[Closed] Do you ever see people and think "they must be STWers"?

The latter. Regardless of how many times Mark posts page hit statistics STW users are still only a tiny minority of cyclists. 🙂

Grumpy? beard? Yes.... probably.

Yes, but not usually in a good way...

Fatbike + trailcentre.....STWer

I would say that anybody who rides a 29er, 650b, fatebike or something different from the standard stuff has probably been on singletrack sometime in their lives!

Cotic/29er/ti/oakley's - stw'er

A load of bearded Jones riders flouncing around Swanage while we were trying to enjoy a stag do: STWers. 🙂

Niche bike and appalling dress sense, either:

Very slim, beige action slacks, a black jacket that looks like a lightweight softshell with little tags hanging off the zips and a pair of beige merril approach shoes.

Short, fat, a black pair of DC shoes, jeans that don't fit very well (if in the north there will be superfluous pockets and strange stitched details or logos) a hoody that despite being baggy is stretched across their paunch, a pair of white Oakley's perched upon their bald sweating head.

load of bearded Jones riders flouncing around Swanage while we were trying to enjoy a stag do

Which stag do were you? The well dressed tweedie/plus fourers, the badly dressed pirates or the even more badly dressed Gooners, rolling around in a collapsed heap singing (out of tune) Arsenal songs ??

the fat bloke, getting a 5 out of the back of an audi and pushing it across a carpark in Surrey to get coffee and cake.....

slugwash - Member

load of bearded Jones riders flouncing around Swanage while we were trying to enjoy a stag do

Which stag do were you? [b]The well dressed tweedie/plus fourers[/b], the badly dressed pirates or the even more badly dressed Gooners fans, rolling around in a collapsed heat singing Arsenal songs ??

🙂

I salute your style Flatboy 🙂

And BTW, I invented the Arsenal stag party.

Met a guy last year whilst out & about; rigid singlespeed inbred, sporting beard - didn't bother asking cos it was too obvious 😉

Turned out he brews real ale for a living!

Sitting in a pub, with an expensive camera hanging round your neck, endlessly listing your "not cool" clothes until you find something that someone is wearing which promptly gives you an erection, and occasionally, to your eternal shame muttering the words "not trendy"? You're definitely a STWer.

Out on the west Pennine moors, on an Orange 5, on your own, at night. Defo STWer!

the fat bloke, getting a 5 out of the back of an audi and pushing it across a carpark in Surrey to get coffee and cake.....

This, or wobbling down trails, then in the carpark later telling everyone very loudly how fast they were 'shredding' everything in sight.

Those Youtube video's are frighteningly accurate.

An STWer was on secret eaters the other night, they just haven't yet come forward yet...

the bloke I see most mornings pushing his singlespeed up Glasgow road heading towards East Kilbride, normally at the top of Greenlees road has to be a STWer

Nah. At my sisters wedding, the best man came across. We got talking, he was what you'd consider the atypical STWer I reckon. Niche bike, right age, works in the medical industry. He was bob on but he'd barely heard of the magazine and had never been on the website.

At Charlie's do last weekend hardly anyone admitted who they were on STW. As it was really only advertised on here me thinks we're all a bit embarrassed to acknowledge the fact that we frenquent such a place 😆

This site has a tiny number of posters compared with number of bikers. I know very few other riders who use STW or even know of it.

Audi, Border Terrier owner and owns an Orange.

I stayed in a gîte in Bagnères de Luchon last week, Le Lutin. The guy had an accent but the conversation stayed in French as my riding buddy doesn't speak English. I told him that when I was looking on the Net the name Lutin said something to me, site X: no, site Y: no, STW: yes.

Great gîte BTW if you're in need of somewhere to stay in the Pyrénées.

Think there are a lot around Glasgow. We do like our niche bikes...

I only started coming here as I found a lot of stuff funny. Don't actively read the mag or consider myself typical stw demographic.
Sort of habit now, though obviously a lot of stuff is funny, interesting, or informative.
I just wish everyone would stop going on about wheel size.

Been on quite a few xc rides with folks or seen people at trail centres who I think MUST be on here...

I seen a chap today who resembled Roy Cropper, doing a few brass rubbings in our local parish church. Defo a STWer

I seen a chap today who resembled Roy Cropper doing a few brass rubbings in our local parish church. Defo a STWer

Dunno, could be from the Audax sub-forum of [url= http://yacf.co.uk/forum/ ]YACF[/url]

Saw a chap in the lbs wearing a stw tee. Guess he was one. I guess in his 60s picking up a trek 29er. I was wearing the same t shirt. But in a different colour, and under a top. 😳 I daren't make myself known.

deadlydarcy - Member

"Oh no i've got a puncture. These tyres are impossible to get off the rims."

"Oh you seem to have fixed my flat for me while i was talking shit to your Mrs and fannying about looking for tyre levers."

Definitely a STWer. 😉

I stayed in a gîte in Bagnères de Luchon last week, Le Lutin.

Russ's cookings quite good isn't it. 🙂

As it was really only advertised on here

all over one cog and the SSUK facebook so not too many STWers in swanage.

EDIT in fact for next years SSUK we may have a penalty for STW forumites

in fact for next years SSUK we may have a penalty for STW forumites

Saw a bunch of guys at a shop in North Berwick today.
Fat bikes
Niche brands
Beards

I asked and yes, some were STWers.

Hi guys if you're reading this. 😀

Does it involve salty soggy biscuits?

I think you may run dry before we get to them all stu, Maybe you can stock pile some in a few jam jars

tazzy.
I'll wring a few old socks out...

Pretty much anyone on a 29er I assume to be on here, or at least some part of the internet where reading too much and riding too little is the norm.

Pretty much anyone on a 29er I assume to be on here, or at least some part of the internet where reading too much and riding too little is the norm.

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or at least some part of the internet where reading too much and riding too little is the norm.

That's right isn't it Luke.
Because your far too busy [s]riding[/s] anti 29er trolling to ever post on internet forums.

TBH I don't know anyone else who rides and (admits to) posts on here.

Including one who owns a 29er.

Anyone with loads of strava KOM's they've just lost is clearly an STW'er

I was chatting to someone at Swinley today, mentioned I'd been around with the STW crowd last November, he said 'you have to be fit to ride with that lot' or something along those lines.

So someone somewhere has a high opinion of you lot anyway.

Seriously, I see quite a lot of people like this, and think that if I asked them "Are you on STW", i'd be genuinely surprised if they were not.

I'm on another forum for BMW riders. Forum members go by the name of "tossers" - so it easy for us to identify other forum members. You just up to a likely looking BMW rider and ask them if they are a tosser.

What could possibly go wrong......

Tazzy, count me in for next years event.

Can we stop off for a Curry too??

On Cog?? Whatdatden?

some [b]fat[/b] guy getting off the funicular at [b]Les Arcs[/b] with his [b]Dialled Alpine[/b] and a [b]Trail Addiction Guide[/b] ticked a lot the STW boxes for me.

Yesterday witnessed a few possibles, urban SW London and 3 cyclists going slowly down the high st, one on a cotic soul the other corpulent chap on a road bike with nodder flat bars (didn't see what the other chap was riding)
Wouldn't surprise me if they were on here or that bike radar place.

PeterPoddy - Member
Saw a bunch of guys at a shop in North Berwick today.
Fat bikes
Niche brands
Beards

I asked and yes, some were STWers.

Hi guys if you're reading this.

Orange On One (STW give away) with trailer and wife on bike touring?
Aye was us! nice to meet you, hope you enjoyed your ride to Dunbar,
I was the non bearded one in out of fashion cycling gear with 90s Karrimor back pack 🙂

Bike hip flask is another give away of STWrs 🙂

Saw this bike and thought 'that must be Smurfmatt'

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A bit weird bumping one of my own and rather old threads, but I saw a fat bike outside a supermarket in Aviemore last weekend and thought "ha! I bet he posts on STW"

Fast forward 15 mins and I'm having a coffee across the road when a (bearded) man leans over and says "This might sound crazy, but do you post on STW? Are you peterfile?"

Turns out it was [s]druidh[/s] scotroutes and he's actually a very very nice man 🙂

What was even weirder was that the fatbike wasn't his.

So there's still another STWer in Aviemore who I haven't met.

EDIT: ironically, scotroutes is the first person to have replied to this thread basically saying i was wrong and that most people I think are on STW actually are not. How daft do you feel now eh 😉

peterfile - Member
a (bearded) man leans over and says "....Are you peterfile?

Sure you heard him right? 😛

Did he offer you sweets and tell you it would be your little secret?

mrs file was with me and i did wonder if she thought i was part of some sort of internet kiddie pron ring.

"do i know you off the interweb?"
"perhaps"
"are you a paedophile?"
"yes! lovely to meet you, pull up a chair"

fortunately for me, she reads every word i type on here so [s]she knew it was just some geeky cycling forum[/s] i'd like steak pie for tea and a pair of slippers for xmas darling.

If I see someone with a bike I really like or a bike I really hate I presume they're from on here.

Me and ChrisL went on a ride a while back, he was on his Mojo SL, I was on a rigid Soda, wearing lots of body armour, we couldn't have been more STW if we'd been handgrinding coffee as we rode and talking about Audis.

I've occasionally confused people by introducing folks like "This is BoneyM, from my internet cult. No, not the pushbike internet cult, the other one."

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EDIT: ironically, scotroutes is the first person to have replied to this thread basically saying i was wrong and that most people I think are on STW actually are not. How daft do you feel now eh
Ha! Not daft at all. The [i]other[/i] fatbike owner to whom you refer doesn't post on STW.

The case for the defence rests m'Lud.

PS - the beard is coming along fine. How's [s]Anna[/s] yours?

How's [s]Anna[/s] yours?

In tescos just now a bloke was peeling the lids of Pot Noodles and counting the flavour sachets inside.......

I had this person down as an Stw'er.. went in the wrong way of a one way system- check. Need two spaces instead on one- check.
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PS - the beard is coming along fine. How's Anna yours?

A bit itchy 🙂

I might be up your way at the weekend (depending on work stuff and not having to do Anna's xmas shopping for her). I'll give you a shout if I do!

Conversations with strangers about the internets:

Didn't you post that thing on STW?

STW? Sexually transmitted what?

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I might be up your way at the weekend (depending on work stuff and not having to do Anna's xmas shopping for her). I'll give you a shout if I do!
Working Saturday and making a trip to Strathpeffer on Sunday (picking up Mrs Scotroutes new bike). Available for beerios in the evenings tho!

PS - that reminds me...

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holy moses. you weren't kidding!

that's quite a destructive poo

I bought a bloody Audi just to fit in on here....
no one ever says hello. 😀 😥

I'm never quite sure how to answer when people ask me 'do you post on stw?'.

'cos I know the next question is going to be 'what's your username?'

and I can never bloody say it.

It's just a shape in my head really, not a word.

(plus the fact they'll surprise me by knowing more about me than might be considered normal for strangers meeting on the top of a hill)

You are a bit weird though 🙂

[i]You are a bit weird though[/i]

😆 and 😳

*wanders off to look for a witty retort*

If they ride the following i would say 10000000%

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[quote=scotroutes
PS - the beard is coming along fine. How's [s]Anna [/s]yours?

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A bit itchy

Try Canesten.

Last month I was in my local and I overheard a couple of people (one was in there tuning the piano, not a euphemism) talking about cross dressing, upon hearing this I asked if they knew the niche whore Sheldon from here. Indeed they did and were bikers too, I dunno if they post in here though

andypaul99 - Member

If they ride the following i would say 10000000%

You'd be wrong then.
He does post a lot on MTBR though.

This, or wobbling down trails, then in the carpark later telling everyone very loudly how fast they were 'shredding' everything in sight.

Erm, oops. *cough* Harrumph...

I've got my suspicions about a guy at work. He's started riding a rigid 29er singlespeed into work. It's got Mucky Nuts mud guards and one of Smuge's lights. He also uses the expression HTFU regularly.

I'm always amazed how normal STWers are in real life.