[Closed] since you have joined STW........

I don't have time for all that tedious bike riding now.

'lifestyle' actual 😥

Learnt lots about burning wood, Maseratis, when Joe Cocker died, vices, coke, hookers, and some useful stuff about headsets, laxatives and how to clean a cat.

Riding lifestyle?

Does that involve pampas grass?

I ride almost exclusively road these days!

met loads of nice folk. and it passes boring days at work.

I think that without STW I would never have heard about guided MTB holidays.

Bikes? 😳

Met with loads of nice people and still friends with them. Who rides bikes these days?

I had sexual relations via the forum

Met loads of great folk on here, and none of them have been the bell ends they seem...... 😆

ton - Member

met loads of nice folk. and it passes boring days at work.

That sums it up perfectly

I own most of the PSAs.

cloudnine - Member
and how to clean a cat

Will anyone ever forget that thread, once seen, always smiling

I can't even book a holiday unless it passes STW approval.
Used to google stuff now I just ask on here . It's so much easier.

Since joing stw I've got married and had two kids. It's played havoc with my riding lifestyle.

I had sexual relations via the forum

I used it today when servicing my forks . I'd be looking at a busted bike now otherwise.

Actually it is still busted but that's because of the leaky shimano brakes.

I haven't cut my toenails.

I had sexual relations via the forum
receiving a photo of 42's nob does not constitute relations, RD

Since I joined STW
AzFred left
TSY left
Jamie left
TJ left
SmurfMatt flounced
PhilConsequence disapeared ( shame as he was good bloke )
Kylie left
Keith 29er + Jenn both left us
My life is now incomplete , but ifyou ride bikes long enough these things happen.

Work thinks I'm dead

Bikes?

I've developed a unique odor and a manly beard 🙂
Still haven't mastered the art of thigh slapping 🙁

There is an inverted correlation between mountain biking and use of mountain bike forums.

Learnt lots about burning wood, Maseratis, when Joe Cocker died, vices, coke, hookers, and some useful stuff about headsets, laxatives and how to clean a cat.

Found a genuinely wonderful source of info on anything from bikes to beer, from Dura-Ace to depression. And yes, almost entirely stopped riding off road.

honest answer?

.Bought and sold many quality parts for great prices on the classifieds. Incl my usual ride.
.Had many route advice tips, incl lots of placs I wouldn't have known about and aren't broadcast on route sites. This place improves my riding life no end.
.Met several people from this site, every single one have been very nice indeed and shared some great rides. 🙂
.Had many technical tips about installing/fixing/replacing every aspect of the bicycle, when I have needed it. The speed in which you get a response sometimes is excellent, when you're in the thick of a procedure and you really need a help, there are many professional time-served excellent bicycle mechanics patrolling the boards willing to help.
I'm astounded all the time at the lengths people will go to help you. You'll put up a quick 2 sentence 'plz help me' and a guy will take 10 mins out of his day and write up a whole page of advice for you. Brilliant.

Lunge +1

Bought stuff:
Stove
Stove top fan
Banshee Spitfire
Moto g 4G (1st gen)
XT 11 speed
Pikes

No German cars, shitty little dogs or plastic over-priced gnarrpoons from the US, though (looking at you,Santa Cruz.

Nothing for riding - still a tow path mincer.

However, it is an...um....[i]enriching[/i] place?*

I've seen so many lovely, kind things actually done on here - not just said. No more than I'm sure happens in daily life, but being able to see it on a screen and take the time to read it and appreciate it, is nice.

Give you hope 'n' all that.

You'll put up a quick 2 sentence 'plz help me' and a guy will take 10 mins out of his day and write up a whole page of advice for you.

Is equally true. I'm always appreciative of time taken by people take to write a post to help with a question - love it when someone posts a completely random question about the viscosity of a can of 1987 vintage Dulux magnolia, and a complete lurker who works in paint-viscosity testing, pops up with the answer. 😀

EDIT: Oh and have met some truly cracking people, maccruiskeen being by far the most handsome 🙂

I now have a psychotic desire to kill certain people.

I never had mourned the loss of a post attempting to sell a Parallax hub before I joined STW.

Made me buy a cannondale trigger damn psa posts.

STW made me realise that my bike basically has square wheels, given that it's 26inch, no dropper, 3x, conti tubes,...

STW also made me buy the same bike, since the frame brand, wheels brand, tyres brand, and seatpost brand, etc. were all the rage when I ordered it.

edit: oh and I haven't ridden since last July, so that's totally inline with STW too.

Been on here a long time and have asked and answered many questions, some daft, some sensible. Have met quite a few people and not had any bad experiences. Have also sold quite a few things.

When I was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2014 some fellow forumites who had been through it got in touch and helped me enormously, they know who they are.

Some good folk have gone too, I didn't know about Keith29er until reading this thread 😥

In summary, great fun forum, serious when it needs to be, and a source of answers to the most bizarre questions !

I have been kept from going bat shit crazy by this forum.

When I crashed some years back and broke my collar bone, followed only a couple of months later by a double prolapse in my lower spine that sent me to hospital for almost two weeks, then (partly as a consequence) got extra fat, it was participating on STW that made me think there might be hope for me yet.

Then, when I was losing, then lost, my dad, the expressions of sympathy were amazing. I even shared some of them with my family.

Since then, I have gotten back in shape and ride every day - principally commuting and road, but mountain for weekend fun - and always feel encouraged by this place.

So all in all, it has had a very good effect on my riding and lifestyle indeed. 8)

I've been on the forum since about 2005 and I've gradually watched the forum 'lifestyle' get older.
In the earlier days the forum was a big influence on me and my riding as everyone seemed to be generally likeminded mountain-bikers. As the forum members average age has increased and the discussion moves more to road bikes, fat bikes and bike-packing it has become much less relevant to me*.
*44 years old, just bought my first DH bike and riding harder and faster than I was in 2005.

The main thing this place has given me is a fear of being handed a sachet of picolax. If it ever happens I will shit myself 🙂

I have been kept from going bat shit crazy by this forum.

Can't say that happened for me, but when I did have my bat shit crazy phase (post-break-up-drinking-too-much), I had a place to post my garbage for irreversible prosperity.

Measure twice, [s]cut[/s] post once 🙂

I realised that even though I earn an average wage y'all seem to be making megabucks.

I have an image of everyone on STW working in IT, driving a T5 and a VAG car with a detached large suburban house that has a garage with 5+ niche/top end brand bikes in it.

Almost makes me feel I'm under achieving.

Its been great for route advice here and in the Alps. Have ridden some spectacular trails after recommendations on here which I probably would not have found otherwise. Been very useful for general advice too on components etc. Been here about 4.5 years now.

I have an image of everyone on STW working in IT, driving a T5 and a VAG car with a detached large suburban house that has a garage with 5+ niche/top end brand bikes in it.

Replace 'IT' with 'a whole bunch of jobs', 'T5 and a VAG car' with 'an old Peugeot Boxer and an equally old Peugeot estate', 'detached large suburban house that has a garage' with 'end-of-terrace and street parking', and '5+ niche/top end brand bikes in it' with 4 second-hand middle brand bikes' and you have pretty much described me.

And yes, you probably are underachieving.

I take the mick out of this place but it's done loads for my riding and subsequently general wellbeing tbh. Probably the biggest thing, I made my first leap into #enduro racing through here frinstance and that's been one of the biggest goads to get me riding different stuff, it's made all the difference...

And riding, I've met a bunch of people and done a load of rides that I wouldn't have otherwise. Cheers!

Also, I'm one of those folks that doesn't just ride bikes, for me the whole trying bikes, building and tweaking bikes, learning how they work are either a big part of the hobby, or their own hobby in their own right and this place's fed that massively.

Oh and yeah fatbike, that's Coastkid's fault.

Outside of biking there's so much chat good and bad- I don't trust any of my opinions til I've had a fight with someone about them- and advice, support. A few years back, I went through a pretty rough patch, and though I didn't so much get advice here it's a place you can comfortably talk about stuff. I've vented about things that I wouldn't elsewhere. Same with current issues with my folks' health. Oh not to mention keeping the zombie mondeo alive day to day 🙂 THough, that's mostly MC and CraigXXL.

It's not the best forum I've ever been on- that was SV650.org, that place really is fantastic- but it's in the top 2.