I know its probably already done the rounds but i just found this and thought i’d post it up for some Friday (by default) fun….

so, what do you reckon?

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=singletrackworld

about right except we’re not all fatties (or men) :o)

i don’t work in engineering or IT, and I’m not fat.

The rest is accurate though

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no audi
no belly

not far wrong tho!

The first one’s me.
😀

Soon to be pretty accurate for me as I’ll be 40 this year 😀

so, what do you reckon?

He sounds a touch bitter. Did somebody wee in his shoes?

Cor there’s some proper bile in those definitions

Opinionated and arguementative seem to fit a lot of people on here.

LOL – I suspect that someone weed in his mouth to be that bitter… 😉

Opinionated and arguementative

would you prefer prefer credulous and self-effacing ?

Shorter definition: Mountain biker who cares more about punctuation than riding.

Mountain biker who cares more about punctuation that riding.

ore spellin ?

Using Pareto (80:20 rule) to analyse the STW population, I’m sure we’d find that 80% do fit in nicely with the stereotypes on Urban Dictionary! I’m just glad I come into the 20%, not being middle aged (I’m still in my 20’s), not owning an Audi, not working in IT or engineering, not owning a singlespeed/rigid/ti/expensive AM bike at all.

Though I can’t ride for toffee, so I suppose that means I qualify by proxy!

Bloody funny though those descriptions though! Made me chuckle.

Simon – Were you meaning to prove my point?

God help us all if SfB is typical for STW…

Simon – Were you meaning to prove my point?

you had a point ?

Really is sad to see someone would go to the effort of writing such a thing though – they must have really been upset by people on here.

Incidentally whilst being an engineer and occasionally riding a SS I dont really fit the rest of the criteria. Maybe I should leave and find one of the vacuous, banal fora in which to waste my time.

2nd one must have humiliated (ridden past up hill) by a thin bloke in lycra team kit on a carbon/ti xc bike. Alternatively he could just be a fat looser who has not reached what he thought was his potential because the bag of chips on shoulder holds him back.

1st on is not fair.

they must have really been upset by people on here.

I thought it was an entertaining, tongue-in-cheek critique. It is of course spurious to dismiss unknown 3rd parties as poseurs when it’s impossible to assess their skills or devotion to mountain biking though a written medium. I think it goes without saying that if you’re not quite involved with the sport you’d have no reason to participate on here.

I think you grant the author(s) with too much assumed intelligence 🙂

Getting close to it…

Nearly became an engineer and nearly bought an Audi.

Overweight-check

Pompous-check

Single speed-not anymore!

Close but no cigar baby 😈

Obviously whoever wrote that explanation must have posted on the forum and got ripped by the feckers on here like me. 😐

It does’nt apply to me either 🙂

Zaskar, I replied on your posting re the shifter’s your selling but i’ve not heard anything from you. I’ll take em if you tak paypal, email me on spev11 at gmail.com

LOL

or how they “smoked some downhillers” whilst riding their rigid on-one wearing a blindfold on the black route.

PMSL, theres loads of them on here!

You have to admit there are a lot of engineers on here. Obviously you expect the ITers ‘cos they are all on computers and bored rigid.

A remarkable number of engineers ride MTBs – I’d guestimate 50% of the people I’ve met randomly on trails and struck up a conversation with have been engineers.

“ego chariots”
“asshats”
😆

There should be a new definition being added shortly. Don’t know if it’ll improve matters though…

Muppettastic.

Check out http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=mountain+bike

Overall, I think they are a backwards development in cycling technology.

😕

No audi.. Not fat.. Don’t have a singlespeed, not an engineer… maybe I’m on the wrong site?? 😉

Hmmm

Audi check! (sold the TT for an RX8)
Fat check (far too many years off the bike being corrected now)
Rigid Singlespeed check! 94 Cincercone conversion in the shed.
Job title “Software (check!) Engineer (check!)”
Argumentative check!
English FAIL. Despite being 16 years in Twickers AKA HQ, I consider myself Welsh Canadian
Trail Centre check! (Nant yr Arian a few minutes ride from the front door)

Only joined in Jan after the crash. Already feel at home thanks guys ;D

work in IT? – check.

laugh out loud at a discussion about which way up to eat a chocolate biscuit? – check

get told to shut the f^ck up by the missus as i try to convey the hilarity of said biscuit thread? – check

I really should find that other forum called ‘SocialistBatteredFiestaDrivingFroggyTwattingAboutInTheWoodsBuildingSillyLittleTrailsWorld.com

I do like to read a good long word that I then have to look up in the dictionary though. I have learnt quite a few from here. But I save my grammar pedantry for when other folk correct each other and then get their own posts less than perfect. If we didn’t say things wrong or jumbled up then we would still speak like the Elizabethans!

Mid life crisis?

I’m 17. (And unemployed (woooo!))

lol it’s not hard to work out who wrote those and which forum they are based on