Forumite who always signed off as Rachel - can't remember her username. Had an interest in motorbike touring and always provided thoughtful and informed posts (unlike many on here 😉 )
Diz/dizinaustria. Went off to set up a holiday / guiding business in Austria and slowly disappeared off STW. Shame, the riding looked right up my street.
Wrightyson
Avoiding economic suicide is one of my main reasons for voting Leave
When you type stuff like that you expect to get robust replies people from who stand to lose their job/business or by the time he disappeared had already lost their jobs. That thread is probably why many left, with hind sight their predictions are embarrassing. It's easier to list the fervent Brexiteers who are still around than those who have gone (but I won't)
The carpenter from South London. I always found him interesting when not talking about bikes.
The carpenter from South London
ernie? He’s been back on a few threads recently (a few pages back the trump one maybe)
Junkyard - was banned, but still riding
Fatknacker - hilarious, but no idea what happened to him.
Samuri - always enjoyed reading his stuff. still around but not here it seems.
The Flashes - Parenthood
Grum - Hope hes ok as not seen much of him
Zokes - Always up for a row, but a decent guy
Mamadirt - she was ace.
Snakebite - Seem to remember him turning up to an MBR shoot on cannock with a STW jersey on 🙂
Allthegear (Rachel). - always wore her heart on her sleeve. Not sure what shes up to now.
Sharki - top bloke. Still around too cleaning up rivers.
MUddydwarf - and his massive axe 🙂
Sadly the ones that I wont see again.... 🙁
DeeJay
SFB
Marsdenmann
Jahwomble
Petesgaff / Bullheart
Troutie
Kaesae
Reading through some of the old posts on here often makes me realise how many friends this place has given me.
Ernielynch - top man but he lives in Croydon, which is seeking to become a city in its own right.
Lowey, I knew about the others but that's the first time I heard that SFB had died - although I understood he was very ill. Sad news.
iDave. Left a bit of a legacy with his diet plan, not so much for the content, more for the way he took on paid subscribers (£100 ish?) before going on the run and choosing not to support them. Rocked up at various races while posting about it on Twitter IIRC.
There was someone whose MO was to just comedy troll, quite obviously so, on lots of threads. He’d often catch a few posters and wooosh them when they took his posts seriously. His posts always tickled me. Can’t think of his username though....?
Forumite who always signed off as Rachel – can’t remember her username. Had an interest in motorbike touring and always provided thoughtful and informed posts
Left after some postings about transgender folk that really upset her
Jambalaya – didn’t agree with his views but he was hounded by anti-brexit groupthink.
NO he wasn't. He was in no way hounded. I suspect the embarrassment of being wrong was too much for him
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jezz. singlespeeder from denby dale area. his mate james from a bike shop up there (scissett i think?) welded some ss track ends on my kona kilaeau and painted it pink for me and i met them for a ride when i went up to collect it.
(back in the midst of time)
Cressers
Could kind of do with a doom-monger on the forum again – it would kind of be a bit of light relief.
On here as 'ohnohesback' or something.
I used to like Philconsequence's posts.
(pimp)messiah. Last time I saw him was when he nipped in past the bike shop I was building my 26” Cotic Rocket... a known destroyer of frames, knew his onions too.
39 is far too young. At least he went out whilst riding his bike. RIP Brian.
mikewsmith
Oh man, he had a compulsion to be on every thread... can’t but think his disappearance was him getting a life (I hope so, anyways).
Jambalaya and THM (I always had my doubts, if not the same person, certainly a double act I remember J paid for THMs P... 🤔). Definitely trolls...
Hora was brilliant value for money on here. Met him once on an MNPR ride without realising. He hung around at the back, didn’t really say much and disappeared early. Someone pointed out who he was to me later, most unlike his online persona!
Also chrisdiesel, genuine knowledge on van engines with very insightful posts.
@blitz - davidtalyforth? or some similar spelling. I really enjoyed his nonsense, easy to be taken in by it if you weren't paying full attention.
miketually? Wasn’t he a science teacher up in the Northeast somewhere?
He never posts anymore 🙂
Beer and Dan
Jambalaya was more dogged than hounded
Hora was brilliant value for money on here.
Wasn’t there some other chap who swapped his frames about every five minutes too?
Wasn’t there some other chap who swapped his frames about every five minutes too?
Just the one?
Cressers
Could kind of do with a doom-monger on the forum again – it would kind of be a bit of light relief.
On here as ‘ohnohesback’ or something.
A suitably doom-tinged handle 🙂
The other swapper was renton no?
JojoA1 - bigger balls than most guys I know. Got into swimming and running, tri's. Now running a campsite in Ardnamurchan (well, when CV19 blows over).
Aye, Jo seems to be loving the solitude out there.
MWS wasn't bullied in any way, I assume he just realised he spent too long on here telling everyone they were wrong.
tj re Jamba, definitely hounded.
We disagree.
tj re Jamba, definitely hounded.
Hounded would be posting on a thread about inner tubes and getting grief about his/her political views. But that is not what happened. Attracted like a moth to a lightbulb to political threads in which his/her opinion was in a minority. And could not resist posting untruths to support his/her opinion which others quite rightly pointed out. If that is being hounded then a fat orange dude in the white house needs a bit more hounding too.
Sorry to hear about Rachel leaving in that way - not a good reflection on the rest of us.
Mike Smith? Bullied off the forum.
Banned for bullying and threats towards STW staff.
What a cock.
Wheres geex gone
Sorry to hear about Rachel leaving in that way – not a good reflection on the rest of us.
An the arsehole who was a big part of it still regularly posts.
Volvo for Sale
: I’m surprised Hora hasn’t got a mention
Was he not the full on Lance apologist/defender?
There's a Lance thread active right now so maybe that will draw him out?
I used to find THM's blanket assertions that the adults would be showing up to the Brexit negotiations any minute quite comforting.
2-3 years later, though, none have shown up. At least not on the UK side.
Jambafact was a thing too - he was quite rightly called out on his misinformation. He kept doing it, jambafact gained momentum and I guess he didn't like it to the point where he stopped. But, to reduce this to playground levels (de rigueur anyway) he did start it.😕
Not seen GW since lockdown started but you to see him smoking roadies on his BMX.
@dannyh TBF the EU team appears to be adults, who are just as mystified by the UK team as the British public are.
Wasn’t there some chap who was mad keen on XC racing?
@ avdave
Yep, that was him. Davidtaylforth. Very funny.
: I’m surprised Hora hasn’t got a mention
He pops up every once in a while on the Peak District MTB Facebook page.
@lowey : is that definite about SFB / simonfbarnes? Any idea when?
Its a tricky issue where someone continually posts either abhorrent views or false claims and gets hounded for it then flounces
Geetee ( I think it was) was one who got a load of flack for what was to me abhorrent views and took a mighty flounce as a result. Others who I get on with saw that as bullying. To me it was that his abhorrent views needed to be challenged at every opportunity. I think Jamba and THM are similar cases in some ways
It becomes quite similar to "no platforming" by peer pressure rather than by the mods.
I do not know what the answer is to that.
I’m surprised Hora hasn’t got a mention
He’s on pinkbike under a different alias, avatar is him though.
