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Someone mentioned Stoner on a thread, and I realised that I haven't seen him post for quite some time. I know where some of our good folk have gone, but others I sort of miss and don't know why they left.
This thread is the place to name missing forumites and, where people know what happened to them (within respectable limits of course!), to let us know.
Who do you miss? Who have you realised is no longer posting, and you are curious as to their whereabouts? Who do you have intelligence on that you can share with the Massif?
GW
druid
I know where some of our good folk have gone,
Ooh, do tell! (Unless you mean they've passed, in which case, ignore me.)
(back in the midst of time)
Cressers
Could kind of do with a doom-monger on the forum again - it would kind of be a bit of light relief.
Stoner has a bit of a cough.
DD has a yeast infection
Jamie, Jamie, Jamie!
MidlandTrailquestsGraham, destroyer of kit extraordinaire.
Aracer. Banned in the big clampdown iirc
[strong]ratherbeintobago[/strong] wrote:
MidlandTrailquestsGraham, destroyer of kit extraordinaire
I still see Facebook likes from Graham on some groups I follow, so he is still alive and kicking
@welshfarmer Glad to hear that. Is he still destroying stuff though? Do you remember the Gates belt drive saga?…
No, I don't remember it, but the last time I saw Graham on a trailquest race, he was indeed riding a bike with a gates belt drive!
Hope he was still wearing purple Spandex tights!
shaun
Hope he was still wearing purple Spandex tights!
DD?
Yes. Yes he was.
#Strangest
Knotty ( I think ) used to put some good picts up.
Any update on simondbarnes?
Miss the bogtrotters weekly updates!
Also there used to be someone who posted Rough Stuff Fellowship rides, all the guys looked ancient and the bikes even older!
Edit, just had a search for them and found they have an Insta page, bikes and pipes seem to be the order of the day.
Fred?
Glad to hear that. Is he still destroying stuff though? Do you remember the Gates belt drive saga?
What about the lights saga. I think the guy that owned the company sold up not long afterwards
The Poddys, Pete and his brother. Ban, Flounce or something else?
BenKinetics, though his shop website seems up to date.
@stevie750 Was that Graham too?
@welshfarmer It’s been a while so the memory is rusty but essentially he had a bike built with Gates belts because they were meant to last longer than chains. And proceeded to snap a couple in a fairly short timeframe.
The Southern Yeti, Don Simon, Woppit, Teasel, Aracer... .
Edit, I don't think Aracer was banned TJ, he sorted out his personal issues by moving onto a canal barge, got a life and his posting just petered out - I think.
EDit 2: I'm surprised Hora hasn't got a mention, not that I miss him.
What happened to Samuri?
Junkyard. THM. Another I can’t remember the name of but he changed bikes very often, possibly settled for a while with a Heckler?
Someone here professes to have files, or possibly dossiers, on various ‘big hitters’...
Surf mat the driving god
I missed it when it actually happened, but didn't Woppit get a ban? I have to say, he was a grumpy git, but I miss him.
I actually find it weird when people can just 'leave'. I will sometimes take time away from posting, but I still look in at least once a day. I mean, there are only a certain number of things you can actually do on the internet, and this place is the best of them by far.
In any case, I thought we could check out any time we liked, but never leave.
That would make a great lyric and with a catchy melody behind it... I think you’re onto something there! We could ask you know who to see if he would sing it 😉
I missed it when it actually happened
I didn’t.
Yes he was.
No, I don’t.
Funny, I was thinking about Stoner the other day - was re-reading his book.
Jamie, Jamie, Jamie!
Yes. His photo editing skillz were top comedy.
Ton....?
Any update on simondbarnes?
Miss the bogtrotters weekly updates!
The Bogtrotters Simon was Simon [b]F[/b] Barnes.
I was thinking that a couple of weeks ago cos Facebook informed me that it was his birthday. There were people posting on his timeline so I assume he's still alive.
He had a heart attack (years ago now), recovered and was back riding again but then had a second attack which was really quite serious. As far as I know, he's in a nursing home.
@postierich might have more info on him...
Sheldona
Ginger and Mrs Flash
All still alive and doing well, just not on here any more.
I met Stoner once, I've not washed my eyeballs since...
I mean, there are only a certain number of things you can actually do on the internet, and this place is the best of them by far.
In any case, I thought we could check out any time we liked, but never leave.
I suspect you are younger than me, I’m 51. Everything has it’s peaks and troughs, wax and wane, ebb and flow, whatever. I like the STW forum but I’ve also been just as attached to rsvr.net, visordown.com and a few others. I can’t remember all the stuff that has been and gone, usenet, aol, geocities, etc, etc. People move on, c’est la vie.
What happened to Samuri?
Very rarely on here any more but he's active on Twitter.
What about that Mike bloke who posted on pretty much every thread, disappeared over night. To be honest, I am always pleased to see prolific posters disappear as I find it difficult to imagine that they have found a less productive use for their time - so it should be a good change.
Was going to mention Woppit but beaten to it; neutral about his disappearance.
Jambalaya - didn't agree with his views but he was hounded by anti-brexit groupthink.
I suspect you are younger than me, I’m 51
Only by a few years. I'm 48. I was a member of a forum in the very early days, then mtb-wales, then this one. But that's pretty much it. I don't do much online other than academic stuff.
What happened to Samuri?
Very rarely on here any more but he’s active on Twitter.
Yes, but what happened to him?
What about that Mike bloke who posted on pretty much every thread
miketually? Wasn't he a science teacher up in the Northeast somewhere?
miketually?
mikewsmith
mikewsmith
What about that Mike bloke
Mike Smith? Bullied off the forum. He’s either changed his forum name or moved on, life is too short to bother with the crap he got.
allthegear/Rachel
Bullied off the forum.
Really? I remembered the "in before Mike" thing, but presumably it must have been more than that.
Forumite who always signed off as Rachel - can't remember her username. Had an interest in motorbike touring and always provided thoughtful and informed posts (unlike many on here 😉 )
Diz/dizinaustria. Went off to set up a holiday / guiding business in Austria and slowly disappeared off STW. Shame, the riding looked right up my street.
Wrightyson
Avoiding economic suicide is one of my main reasons for voting Leave
When you type stuff like that you expect to get robust replies people from who stand to lose their job/business or by the time he disappeared had already lost their jobs. That thread is probably why many left, with hind sight their predictions are embarrassing. It's easier to list the fervent Brexiteers who are still around than those who have gone (but I won't)
The carpenter from South London. I always found him interesting when not talking about bikes.
The carpenter from South London
ernie? He’s been back on a few threads recently (a few pages back the trump one maybe)
Junkyard - was banned, but still riding
Fatknacker - hilarious, but no idea what happened to him.
Samuri - always enjoyed reading his stuff. still around but not here it seems.
The Flashes - Parenthood
Grum - Hope hes ok as not seen much of him
Zokes - Always up for a row, but a decent guy
Mamadirt - she was ace.
Snakebite - Seem to remember him turning up to an MBR shoot on cannock with a STW jersey on 🙂
Allthegear (Rachel). - always wore her heart on her sleeve. Not sure what shes up to now.
Sharki - top bloke. Still around too cleaning up rivers.
MUddydwarf - and his massive axe 🙂
Sadly the ones that I wont see again.... 🙁
DeeJay
SFB
Marsdenmann
Jahwomble
Petesgaff / Bullheart
Troutie
Kaesae
Reading through some of the old posts on here often makes me realise how many friends this place has given me.
Ernielynch - top man but he lives in Croydon, which is seeking to become a city in its own right.
Lowey, I knew about the others but that's the first time I heard that SFB had died - although I understood he was very ill. Sad news.
iDave. Left a bit of a legacy with his diet plan, not so much for the content, more for the way he took on paid subscribers (£100 ish?) before going on the run and choosing not to support them. Rocked up at various races while posting about it on Twitter IIRC.
There was someone whose MO was to just comedy troll, quite obviously so, on lots of threads. He’d often catch a few posters and wooosh them when they took his posts seriously. His posts always tickled me. Can’t think of his username though....?
Ton….?
ton popped in just recently ... https://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/just-a-message/
Forumite who always signed off as Rachel – can’t remember her username. Had an interest in motorbike touring and always provided thoughtful and informed posts
Left after some postings about transgender folk that really upset her
Jambalaya – didn’t agree with his views but he was hounded by anti-brexit groupthink.
NO he wasn't. He was in no way hounded. I suspect the embarrassment of being wrong was too much for him
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jezz. singlespeeder from denby dale area. his mate james from a bike shop up there (scissett i think?) welded some ss track ends on my kona kilaeau and painted it pink for me and i met them for a ride when i went up to collect it.
(back in the midst of time)
Cressers
Could kind of do with a doom-monger on the forum again – it would kind of be a bit of light relief.
On here as 'ohnohesback' or something.
I used to like Philconsequence's posts.
(pimp)messiah. Last time I saw him was when he nipped in past the bike shop I was building my 26” Cotic Rocket... a known destroyer of frames, knew his onions too.
39 is far too young. At least he went out whilst riding his bike. RIP Brian.
mikewsmith
Oh man, he had a compulsion to be on every thread... can’t but think his disappearance was him getting a life (I hope so, anyways).
Jambalaya and THM (I always had my doubts, if not the same person, certainly a double act I remember J paid for THMs P... 🤔). Definitely trolls...
Hora was brilliant value for money on here. Met him once on an MNPR ride without realising. He hung around at the back, didn’t really say much and disappeared early. Someone pointed out who he was to me later, most unlike his online persona!
Also chrisdiesel, genuine knowledge on van engines with very insightful posts.
@blitz - davidtalyforth? or some similar spelling. I really enjoyed his nonsense, easy to be taken in by it if you weren't paying full attention.
miketually? Wasn’t he a science teacher up in the Northeast somewhere?
He never posts anymore 🙂
Beer and Dan
Jambalaya was more dogged than hounded
Hora was brilliant value for money on here.
Wasn’t there some other chap who swapped his frames about every five minutes too?
Wasn’t there some other chap who swapped his frames about every five minutes too?
Just the one?
Cressers
Could kind of do with a doom-monger on the forum again – it would kind of be a bit of light relief.
On here as ‘ohnohesback’ or something.
A suitably doom-tinged handle 🙂
The other swapper was renton no?
JojoA1 - bigger balls than most guys I know. Got into swimming and running, tri's. Now running a campsite in Ardnamurchan (well, when CV19 blows over).
Aye, Jo seems to be loving the solitude out there.
MWS wasn't bullied in any way, I assume he just realised he spent too long on here telling everyone they were wrong.
tj re Jamba, definitely hounded.
We disagree.
tj re Jamba, definitely hounded.
Hounded would be posting on a thread about inner tubes and getting grief about his/her political views. But that is not what happened. Attracted like a moth to a lightbulb to political threads in which his/her opinion was in a minority. And could not resist posting untruths to support his/her opinion which others quite rightly pointed out. If that is being hounded then a fat orange dude in the white house needs a bit more hounding too.
Sorry to hear about Rachel leaving in that way - not a good reflection on the rest of us.
Mike Smith? Bullied off the forum.
Banned for bullying and threats towards STW staff.
What a cock.
Wheres geex gone
Sorry to hear about Rachel leaving in that way – not a good reflection on the rest of us.
An the arsehole who was a big part of it still regularly posts.