I’m moving soon and the new house has a log burner so the log store will be built before xmas and the job we are on is cutting down lots of wood which I hope to fill my store with. About a year ago I went 29er SS on a Swift, and Im growing a beard for the winter. Oh I have a lovely Record No3 vice which I will be building a bench for shortly as well… Do I need anything else to qualify as STW niche?

Im growing a beard for the winter

Razor niche fail

Lots of tattoos.
A VW T5
Whisky drinker
Work in IT
When driving – make progress

hmm so many people here fit that description. Is it really niche?

@yeti – that’s STW mainstream you are describing

Don’t …

Go full rigid on the Swift.
Buy an old knacker of a 4X4
Post photos of your dishwasher full of engine parts.
Have all the controls in your house linked to your eyelids.
Make music
Make beer
Make bread
Make peace

Keep reposting something in the classifieds that you know won’t sell. A few do it, but far less than those who do/have the things you mention. 🙂

Get a life
Get a girlfriend
Ride a 26er
With 30 gears

duntstick, both ticked, d45yth, yup, fasthaggis, making beer and bread, very soon, and my folks have a nackered 4×4, I have a newish L200. Fitting in quite well then.

Selvedge jeans? Quality, wrist-worn timepiece? Log splitting maul? Mountain bike you don’t ride much (or ride too much)? Merino layers?

26″
27 gears
Hardtail
Cafetiere
Gilette Mach 3

I am the anti-niche…

If only there was a magazine for this mainstream niche…

Ew, do hope not, I’m out

with the exception of the car I drive I fit so many of these stereotypes, IT, 30something, MTB and road bike and even cargo bike for extra niche points, we have a woodburner and I’m building up woodstores, lack of shaving, wife makes bread, I drink whisky, kids, I even go out riding on the legendary MNPR, play in a band…

Is there a female version of the STW stereotype? I definitely don’t fit the male one! 🙂

yetidave – Member
About a year ago I went 29er SS on a Swift, and Im growing a beard for the winter.

That’s so yesterday 😆

Do I need anything else to qualify as STW niche?

Yes, you need to shave. 🙄

Isn’t just riding a mountain bike now so atypical on here that it has, in its own right, become niche?

Wow so a few years ago I was almost STW niche – ss MTB bike(s), beard (in winter), worked in IT, whisky drinker…

but now according to IHN I’m anti-niche 8) particularly as I’ve no beard yet (been too warm this winter)

DaRC_L – Member
but now according to IHN I’m anti-niche particularly as I’ve no beard yet (been too warm this winter)

You need tattoos and do the ear lobe ‘gauging’ thing …

😆

do the ear lobe ‘gauging’ thing

Can you get arrested for it?

vickypea – Member

Is there a female version of the STW stereotype? I definitely don’t fit the male one!

Photo of Vicky taken this morning.