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  • How many 'serious' UK MTB'ers are also STW'ers do you reckon?
  • psychle
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    By serious, I mean likely to be riding an expensive/quality mtb… waddaya reckon, a 1:2 ratio perhaps? Or better?

    ojom
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    There are far more people serious about mtb than are on here.

    STW is actually a very very small proportion of the mtb population in the UK

    CaptainFlashheart
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    Jamie
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    Including myself? -6.

    coffeeking
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    plenty of people without expensive bikes are serious mtbers.

    TandemJeremy
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    define expensive bike?

    Small % I would have thought

    oldgit
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    STWers make up a very small proportion. I've never hooked up with anyone that's even heard of it, unless it was arranged on here 😐

    psychle
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    well, not necessarily expensive, just quality you know? I kind of assumed it'd be a reasonabley high proportion?

    SpokesCycles
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    As 29er sales show, a tiny percentage.

    yunki
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    9

    samuri
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    Plenty of people who ride expensive/quality MTB's aren't serious about it. 😉

    buzz-lightyear
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    What a truly weird idea for a thread.

    psychle
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    well… I was just wondering, if you randomnly asked a group of MTB'ers if they frequented STW, roughly how many might say yes… say a group of 10, randomnly met out on the trails like… just curious is all! 😕

    druidh
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    Fair question. A fairly low number though – and as suggested above, it would depend on your definition of "serious".

    Here's an illustration – how many folk on here ride Specialized MTBs? And yet how many do you see out on the trails?

    ernie_lynch
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    if you randomnly asked a group of MTB'ers if they frequented STW, roughly how many might say yes

    Well I certainly wouldn't admit to it. And I can't imagine why many would.

    rusty-trowel
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    Of the 50 or so i've ridden with locally only 3 or 4 lurk on here.

    hora
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    Asking someone if they visit a forum definitely marks you out as socially-inpet in a social-situation. Hence you'd never ask someone that question.

    MrNutt
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    I cannot class myself as serious about anything in particular but I do have an over forked boutique bicycle if that helps?

    psychle
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    ay, I wouldn't ask it… but, was just wondering how popular STW is amongst the UK MTB fraternity, obviously not hugely so from the sounds of it…

    buzz-lightyear
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    Oh I finally get it [slaps head]. You excluding casual mountain bikers but including folk who ride as a regular pastime.

    Not many.

    atlaz
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    Half the people I've encountered view STW as some sort of haunt of pedants and psychos and are nervous to post.

    CaptainFlashheart
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    ernie_lynch – Member
    if you randomnly asked a group of MTB'ers if they frequented STW, roughly how many might say yes
    Well I certainly wouldn't admit to it.

    Nor I.

    cinnamon_girl
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    Well, I seem to be in the habit of picking up guiding random people in Swinley Forest. Some of them have heard of/lurk on STW.

    Seriously hope I haven't put them off. It's not every day you get shown around the woods by a mad woman on a silly bike. 🙄

    People get frightened by this place, dunno why. 😉 But of course I only ride shonky bikes so what do I know?

    Edric64
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    What rubbish !so i'm not a serious mtber because I have not got the money to spend on flaash kit?

    cinnamon_girl
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    Half the people I've encountered view STW as some sort of haunt of pedants and psychos and are nervous to post.

    Pretty spot on there atlaz!

    PenrodPooch
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    Most people I know don't come on here, and the one's that have heard of it think its for nob ends

    psychle
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    What rubbish !so i'm not a serious mtber because I have not got the money to spend on flaash kit?

    Sorry, wasn't what I meant… was more trying to distinguish between the casual and the more 'serious' type that would most likely be on here…

    tiger_roach
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    What rubbish !so i'm not a serious mtber because I have not got the money to spend on flaash kit?

    I think the OP was meaning proper mtbs as opposed to £100 boingy things.

    Anyway, we're all middle class or champagne socialist here right?

    ernie_lynch
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    It's not every day you get shown around the woods by a mad woman on a silly bike.

    People get frightened by this place, dunno why. But of course I only ride shonky bikes so what do I know?

    I imagine that it's probably not the bike C_G, but the sight of a woman pushing a pram with a dead badger through the woods, which they find a bit scary.

    cinnamon_girl
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    Lol at Ernie 😆

    It's my hair too I tell thee 🙄

    Lionheart
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    I know lots of serious MTB'ers

    (I decided this meant: ride on lots of weekends, odd evenings, travelled to ride, and choosey about their kit).

    From wealthy guys of expensive to cheap-ish bikes (very careful with their money), to good basic working guys on expensive to cheap-ish bikes, to young downhillers on very very expensive bikes and none go on here!

    A few know of it and some times ask me to find bits, even bikes but they are none on STW. So the ratio for me is about 60:1

    ton
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    out of the group of bloke i ride with, which there are 18, only myself and 1 more post on here.
    the rest of the group take the pi55, they think i am a saddo and that the forum is full of saddo's.

    pretty accurate i think…………. 😆

    cinnamon_girl
    Full Member

    Oh, I thought this was the place for weirdos, saddos and the dispossessed?

    Extra points for being a girlie too. 🙄

    TandemJeremy
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    My experience is opposite to Lionheart and ton.

    Only one of my friends rode mountainbikes before I was introduced ( by him) to STW.

    I have actually made a series of real life friends thru the forum. I don't think I know any "serious MTBers" who are not on the forum

    buzz-lightyear
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    "its for nob ends"

    [waves]

    jahwomble
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    "Seriously hope I haven't put them off. It's not every day you get shown around the woods by a mad woman on a silly bike.

    People get frightened by this place, dunno why. But of course I only ride shonky bikes so what do I know? "

    Actually, you've made it sound a lot more attractive than it did before, and anyway, shonky bikes rule 🙂

    Coyote
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    "Serious about riding" and expensive bikes do not have to go hand in hand you know. Last time I was in Vancouver I met some guys who are far better riders than I could ever hope to be. Did they have the latest and greatest? Did they ****. They had functional bikes to do the job. As it should be.

    Anyway, we're all middle class or champagne socialist here right?

    Am I ****.

    wrightyson
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    Closes his account!

    Travis
    Full Member

    you couldn't ask me, if I was a serious MTBer, I wouldn't stop to chat on the hills

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