The Friday Kylie.
Lurked for years and then BikeRadar went to shit so joined the mass exodus!
Was trying to get back into biking and googled routes in the Surrey hills. That led me to the routes section of the ST website where I printed off (those were the days) a route map. Whilst there I realised there was a forum attached, used to like hanging out on SCUK snowboarding forum so thought I'd give it a try.
Basically realised I was wasting too much time reading all the bollocks but by then it was too late.
Never really did get back into mountain biking but saw a PSA on here about London Road frames. Whatever you think about them it got be back on the bike properly for a (reasonably) small oint oi cash.
Pistonheads just wasn't bourgeois enough any more.
I used to go on mtb-wales. People would post links to STW tagging them with things like "OMG look what the idiots are kicking off about over there" Lol.
Gofar closed, some magazine started, it had a forum.
I used to come here when it was all fields.
i'd heard rumour of how the other half lived.... cars with heated wing mirrors apparently. I came to check out if it was true
Link to the Picolax thread from another site (Difflock.com)
Was searching for long off-route route advice, specifically the Wessex Way.
Still haven't ridden it.
I was searching for ways to remove Sudocrem from a cat.
Originally came looking for local trail advice. Still here about 8 years later..
The slow lingering death of the Bike Magic forum.
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Bought a magazine at the Singletrack stand at a Mayhem event some years ago, never heard of Singletrack magazine previously, thought I would check out the forum.
I found Chocolatefoot forum searching for local riding, kicked about on there for a while. STW was mentioned, lurked here for a bit, asked questions I needed answers to, but stayed on CF for the bantz/abuse until that died a death.
I crossed over from Southerndownhill/Ride.io forum as it slowly died, plenty of others seem to have done the same and even kept the same profile name.
sounds like this place is the out-of-town superforum hoovering up all the custom from local high street forums.
I was trying to smoke a form of cocaine, but just the one time
You'll come for the cocaine, you'll stay for the craic?
I'm here after my OH started buying the magazine. That would've been mid-2012.
I was looking for a single mattress - Google brought me here are a brief foray on Single Muslim...never got that mattress (or the Muslim) - got distracted by the bollocks on here.
I met a girl who was trying to get me interested in mountain biking and I found this site. I think it was around 2003.
I came here from GoFar, after they started a magazine and I subscribed to the first five issues for a tenner (subscriber number 113 IIRC). I think I found GoFar via the uk.rec.cycling usenet group?
Lurked for awhile but moved over properly when Bikemagic started its fall into slow lingering death. Not especially active but the few peollp I have met in person have been sound.
Links in the off topic section of a guitar forum ( and thinking about it on a radio control glider forum too). I only had a hybrid for commuting at the time. Within three years I had 7 bikes. Bikes are the best thing I ever got in to.
I was hit round the back of the head with a set of Bombers by a girl called Louise and she blamed you lot.......
has been invaluable, learnt nothing about bikes, but i can install a wood burner and know exactly which Thule roof rack works on a Audi RS6.
Remember when they used to publish a list of the top 10 posters in the mag? Funny that. Wonder who'd be on the list these days.
Pirate raid from BM.
I wasn’t hard enough for BikeRadar
the lure of fat blokes in lycra
I was looking for alternative uses for a set of old bombers.
I was searching for blow up dolls and found an image of some bloke using a track pump to blow up an airship, followed the chain back here to find some angry badger getting some stick. Being an animal lover thought I'd join up.
I had to put the work in to get here. We were hiding in Borders in Glasgow on a piss wet through day and I found the magazine, issue 7, and got to the website from there. But getting online meant going to the local library, then I spent way too big a portion of the summer holiday down there on here, being mercilessly picked on (for being an arsehole). Then stuck with it, because the advice is useful.
Got recommended to try here via the LPSG forum, I just didn't fit in there
Pirate raid from BM.
😆
Yes. YES!
The very first time, I was a BikeMagic user, (seems most were!) something posted there, from here made me join and be an a-hole for 5 minutes until I was banned. Can't imagine why I thought that was funny, but there you go.
Joined again properly, (presumably with a different user name) when I got bored of BM.
Some friends I used to cycle with all hung out here to chat shit when not on bikes, Snakebite, Scruff, PQ, Singlespped keith and a few others.......place was much smaller and more like a group of mates back then
From GoFar, although there was a mail list as well in those days, can't for the life of me remember it's name.
I was redirected from a porn site.
Bikemagic died, i cam here.
BM refugee - waves at NickC and Stoner 🙂 That was after buying issue 1 of the mag from Chipps at the Bike Show at the NEC. The same day the STW hire van was nicked with - if I remember rightly - most of the mags and Mark's pants!
Hubby was on the GoFar site. It wibbled into STW which I liked.
Couldn't post on his log in, so got my own. 2006 for me.
Found myself organising a SheCycles ladies ride at Swinley Forest and someone suggested posting on here in case any ladies or partners would like to join. Seems donkey's years ago now but it was a terrific day and couldn't have happened without so many kind-hearted helpers.
Refugee from that kids sand pit known as Bikemagic (tragic) in 2001.
God that makes me feel old.
I was trying to find out about a bike I had seen called 'Compo'.
i cam here.
And the circle is complete.
GoFar was just getting interesting as MTB Wales was going quiet. Much the same, but with more from over the border.
Fruit of superstarcomponents fame before it existed sent me a link. I t seemed like a better thing to do than revise for my exams.
Now it seems a like a better thing to do than work.
