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There are loads of good folk on here, with pearly words of wisdom, funny, interesting backgrounds etc. So, your shortlist of the 3 you'd most want to meet in 'real life':
I'll kick off with:
Bullheart - he's got a "shusky" dog, nothing to do with that boring cancer malarky
Emsz - cos she makes me laugh!
TJ - to see if he can out-talk me 🙂
Over to you - your top 3?
(and keep it nice, no 'who you'd least like to meet', this is a positive vibe thread 🙂 )
Jedi - coz I haz no skillz
Elfinsafety - because I think he'd be fun.
Lady Gresley - weird name, intriguing posts.
Sue_W coz I bet she's hot!
john drummer- old goff n maker of jolly good music
epicyclo- seems to be an all round decent chap and maker of mad bike shaped creations
EDIT (see druidhs post below)philconsequence- he makes me chuckle 😀
met lots of folks from here and there's only a few who are a bit "odd"
GW, Coastkid, Stanfree, Davesport.... wait a minute....
cheers tazzy 🙂 <blushes>
I reckon elfinsafety would be a good laff
tazzymtb - to reminisce about good old music
don simon - to teach me Spanish. Hablo un poco espanol, pero...
someone with a decent bike who'd let me have a go
someone who would show me some good trails
someone who would bring me a nice sandwich
TSY is really boring in person.tazzymtb - MemberTSY/philconsequence- they make me chuckle
Stoner- uually got something interesting to say
TJ - suspect he'd drive me nuts which is ok sometimes,makes me feel alive
Jedi- he sounds a laugh and I need help!
Foxyrider cuz I heard she's fit (haha there I said it... pictures please, email in profile ta 😉 )
I'm not fussy. List your phone numbers and we can do it tomorrow at 7!
Elfin - comes across as a total arse a lot of the time but I suspect he's really a sound bloke.
TJ - as above.
Jedi - I'm a muppet on a mountain bike and I reckon he could help me a lot.
doug@basquemtb 😆 for holiday
grumm`n zokes for pic taking advice
loco for forks
smudge..got a light
jedi for riding tips
elfin, tj, sfb out of curiosity
druidh for some biking up north
I'd like to meet Yunki. He comes across as someone who might have a lot of interesting things to say, but doesn't shout about it.
mrnutt - regularly makes really humorous posts (we don't see enough of him).
davidtaylforth - the best troll on the forum - probably because he doesn't post too often. He does seem to be able to pick the right pressure point though.
sanny - just to hear him describe some of his rides.
None, I can think of a few I'd avoid like the plague though...
Tbh I don't really register who posts what so I couldn't really say whose posts I enjoy, if any..
I think the chap with the spiders would be interesting to talk to for an hour or so, I am always pleased to see when he posts more pics and info.
Think I've met all the ones I want to meet.
Too many to mention, but Zulu-eleven is well up the list.
i'd meet anyone off here.
met loads of people and they've all been sound in real life.
Hmmm, Ernie for one. Seems like an incredibly politically aware chap and has a very dry sense of humour.
TJ - just to see if he really is like his internet persona! 😉
Same for elfinfreddedbra....
Apart from that, any cycling ladies who frequent the forum who aren't put off by dwarves....
Probably Stoner as he talks sense and seems to have a sound, reality based world view.
Others- TJ, Elfin and Ernie plus a stopwatch. 'Cause if their on-line personas are anything like reality I'd like to know how long I could stay in the same room with them- and vice versa.
GW strangely...
muddydwarf - Member
Apart from that, any cycling ladies who frequent the forum who aren't put off by dwarves....
loads of ladies at Llandegla today, wether they were stw is another matter
Too many to mention ... can't decide ...
I've met a few, all seemed nice enough! Not sure I've anyone in particular i'd meet but there's a fair few I'd happily share a beery evening with.
Met (or know) a lot of the usual suspects, can tell you most that I have met are even bigger personalities in person than online... Yes Elf, I'm including you in that... 😉
Of the many I've still not met though, think GW intrigues me the most. Mainly cos I've heard by people I know who have met him, his riding is even bigger than his ego! A pretty rare thing for STW indeed, but if it's true, he must be almost as quick as Steve Peat!
Deadlydarcey, mainly cos of his sharp wit. Don't always agree with why he has to say, but he's sharp which makes him interesting...
Loddrik and hughjayteens cos they have good taste (own Mavericks too) and I'm pretty sure I know everyone else on here who regularly rides a Mav (not many of us!).
TJ, because although pretty much everything he says I disagree with, I'm sure I've been told that he's a gem of a guy in real life
Just to show off, i've met TJ, Jedi (even elf) and they are bigger personalities in real life. I'd like to ride with anyone on here really just to pedal around new places
None of you are real, this forum is just part of a massive bot chat experiment.
I've never (knowingly) met any one from here (apart from picking up things from the classifieds) - I think most people on here would be good to meet 🙂
Wot - folks on here are real???
I like meeting people - I'll ride with anyone.
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but will anyone ride with me slow, old me??
i want to meet bullheart, cynical al 🙂
Met a few people off here and haven't had a bad experience yet. I'll get along with pretty well anyone who isn't an egotistical c**k.
Looking forward to riding with some of the "visible" forumites who ride in Scotland like TJ, druidh, 13FM etc
Think Druidh is the only person that wouldn't already know I'd like to meet them.
trailmonkey - Member
i'd meet anyone off here.
On one thread he's a swotty swot swot and on another, he's a shlaaaaaag. 😐
CFH and Jedi are the only folk on my 'to do' list 😉
*opens thread
cmd-F
"captjon"
stomps off in a huff, muttering about ingrates...*
I'm one of the few to have met CharlieMungus in real life.
TJ, cos i want to have a go on a tandem
I often wonder if i have actually met loads of people from here but the fact that i use my name means 2 and 2were never put together.
I already know a lot of the Scottish contingent. I'd like to meet Tsy, Elf, Deadlydarcy, Ton, mboy, Sanny and cinnamongirl. Lots of others who don't spring to mind. I guess I just like meeting and riding with new people 🙂
CFH - just to see if he is like his forum persona
Jedi - to find out new ways of hurting myself (or not) on a bike
Bullheart - to see what sort of chimera he is.
seen as i have met some of the characters off here (hora, stopadoodledoo, elfin)
i think tj would be quite good, TSY and markdatz (i think thats his name) he was a troll (i think) from a few months back
I dont have a to do list - tbh having met some of the northern based characters some of the more extreme characters are as dull as can be in real life.....when they have to be themselves.
don't really mind. there's a definite list of people i plan on avoiding though!
CFH: Seems like a nice guy, and we can chat about Salcombe
Yunki: Already met him, but a really lovely guy that can put stuff into perspective. His other half makes awesome cakes too.
Elfin: Seems funny, and he can tell me all about that there London.
One day I'd like to meet me.
I'd like to meet CaptJon. He's an academic and lives near me. The only forumites I've met who are academics and live near me have been complete idiots.
😳 kind words I think
I just want to carry on meeting folk from here. Met a few over the years and had a few laughs and been shown some good riding - and also shown a few folk around my local trails.
Very few folk I wouldn't want to meet, far too many to mention I would like to meet. I fancy doing a grand UK tour looking for the best of UK riding and meeting as many STWers as I can
FWIW, TJ's amongst the nicest 3 or 4 STWers i've met so far...
I don't think there's anyone I wouldn't want to meet. I know plenty of people who are absolutely lovely IRL but total nobbers as soon as they get within three feet of an Internet connection.
Judge people solely by their online persona and you miss out on meeting some very interesting people.
I best say Khani...as I'm meeting him next wkend 🙂
Met Junkyard, Mr and Mrs nbt, herbivore and a few others on a recentish Rivi ride - great folks all.
Sanity Assassin, Tee2sugars, Cynical, druidh, jojo, thebikechain, Speystout, Bikepawl, TJ, LukeB, hairyscarey, treemagnet, houns, vosh, steve austin (plus loads I've forgotton at this point). Ridden with that lot quite a few times over the years, and still do.
Have met Elf once but he don't know me.
Even my missus posts on here but no-one else knows who she is.
. I fancy doing a grand UK tour looking for the best of UK riding and meeting as many STWers as I can
That's an awesome idea
I'd like to meet Capt.Jon, Nodrog2, Dr Death and CharlieMungus.
🙂 at the big hitters tag. Did we ever resolve the who are the big hitters issue?
Ive been lucky enough to have met quite a few off here (7 or 8 I think) and they are all, to a man, excellent people. There's a few I have no interest in meeting, but I think Id like to meet, in no particular order: timbur, toys19, cougar, mcmoonter, sharki, geoffj. Also edukator, globalti, and dobbo etc to bore each other about biomass and solar panels 😉
Oh and darcy, assuming he will deign to not stand me up next time 😉
paulosoxo - Member
I'd like to meet Capt.Jon, Nodrog2, Dr Death and CharlieMungus.at the big hitters tag. Did we ever resolve the who are the big hitters issue?
If we learn anything frOm history, it is that we learn nothing from history.
Very few folk I wouldn't want to meet, far too many to mention I would like to meet. I fancy doing a grand UK tour looking for the best of UK riding and meeting as many STWers as I can
That's been a "major lottery win and lots of free time" idea of mine for a while, hire a van and take my shiny new bling-to-the-max bike out round the best riding spots of the the UK.
I would like to meet any of you, but preferably not on a dark night, when we have disagreed,
Also would like to say thankyou in person to any paramedics, or mountain rescue for the job they do, and to make up for all the people who abuse them when theyure trying to help, and for ones who never say thankyou to them.
Binners, ton, hora, TSY, Jamie, barnsleymitch.
Oh and deadlydarcy to watch some rugby in town over a few beers.
This got me thinking about the people i've met/been riding with from STW
I've met
tollah, tazzy, militant/vegan graham, King of sweden, singlespeedstu, sofaking, sharki, Sam@singular, jedi, terrahawk, Tootall, chas (thurman merman), tazzy, Stevebarbarian, markenduro, mark@joyriders, sioffofwebbs
I'd most like to meet ssjeff (as i've heard lots about him) idave and of course TJ (also like to meet dirtygirlonabike as I chat to her on email a bit)
Oh god 😳
I'm too shy. I don't think I could introduce myself...But there's loads I'd like to meet, TJ, Yeti, Elf, Ernie, Stoner, nickf, DezB, SueW, Cinammon Girl, Em82, MrsToast, Ton, AdamW. to name just a few.
There's such a verity on here. There's so many people I reckon would be so interesting to spend time with.
waves to trickydisco.
I met TJ on the latest Rivi ride along with Junkyard, Herbivore and a few others. Met Pook, binners NBT and hora on a social in manchester a while back. Hope to meet a few more and i'll be moving to Wales in a couple weeks so if anyone is headed over to CyB or Betws, gimme a shout!
so you are not **** in real life then 😛Judge people solely by their online persona and you miss out on meeting some very interesting people
TBH there is no one I would not meet a few I would be less keen on and some I would quite like to
I've met some really nice people from the other place, many of them may be on here under different names.
I owe TJ thanks for help.
And Lady G - your wish might yet come true.
I've met quite a few IRL - they are all very nice. WLTM all of you, especially the women, but particularly TJ, Elaine Anne, Munq Chick, Allthegear, Rocketdog - oh, all of you really.
Karinofnine, we have met 😳
I clearly made an impression!
I'm going to have to expand my list of 3!
Definately like to meet the other STW girls - Ko9, c_g, bagpuss72, bunnyhop, Rachel, Lady G etc
CFH for an insiders guide to London
ernie_lynch to talk politics (and I already owe him a pint)
all the STW 'giving up smokers, cos you're all 'awesome' 🙂
TJ - if your UK tour happens, you and Ms/Mrs TJ are more than welcome at mine anytime
highclimber - what part of Wales are you heading to? There's a few of us in the north / Snowdonia.
Anyone female
RD, of course - you were the really really handsome one!
isn't that you with the orange 5?
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I'd really like to stop meeting hora! There are too many to list who I've not yet met. Phil, jamie, CG and all the people who regularly make me laugh. Especially the southern contingent. I've met a lot of the nortern monkeys. Every one of the numerous people I've met have been fine human beings! 🙂
I bumped into Elf once, funny because I didn't need to be introduced to know it was him.... He then followed my down Barry Knows Best but I dropped him 😉
Yes that's me on my 5 with my back to the camera. Ugh, my backside looks enormous. I think it was that ride where I disappeared at lunchtime. I wasn't well and had to leave in a hurry, which would explain why I don't remember much about it.
No one want to meet me?
I hate you lot 😉
Met a few, and spent a weekend with Sharki - everyone has been...um...cool 😀
if that backside is enormous, then mine is the size of a small family car!
Waiting for philconsequence to organise the next Swinley ride, wherein I expect to find out that everyone is everyone...
I've met loads of STW'er regulars. Only twice I've thought 'he's abit odd'.
Binners you are like my less attractive twin 😉
Girlie, long time lurker but infrequent poster so no one wants to meet me...just as well as I'm a short feisty Northerner living darn sarf.
I would like to meet hora, binners and the other geezer in that group but I have forgotten his forum name haha! 😆
I would like to meet hora, binners
aleigh, take it from me, you might want to rethink that. 🙂