just checked for the offending posts via Google. So that's at least 8 years...

good couple of years before the new forum

10 years here. I remember when the site used to change appearance to match the mag every 3 months, anonymous posts for rude things/things you were too embarrassed to admit to, beer and sealoin etc.

Issue 11 was the first I had bought, and I'd been on here a little while before that. But I never went on the gofar site. So sometime around 2001 ish for me I think.

Three years for me.

I was banned for life from STW in 2005,

Thanks for the tip-off, let me get the hammer...

August 2003 was when I joined under the bakes username.
10 years has gone quickly,

13 years.

2006. I only joined to plug a bike race that I was organising. 😕

Think I have had the same name all the way through I have no recollection of changing it but it has been a while, time certainly has flown by, it's odd to think how much different my life is since I joined.

it's odd to think how much different my life is since I joined.

I know what you mean, I used to be interested in cycling!

The weird thing is, when I was 21 I was working for a chap and after a 13 year break, I am now working with him for the first time since on a completely unrelated project! Maybe things haven't changed so much...

I joined when half the trails were closed due to foot and mouth.

( and now I feel old )

Probably about 10 years or so.

When I joined all this was fields, I lurked on GoFar and was here at the start

Minimum 10 years but my memory is shonky. 😳

Only joined to promote ladies rides and to argue with simonfbarnes. 😉

3 years or so--originally checked in to get some information on trails in Scotland and found it an enjoyable site & generally a good group, so just stayed around.

I first trundled across singletrack when there was some scare about Ti front skewers snapping which I think would be 2005 or 6? I started of as MrTT but it used to to get picked up by the swear filter and got starred out so I let it lapse for a while. I rejoined after seeing the Joes Ridge photo in the 07 calendar. Changed my name after the hack.

Since just before issue 1 & gofar I think, how long is that? My proudest moment was being 10th on the top ten posters chart when they used to publish it in the Mag

At least 10 years. More like 13 or so, I think.

Over 10 years,just missed Gofar IIRC,always been thejesmonddingo,apart from a brief spell as dingobaby,after an early hack.I used to use moderator13 when we had multiple ids and posted rude things after 22:00,when the mods were in bed after their cocoa.

Since 9th August 2005

Only 3 years here.

About 10 years for me. Perhaps a little longer.

Around 8 years I think..

pffft no idea t'was back in the gofar days tho

t? My proudest moment was being 10th on the top ten posters chart when they used to publish it in the Mag

those were the days!

Just missed gofar days, long enough ago to remember beer and friends. 10 years? 11? Not sure.

Nine years but took the opportunity to change my user name after the great crash. I miss the old forum.

Over 10 years as it was in my last residence when I joined up. Was SingleTrackRocks, hence the current moniker - it all crashed and burned at one point and had to rejoin. More a big shitter than big hitter!

6 or 7 years.

A long time and several hacks ago! At least 2001/02.

Certainly regular since 2002.

Originally joined back in the gofar period as TimB. I lapsed for a few years during the mid-noughties. But now.... it appears I'm back.

Wasn't allowed my original moniker by the system though 🙁 , even with my original password. Although I gather there was an issue with the site security, which probably explains something.

Please mods, may I have my original username please?

About 10 yrs, mostly lurking. Only been into MTB's for 7 or 8.

Became aware of the site when it was still brown/yellow striped. Thought it was some sort of sysadmin tool for a long time, because it was permanently up on the monitors of the IT Admins where I worked 🙂

Eventually twigged that it was actually the best timewaster on the whole of the internet, and after one of the aforementioned sysadmins (thanks BBSB!) sold me his old bike, I also got into MTB's 🙂

Was a regular on uk.rec.cycling (anybody else?) and remember when Singletrack magazine was set up by one or two of the regulars. I wasn't that interested, as I didn't ride off-road, so never bothered to follow it or the subsequent forum. Came to STW three years ago following a conversion to the muddy stuff. Changed username last year.

when was GoFar, can't remember. But i was there.

Was a regular on uk.rec.cycling (anybody else?)

and the various rec.cycling boards,

oh and Mike Vanderman....

For those who don't know who Vanderman, it is amusing and scary!

[url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singletrack_(magazine) ]1998-2001 according to wiki[/url]

Since about 2003/4..?

It'd be just as interesting to know how many people have changed username in their time on the forum.

mrmo, you know he searches for his name? 😉

Been here a while, scotiedog back before the hack, how long ago was that?

I miss 'Big Mike' the chef from Worcester, does anyone know how he is doing?

Not sure, but long enough to remember the 'caught a burglar so I owned him with bombers' thread.

Also im sure I remember a mass flounce when stw created the chat forum.

Well before the Great Hack, but can't remember.

Lost my original username too, which was a bummer.

I was on Gofar and urc, and subscribed from issue 1. Didn't really care if it was any good, just thought it was worth supporting people with the cojones to do the sort of thing most of us just talk about over a beer but never get around to.

Not very long really...matter of months but lurked for a year or so, maybe more.... Remember TJ and the gang but wasn't an active poster then. Looked at other forums but never joined, quite like it here.

I've just remembered i did have to change my name around the crash because I couldnt get the original one back.

2002 or 2001? On/off.

Met some really nice riding folk from the original days until it went politically correct and watched the originals disappear 🙁

Although some nice folk are joining too.

So basically too long!

[quote=epicyclo ]Well before the Great Hack, but can't remember.
Lost my original username too, which was a bummer.
I can see why you changed it. Was the "A" short for something?

I'm thinking about ten years, I have a persistent memory of finding STW in 2003, but I could easily be wrong, and it being earlier. I did change my username back when it was easy to do, and used XipeTotec for a while. I kept causing me issues loging in on different devices, so I changed back. Wish I'd kept it after the Great Hack. 😐

I can see why you changed it. Was the "A" short for something?

5-6 years ish at a guess and pre hack

Vanderman was that some anti biking troll? Seems to ring a bell.

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Nice Scotroutes.

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I think since 2001 or 2002 so about 11 or 12 years.

I was looking for 2nd hand parts to build my bikes then.

It was Lovewookie that told me I could get them cheap on STW Classified.

A year or two, basically since the latest argument ruined bikemagic.....

I had a massive argument with Shaun at one point (about disc brakes), so at least that far back.

Must get out for a ride...(see what I did there?)

About 3 weeks but addicted already 🙂

9 years now, under this and my previous username - had to change after my employers internal fraud squad gave me a detailed record how much time I spent on here in working hours.... 😳

6 years or so added the mk2 after the great hack

I miss 'Big Mike' the chef from Worcester, does anyone know how he is doing?

big Mike AKA Mike?
last i heard he was chefing at the kings arms in Ombersley

Another GoFar member here...
It was all about Red Bull and Coed y Brenin in those days 🙄
Mate and I actually won our class on a GoFar sponsored Trailquest event 😕 Dave was messing around on a scooter, the room fell silent when our names were called in the same manner as when you walk into a local pub as a visitor ❗
Also attended the '05 Verbier hol which was ace.... 😆

Another Gofar member here and I have all mag issues 1 to 83 (how sad).

Since the publication of the first mag.

Long enough to remember (and miss) DizInAustria. She was (and presumably still is) a nice lady. What happened to her?

So, quite a while... Probably ten years. Too long! Gave up mountain biking a long while ago...

12 years I reckon. Could be 13. Damn I feel old.

About ten years too!

I remember when you didn't log in - just typed some guff, insulted a few people, then signed it off "pete-poddy" or something....

Thems were the days...

Now I think you're all a bunch of wannabee weekend warriors...

Pete-Poddy

[quote=JulianA ]Long enough to remember (and miss) DizInAustria. She was (and presumably still is) a nice lady. What happened to her?
She went to Austria

@scotroutes - nah, she was there already! As her login name might have suggested... Nice try on the sarcasm, but you'll have to try harder than that!

Well - she started as "Diz" and then became "Dizinaustria". She had started up a MTB vacation company (Over the Edge) with a friend out there. Pretty sure some folk off STW went out for a holiday.

Edit http://www.youtube.com/user/dizinaustria

I lurked under the same name for a few years before the Hack, probably going back to 2003 or 2004. I only really started to post to any extent right before the hack, and resumed at my gentle, measured pace immediately after. Which compared to some on here, is next to never.

Ironically, this place has been almost as entertaining as my bike itself; and it must surely have saved me on countless purchases the cost of at least one bike due to the advice I have received. Now, that is good value! 😀

'How long have you been frequenting this forum?'

Too long, that's for sure.

Only thing is, there's no other forum that's so full of 'entertainment' (for want of a better word)

Well - she started as "Diz" and then became "Dizinaustria". She had started up a MTB vacation company (Over the Edge) with a friend out there. Pretty sure some folk off STW went out for a holiday.

Edit http://www.youtube.com/user/dizinaustria
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Yup, I went out there in 2008, she folded it all up about a year later..
She's living in Germany with her O/H now I think.

Long enough ago that I still owned a mountainbike. 4 or 5 years.

Since the start.

Been here since 2003

I first started lurking about a year before the big hack and signed up shortly after so a few years.

Long enough a go to remember when this were all fields & when Chipps mark & he who shall not be named were discussing opening this forum over on bike magic, still have fond memories of the fallout 😕