[Closed] loving this place. (stw).

Amen to that Ton, this place is awesome.

Costs me a bloody fortune this place, between the classifieds, PSA's, and must have new shiney bits.

But yeh what ton said.

Ton,you're right,there's no place like it.The forum seems to cover a broad range of subjects besides bikes & only a few forumites come across as irritating.
I even ended up with a bunch of you on a Scottish weekend last year..

sometimes it's a little serious for me.... but mostly it's my 'go-to' forum

I agree, it's very 'entertaining' at times, informative usually, hilarious, exasperating, & eye rollingly good. Sometimes I hate it but can' stay away for long.

#NotWhatItUsedToBe #BringBack______

It both annoys and entertains in equal measure.

And I come back less and less these days.

wasnt it cougar who said

you come for the bikes and stay for the BS

sums it up really

It's alright innit. I've migrated across from bikeradar for the car advice alone.

I can take or leave the bike chat 😆

The bizarre happenings thread t'other day was worth the entry fee...

I can take or leave the bike chat

There's bike chat?? 😯

Loving it but not enough to pay for a Premier membership - and they call the Scots tight.

Or maybe you just like the ads... Russian Bride on the way?

Loving it but not enough to pay for a Premier membership - and they call the Scots tight.

us yorkshire blokes learnt you jocks all you know about thriftiness.

Speaking of fixing things, you still into burglar alarms?

only a few forumites come across as irritating

It worries me that I don't find anyone particularly irritating...

aye, very helpful and pretty entertaining too !

It worries me that I don't find anyone particularly irritating...

If you don't find anyone irritating, it means you're the....

Conversely, I find everyone irritating... 😡

I'm having a pot noodle moment...try it once a year and remember I love it!

but mostly it's my 'go-to' forum

Spoken as if there are other forums to choose from...

Anyway, I, for one, find STW to keep up to speed with the news. It's amazing what happens when you tune out for a few years.

Speaking of fixing things, you still into burglar alarms?

i do indeed mate

Conversely, I find everyone irritating...

Imagine that, Debz thinking it's all of us that are the issue?.... 😆

If I didn't have this place to argue and wind people up on (and occasionally go out riding bikes with them), I'd no doubt either be behind bars, a chronic alcoholic, dead from being killed by some psycho in a pub brawl. Or maybe some combination of the above. 😀

Apparently there's a magazine too. Who knew?

If you don't find anyone irritating, it means you're the....

Exactly! It's like the old "1 in every 6 people are gay".

If you have 5 straight friends then it is probably you.

The advice I was given on here re varnishing my floor just as I was about to create a monumental **** up has made me eternally grateful I found this place.

I'm just here for the banter!
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shamed into buying a new premier subscription by a hairy jock........i feel terrible now. 😆

...especially noballsinthepants!

[quote=ton ]shamed into buying a new premier subscription by a hairy jock........i feel terrible now. I'm on commission....

I wouldn't be riding my Stanton if it wasn't for this place suggesting it 🙂
Although I now want a long travel 29er to 'compliment' it in my bike stable

I also wouldn't have procured some very nice prints from Binners (my sister loves that london skyline one you did for her mate)

EDIT: there's also some lovely people on here (and some bellends)

If it wasn't for this place, I'd never have met Binners or Hora.

Make of that what you will.

wasnt it cougar who said

you come for the bikes and stay for the BS

I think it was "bollocks" but yeah. (-:

there's no place like it.

I used to use a BBS called [url= http://www.mono.org/ ]Mono[/url] back when the Internet was in black and white. The STW chat forum is exactly how Mono was in its heyday; we had the same mix of incredibly diverse knowledge ("is there anything Mono can't answer?" - sound familiar?), running gags, heated debates, flounces, meets, friendships, relationships, marriages. Amazingly it's actually still going, populated by a core group of die-hards.

For me, for all its flaws the STW chat forum is the only place on the web which has managed to come close to that level of community and knowledge. And bollocks.

Its amazing how much, sometimes, I look forward to a few quiet [s]hours[/s] minutes to get stuck in to a good STW session.

I'm just here for the banter!

Your hair's looking good today Perchy,new shampoo?

You mean there are 'others' out there? I thought the STW forum was a random word super computer!!!

Scarily, I've been posting here (and GoFar) for almost half my life. I think it must be unique as I don't use Alta Vista and Geocities so much these days...

Your hair's looking good today Perchy,new shampoo?

's a wig innit!

Bought it off Gary Numan.

I thought the STW forum was a random word super computer

Nah, you're thinking of Renton.

I do enjoy it, but agree it is a bit too serious, which is fine occasionally, but I'm here for entertainment and banter!

[i]IHN - Member
I thought the STW forum was a random word super computer
Nah, you're thinking of Renton.
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Surely you're referring to that Chewkw.

To be honest, I was thinking of Hora, but I'd already mentioned him so was spreading the [s]slating[/s]love

It's been the one constant in my life for, what is it now - 15 years?

Thank you one and all 8)

If it wasn't for this place I wouldn't have met Ton in the 1st place.
Or I may have done out on the trails at some point. Who knows!

Oh god i've been on here for over 4 years now

I blame this place for my increasing misanthropy and levels of sarcasm, however the two threads that sum what this place is to me are Sudocrem Cat and Spongebob Squarepants both left me in tears for very different reasons

Jeez - mono.org, not heard of that in a long time.

Used to use mono to bypass access restrictions on a MUD... I wonder if my logins still work...?

This is a handy forum, use it and :ninja: Awooga forum mainly as a place to chew the fat.

I like here on the forum. The regular site I avoid and go to pinkbike first.
I stopped my subscript ion too.

Saccades - I can see if your account still exists if you tell me what it is?

Its been getting better again in recent weeks....there was a lot of bitterness going around that seems to have settled down.

I'm on here as often as my favourite MILF sites.

Stay on longer too...

Overall its great, the positives outweigh the negatives. Site shows it's very best when people are in trouble and need some support

Lip up, Fatty.

STW owns with Bombers.

Lip up, Fatty

No need for that. It's just bad manners.

Saccades - I can see if your account still exists if you tell me what it is?

Shadows, Legion, Lews - can't remember anymore.

[I]perchypanther - Member

Lip up, Fatty

No need for that. It's just bad manners.
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Don't become upset, you could busta blood vessel

Its been getting better again in recent weeks....there was a lot of bitterness going around that seems to have settled down.

This is because I got back from holiday.

Shadows, Legion, Lews - can't remember anymore.

The first two are still live, both associated with a Pipex email address.
shadows, last on 2011.
legion, last on 2009.

lews doesn't exist as far as I can see.

This is because I got back from holiday.

Never even noticed you were away 😛

If it wasn't for this place I wouldn't have met Ton in the 1st place.

aww Jim, you made me blush.
infact, i have not met anyone on here who i have not got along with. and i have met quite a lot.

This is because I got back from holiday

they didn't have the internetz in Butlinz?

odd - i've never had a pipex e-mail address (unless the Uni ones I had migrated). And I've not been on mono since about 99 I would think.

Mleh - does mono host MUDs anymore?

I have no idea what you just said.

This place helped me out when my son was born and there were a lot of medical issues. I'll never forget the kindness and support shown by a group of people I've never actually met. I've also spent way too much money on bikes, learned some random crap and had a laugh over the last three years as a result of frequenting this place. It's the only forum I've actually been arsed to join.

It gets a bit tiresome sometimes when it just seems like it's constant politics and religion, but this place always seems to deliver, someone always seems to know the answer regardless how obscure the question is.

I was telling my wife the other week about people off here meeting up in Les Gets for a ride, I was actually in Samoens at the time but was only there for 4 days and was leaving the next day so couldn't really spare the time. She thought it was great that strangers were meeting up in a different country to go riding, and said if it happens again I should go, and she usually just pretends to be interested when I mention stuff off here!!

odd - i've never had a pipex e-mail address (unless the Uni ones I had migrated). And I've not been on mono since about 99 I would think.

There was a Great Purge a few years back, it's entirely possible that yours were deleted and someone else recreated them. Wait - I can check creation dates. shadows - 1996, legion 97.

Mleh - does mono host MUDs anymore?

Yeah. Probably more like SUDs these days though. (-: I was a MUDder but never really played the Mono ones so don't know a lot about them.

Looking at the menu, there's Zebedee, Razor's Edge and NewDawn. Looks like the latter's down but the first two are running.

She thought it was[s] great[/s] SAD that strangers were meeting up in a different country to go riding, and said if it happens again I should go, and she usually just pretends to be interested when I mention stuff off here!!

Fixed that for you! 😆

Politics and Religion. Two subjects our parents and grandparents would say you shouldn't discuss with strangers. Don't borrow money either.

I often have a good laugh reading stuff on STW. I'm not witty enough to think of funny things myself but I enjoy reading them!

'aww Jim, you made me blush.
infact, i have not met anyone on here who i have not got along with. and i have met quite a lot.'
As you know, I haven't met many but one springs to mind who I've not much time for.

Helpful, funny and thought provoking. A great place!

I was a GoFar reader, but have only ever had a STW login (well two if we think of the great hack).

When I discovered that riding bikes was no longer really something I can do, I completely stopped posting and reading either the bike or chat forums for 12 months. I recall finally coming back and making a single post, only for mcmoonter simply to say "he's back". I was extremely touched.

It remains my go to forum, more often for reading and using as a better alternative to Google. I've met various people off here (years ago TBH) and there are others I'd still like to meet.

I'll be 40 soon. Anazing to think this place and so many people have been constant companions for nearly half of that time!

Scarily, I've been posting here (and GoFar) for almost half my life.

had a visit tonight from 2 mates, who are both longtime stw lurkers.
they love the place and the banter, but wont post.

they brought red wine and ale. 😀

I can't drink a mug of tea without a quick squint on here, I seldom leave without being entertained or inspired.

Can I join the love in? Ace - funny, practical, kindness of strangers, bikes often ridden.

This place for me been (in no particular order) a source of wisdom, advice, slatings, laughter and consumer advice. I'm not a huge poster on here but a daily lurker. My only regret is that I didn't pick myself a natty username when I registered 😳

This Forum has...

Cost me a fortune. Made me a shed loads of mates. Rode loads of Trails I wouldn't have even known existed.

And when i really needed it, dragged me out of a very very dark place.

Cheers guys!

It is quite good here isn't it?

On a recent get together a random phone from a friend led me to ask a bunch of STW riders about Capital Gains tax. Needless to say the team stepped up to the mark and my friend is smiling again.

I've had quite a few incidents like this- Cheers Folks, you are great.

Props to the people who make it possible & the various characters who entertain and sometimes enlighten & inform us. Top banana!! 😀