[Closed] Whatever happened to . . . . . former STW'ers

Always been Ambrose, always will be that name too if I can. Lurked for a long time. When MTB-Wales slowed down spent more and more time here. Met a few people off this site, all seem to be decent upstanding citizens whom I'd invite home for tea. Not met a single psycho yet. I'm sure that it will happen eventually though.

Anyone for a bothy trip next weekend? Details on MTB-Wales.com .

Elbry Sandland
he never failed to live up to expectation....

Dave not sure I'm on that pic think I did a ride with coogle and Benji across the moors.

2004 for me,just about the time pedalthread arrived with his twine travel measurement system.And that sheepish looking chap pumping the penguin(fnarr)was the funniest thread,next to picolax natch, I can remember.

2002 for me i think. i was cats-mark back then.

Haven't heard from these guys in an age, however I've only recently been back to the forum.

AndyC
Mousefinder
Fatknacker
Walt
Plitts
Salsaboy

hello catsmark [WAVES]

i've covered andyc and mfg

salsaboy still rides a bit, he's still a miserable c**t too 🙂

does my diaper look big in this.....

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Have any passed away? Don't forget sometimes a fellow rider would note to others however how would we know if one of us did go? Disappear forever.

chemo died

Here are some more:

The Hood
Taz
Millwall Gaz

I used to be Hora. If that helps anyone? 😆

hora - help someone is something you've never done

2002 me been off the forum for a few years tho

+1 houns, bring back the humor !

The good old days, when you didn't need an account to post- just post as anon. Not sure how that'd go down now, mind.

PiersB
poet, now admanmatt, selling advertising on this here site
JonWIII (sexmidget?) - saw his name on a couple of reviews in the mag.

Keep hoping I can find the enthusiasm to start getting out more and meet some new folk to ride with. I mean... living in the Lakes now it shouldn't be that hard should it?

(sometimes I miss Stirling)

Hey Rob, I hope everything has settled down for you. We all miss you as well!

B. 8)

my 2 fav threads of all time were "42 flexing and posing" and "Badger blowing things up". In both cases the person on the receiving end seemed frustrated almost to the point of tears.

I know that shouldn't be so amusing, but it was 🙂

I also miss the anon function. Maybe we could have a friday confessions (anon) just for one day????????????

Numplumz used to be a regular. Not herad from him in ages.

*waves back at MrMW*

Been here since 2001 as me, not a great poster but a huge lurker. And huge waster or work bandwidth!

Numplumz - jack is still riding by the looks of it, not seen him since D2D a few years ago

http://twitter.com/numplumz

I've been oldgit since I was young. dunno when I started, I know it was when issue 1 came out.

What was the name of that singlespeed collective back then, singlespeed jihad?

it's along time since the stw weekends at pat's B&B in Betws (he's still on here as raindog).

don't think he's ever forgiven chipps for leaving glass marks on his coffee table by melting the varnish with cask strength whisky

I remember SSP - singlespeedpunk

2003 for me..

Either as BigNick or as I am now...

Didn't realise that "Fit it with a rock" actually had provenance

I think fitting things with a rock was from a thread about the warranty on superstar cranks, was it not? Someone'd got very aerated about his cranks not fitting, and had been forced to smash them on with a rock the morning of a race.. and then fruit had complained that fitting with a rock invalidated the warranty...

The rock fittign thing was LukeB posting here under an alias and beign caught out.

The good old days, when you didn't need an account to post- just post as anon.

Fat Tyre festival at Coed Y Brenin, which I think was 2003 was a good laugh.

The only Ye Olde STW meet up I went to was HamsterFest, at Hamsterley Forest in the very early days of the site. Andy Armstrong was there, plus TomL. Anyone else go?

Hope Darren doesn't mind me posting his image. 3rd or 4th Woburn STW meet. We had to split up into two groups for this one this was the 'core' group?
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Just noticed, everyones a bit camera shy 😕

i'm in that somewhere

Core to the Frickin max baby. Check that hair out!

I'm RHS. I still float around like a turd that can't be flushed away.

"I mean... living in the Lakes now it shouldn't be that hard should it?"

Rob, where abouts in the lakes are you?

I've been here since 03 under various guises...

Hora's not changed his name for a while.

I used to look forward to his name changes. I could then bet on how many seconds it would take for everyone to work out it was him

lol back in those days i used tro post as ssslllooowww, I remember snakebite and scruff and a couple of us offering to meet a few off here and show them aroung Cannock chase, the few turned into a group of over a hundred.........

SeaLoin was hora's "this is a troll" name.

I was usurped by an interloper

I used to lurk in the GoFar days and signed up just after it changed to STW. No idea when it was.

Badgerboy, he has gone too, but then he never posted much anyway (so that's a waste of time ten!)

what happened to Tinkerbelle?

Managed to go to a couple of Thetford Yuletide rides 2002 / 2003 - one organised by Grueller who appears occasionally. Bez turned up at one with JoB and few others from the south coast.

Never felt up to meeting for a proper hilly ride - no fun in being the fat, wheezy bloke holding everyone up!

[b]Drac[/b] - we met, oh 2003? Rode in the Cheviots with you & TimC, you on your old Rockhopper, me on a black Sub5 if that helps. My wife still laughs about it today - "you and two fit blokes" as she likes to say.

Just remembered the early STW Peak rides
Stevem
Ben Haworth
Peiere? the ex rower??
Who else?

The good old days, when you didn't need an account to post- just post as anon. Not sure how that'd go down now, mind.

It was worse than that, though, wasn't it? You could post under any old name, even if someone else was using it too, couldn't you? It could be pretty anarchic, especially if Dan or Beer were on a thread, but if I'm remembering that right then I'm surprised it wasn't worse than it was.

I think I first arrived in 2002, after Googling for information on Hope Minis. I think I lurked for a long while before posting. I've always used ChrisL as my name.

One of my earliest posts was "things I have learnt from the STW forum". Amongst the things I had learnt were:

[list]
[*]Hope Minis are the best brakes around[/*]
[*]On-One are the largest bike company in the world[/*]
[*]Aluminium is a niche frame material and aluminium frames are massively outsold by steel frames.[/*]
[*]It is perfectly normal for a bike's designer to answer any random questions within minutes of them be posted on the Internet.[/*]
[*]Hope Minis are the worst brakes around[/*]
[/list]

I used to use MTB Wales a lot and they were forever slagging this place off, so I came and lurked a bit then started posting, cant remember my name before the hacking incident. That is quite disturbing.

Funny thing is what the MTB Wales lot said about here being cliquey and arrogant summed them up perfectly 🙂

Kluster - he was a bit of a character

'don't think he's ever forgiven chipps for leaving glass marks on his coffee table by melting the varnish with cask strength whisky '

Um. It might not have been Chipps. That was TomL's fault really as he had to pay 'nipping off to bed' Tax in the form of Cask Strength Whiskey. What happened after that we cannot be held responsible for (PiersB fell of the wagon I know that!)

This is stirring memories. I used to ride a bit and post the odd comment.
Nice to see some old names.
Hello Lambchop.

Anyone know what Jez (Shatfest) is up to these days?

[i]Drac - we met, oh 2003? Rode in the Cheviots with you & TimC, you on your old Rockhopper, me on a black Sub5 if that helps. My wife still laughs about it today - "you and two fit blokes" as she likes to say. [/i]

Seems to ring a bell now, think Tim had just moved up to the area iirc?

[i]Kluster - he was a bit of a character [/i]

Poor Chris has back problems now and doesn't ride he misses it.

I'm still in touch with agony aunt, she left after the flak she got when she outed 42 when he sent her the "without Lycra" photos, she now manages her two daughters glamour modelling career

@BillyWhizz - I'm still here, just been quiet for the last 6 months as been having a junior, so now I'm back at work i can obviously kill my productivity on here again 🙂

she left after the flak she got when she outed 42 when he sent her the "without Lycra" photos,

I've heard some tale that's suspiciously similar to this; Skinny pasty lad, stalked some married woman, sent 'personal' pics, she posted them up on tinternet?

Daft bastard... 🙄

she now manages her two daughters glamour modelling career

😯

Hamburger?

Hi tinker-belle - still missing SA?

🙂

Hi SST - still miss it, but summer is on it's way and the little one keeps me happy and smiling so have definite reason's for hanging around 😉

The "42" pictures involved keys in inappropriate orifices...Truly a disturbed individual. I rode with him a couple of times, and he was just as random IRL. Myself and a couple of others invented Emily Green over on BM to properly wind him up.

I'm still in touch with agony aunt, she left after the flak she got when she outed 42 when he sent her the "without Lycra" photos,

What the ****?

I missed all this. There really are some utter wierdos on the internet.

Cool 🙂
Sadly for us winter is on it's way down here! Still hot enough yet though !

@SST - your winters are about as good as our summers 🙂 never thought I'd wear shorts at 20C, but I do these days.

You still doing ok?

Yes all good on the west rand. Just off for a road ride out to Fourways and back.

🙂

Um. It might not have been Chipps. That was TomL's fault really as he had to pay 'nipping off to bed' Tax in the form of Cask Strength Whiskey. What happened after that we cannot be held responsible for (PiersB fell of the wagon I know that!)

if i remember correctly Rob the whisky was a prize that Tom won for some singletrack competition. It makes sense that Chipps had to get it back as i doubt they could afford more than one bottle of whisky per year.

still here but dont have much to contribute these daysm still riding but not as much as back then, redundant at the end of this year and hoping to do a lot more riding from then on, this thread made me smile a lot remembering all the folks from back then

Yup some good times and met some good friends from those days.

yep made me smile remembering old threads - I changed name from D-Arsey with the big-bang.

Big aka mike (or whathever his tag was).

Not seen him about for ages, think he went off to melh, he always seemed to be top of the posting charts, when stw used to publish them.

Big mike got a chefs hat and a girlfriend!

Mike: That might or might not be the case. We DEFINATELY forced him to hand it over then we drunk the lot. Made PiersB go wonky eyed! Its amazing that I can recall this!

Howdy Salsaboy!!!

she now manages her two daughters glamour modelling career

Is that real? If not I think thats alittle unfair.

well, she was never too backward about showing her piercings off...

Email me and I'll point you in the direction of their website

now that's DEFINITELY not fair

share and share alike

YGM

From 2003:

AndyC

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Polly

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MrsMFG

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Panama

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MFG (BOOOOO HISSSS)

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From Redbull '02:

SwissChalli

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Sara

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sara

I dont know why but that reminds me of a girl who grew up in area of just guys in a group as young teenagers..

Not a good thought.

This is all bringing back memories.
Red bull 02. Also riding with you lot ^^^ at the first 'fat tyre challenge'(2003 I think) at Coed y Brenin, where Drac caught me with my shorts down 😳

Hehe I'd some how forgot about that. Pics availble for a small fee.

it seems nudity was a theme in those years:

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I miss Wendy, I loved the first FOD meet, it was a great laugh

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And the dancing...

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I think Psling was the one with his back turned to us 😉