[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!

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