[Closed] Do you ever think you might be seeing someone from STW?

I use a false name in real life, just incase someone off STW recognizes my real name and then forces me to engage in awkward conversation.

I met Blower in the Alps once as he was sleeping in his van just down the road from my mates chalet where I was staying. Thankfully he was sound and we had a good craic from the off.

Also saw Grum taking photos at a music event I was at. I shouted "Grum!" at him quite a few times, but I was hammered and the music was loud so was quite glad he didn't hear.

molgrips - Member
I've chatted to people who I'm sure were STW only to be looked at in stunned disdain when I ask them if they use internet forums.

Been there / done that with riders that have spoken to me while out riding.

I have been identified by my road bike in bike shops on about 3 occasions. But that was due to the bike / comments on purchases etc. on road.cc at the time.

Plus when I joined up here I thought I would never post and used a stupid username based on a bike I had many bikes ago (a Commencal if you were wondering) so I won't be getting any stickers made up either!

Also, apparently someone pretended to be me in an MBUK slopestyle competition years ago. What a complement!

Just think of all the simmering bromance you might have missed out on as a result though?

To be honest, I have plenty of MTB boyfriends much closer to home that keep me busy :p

I once rode with STW Barney on the Quantocks too, before he went north. He didn't do tongues either.

Maybe we need an MTB version of grindr?!

Jump into a taxi in Cardiff and you can play a game wondering if the driver is me. It'll be obvious really, I'm probably the only taxi driver you'll meet not moaning about the bloody cyclists 😆

STW = fat grumpy sod on a poorly fitting cannondales trigger with failed ghetto tubeless and a MASSIVE camel back full of useless shite.

I haven't gone tubeless.

I'm seeing someone from Mumsnet.

I like to live dangerously.

Maybe we need an MTB version of grindr?!

The STW version would be called "whingr", surely?

Thinking about it, I've ridden with a few people who I'm sure use the forum but I've never got round to asking their usernames.

Probably been involved in a flamewar with them without realising.

🙂

[i]Probably been involved in a flamewar with them without realising.[/i]

This is always my fear when anyone mentions it "Have I ever upset them?"

I may start saying I'm hora if people ask.

It'll be obvious really, I'm probably the only taxi driver you'll meet not moaning about the bloody cyclists

And, judging by your Strava, the one without a huge fat gut.

Over on the UKSSER forum members are known as ‘tossers’

So if you are out and about on your BMW GS motorcycle and you happen upon another rider on a similar steed you break the ice with the greeting "Hello, are you a tosser?”

Can’t say I’ve tried it though.

I shouted "Grum!" at him quite a few times, but I was hammered and the music was loud so was quite glad he didn't hear.

I've met Elfinsafety a few times and chatted a lot on FB. He still calls me Mol, in real life!

so there's a stw strava group?
is there a link and any criteria to join or can anyone have a go?

This is always my fear when anyone mentions it "Have I ever upset them?"

"Are you the Ben Cooper on STW?"

"Yes, have we argued online? I'm much nicer in real life."

True conversation.

"Are you the Ben Cooper on STW?"

I drive past your place quite often Ben .
Next time i'm stopping and coming in for the five minute real life argument. 😀

Probably been involved in a flamewar with them without realising.

so there's a stw strava group?
is there a link and any criteria to join or can anyone have a go?

https://www.strava.com/clubs/3229

Bring it!

I thought I'd met Aracer, but I was wrong.

I think I've ridden past Flashy's pad.

I've met Oxnop and his Mrs on the Snowdon Ranger and at Penmachno, few years apart.

See Muddydwarf commuting quite regularly.

Met a very serious individual from here with a beard and a Pickenflick at the TdF, but I can't remember if he said who he was.
Said hello to crossjunkie who was there with his family.

See various members of the HtN/Monday Night massive out now and then.
Met the lunatic we camped next to at the first HtN at a festival last year.

I went on a ride with Junkyard and did not argue with him.

I've been watching you all sleeping ........

I went on a ride with Junkyard and did not argue with him.

Ditto. Politics wasn't mentioned at all IIRC.

🙂

That reminds me... Somebody came up to me on a steam train in Somerset last year and recognized me from here!

I ran away. I don't do nutters.

I've met a few, no big hitters though 😉

Sadly I'm even more boring in real life than on here so nobody has ever "are you ..."'d me while out on the trails, although a few people have recognised one of my bikes!

[Not a euphemism]I’ve been in Binners’ back room with Mrs Binners watching. [/Not a euphemism]

I was amazed, I've met several and you're all lovely. Some of you think you can fly the last few meters to the pub.

Didn't happen.

I've never met anyone from here who wasn't either lovely, fascinatingly odd or both.

Oh, met ratswithwings at a gig.
Lovely fella.
As is xherbivore, who drove me back to my car.

Need to see more of Mr Overshoot and the West Coast crowd when I'm mended.
🙂

8 of you in this one, plus me 🙂

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Met a couple at a race - Earlstoke 12 and had a chat with MindlandTrailQuestgraham (I think - the Vegan guy) and Redders as he was crusing along doing a solo and I shot past in my team 40min sprint of gnar!
I guess I've met a few more but I try not to talk about being a sad forumite!

There I was getting bike out of car in a Hampshire village when this random bloke on a bike started talking to me. It was CaptainFlashheart and he recognised my bike. 😀

I was admiring your frame, CG.

😈

Some of you think you can fly the last few meters to the pub.

I thought it worth a try though.

Lol, it's as curvaceous as me. 😉 The weirdest thing though is that I usually ride a ht from an uncommon manufacturer, suspect it must have been poorly hence the Summer bike.

that is the thing.... we are all lovely in real life 😀

that is the thing.... we are all lovely in real life

Nope, I'm actually a total #### in real life 😛

Had quite a few stwers come up to me usually noticing a bike I used to ride a lot and post pics a lot on STW driving a noticeable van usually gives you away. Shame I have lost both 🙁
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that is the thing.... we are all lovely in real life

having actually met the junkyard in real life he is rather sweet really, I was very disappointed as Id got a body bag and shallow grave in woods ready and eveyfink 😀

Anyone sees this bike out and about:

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Stop the rider and ask if it's me. If it's not, lamp him.

It's a recent model frame with some nearly 10 year old kit on it including such antiques as a triple chainset, a USE Alien seatpost and Mono Mini brakes.

Re Junkyard he was indeed very kind, gave me a long lift back to where I was staying. A bit quickly mind 😉

On road I'm on a green Kona Zing carbon, you really don't see many of them about. I could be pretty much anywhere in the country though near areas of Govt or IT industry 🙂

I walk my dog twice a day on the Quantocks, I quite often arrive at the car park and see people faffing with their bikes. I walk the dog for 20 minutes and arrive back at the car park only to see the same people still faffing.
Obviously STW'ers.

When I was the policeman in Glencoe I tracked down bullheart on his LEJOG (or JOGLE) to give him some cake.

I also got some for a bloke who was trying to ride the WHW overnight, but when he passed me at the ski centre he just ignored me so I ate it all.

And when TJ was having a wild camping trip down near Bridge of Orchy somewhere I took my dogs and for a nice surprise was going to quietly put them in his tent to keep him warm overnight, because he loves dogs, but I couldn't find him.

EDIT - I once overtook that ^ red bike on a busy trail...

...that's when the fight began.

I've been nearly spotted enough times in this thread to realise that I've succeeded in passing myself off as an annoying **** to the point that everyone thinks the first annoying **** they see is me.

A dubious badge of honour indeed.

We have all met fellow stw'ers, surely?
I have been accosted on the summit of Munro's, parties, car parks and trail centres and with 'are you matt_outandabout...?'...

Shame I have lost both

What happened to the bike?

We have all met fellow stw'ers, surely?

not knowingly, although I often see a badly dressed social misfit with an Audi and think they must be on STW...

Kryton57 - Member
I've been nearly spotted enough times in this thread to realise that I've succeeded in passing myself off as an annoying * to the point that everyone thinks the first annoying * they see is me.
A dubious badge of honour indeed

I don't think so. The only ***ish thing I can ever remember you doing was being a bit slow to realise how hilarious the constant no pudding refererences were, but you did in the end 🙂

flogged it!! it tried killing me several times in my new riding location it was ok to mince around Cannock Chase on 🙂

Harry_the_Spider - Member
[Not a euphemism]I’ve been in Binners’ back room with Mrs Binners watching. [/Not a euphemism]

... 😯 . That Binners entered my back room just last week while the Mrs was at work....