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On 1st April Singletrack will be 15 years old. Yes! I know! Don't all send cake at once (I can only manage one whole Victoria sponge a day).
We're planning a minor celebration around the theme of 15, and we need your input. What would you like to ask Mark and Chipps? Post your questions below, and we'll get them to answer 15 of them in a sort of 'Everything you wanted to know about STW but were too afraid to ask' type web feature.
I'm not even going to suggest what kinds of things you might like to ask about - I trust the STW Hive Mind to be sufficiently creative and entertaining without priming.
Questions below please...
Thank you!
When are we getting the new version of the forum (one with a search engine that works)?
Would you rather fight a horse-sized duck or 100 duck-sized horses?
Where can I get info on a Maserati?
Cabbage in a curry?
Whats the best tyres for...
Who put the bop in the bopshoowopdebop?
Which hurts more: being owned by Bombers or hoofed in the slats?
Do headsets come with a crown race?
What happens if you give 100 duck sized horses picolax on a treadmill?
Pudding?
Who ate Merlinman's pub meal?
Genuine lollers 🙂
This could go well or very badly 🙂
1a) How much riding do you actually get to do?
1b) What bikes/kit have you put your hand in your pocket for?
1c) Whose the better rider?
1d) One bike, what would it be?
1e) Favorite regular riding location?
How did you get over the horror of being oppressed by Bully Beef throughout your school days?
Do you miss working with Lard?
Boaty McBoatface, yes or no?
Would you ever consider producing a magazine with more content than adverts?
scotroutes - Member
Boaty McBoatface, yes or no?
damnit! I have nothing to add now
[quote=jekkyl ]Would you ever consider producing a magazine with more content than adverts?
They do a magazine too?
'You must log in to post'
Arrrrggggghhhhhhh!
Every.
Single.
Day.
When will you fix it 😥
Which should a young man aspire to, Institute of Physics or Woodworkers Institute?
Did Greedo shoot first?
Why is the Milka cow lilac?
Do you have matching Maseratis ?
boxers, trunks or briefs?
Do you enduro, bro?
Bacon sarnie: Red or brown sauce
Goes away to cook tea.
Comes back to read questions.
Goes away to open wine.
🙂
Oh Hannah. What have you done?
1/ biggest achievement (in MTB and outwith)
2/ biggest regret (maybe just in MTB land, personally)
3/ is there life outside Todmorden valley?
4/ Do you still see Shaun?
5/ where's my free t-shirt 🙂
Have you got a drawer full of those fake STW logo tattoos you gave out at a Polaris event when you first started.
What are your favourite bits of a typical issue of ST (foreign travel, reviews, ride write-ups, opinion columns, etc) - which bits do you most look forward to reading/editing/writing?
Big, rocky mountains or swoopy, whoopy trail-centres?
Who is your favourite writer (outside of the day job)?
Clips or flats?
...aaaand, can we have a more mobile-friendly version of the forum please? 😀
Oh Hannah. What have you done?
Revealed myself to be a naive young thing who trusts in the basic underlying goodness of human beings?
Given myself a really difficult feature to write?
*more wine*
😆
Red or white?
my question - if you could guest edit any other magazine, what would it be and why?
Like/Dislike Buttons and Avatars 🙂
What's the most ridiculous article submission / idea you've received?
How do I remove sudocrem from a cat?
Beetroot - food of the Gods or Tool of the Devil?
Pies? - Full enclosure or lid only?
How many of your original 200 'founding' subscribers are still buying the mag and what nice things have you got planned for us when you hit 15?
Two man tent in remotest, wildest Scotland. Fred or TJ?
1) Whats the first thing you do when you get in the office?
2) Whats the last thing you do before leaving the office?
3) Now you are 15 years older, honestly do you still find MTB'ing "fun"?
4) What do you think will be the next innovation in 5 years, 10 years, 15 years and do you think it/they will benefit MTB'ers or will it just become a Fad?
5) Your original Plan for STW, has it been fulfilled or are you still seeking it out?
You can see form my few Q's that I'm only interested your working life and how thats fits within your passion.
Boring Huh?
Yup, thought so..
oh, and what bike from 15 years ago would you choose today if you could only have one bike?
Red or white?
Currently red. Possibly white if things aren't looking up by the end of this bottle.
😉
Which 3 figures from the world of bikes would you choose to have dinner with? And which 3 to ride with?
What one thing would you like to do to/with your mag and haven't been able to for whatever reason?
What does an MTB journo do on his day off?
After claiming a forum update was imminent and if it didn't go in, Mark would eat his shorts/hat...can't recall which one. Apparently the update did go in but we never saw the eating of the garments - can we see this being done?
Do you guys get to keep all the Fresh Goods Friday stuff?! (Only slightly envious... honest...)
Currently red. Possibly white if things aren't looking up by the end of this bottle.
Best get it chilling.
Future of publishing for magazines such as stw - ever less print, more online?
What effect will increasing use of ad-blockers built into devices have on revenue streams, subscription models etc?
Which publishing industry figure most influenced you when you started out with stw, which now?
Where would you like to visit / ride that you haven't already.
Given that God is infinite, and that the universe is also infinite... would you like a toasted teacake?
Can I have a job? Can I open up a S. Wales office to do said job?
I've heard it rumoured, but is there a magazine?
Do like Rastabilly? Rastabilly skank!
If there was a button that would make everyone naked all the time but the consequence of this was that EVERYONE was naked ALL THE TIME would you press it?
1) If you could ride anywhere in the UK where would you go?
2) Can you do a handstand?
Do you look on what you've created here with horror, satisfaction, or horrified satisfaction?
Have you ever lurked on Mumsnet?
In your opininion, who is the greatest living Big Hitter?
When a bike industry marketing bod rolls up with buzz word\nekkid lady advert\game changing design, do you die a little inside each time?
What your most memorable ride of the last 15 years?
If you hadn't been running STW all this time, what would you have been doing?
How much pastry should there be on a pie?
By asking Hannah to start to this thread, can you see what you have done?
You've let me down, you've let your mum down, but most of all you've let yourself down.
And yes please 5thElefant, I will have a toasted tea cake. Ta. With marmalade, not jam.
If you woke up naked and hungover, lying next to a bloke, would you tell anyone?.
Want to come to a party?.
Do either of you have a Mint Sauce keyring I could borrow?
Can I have a go on your bike please mister How fast does it go how many gears has it got ????
Would you start up Singletrack now if you hadn't already done it?
Is it true that an Italian super car manufacturers website gets pop up ads for a UK based mtb mag?
If you could, would you?
Which Greggs store did Binners get his lunch from?
[url= http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/if-they-remade-allo-allo-as-a-hollywood-movie-which-stars-for-which-part ]If they remade 'Allo 'Allo as a movie, which movie stars would you get to play which parts? [/url]
*shameless self aggrandising*
I have a genuine one. Albeit I'm not sure I know how to convey it.
You know this women/sexism topic that's becoming really prevalent lately?
My question is that if the STW editorial stance of being "it's all bloody awful and it's all sexist!", is intentional?
Might just be my interpretation, but I've been surprised by the complete bias towards that everything that could be sexist, IS, sexist, with no sincere attempt at a balanced view.
You know, if you take a stance on everything that[i] could[/i] have a label of sexist, it's a bit like shooting fish in a barrel.
I did say I'm not sure how to say it 🙂
Oh, and Boaty McBoatface or not?
have you ever wrestled naked with Guy Kesteven, in front of a large open log fire? If not, would you like to?
Who would win in a fist fight? And with what special move would they finally despatch the opposition?
If you had to ride one MTB for rest of your life, would it be a 2016 model, or something else?
What's the biggest animal you could throw over a football crossbar?
Who'd be able to throw the biggest/heaviest?
Im going to help out bearnecessities here.
I may well be wrong, but there's a soft spot for Cyclenaut (Chris Garrison) within management, all of her articles in ST have generally been along the line of "men are bad mmkay" and it's getting tiresome. There seems to be a determination to get all #Gamergate in the MTB world, and for the most part in the STW-sphere it's a misplaced gripe IMO.
I'm sure it's all very worthy having [i]some[/i] articles in ST on the subject, but for the most part you're preaching to the choir/and/or insulting the readership.
Anyway, to the Qu at hand:
1) what has held you back from achieving what you would have wished of ST (if anything) and what is that?
2) what is the most genital-tinglingly* fantastic thing you've had the chance to do solely because you're the proprietor/senior journalist of an MTB mag?
3) Fox v Pinder?
4) how much does the forum or do the formites matter to you?
And to put a bit of a testy one out there: "family" articles are few and far between (pretty much non-existent). As we've all got hideously deformed, white-haired, bald and old over the years, a large proportion of STWers are raising children too. Not to put too fine a point on it: but there's not a lot of children in the ST family, a) is that a personal choice or lifestyle inevitability and b) does it influence the editorial style?
* gender-neutral, see.
Are you Ronnie Pickering?
Will you do a bike test with Ronnie ****ing Pickering.
Secret shopper at Dave Hinde?
Would you like to come round, ride & have tea & cake?