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Things that you've changed since using this site?

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Here are some of the things that this forum has changed for me since I've started using it

  • Buying and riding a hardtail following the Marley PSA.
  • Starting to think about dirt-road touring/flashbikepacking rides.
  • Bought some studded tyres for winter commuting.
  • My next waterproof is going to be luminescent following the mountain rescue thread.

So thanks for those.

What have you changed thanks to the advice given on this forum?

 
Posted : 23/01/2024 2:06 pm
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An awful lot of coke and hookers

 
Posted : 23/01/2024 2:09 pm
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Things that you’ve changed since using this site?

No one’s opinion on anything. Ever. Not even pies.

 
Posted : 23/01/2024 2:12 pm
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Nothing, though now I try to click on Daily Mail stories as often as possible to make up for the clicks lost to Marxists and snowflakes.

 
Posted : 23/01/2024 2:13 pm
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I'm back on plutoline chain wax after trying it in 2003 ish. I didn't bother wiping it - Never bothered on the MX bike, so why would mtb be any different?!?? Suffice to say, it was messy. I didn't think about it too much and just went back to whatever else I was using back then. Also, ended up getting a baby deep fat fryer for the above process.
There's probably other things too, but I can't remember any at the moment...

 
Posted : 23/01/2024 2:13 pm
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My time spent actually working has reduced a little bit.

 
Posted : 23/01/2024 2:14 pm
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My underpants.

 
Posted : 23/01/2024 2:17 pm
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Phones have got smart, politicians have got dumb.

Full suspension bikes work and dropper seat posts are a thing.  Bar ends are no longer on my bikes.

 
Posted : 23/01/2024 2:18 pm
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I bought an mx5.

I went skiing a couple of times.

I did a few driving across Europe type holidays.

I started wearing proper goodyear welted leather soled shoes.

I still need to get a log burner and too many expensive watches

 
Posted : 23/01/2024 2:21 pm
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No one’s opinion on anything. Ever. Not even pies.

Thanks for reminding me. I now have a set of geographical reminders set on my phone to tell me when I'm passing a recommended purveyor of pork pies.

 
Posted : 23/01/2024 2:29 pm
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I vote Conservative and don’t ride mountain bikes.

 
Posted : 23/01/2024 2:32 pm
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I bought an aeropress.

Rarely use it now I have a v60...

 
Posted : 23/01/2024 2:33 pm
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STW. Where humour goes to die 😂

 
Posted : 23/01/2024 2:37 pm
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Sitting down to piss at night instead of putting the light on

 
Posted : 23/01/2024 2:50 pm
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since using this site or because of it?

 
Posted : 23/01/2024 2:59 pm
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Bought and ridden FS bikes.

(And can't change my username to keep up!)

 
Posted : 23/01/2024 3:02 pm
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Well the because is implied by the phrase "things that this forum has changed for me since using the site". My italics.

 
Posted : 23/01/2024 3:05 pm
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I changed all sorts of stuff when I first joined twenty years ago - I leapt on the singlespeed bandwagon when that rolled through town, and I'd say the site is to blame for me being a serial bike swapper for about ten years. I had an Inbred for a bit, and went to a few singlespeed world and national champs. I started, then stopped, using Superstar shite but did develop a fond affection for octopuses.

These days I'm less impressionable and ride what I like, how I like and don't get sucked into buying stuff from cheap niche brands.

 
Posted : 23/01/2024 3:13 pm
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My willingness to attempt posting pictures in internet forums.

A good man knows when he's beaten.

 
Posted : 23/01/2024 3:14 pm
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My opinion on how good my life is compared to everyone else’s. For the worse.

 
Posted : 23/01/2024 3:14 pm
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Lots of stuff.  A huge influence on my biking from buying cheap secondhand parts off here to knowing about Shand who I bought my "bike for life" from

Meeting folk in real life from here, support on my big bike ride

Political knowledge and better understanding of the scots access laws

 
Posted : 23/01/2024 3:16 pm
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7 Prime ministers, a large pile of sovereignty and many new bikes. The first two I can't claim total responsibility.

 
Posted : 23/01/2024 3:22 pm
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Not changed but purchased a shit ton of stuff I don't need really good bargains from the various PSA threads.

 
Posted : 23/01/2024 3:25 pm
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My hair is changing to grey since I started using this site.

 
Posted : 23/01/2024 3:25 pm
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I bought an Orange electric mountain bike with a Shimano motor.

 
Posted : 23/01/2024 3:31 pm
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I am no longer running panaracer fire xc pro.

 
Posted : 23/01/2024 3:32 pm
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Honestly.... social/political views.

As an Essex boy straight into work in the City my exposure to a wider social/economic, even geographical circle was/is extremely limited.

You guys have widen it .... yes I know to a still very limited spectrum, but its wider none the less.

I guess 20odd years later my views may have changed anyway as I matured or they might have got more entrenched. But many many STW posts on wide ranging subjects have opened my eyes to far more diverse view points.

I thank you

Oh and mountian bikes .... I don't do use them anymore..... far too much hassle.... Run and turbo boys. Run and turbo.

 
Posted : 23/01/2024 3:50 pm
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Moving house after a thread started about Sheffield and the OP moved somewhere completely different.

 
Posted : 23/01/2024 3:50 pm
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Well the because is implied by the phrase “things that this forum has changed for me since using the site”. My italics.

Things that haven't changed for me: reading properly.

 
Posted : 23/01/2024 4:00 pm
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I am no longer running panaracer fire xc pro.

No, cos I upgraded. My lad, on the other hand, is now running my old Fire XC Pros....

 
Posted : 23/01/2024 4:20 pm
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Accounts. Cos me last one broked 😉

[i]What have you changed thanks to the advice given on this forum?[/i]

ah, advice... er absolutely nothing. I started Inktober cos I first saw it on here and that has changed my life a bit. Wasn't any advice though.

 
Posted : 23/01/2024 4:43 pm
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Years ago i sized down a bike because everyone on here suggested a medium would be more "flickable" it was a trend at the time. Like a gullible fool i believed them and rode a M instead of a L. Bastards the lot of you.

 
Posted : 23/01/2024 4:55 pm
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My self-imposed opinion that my poor mental health was something to be ashamed of...I'm still working on convincing myself of that, however, I'm getting there...

 
Posted : 23/01/2024 6:28 pm
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Thats a really good one Fazzini

 
Posted : 23/01/2024 6:50 pm
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Now have a Volvo and a dog, don’t ride my mountain bike anymore 

 
Posted : 23/01/2024 6:52 pm
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Oh, I also bought a long travel FS thinking I'd be 'radding' it up like some of the other cool kids on here...its done about 75 miles in total 😳 probably didn't help it got delivered the day before lockdown 🤦‍♂️ and I'm anything but a cool kid 😂

 
Posted : 23/01/2024 6:57 pm
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I've learned the proper use of apostrophe's. To annoy people.

 
Posted : 23/01/2024 6:59 pm
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I despair less when I watch UK TV or read a paper, I know I'm not the only one thinking it's bollocks. Somewhere in the UK there are woke, leftward leaning humanists who do care.

 
Posted : 23/01/2024 7:03 pm
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My alertness levels when anyone mentions picolax.

 
Posted : 23/01/2024 7:11 pm
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I am no longer running panaracer fire xc pro.

I bought some brand new ones only just a week or two before Christmas. Cos I'm generally not very fussy about 'stuff' (that bit's not changed, I'd say)

 
Posted : 23/01/2024 7:21 pm
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Started washing my legs in the shower.

 
Posted : 23/01/2024 7:32 pm
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I am a lot more patient when waiting for a page to load. 

 
Posted : 23/01/2024 7:38 pm
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My chain

My tolerance to fan noises

 
Posted : 23/01/2024 7:45 pm
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The amount of spare parts in my spare parts drawers.

 
Posted : 23/01/2024 7:51 pm
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I am a lot more patient when waiting for a page to load. 

I'm glad it's not just me.

 
Posted : 23/01/2024 7:57 pm
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Watched virtually every amusing animated gif in existence.

 
Posted : 23/01/2024 8:03 pm
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Now have a Volvo Octavia and a dog, don’t ride my mountain bike anymore

 
Posted : 23/01/2024 8:08 pm
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Hmmm possibly at a basic level, my expectations towards aging? Joined in my 20s, now in my 40s.

The forum is an interesting place in that it seems to have aged with me, a unique place online for me where I seem always to feel like young 'un, whatever age I get to. I presume a bunch of other posters joined around the age I am now, and the years have passed accordingly. 

I can't imagine it's all that healthy for STW as  a business, but without a cheeky crop of younger people always showing up to disrupt the flow, it's a place that i get to watch steadily (and largely gracefully) age ahead of me thanks to the varying stuff people share. It has been genuinely enlightening. 

 
Posted : 23/01/2024 8:09 pm
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I've changed my browser.

 
Posted : 23/01/2024 8:28 pm
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Mobile provider.

 
Posted : 23/01/2024 8:35 pm
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I’ve probably occasionally lurked here for 20 years. Mountain bikes got slack and very very expensive in that time. Gravel was invented, fat bikes were invented and forgotten again; single-speed is now ripe for rediscovery but with through-axles.

My lawn has had frozen sausages hammered into it, and my best shoes wee’d in; luckily I have not owned a dog. I will also forever be considerably more careful about triple-checking the dates of any endoscopy appointments.

 
Posted : 23/01/2024 8:42 pm
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