Members of old, circa 2003-2010 - anyone still here? (this is 'Slim')

I’ve been here 20 years now 🥺

Yup.  Been here since 05.  Same username.  I do much more Gravel and Road these days due to time, family, etc.  but am still out for smiles per hour about once per week.

I've been here since issue 2. Yes, there's a magazine...

Was here under another name since 2004/5.

2008 my profile says but it feels longer! Is the profile date accurate?

Still here. Now known as Ambrose, previously known as ambrose.

2009 for me, still here, sort of....

Still here since the days of the Gofar message board. Don't post much anymore though. More of a lurker as there's a lot of very strongly opinionated Richard's (no, I don't mean you Barton), on here nowadays.

Mountain bikes have come on leaps and bounds since the 2000's, have fun!

20 years too: Man and older man.

Can't even remember when I joined.
Well before the hack though.
At a guess I'd say 03/04ish

Been here from pretty much the start - same user name.

Spent more time on Bikemagic back then though.

Yep. Been here since year ','

Organised on here and Rode the first MTL night ride with a few early shakers who still frequent this parish.

Keep thinking I ought to do it again, as a night ride.

I'm another 03/04 member - although I did post as "anon" to start with.

I'm really waiting for the second coming of chocolatefoot though.

Since 2001/2002. Always the same username.

Whereabouts in Sydney are you? Got a couple of friends out there, I was there in September / October for the Worlds in Wollongong.

03 for me...and despite my attempts to ween myself off this site, I keep coming back.

Been here from pretty much the start – same user name.

Spent more time on Bikemagic back then though.

Same here

🤗

I hope you got a good price for that Soda.

Been here since maybe 2002 I think

I've been here since the Gofar days. Can't remember what my pre-hack name was.

Christ, 20 years too after a pal mentioned stw on a glentress road trip weekend. Was sore_tint back then, after said weekend on a Chameleon.

2002 I think, though I had a different user name before the hack.

Been here since '04. Used to be mike-b in those days.

been here since 09, still ****ting about on niche singlespeeds and stuff. One day I'll grow up and get a proper bike with gears and bouncy nonsense.

Yep, old timer here.  Welcome back!

<p style="text-align: left;">Scary I waste as much time on here now as I did back then :)</p>

I think I joined the fun in 2002. Issue 7 was my first copy of the magazine I think. Like some others I was possibly a bit more present on BikeMagic for a while but eventually settled here.

I've been ChrisL all that time.

Gofar?  Newcomers.

Were you here in the usenet days?

It says 2009 on my profile, no idea if that is accurate.

Dunno when I first appeared on here. I was P20, then when the forum went (cyber attack?????) I became C40 and then when it was last reset back to P20

joined around '05 I think, had a different username back then though.

2009 for me, same name

Was on that snowboarding forum before STW. What was it called? There were some others on here from there.

I joined back in about 2006, used to have the username belmontkingswood. Things were a bit wilder back then, the favorite insult was ***, which then got banned. Then the mods threw a tantrum when someone posted the picture of the guy sitting **** and banned everyone who posted on that thread. I snuck back after I changed jobs and got a new verifiable email address. TBF to the mods, the internet now is a sewer of filth and now that I'm older, I can see why they didn't want the site turning into a trolls' nest of obscene filth.

Another GoFar refugee here. Back in 2003, I was probably posting as SortedCycles.

Another from back in the day after finding the MBUK forum increasingly irritating. Started as weekendworrier, deleted my account for reasons I can't remember and rejoined as weekendworrier-as-was (wwaswas) almost immediately.

2009 it says in my profile, my mag subscriber number is 666 which makes me smile.

I've been lurking around here since the early noughties.

Pre-hack name was nuggets

2004 same name. Mainly BikeMagic back then

Think 2009 was the hack and many people had to rejoin then...

TBF to the mods, the internet now is a sewer of filth and now that I’m older, I can see why they didn’t want the site turning into a trolls’ nest of obscene filth.

I was on road.cc for a bit but stopped even using it due to the trolling, shitposting and adverts. This is about the best moderated and most user friendly forum I've found and it helps that most of the users police it pretty well too.

I remain amazed at the depth of knowledge on here - no matter the weird and wonderful subject, someone on here is a genuine expert on it! STW always pops up near the top of any Google search on any issue, there's invariably a thread somewhere on it, even if it dates back 10 years!

I am looking - I have pics of around 2003/4 of an STW meet and 2006 Mleh meets in the Peak

Before Hack

Think I was around in 2010 under the name TandemJeremy

My profile says 2009 but I think I must have had an account with a different name from about 2004-5. I got into mtb about 2004 and definitely found the site early although I was much more of an mtb-wales user then.   I moved to london 2008 and mtb- Wales, which had been a small tightnit group,  imploded about that time so I started using stw loads,  but I can't believe I was just a lurker for the previous 3-4 years.

Any other mtb- Wales big hitters from the naughties here?  @scratch I know, anyone else?

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Some time before the hack for me, maybe 2006/7.  Can't remember if my username was the same - I think it was 🙂

Welcome back.

First mag was issue 3. Was more BikeMagic then.

Have emails with the web-team about a meetup in 2006. Met Chipps in March 2006 at the opening of Carron Valley.

Same username as pre-hack.