Members of old, circa 2003-2010 - anyone still here? (this is 'Slim')

I’ve been here 20 years now 🥺

Yup.  Been here since 05.  Same username.  I do much more Gravel and Road these days due to time, family, etc.  but am still out for smiles per hour about once per week.

I've been here since issue 2. Yes, there's a magazine...

Was here under another name since 2004/5.

2008 my profile says but it feels longer! Is the profile date accurate?

Still here. Now known as Ambrose, previously known as ambrose.

2009 for me, still here, sort of....

Still here since the days of the Gofar message board. Don't post much anymore though. More of a lurker as there's a lot of very strongly opinionated Richard's (no, I don't mean you Barton), on here nowadays.

Mountain bikes have come on leaps and bounds since the 2000's, have fun!

20 years too: Man and older man.

Can't even remember when I joined.
Well before the hack though.
At a guess I'd say 03/04ish

Been here from pretty much the start - same user name.

Spent more time on Bikemagic back then though.

Yep. Been here since year ','

Organised on here and Rode the first MTL night ride with a few early shakers who still frequent this parish.

Keep thinking I ought to do it again, as a night ride.

I'm another 03/04 member - although I did post as "anon" to start with.

I'm really waiting for the second coming of chocolatefoot though.

Since 2001/2002. Always the same username.

Whereabouts in Sydney are you? Got a couple of friends out there, I was there in September / October for the Worlds in Wollongong.

03 for me...and despite my attempts to ween myself off this site, I keep coming back.

Been here from pretty much the start – same user name.

Spent more time on Bikemagic back then though.

Same here

🤗

I hope you got a good price for that Soda.

Been here since maybe 2002 I think

I've been here since the Gofar days. Can't remember what my pre-hack name was.

Christ, 20 years too after a pal mentioned stw on a glentress road trip weekend. Was sore_tint back then, after said weekend on a Chameleon.

2002 I think, though I had a different user name before the hack.

Been here since '04. Used to be mike-b in those days.

been here since 09, still ****ting about on niche singlespeeds and stuff. One day I'll grow up and get a proper bike with gears and bouncy nonsense.

Yep, old timer here.  Welcome back!

<p style="text-align: left;">Scary I waste as much time on here now as I did back then :)</p>

I think I joined the fun in 2002. Issue 7 was my first copy of the magazine I think. Like some others I was possibly a bit more present on BikeMagic for a while but eventually settled here.

I've been ChrisL all that time.

Gofar?  Newcomers.

Were you here in the usenet days?

It says 2009 on my profile, no idea if that is accurate.

Dunno when I first appeared on here. I was P20, then when the forum went (cyber attack?????) I became C40 and then when it was last reset back to P20

joined around '05 I think, had a different username back then though.

2009 for me, same name

Was on that snowboarding forum before STW. What was it called? There were some others on here from there.

I joined back in about 2006, used to have the username belmontkingswood. Things were a bit wilder back then, the favorite insult was ***, which then got banned. Then the mods threw a tantrum when someone posted the picture of the guy sitting **** and banned everyone who posted on that thread. I snuck back after I changed jobs and got a new verifiable email address. TBF to the mods, the internet now is a sewer of filth and now that I'm older, I can see why they didn't want the site turning into a trolls' nest of obscene filth.

Another GoFar refugee here. Back in 2003, I was probably posting as SortedCycles.

Another from back in the day after finding the MBUK forum increasingly irritating. Started as weekendworrier, deleted my account for reasons I can't remember and rejoined as weekendworrier-as-was (wwaswas) almost immediately.

2009 it says in my profile, my mag subscriber number is 666 which makes me smile.

I've been lurking around here since the early noughties.

Pre-hack name was nuggets

2004 same name. Mainly BikeMagic back then

Think 2009 was the hack and many people had to rejoin then...

TBF to the mods, the internet now is a sewer of filth and now that I’m older, I can see why they didn’t want the site turning into a trolls’ nest of obscene filth.

I was on road.cc for a bit but stopped even using it due to the trolling, shitposting and adverts. This is about the best moderated and most user friendly forum I've found and it helps that most of the users police it pretty well too.

I remain amazed at the depth of knowledge on here - no matter the weird and wonderful subject, someone on here is a genuine expert on it! STW always pops up near the top of any Google search on any issue, there's invariably a thread somewhere on it, even if it dates back 10 years!

I am looking - I have pics of around 2003/4 of an STW meet and 2006 Mleh meets in the Peak

Before Hack

Think I was around in 2010 under the name TandemJeremy

My profile says 2009 but I think I must have had an account with a different name from about 2004-5. I got into mtb about 2004 and definitely found the site early although I was much more of an mtb-wales user then.   I moved to london 2008 and mtb- Wales, which had been a small tightnit group,  imploded about that time so I started using stw loads,  but I can't believe I was just a lurker for the previous 3-4 years.

Any other mtb- Wales big hitters from the naughties here?  @scratch I know, anyone else?

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Some time before the hack for me, maybe 2006/7.  Can't remember if my username was the same - I think it was 🙂

Welcome back.

First mag was issue 3. Was more BikeMagic then.

Have emails with the web-team about a meetup in 2006. Met Chipps in March 2006 at the opening of Carron Valley.

Same username as pre-hack.

2009 was the hack, when everyone had to re-register, that's why our registration dates only go back that far.

I was probably here 2004-5? Not sure.

Been here for a good 20 years, changed username due to different circumstances.

I think I joined abbout 2003, I think under the username Biketart (because I was too skint to be one), and then changed username  in about 2008, after the infamous hack.

Still here. Same username. Can't believe how long it's been - I reckon late 2003 is when I started to visit frequently, since before that I think I had a username but didn't dare log in from work as the guy who sat next to me had been fired for 'accessing the internet' - no one ever elaborated on that so I didn't come on here just in case.

Been here since pre-hack, possibly 2005-ish?

Think I was around in 2010 under the name TandemJeremy

Nah, can't be, he got a lifetime ban 😉

2001 iirc, always the same name, joined after Matt Letch waved a copy of issue 2 under my nose back when he was at Chelmer cycles. How much were those issues- can remember being wary of buying at the price.

Been here for a good 20 years, changed username due to different circumstances.

I remember your old name, always stuck in my mind, probably because the words were so unusual to my antipodean ears.

Early for me, although as others my profile says 2009.

I remember my first STW groups ride in around 2001 ish. Met close to Halifax and set off at huge speed straight up a road onto the hill tops.

Far faster than I was expecting, or capable of holding, so flaked out at the top. Somebody offered me a banana but it was too late by then as I was cooked - 20 minutes in 🤦‍♀️

Made my way back to the car and re-evaluate just how fast I could ride.

I took a copy of the magazine on holiday with me, picked up from the airport. Pretty sure it was #2 (no, not shit, the issue number) and then joined after that. It was early 2002 I'm pretty certain b/c was holiday for my wife's 30th so March 2002

I was jonv, then post hack for some reason couldn't get that to work so became theotherjonv.

Shit, 21 years of time wasting.......

Been here from way back when it was the Gofar site, long before the magazine. Was into MTB from late 1998. When did Gofar start?

2003 for me I think. Joined before the first Verbier girlie week. I might have had a photo in the magazine from the trip. It was that trip that got me the buzz I used to get from windsurfing

Bikes then took over in a big way and family holidays were spent in the Alps.

Nothings changed for me apart from a few bikes, getting a bit older and the girls growing up

Found the old site in Dec 2004. Lurked for quite a while before I signed up c2006 , Always been FB.

Been here since the start.  And it don't seem very long.

2001 here, since the first SITS where iirc I picked up issues 1 & 2 of the mag.

2001/02 then reloaded post-hack. Fewer commitments back then meant I was much more involved. Met some cool peeps throughout the 2000s too.

I think 2005/6, met loads from here back in the day but fell out of love with cycling for a few years. Back in the saddle now, but never left this place.

I remember like it was yesterday the Evilzone hack...

Edit...

2006 Mleh meets in the Peak

Had a great ride from Holmfirth with some of those lads...

Probably about 2003 ish?

Yeah was mainly bikemagic then

Been here from day 1 Old Fart back then as well 🙄

Apparently 2009 looking at my profile. I remember being here back before the hack, so I'll say 2003/2004 sort of time.

2002-3 here, I certainly remember searching out issue one of the mag at Harry Hall cycles.  Same user name all along.

Post hack Subscriber since 2008, freeloader before that

2005. This site made me buy an Inbred, I think it was mandatory back then.

2005 I think for me, I moved to Wales in 2005 and was eagrly asking questions about Afan and local trails before the move.

Was a shame MTB Wales imploded, it was a bit abrasive at times but I still see and text folk I met on that from time to time.

There's at least one other occasional poster I know from those days bashing around on here.

I was thinking the other day about what that feller who sat in the top left corner is up to know! 🙂

I still have the turbo trainer bought from Ton in about 2010!
<p style="text-align: left;">This place has been a constant helping hand through a multitude of problems though which is why I've stuck around and owe a bunch of people a thanks for their feedback.</p>
, So thanks everyone!

still here. still same name.

dip in less regularly or as often.

Never really managed many get-together rides, even in Edinburgh (monksie's farewell being an exception) and now much further north, much less so. I do have a selection of jerseys and merch though.

I was pre-hack. Can’t remember when exactly. Same username. I’m one of the quiet ones…

Winter 2003 for me, drawn in by that amazing covershot from issue 12 whilst stood in the WHSmith at Manchester Piccadilly....

I still have my subscribers mouse mat in the loft 😀

2004 ish... Remember when everyone was talking about wood fired stoves?

Another "early days" member here. I'd have to go into an old Hotmail account to seen just how early.

I remember "The Flying Pieman", "42" (he-man topless pics), and the original Badger Badger Badger Badger days fondly. Who was the kid who posted pics of himself in his bedroom in full BMX gear . . .

Happy days.

September 2005 I believe. Was druidh back then. I can't recall who first pointed me here. Might have been dirtygirlonabike ?

I've met quite a few forumites, either solo, on some sort of group outing or those who were also on mlehworld when that was a less-moderated option and some of the banter on there just wasn't allowed on STW.

I used to come here when it was all fields

Who was the kid who posted pics of himself in his bedroom in full BMX gear . . .

Flashback! Full on MX pants, skinny kid. He's probably a captain of industry now 🤣

I was a mag subscriber before issue 1 came out. Looked at gofar a bit before that, but I guess I could trace my way here through various newsgroups etc, starting maybe 1997 ish?

There are still quite a few people about on here that I've kinda known for getting on for 25 years then... and a few that I actually know.

Been a lurker since the early days, then joined in 2006. Took part in many of the STW rides (mostly in Calderdale and the Peak district.
I've made some fantastic friends from here. Also it's been an education.

and a few that I actually know.

Knowing people is so last millennium

Any other mtb- Wales big hitters from the naughties here? @scratch I know, anyone else?

Hi Neil, Timothy.

“Rode the first MTL night ride with a few early shakers who still frequent this parish”

Has your mate recovered from the shits yet? That was when I first met Terrahawk.

I went on the STW ride when they first moved to Tod. Been knocking about since the Go Far days though.