[Closed] When you meet STWrs in the flesh...

Were there biscuits?

I bet Stoner had biscuits. He seems like a biscuit* sort of guy.

*Not Cadbury's Fingers obviously. That'd be a bit insensitive.

You know what, I didn't offer him a biscuit, how rude of me. We've got some Tunnocks wafers in the cupboard as well. Then again, he's obviously the kind of fella who watches what he eats to keep in that kind of shape

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I met some at Swinley forest a few months back. Ride arranged by weeksy, who didn't turn up (Musta known I was coming.) I was shamefully unfit compared to them, and it was cold and wet towards the end of the ride.

But yeah, nice fellas, most definitely.

ps. that girl up there ^^ is saying 'So What?'

Usually when you meet someone from the internet and they turn out to be a 40 year old man you're disappointed.

I've met Binners and Hora

I’ve met Binners and Hora

....but never at the same time?

Makes you think!

Usually when you meet someone from the internet and they turn out to be a 40 year old man you’re disappointed.

and they don't get the ride they hoped for.

I often daydream about which STW people I would most like to meet on a long train journey.

and they don’t get the ride they hoped for

Who says? 😉

CFH was a big let down.....

….but never at the same time?

I have met them at the same time, I can confirm they are two different people.

I've still not met @kcal. We've a theory that our meeting will signal the end of days, the apocalypse. Given Trump is in the White House, I'm trying to stay as far away from him as I can. We came within a few metres of each other last weekend and that bloody volcano exploded!

Uncanny, Footflaps!

🙂

I've also met NBT and Bunnyhop

I've never met a fellow STW'er.

Camouflage clothing and night vision goggles have seen to that.

I haven't met him, but I have seen him at an event or 2, so it was very nice of Mark to send me an email saying he'd love me to come and join in the fun and games on this website. If I'm not busy, I might just do that.

I've met stoner AND paddedfred, among others.

CFH never came to teh pub though 🙁

CFH never came to teh pub though

You were in the bar. He'd have been in the Lounge.

You say Stoner watches what he eats? Eats what he watches more like. I’d wondered why he was booked in for a full body wax with my beauty therapist yesterday. Didn’t realise he was up for day realease this week.

Pfffft

I helped mcmoonter build a holzhaus.

Given cynic-al a bike frame for a "project".

Built a trail with northwind and ChrisL.

I've met Binners, Grum and a couple of others on a Monday Night Ride.  I totally didn't embarrass myself be being massively unfit and falling off twice.

Even I’ve met kcal!

I work with one. We occasionally take our clothes off in the same room. Then we might go and have a cup tea and a nice sit down.

Stalked a few...never met in the flesh.

We’ve got some Tunnocks wafers in the cupboard as well

you utter, utter bastard! I'd have been your friend longtime for a tunnocks.

You were surprisingly better dressed than I imagined, Nettles. Unlike meeting flashy, its always nice to meet a better class of forumite!

Cheers BTW, just got back in. Boy has a job this evening getting those wheels onto his bike.

I've seen Flashy disappearing into the first class lounge....

I’d have been your friend longtime for a tunnocks.

Just those few fleeting minutes was enough, I'll never forget them

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And the horse you rode in on, Stoner.

Once, whilst stood waiting for a steam train at Minehead station, a complete random came up to me and asked if I was Terrahawk from STW. I said yes.

I've met loads off here and to a man they have been a shower of utter ****s. Except for DD, he's lovely.

I spent some time in the Alps with the TheSouthernYeti, turned out to be a really nice chap 🙂

Biketart is OK, when his teeth are still in his head 🙂

I've met quite a few. A number are also real life friends who happen to be on here.

I've never disliked one I don't think.

BikeMagic members on the other hand... crikey there were some ****s there (and some great people I'm still friends with now).

Tracey's daughter, who I don't think is even on here, walked up to me and said "Are you that Northwind" Admittedly I was wearing a fluffy bunny suit so probably quite easy to ID.

I have met quite a few STWers, and been impressed by all of them. As for perchy, I haven't met him, but let's just say that his camo and night vision goggles aren't as effective as he thinks they are.

I've met Whitestone off here in passing a couple of times. I generally shout incoherently at him and disappear in the opposite direction..

I met some at Swinley forest a few months back. Ride arranged by weeksy, who didn’t turn up (Musta known I was coming.) I was shamefully unfit compared to them, and it was cold and wet towards the end of the ride.

But yeah, nice fellas, most definitely.

That was a wet ride (with one particularly fit individual)!  As a group we also managed to tick many of the STW cliche boxes (as well as a being seeming pleasant and sane individuals).  I did forget to properly interrogate over your encyclopaedic musical knowledge though DezB

I think I've encountered perchy at a gate in the Clyde valley, penny didn't drop for a while after but I can confirm he is less pantherish in the flesh

Somebody at the mega mistook me for Ed oxley, he looked real nervous so I just went with it.

Many years after chatting went for a ride with kiwijohn

Few others at steel city

I came across Perchy once.

I apologised immediately, cleaned up and left.

Apart from the norvern monkey collective:

WCA - Boris Johnson's incredibly nice brother. The one they don't talk about.......

We nearly met Cinnamon Girl but couldn't get to the church on time.

The Merseysiders/Wools are all lovely.

Never met Ambrose, but would like to. Man drove well over 50 miles to rescue a family heirloom from Brechfa car park. Absolutely top bloke.

Rode past Flashy's pad and have met both  Molgrips and his car.

I’ve given Harry The Spider’s wife my veg.

I really should get out on a few more MNPR's.

I've seen Binners and Hora in the same room.

Now you mention it, I think Harry's wife might have been there too....

Cougar helped me with an IT issue once. Over the phone, but it still counts; smashing chap.

I’m not very IT literate so I didn’t realise that the key to the fix was dancing around in my pants in front of the webcam... works well now, thank you. I have noticed that the little blue light by the camera keeps flashing in the evening, but apparently this is to do with receiving updates...

I think I’ve encountered perchy at a gate in the Clyde valley, penny didn’t drop for a while after but I can confirm he is less pantherish in the flesh

Fat bloke on a rubbish bike who was breathing out of his arse?

Might well have been me. 😉

Flashy - You are a dirty boy.

Perky Panter?

Brant bought me a drink to get me into his trousers.

I still maintain we should only go out riding with signs like this attached by zip ties:

In unrelated news, if anyone wants v8ninety's bank details and PIN, let me know.

I've met Molgrips and Junkyard too.  Both thoroughly nice blokes.

I’ve met a few . None have been keepers.

😉

CFH never came to teh pub though

Fred always maintains that CFH was there, he just thought twice and didn’t reveal himself.

He’d be hard to miss.

I've met quite a few, even Nettles. They were all much younger then though.

I've also met stoner, and can confirm that he scrubs up well. Also Binners and a few others of the MNPR who are all splendid men (it says on the peice of paper I've been forced to read out... send help)

Us bots don’t get to meet real people 😕

I still maintain we should only go out riding with signs like this attached by zip ties:

Some of us don't have to..

I've met WCA and DrP and one or two new forest folk whose usernames I can't remember.  Oh, and TonyJedi and Ash from Trailaddiction but that was cheating since I paid them to talk to me !

that's it, I think

unless theprawn and a few other CF stwers count from years ago

That's definitely more aero than my idea, scotroutes!

nickc - do you remember a pair of Intense wedge tyres? Ive just taken them off the boy's 456. How old are they?

He’d be hard to miss.

Orthopedic shoes stand out a mile in Queens Anne's gate 😉

Met WCA at BBB . I think  DrP was there too , and probably lots of others .

STW in the Flesh

I couldn't even start to list all the STWers I've met; as a rider in Edinburgh, as one of mlehworld, as a bike shop employee, at SITS, on Tons D&G weekend, BB200-2016, fatbike meetings, occasional tour guide in Aviemore and a shoulder to cry on for the lonely Grum 😉

I have met Ambrose, Houns, Idlejon, Middleagedmadness, Toofarwest, Flumewelck and a few others off the back of my thread last year and on the Cwm Rhaeadr ride last October. All really nice people.

Would love to meet Junkyard to say thankyou properly, and would love to meet a whole bunch more for what everyone did. If i name everyone i will be here all day.

Why don't we have a STW jersey? (Unless there's already one and excluded 🙂 )

I got a Contributor Tshirt somewhere

I met Cinnamon Girl in a Hampshire layby. True story.

She's rather lovely.

Does she smell of actual cinnamon?

In my head she does....

oh, wait - I've met cinnamon girl too.  She sold me a bike shed

err, and also MrBlobby

(God, my first thought when I saw the title was "none" :rollyeyes: )

perchypanther

Member
Does she smell of actual cinnamon?

I don't know but she's like a hurricane and has a heart of gold.

benp1

Subscriber
Why don’t we have a STW jersey? (Unless there’s already one and excluded 🙂 )

There have been two or three over the years. Used to hang a black jersey with white singletrack lettering up in the window of the bunkhouse of STW weekends we used to have a few years ago. Still wear it but it seems to have shrunk around the belly...

I’ve met quite a few. The best was meeting Jedi and LoveWookie at the same time. “Hi, I’m Jedi”... and with a completely straight face “LoveWookie, nice to meet you”!

I did randomly bump into peterfile in a cafe. That was awkward.

"Hello, are you peterfile"?

Stoner, bloody hell!! D<span style="font-size: 0.8rem;">id they crumble into dust? </span>

I've met CFH several times.

I've never been the same since.

I might have unwittingly met Cinnamon Girl once if she was helping out in Imber church when it was open in summer 2016.

Just had a nice cup of tea with Stoner

He's normally on the port by then 🙂 I knew Mark (Stoner) before STW.  And a few more from BM on what became known as the 'covent garden massacre' which ended with me on a night train to brighton with no shoes. Considering I was living in Basingtoke at the time and had left the house fully clothed probably tells you everything you need to know about that evening.

I've met a few since. All seemed to be mostly functional humans. Careful use of the word 'mostly' there 🙂

I've met more than a few.

Some are even real life, honest and truthful friends....

Sadly I've been outed at random on the trail, usually id'd by the kids, including out in the Alps...

Always awkward doing the 'are you nibblybum* from STW?'...

I met Cinnamon Girl in a Hampshire layby. True story.

Yes, but you recognised her bike, rather than the lady herself, so I'm told!

Met them? Blimey I've been on dates with a couple of them

Yes, but you recognised her bike, rather than the lady herself, so I’m told!

She has a lovely frame, what can I say!

🙂