[Closed] I'm sorry, I thought there was a bike forum here...

Don't let the door hit your arse on the way out.

Personally I blame the people who sell things on ebay like guitars then post link on the classifieds page to it.

Really can not be bothered any more

So why did you bother posting then?

suspect they'll be bored of your dull shite/cries for help quite quickly.

****etybye.

OOO, Get her!

Don't you just hate attention whores who feel the need to announce their departures as well as their arrivals.

BB

Ah good, one less self-important drama queen then...

interestingly, you have contributed more to the non bike topics yourself. As Ghandi said, 'become the changes you seek'

20 of your last 40 posts were non bike related.

And who are you BTW?
I'm too old for all this multiple user names nonsense.

Taxi...

I like the randomness of this forum.

And who are you BTW?

just hover the mouse pointer over 'member'

In fact, excluding this 'thread', you've only started a handful of bike threads - mostly you seem to be flogging stuff on Ebay. Hardly a loss to the forum then...

I think he's run out of stuff to sell.

Looking at his post history the man must have a warehouse full of bits.

Internet drama on a Sunday. It's what the STW is all about.

to be homest fellas, ssp is one of the good guy's.
you will be missed mate. 🙁

Has he just woke up grumpy or has someone wound him up?

ssp is one of the good guy's.

I'm sure he was, up until the point he did a 'look at me! I'm fed up with everyone on here and now I'm going! You'll be sorry' Magicsick (or whoever the one who flounced off to make Mleh) -esque exit.

Expect someone who sounds very similar to ssp to reappear in a couple of weeks with a different username...

Bye SSP 🙁

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[i]I'm sorry, I thought there was a bike forum here[/i]

PMSL what ever made you think of something stupid like that.

well i remember SSP from year dot.
sad to see you go.

bye SSP. 🙁

As a wise man one said:

"Remember, whatever the cost you have to burn all the bridges you've crossed,
Because the Devil you've yet to behold is better by far than the Devil you know".

I quite liked him BTW, now I know who he is.

mmmm looking at his profile, he started a lot of threads and didn't get much in reply.

I've just got used to ending the threads... must be something I say 😀

Lock this shit.

Shouldn't this be in the Chat forum?

This is quite sad really. And he does have a smidgen of a point. There do seem to be a lot of ****s on here. I guess it got too hard to ignore it.

Now where's my Canesten, I'm all itchy.

KINGTUT - Member

Lock this shit.

English! Do you speak it?!?

If you're going to flounce, would it not be more effective to not change your name, so that people actually know who's flouncing? Just a thought...

Shame if ssp's really gone.
I didn't really get Solitude Cycles but he had a crack at doing something most of us just dream about.

I'm guessing he was really pissed off with the deletion by the mods of his posts about Specialized and the Epic trademark as well, judging by his previous user name.

is MTBR.com any good?

Would have been great if no one had replied.

[i]is MTBR.com any good? [/i]

It has 3,000 different forums, that can't be bad.

SSP took a dislike to me as I found his frame designs minging and didn't hide the fact, not that I judge his character on that. Still if he's gone he's gone but he hasn't cancelled his account.

Just took a look at that there mtbr.

What the hell is that all about. There's forums all over the shop. What a load of sh!te.

I made the mistake of trying to use the MTBR reviews to make a judgement on some forks a while back!

review 1 - 5/5 These forks are amazing!!! They go down the mountain really fast and are dead strong and have lots of bounce!!!

review 2 - 1/5 Don't buy these forks they are crap! they snapped when I jumped of a curb and I hit my balls on the stem.

Or something like that...

Also far too many forums, though the manufacturer forums can be useful when you have a specific problem to that bike/brand etc.

SSP is definately one of the good ones! (A bit of a hairless koala but never mind..")

And he knows a thing or 2 about bike design, not just another follower of fashion!!

He's well able to push a single cog too, I chased his fixed wheel 700km across the western himalaya's...

In fareness there is a lot of petty bitching and whinging on this site but inbetween all that(which I completely ignore!)there is some really usefull posts and some very knowlagable members who give good advice..But sometimes you really have to wade through the sludge..

SSP was one of the knowlegable members...

Farewell!

")

I don't think the fact that many haven't been able to ride for near on a month has helped the quality of the posts 🙂

bit of a shame, had a fair bit of repesct for him.

will shortly be posting a photo of my rejuvinated solitude, which looks normal (not one of his more wierd designes), just been done up again with new forks etc.

ah well.

hopefully i'll soon join the mtbr fun, when i start looking at places in N America to move to...

MTBR is worse than Bike Radar for having so many fora, why can't these things be combined so there's more than one post a week!

"InaneDrivelWorld.com"

how many years has it taken you to work this out - I thought that's why people came here

I won't miss you SSP.

As we can get together for a ride on any weekend. 🙂

On the subject of MTBR. If you want usefull advice that's the place to get it. Some of the people on there really know their stuff.

Still think this place is entertaining though just for the bitchyness and back stabbing of some of the so called adults. 😀

On the subject of MTBR. If you want usefull advice that's the place to get it. Some of the people on there really know their stuff.

so it's like here then but humourless?

^ apart from the 'they know their stuff' bit....

I've just got used to ending the threads... must be something I say

Thank God, I thought that was just me had that effect.

Why say goodbye to someone who's gone? surely they wont see it!!

Why say goodbye to someone who's gone? surely they wont see it!!

Oh you know he will be reading. Hello SSP!

Why get wound up about leaving a forum FFS, I bet he is of the Mary Whitehouse brigade and complains about program content and forgets about the off or channel button. PMSL. I love this.

To me the forum reflects life - inane, beautiful, wise, ugly, stupid, funny, misguided, sad, compassionate - you get my drift.

I didn't realise when I joined that we all had to be perfect to post on here. I'm not perfect, better get my coat!

It's the internet, FFS. Dry your eyes.

I didn't realise when I joined that we all had to be perfect to post on here. I'm not perfect, better get my coat!

LOL, made me chuckle... I think sometimes the "perfect" people forget too that they were once not quite so! 😉

Take it easy SSP, in a way I don't blame you... There is more to life out there than a load of randoms on an internet forum that would start a fight with their own shadow!

But very occasionally you do actually get someone who knows what they're talking about and isn't too self important to give the benefit of their wisdom to others... Occasionally being the operative word though!

See you on the trails, probably in the FOD sometime...

I once thought to myself 'why bother with this sh!tty forum anyway, It's full of Dog-Snots who can't even think straight, never mind give a helpful answer to a question'
Then I thought to myself, 'I'd miss them' so I'm still here!

Here's a fugging radical suggestion: be a member of both STW and MTBR, and be entertained, horrified & informed by each, as required.

It's not like you have to choose sides in a global ideological conflict, or something.

Everyone seems grumpy these days, hardly anyone said hello back today. (perhaps they were teachers :wink:)

Though SSP seemed a nice guy.

For some sad reason I remember SSP announcing to the world that he was going to post on here again a couple of years back. Maybe 'ManyGearsAndAfreewheelPunk' is going to join soon.

[i]On ne reste pas parce qu’on aime certaines personnes ; on s’en va parce qu’on en déteste d’autres. Il n’y a que le moche qui nous fasse agir. On est lâche[/i]: Boris Vian

A bientôt A, la Solitude est la pire des choses.

It's not like you have to choose sides in a global ideological conflict, or something.

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BURN 'IM!