Issue 144 Editorial : No More Crashing?

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Estimated reading time: 4 minutes On floors, that is… but why not? I’ve been a serial chancer/cheapskate/ ‘economic lifestyle enthusiast’ for years, especially when travelling. I’ve been that guy who phones up someone I met ten years ago, saying ‘Hi! Remember me? No? Well, we met in a hotel bar in 2008… Anyway, you said that if I was ever in Bismarck, North Dakota, that I should come and stay and you’d show me the mountain…

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With 23 years as Editor of Singletrack World Magazine, Chipps is the longest-running mountain bike magazine editor in the world. He started in the bike trade in 1990 and became a full time mountain bike journalist at the start of 1994. Over the last 30 years as a bike writer and photographer, he has seen mountain bike culture flourish, strengthen and diversify and bike technology go from rigid steel frames to fully suspended carbon fibre (and sometimes back to rigid steel as well.)

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  • sharkattack
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    I’d love to be out there hitch hiking and sofa surfing and riding strange places but sadly I only had a small sniff of it when I was a lot younger. Now I’m stuck in an office from Monday to Friday and if I phone up to say I’m sleeping in a strangers caravan in Utah I’d be swiftly unemployed.

    Posted 2 years ago
    imrobert
    Full Member

    Could a sofa surfing / cheap rentals section be a feature for the forum? For payed up ID’d members ?

    Posted 2 years ago
    b33k34
    Full Member

    And there was I thinking this was some new miracle piece of kit for the bike that would prevent rider hitting inanimate objects/ground.

    Damn.

    We always offer new friends a place to stay if they need it, and it’s always meant. But I wonder if the challenge for a lot of people (both offering and taking up offers) is the innate Britsh sense of performative politeness (see https://greatbritishmag.co.uk/uk-culture/what-the-british-say-and-what-they-actually-mean/)

    Posted 2 years ago
    thisisnotaspoon
    Free Member

    I’ve done it a reasonable number of times, a particular shoutout to @ivnickkate who answered his phone at about 9:30 in the evening on a very wet day after presumably joking I could sleep in his shed if I was passing then presumably had to explain to his wife and kids why there was a bearded tramp staying the night 🤣.

    It was a very comfortable (and dry!) shed and a decent cup of coffee.

    Posted 2 years ago
    sharkattack
    Full Member

    Could a sofa surfing / cheap rentals section be a feature for the forum? For payed up ID’d members ?

    That would be good. I don’t have any mates in exotic places which would be the only way I could afford to visit them. Do we have any members in BC, PNW or Cali?

    I can offer a spare room and garage/workshop in central Sheffield.

    Posted 2 years ago
    duncancallum
    Full Member

    Stw version of warn showers…

    TEPID showers?

    Posted 2 years ago
    ivnickkate
    Free Member

    @thisisnotaspoon Hahaha you’re welcome, yes I was almost sleeping in the dog-house 🙂

    Posted 2 years ago
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