Following on from a thread which was all about how, on the whole, this is a one of the better places to hang out on the internet. The phrase "You came for the bikes, but stayed of the bolcks" was used, and I couldn't agree more.
I first found the forum when looking for mundane advice about frame resprays with a rattle can....
...and stayed for the bolcks
Cake. Turns out it was a lie.
I stumbled across this place whilst scouring the internet for advice on parts for my first full bike build. It was a Cotic, so I was welcomed with open arms. I then lurked for a good while before becoming a regular poster and like to think I have definitely made a good contribution in the talking bollocks department.
Foot and Mouth.
The Magazine - 2004.
2006, when organising the first Hit the North. Was sat in the shed/office of an old University mate, and artisan trousermonger, who said it was a good idea, but that I should sound out a bloke called "Chipps" who had a wed forum.
Bike Radar changed their forum, they made it horrific... i left and came here..
I first joined way back when ..and found it too " big " ..so never used it ..
I've been on a few forums ..the last one prior to rejoining this was probably the best ..only about 100 members spread across the country ..but quite regular meet-ups for riding ..no roadie content (!) and mainly friendly ..alas without any warning it closed down overnight.
One or two of the members from that forum are on here ..
I'm warming to this place ..but still serving my apprenticeship..and do like the bollocks too..
Cake. Turns out it was a lie.
Yeah, they told me there was a nice big sponge
The death of another mtb forum. There was a spectacular falling out between a few users and owner, they created another forum and a lot of users jumped ship, but neither really worked after that with days between new posts now.
Bored at work, a guy on SnowHeads mentioned an MTB forum that was worth a look, I've never left. It can be an odd place at time here but ultimately there are some wonderful people and I have had a huge amount of help and advice over the years.
Joined to sell a bike (an awesome Santa Cruz Blur) in 2003. Never left!
There's cake?
(Iirc, one of the early mags had a page about the forum in)
I'm here against my will! I think my bike got stolen and I signed up to post a stolen add!
I actually joined almost as soon as I moved to the UK in 2003. I was lonely then, and looking for people with something in common. I had been a member of the IMBA in Canada, and discovered here that they were linked at the time to STW. But I was really only a lurker then.
Meanwhile, I moved to Wales and became quite active on mtb-wales.com until it died. That’s when I became active on here.
The number of connections I have made, the amount of help I have received, and entertainment I have enjoyed since is incalculable.
I came looking for advice on a brake bleed problem. 7 years and 3 mtbs later I still don't know the answer
There was a thread on bike radar about a thread on here that was in full argulympian swing (drug use iirc), folk on BR were pointing out what a collosal bunch of bellends you all were. Here I am, 7 years later...
Foot and Mouth.
I jumped here to get some sensible advise that I couldn’t get on the then rampant BikeMagic forum. It declined, this was bigger... here I am.
Hit the North! Someone posted a photo on here of me wobbling on a muddy slope. It was the year when I got on the podium for being 3rd woman out of about 4!
We started riding with a couple of big hitters off here , lurked for a while then joined .
The slow lingering death of the Bike Magic forum.
someone recommended the classifieds...
I had a road bike and wanted to swap for a cx bike I was told a new site had opened up and it might be worth a shot. I swapped with a guy called Ian who i still see on here occasionally. I thought it was a scam at first though due to my mistake on a meet up point we arranged a particular junction on the A1 and I went to the m1 both had services on them we then arranged to drive towards each other and meet midway and it actually worked lol still miss that bike though a USA flag coloured beauty but the cx was ace
I came for the articles but now I just stay for the pictures
I was happily tootling along on the GoFar forum....then they moved everything around (like my local Co-op, grrrr!), but I thought I'd hang in there and give the new format a try....erm... that was a wee while ago now.
to raid the classifieds to build my first proper mtb that didnt weigh as much as a black hole. I think it cost about £400. On the advice of fellows at the MTB club like nickc ^ sometime in 2001.
Unfortunately I cant find any old photos of my Trek 4700 with Noodle-SIDs but now it's my brother's pub bike.
Fred.
Swiped right instead of left by mistake. 2003 when I signed up for the Bike Verbier ladies week. Talk about been thrown in at the deep end.
Aye, BM was much the larger sit in the early 2000. (stumbled across that to find the C1XV) but BM was just too unweidly and slowly gravitated towards here.
All the fatbike threads.
It was a good place for single speed and although I stuck with single speed while very few others have it remains a good bike and bollocks forum
Same as tails
I think STW was mentioned in a "What other forums are you a member of?" type thread, on what used to be an excellent snowboarding forum back in the early 00's.... (can't remember the name, think there are others on here that used to be over there... does anyone remember the name of that SB forum? )
Anyway .... can't remember the last time I used a MTB in anger ... so definitely here for the bollox.
I had a calling to educate middle-aged men about listening to new music instead of old.
I failed.
Seriously though, I can't remember. Think it might've been a question about some forks. But then, surely I bought the forks off the classifieds..?
I first joined way back when ..and found it too ” big ” ..so never used it ..
I’ve been on a few forums ..the last one prior to rejoining this was probably the best ..only about 100 members spread across the country ..but quite regular meet-ups for riding ..no roadie content (!) and mainly friendly ..alas without any warning it closed down overnight.
One or two of the members from that forum are on here ..
I’m warming to this place ..but still serving my apprenticeship..and do like the bollocks too..
^^^^ pretty much what Hodgy said.
Spelling mistake.
I was trying to smoke a form of cocaine, but just the one time.
I was trying to smoke a form of cocaine, but just the one time
Youd have been better off with the crack, far less of a compulsion to use it than here...
I stumbled across the mag in a shop when I was at the height of my mountain biking mania, then discovered it had a website. Even had some articles published in the mag, way back yonder, though I still haven't been paid for them....
I was trying to find out who piddled in my shoes and the trail led me to here.
So long ago I can't remember.....
I wanted to know if a headset came with a crown race included.
My first full suss mountain bike in the classifieds about 10 years ago.. an Ellsworth Joker. My Dad still has the bike and pootles round on it with my mam (on her hybrid) - romic coil shock and all!
I needed a place to test my new argue-bot code.
Or I think it was a question about upgrading my (first) hardtail..
