[Closed] STW car sticker? Would you display one?

Not a STW one no way but I do have a small hope green union Jack sticker in the corner of the rear window.

"do you singletrack" ?

An STW sticker would probably say that I was, and I quote, a middle class whiney cockbag.
I have an MTB-Wales sticker, not sure I'd want to be identified in public as an STWer.

I ride a half decent bike, come an nick it. Would not have anything bike realted on the outside of my car.

What would a STW car sticker say about you?

"I'm an overweight, stuffy, pompous engineer with a lack of personality who likes to have petty arguments with people just like me" ?

I thought you were a chippy, ernie.

Which explains why I wouldn't have a STW car sticker.

and would rather prefer this one :
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No shame here - I quite like wasting my life on here and reading the mag 🙂 I'd have one!

I have a TEAM sperm one!

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It would say:

"Please break into my car/van and help yourself to my bike" or

"Please follow me home and break into my shed" or

"The house that this car is parked infront of has a bike that is yours for the taking"

Cynic? Me?!

It must be so nice living in the UK.
I've left my bike in an unlocked car outside the house for a weekend.
Left the bike in the garden while I've been shopping.

don simon - Member

I have an MTB-Wales sticker...

So do I, but it is a bit obsolete now, isn't it? 🙁

They've closed Wales? 🙁

It must be so nice living in the UK.

[i]All European countries have a problem with car theft and thefts from cars, and Spain’s is among the worst (particularly thefts from cars).

National figures indicate that there’s a theft from a car every three minutes in Spain as a whole and even more frequently in the cities of Barcelona, Madrid and Valencia.[/i]

http://www.justlanded.com/english/Spain/Articles/Travel-Leisure/Car-crime-in-Spain

don simon - Member
They've closed Wales?

Almost... but no, we're pulling through. 😉

But of course, I refer to MTB-Wales, which seems to be dying a death.

I thought it went ages ago as the guy running it couldn't be arsed/ had other projects.

I've left my bike in an unlocked car outside the house for a weekend

tempting fate there
you'll come home to this
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ernie_lynch - Member
"I'm an overweight, stuffy, pompous engineer with a lack of personality who likes to have petty arguments with people just like me" ?

Don't be so hard on yourself.

It would only make sense on this
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or this
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It would say:

"Please break into my car/van and help yourself to my bike"

Thank goodness I didnt have one back in the day!

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'Jesus is coming..............look busy'

Don't be so hard on yourself.

What's that suppose to mean ?...............you got a problem with overweight, stuffy, pompous engineers who lack personality and like to have petty arguments ?

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This gets my vote

Would not have anything bike realted on the outside of my car.

Guess I'm in big trouble with the pair of cycle racks on the roof of mine, then.

😆

dogbert +1 I want one of those!

+1

WANT

lol.

@Dogbert

I'll take two!

I'll take two!

Funnily enough, not only would I, I do, and have since around '04, first on my Puma, and now, ironically, considering the pic posted up there ?, on my Octavia. It's the site URL, in the same font as the magazine masthead, like dogbert's excellent example, although mine doesn't have the additional text underneath. It's looking a bit shabby now, vinyl lettering suffers with UV and time, and it's been on the Octi for five or six years now.

It must be so nice living in the UK.

All European countries have a problem with car theft and thefts from cars, and Spain’s is among the worst (particularly thefts from cars).

National figures indicate that there’s a theft from a car every three minutes in Spain as a whole and even more frequently in the cities of Barcelona, Madrid and Valencia.

http://www.justlanded.com/english/Spain/Articles/Travel-Leisure/Car-crime-in-Spain

Sign me up for dogberts sticker to please

Based on first hand experience I'd say UK is fine too, often leave mine out when it's been washed and drying. It's even there this am from last night as thanks to alcohol I forgot about it.

Statistics from Google, they must be right and my first hand experience wrong. C'mon ernie, you can do better than that, nothing from your sister who lives in Spain?

Well if you look at the link you'll see that the source isn't Google, Google merely provides the link. Should anyone who finds STW Forum through Google reject all of your comments they might read ?

And I am indeed aware of Spain's high rate of theft from cars in part, because of comments from my sister - who I have no doubt has lived in Spain considerable longer than you (and my brother lived in Madrid before she did btw)

I use my cars as mobile tool sheds/offices/tea room, my sister has commented on how I am lucky that no one ever breaks into them because of the sheer quantity of stuff they contain, and claims that in Madrid they would attract thieves like flies to shit.

I am also aware how before she had a car with an integral radio she always removed her radio every time she left her car - as did many car owners. I remember being struck how many people hung around in bars in Madrid carrying their car radios, things changed when radios had removable fronts or became integral.

I have provided a link which shows that Spain has a problem with theft from cars. Now how about you providing one which shows that the UK has an even worst problem than Spain, as you claim ? Or at least a breakdown of the statistics which you have personally collated on car crime in Spain.

Maybe it was assumed by potential thieves that your car was locked and your bike wasn't worth
nicking ? I have left thousands of pounds worth of tools in an unlocked car in Croydon and not had them stolen - when I have occasionally forgotten to lock my car.

Why don't you lock your car anyway - is it too much effort ? Mine only requires that I push a button, I don't even have to look at the car.

I want one of Dogbert's designs!

+1 Dogbert

I want a couple of Dogbert's stickers too. And a large window one too so I can have it in my wife's studio's window.

I'll have a couple of dogberts too please if possible..

Statistics from Google, they must be right and my first hand experience wrong

Statistics from Google, they must be right and my first hand experience wrong. C'mon ernie, you can do better than that, nothing from your sister who lives in Spain?

I don't know Ernie's sister, but if we're going on first hand experience, there's a bloke at work who's Spanish. He's an idiot.
Plus many a time I've come back to my house from a Sunday morning run, only to see the tailgate of the car sill wide open from the morning before when I took the shopping out, and no ones yet nicked the back of compost in the back of it.
It's good compost too!

You could get them printed and delivered for under £1 each.

You could get them printed and delivered for under £1 each

Where? I'm tidying up the picture on photoshop as we speak (awaits e-mail from mods)

http://www.vistaprint.co.uk/pricing.aspx?spfid=AB2#divProductAB2

Looks the place to get them from.

Also you get over £5 back if you go through Topcashback. [url= http://www.topcashback.co.uk/ref/realman ]Sign up here[/url] if you haven't already, then search for vistaprint.

CountZero - Member
Funnily enough, not only would I, I do, and have since around '04

Awesome, have you got a "I watched The Wire before you" sticker next to it?

Please can I have one? I haven't a car but I could stick it on the window of my khazzi!

I would so have one of those on my car, but I'll be amazed if you het the go ahead from the-powers-that-be. Nobody really wants their carefully nurtured brand associated with the words, "Whiny Cockbag" do they?!

Nobody really wants their carefully nurtured brand associated with the words, "Whiny Cockbag" do they

and yet they continue to maintain the forum.. so who can tell really..

I would so have one of those on my car, but I'll be amazed if you het the go ahead from the-powers-that-be. Nobody really wants their carefully nurtured brand associated with the words, "Whiny Cockbag" do they?

That's exactly what's putting me off having any of these printed

It must be so nice living in the UK.
I've left my bike in an unlocked car outside the house for a weekend.
Left the bike in the garden while I've been shopping

My dad once left their car with the door wide open and the keys in the ignition all day long whilst they were out walking, just outside Knighton in Wales. It was still there, as was all their stuff.

The issue isn't the UK, it's cities/big towns.

Gil@thebikeshak is great for stickers

Well if you look at the link you'll see that the source isn't Google, Google merely provides the link. Should anyone who finds STW Forum through Google reject all of your comments they might read ?

And I am indeed aware of Spain's high rate of theft from cars in part, because of comments from my sister - who I have no doubt has lived in Spain considerable longer than you (and my brother lived in Madrid before she did btw)

I use my cars as mobile tool sheds/offices/tea room, my sister has commented on how I am lucky that no one ever breaks into them because of the sheer quantity of stuff they contain, and claims that in Madrid they would attract thieves like flies to shit.

I am also aware how before she had a car with an integral radio she always removed her radio every time she left her car - as did many car owners. I remember being struck how many people hung around in bars in Madrid carrying their car radios, things changed when radios had removable fronts or became integral.

I have provided a link which shows that Spain has a problem with theft from cars. Now how about you providing one which shows that the UK has an even worst problem than Spain, as you claim ? Or at least a breakdown of the statistics which you have personally collated on car crime in Spain.

Maybe it was assumed by potential thieves that your car was locked and your bike wasn't worth
nicking ? I have left thousands of pounds worth of tools in an unlocked car in Croydon and not had them stolen - when I have occasionally forgotten to lock my car.

Why don't you lock your car anyway - is it too much effort ? Mine only requires that I push a button, I don't even have to look at the car.

I knew you wouldn't let me down ernie, thanks.

Sticker too please if they get sorted 🙂

Oh yes! I'll be up for a sticker too. 😉

And me! I'll take two! Inspired, Dogbert, inspired! 🙂

Please don't dogbert.

For all the obvious reasons along with the fact we've spent a lot of money on trademarking our logo out of necessity.

Not that I don't find it funny though 🙂 but I have to worry about this stuff.

What about "STW - my other mode of transport is a titanium singlespeed rigid ego chariot"

..too long?

[s]How about "Singletrackworld - white, middle class, whining cockbags"? :-D[/s]

EDIT: sorry dogbert, I didn't see yours. Want +1.

EDIT EDIT: sorry Mark, didn't see yours either. Talk about leaping before looking.

Ok , So if the owners will not allow SINGLETRACKWORLD , plus cock bags
How about "OWNED. [i]stw[/i]"

I knew you wouldn't let me down ernie, thanks.

And somehow I knew that simply supplying you with a link without any comment, which proved that thefts from cars was an problem in Spain, wouldn't be enough for you.

You of course needed to challenge me to make a comment on the subject.

And somehow I also knew that you wouldn't be able to provide one shred of evidence to back up your absurd claim that nothing ever gets stolen from cars in Spain.

No but wait, I forgot about your [i]"first hand experience"[/i]......of course that's all that counts !

So by the same logic, since I have [i]never[/i] been burgled, and I have [i]never[/i] had a bike nicked, my message to everyone in Spain is come to the UK because you won't be burgled or have your bike nicked !

Oh how wonderful it must be to stagger through life with such a simple intellect and not need to grasp anything more complex than what's visible at the end of your nose don simon. Still, it keeps me amused...... 🙂

And somehow I also knew that you wouldn't be able to provide one shred of evidence to back up your absurd claim that nothing ever gets stolen from cars in Spain.

No but wait, I forgot about your "first hand experience"......of course that's all that counts !

So by the same logic, since I have never been burgled, and I have never had a bike nicked, my message to everyone in Spain is come to the UK because you won't be burgled or have your bike nicked !

Oh how wonderful it must be to stagger through life with such a simple intellect and not need to grasp anything more complex than what's visible at the end of your nose don simon. Still, it keeps me amused......

Yes indeed I have......a bike ride actually. There were two other STWers in the group btw. Disappointedly, neither were middle-class whining cockbags though. So I had to come back here for that 8)

Excellent, so now you can chill out and enjoy a nice quiet evening before the rigours of next week, without having to invent what people have said. Besos.

get a room you 2. please.

"Singletrackworld - Ernie and Dons Boudoir"

so now you can chill out and enjoy a nice quiet evening

I'm doing that as I type 8)

Although I have you, in part at least, to thank 🙂

Not guilty! He's either stalking or trying to bully me, I'm not sure on either count. 😕

Please don't dogbert.

For all the obvious reasons along with the fact we've spent a lot of money on trademarking our logo out of necessity.

Not that I don't find it funny though but I have to worry about this stuff.

No worries, seemed like a good idea at the time but in all honesty I don't think i would had any made for the reasons you say.....I will however say I was quite please with the response.

However, it would be nice if you's done a line in stickers for the car and other places (my mouth as the wife would say)

but it was funny dogbert.

Awesome, have you got a "I watched The Wire before you" sticker next to it?

I thought an the Audi logo and a series of pedal scrapes to the bodywork [u]was[/u] the Singletrack car sticker?

How about
"If you can read this, it's because I'm running my car singlespeed"

CountZero - Member
No, but seeing as how I've been a forum member for six years longer than you have, since 2003

How do you know that? It took me 3 months to bother registering again last time it broke. Not that I attach any importance to it. Where you at the sex pistols manchester gig in '76 too?

So the upshot is no stickers? Not even official singletrack ones, signed off by Mark et al and sold at a hefty markup?

Booooo - I'da had one! I'd have a jersey too, if there were any that were a) slightly looser fitting and b) not in the current minging colour scheme.

I've been a forum member for six years longer than you have, since 2003

oooooooOOOOOOOoooooohhh! Someone's looking for a STW-branded handbag!

I've been a forum member for six years longer than you have, since 2003

Amazing! Territorial pissing at its finest!

I've been a forum member for six years longer than you have, since 2003

anybody else reading this thinking "ummmm that's not something i'd be boasting about!"?

No, but seeing as how I've been a forum member for six years longer than you have, since 2003

no one has officially been a member of this forum since the big hacking in 2008 (member since DEC 24 2008)check anyone's profile and tell me it ain't so, anything before that (yes, i too have wasted multiple years before that on here)don't count