... as opposed to other bike forum. forums. fori. (?)
For me, it's because there are very few, if any, threads drivelling on and on about:
1. RLJers (mostly the self-righteous justification of)
2. Riding with headphones (ditto)
3. Pointless 'almost knocked off my bike' commuting tales.
4. Not wearing a helmet will kill you to death. Or not.
5. You're disrespecting the whole world and everything in it if you wear a certain cycle top if you haven't 'earnt' it 🙄
The extreme views...
The smiley back-slappin' / outraged lunacy combo and these: 😆 😥 😡 😯 8) 
I really like that STW forum has such a broad spectrum of the UK population on it so that when subjects are discussed you get balanced views that are not bigoted, or in any way wrong.
The smell.
errrm, . . ummmm, . . .
no sorry!
I like the big hitters, they're like celebrities to me.
i like all the unopinionated views on different tyres
There's one poster who above all others makes me come back, again and again.
I don't want to make them big headed though.
[i]There's one poster who above all others makes me come back, again and again.[/i]
It's you, isn't it?
People who post intriguing comments but deliberately leave out the punchline. 🙄
The great minds .
All the same things I like about crack cocaine.
I really like that STW forum has such a broad spectrum of the UK population on it so that when subjects are discussed you get balanced views that are not bigoted, or in any way wrong.
😆
Yeah, wot he sed! ^ 😀
Top banter and good advice. It's like being in the tap room with me mates!
That you can ask a question on seemingly any subject and get a good answer on it.
I've got good advice on engagement rings, TV's and anti-virus software to name 3. Oh and bikes, bikes as well.
For me its the sharing of routes that I really like. Several times I have gone to otehr parts of the country and met up with folk who have showed me the best of their local riding adn I have also been given routes in places as well
The bargains to be had in the For Sale section
What's STW?
The total absence of sarcasm!
I like meeting up with people, who always turn out to be sound blokes. Always blokes. Always white. Always christian. Obviously 😉
Met some new folk out for a ride last Sunday and had a right giggle.
And I like getting blamed for everything. Makes me feel, well.... 'special' 😀
It's where I go to get:
a) laughs (the 'grass needs cutting' gag still always gets me)
b) answers (no matter how niche - spoke tension on jockey wheel of 1940's bi-plane anyone?)
c) decent kit (have yet to be sent any shonky gear).
Binners - you are "special" or as Gervais would say - you're a mong.
*titters*
+1 for the garden / kitchen comments. The one about fence post tops missing some time last week made me wee a bit.
I love it because it's full of clever funny opinionated people of all sorts, every day it makes me laugh, and learn something. It's like sitting on a lovely comfy sofa with all your mates and just laughing and taking the piss, lush
Picolax
[i]The one about fence post tops missing some time last week made me wee a bit. [/i]
As the recipient of that comment I must confess I still haven't rectified the situation.
The shame is still making my face burn, though.
I like it cos sometimes you get threads where someone has pallet-wrapped Hora's car, thus creating happiness and joy for the World and it's people. 🙂
Bum humour.
Makes me realise that my problems are really quite insignificant compared to some 😉
It's the funniest, best laid out forum there is. Populated by lots of people who think they know everything but know nothing, some who seem to know almost everything and some who make out they know nothing but actually know a lot! The debates make me laugh, squirm, spit tea over my keyboard and sometimes get angry. And it is the online encyclopedia of all things bike related. Genius and constant entertainment.
The in depth discussion on matters of great importance, like crown races. And planes on conveyor belts.
Tony Slattery
we, the collective are all experts, we are always right and everyone else is wrong. that and threads like PICOLAX
Actually nothing, I think it's a load of crap. 😈
It's insight like that, that keeps you in the Top 30 reasons to come here.
The humour, and the way there's always someone who (genuinely) knows better than you.
As well as another 10 people who just think they do.
the Top 30 reasons to come here.
The other 29 reasons are all about antelopes hitting cyclists in slow-motion. I'm right aren't I? 😉
I'm right aren't I?
You [i]think[/i] you are and that's what's important.
I love the way that instead of getting to the bottom of a long page of text and simply hitting a button to be taken back to the forum section you were in, you have to either scroll all the way back up, or hit 'back to the top' (which isn't in portrait mobile view) and then the right sub-section.....
Just sayin... 😀
It's insight like that, that keeps you in the Top 30 reasons to come here.
And all 30 are better than the alternatives, aren't they?
Did someone mention antelopes? *runs off to Google/Youtube.*
The sheer undiluted idealism of the chattering classes as they pontificate on matters they will never even come close to encountering in their comfortable middle class lives is a joy to behold, and makes me apprecaite what makes Britain Great 😆
My favourite thing is the green bit with the links on. S'pretty.
I come here for the pious cockjockery.
Actually nothing, I think it's a load of crap
especially the picolax thread. loads and loads and loads of it.
what tyres for some willy waving?
Sticky rubber.
😆
STW Magazine? Nowt. Don't read it.
STW Forums? Photo's of Orange 5's.
Impenetrable arguments from dim ideologues.
The occasional insanity of those with evident personality issues.
Embedded videos of stuff I didn't know about.
The Captain.
Do you have an STW habit, or could you stop it, Woppit? 😉
It's not just the humour I like here, but the way people generally take it on the chin and don't get too arsey when mocked.
Also... Kiwidave(?)'s contribution to the Sierra Cycling thread.
camo16 - Member
Do you have an STW habit, or could you stop it, Woppit?
Nope. Crack. Hooked, ****ed. 🙂
Entertaining threads..... and watching people fall to their e-death from their ever-so high horses.
I love the soft touch of the mods.......
...the comedy and the BS, oh and the occasional interesting mtb idea
I appreciate the religious tolerance and the unmatched consideration shown for nuanced ideas and textual scholarship.
I also love the thoughtful, objective ways in which socio-political questions are addressed, and the fact that all views are so respected.
Less ironically, I genuinely appreciate the advice people are willing to give.
But best of all, I really do love the humour. When this place is at its best, it can hardly be beat. That's why I keep coming back. 😀
The way that despite all the bickering we close around one of our own.
http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/fighting-cancertoday-is-tough
forum rides
meeting up with friends made from the forum
the puppy/kitten/pets threads
the support from complete strangers when someone is suffering
the pisstaking
the kids face, muslamic swans, helmet saved my life, binners and hora, will snog for chips, what coffee maker for uppermiddleclasswhineycockbags new kitchen threads.
i need other people to make decisions for me,
i need advice i already plan on ignoring,
why do people have different opinions than my obviously right one threads
oh, and bikes 😀
To be told I'm a tw*t by people I have never met. How did they know? 😳
Jeez; has that tw*t Bagstard turned up?
Apart from all the bickering?
cakefests thread..
And bullheart...
Good to get a hard slap of perspective in the face.
Sorry! 😳 I'll get my coat.
I like the American Hot on a Romana base.
Oh... hold on... That's what I like about Pizza Express.