With all the excitement of last night’s threads behind us (and as a relative newbie to the forum), I’d like to know: What are the Greatest Hits threads of STW over the years?

Picolax was before my time so it has to be either Sudacrem Cat or Ling

Picolax

How to get Sudocreme off a cat?

Magnetodog.

I also enjoyed Is there any such thing as a road legal hovercraft? but it doesn’t attract the attention it deserves.

Do headsets come with a crown race?

FS: Silent Clutch hub.

Any coffee thread where the bloke who sells coffee machines and electric guitars pops up to recommend spending more on your espresso machine than your bike, and more again on the grinder.

Any attempt at astroturfing by fruit/tango/superstar

The guy (Simon?) who got off with his wife’s best friend on the sofabed and then came here for advice.

Any time WCA has a world-class accident or gets accosted by Juan* “excuse me, are you ze World-Class Accident”?

*
whatever happened to him?

deja vu senses tingling

I enjoyed the mixologist hipster guy one who happened to be on here.

Penguin Jizz.

Mrs toast and Jamie’s legendary photoshoping.

Airplanes on conveyor belts.
Anything photoshopped by the much missed Jamie.

I find the lack of links disturbing…

If you think I’m going to bang in a search for Penguin [ahem] Reproductive Fluids on my work computer you’ve got another thing coming!

Pun entirely intentional.

The car leasing thread where ling appeared was highly amusing.
Picolax has me in tears everytime i read it

Pilolax was funny at the time, I think it’s impact pales a bit in the re-reading…

I find the lack of links disturbing…

abingham needs to show he is serious about this place by putting the effort in! 😁

Picolax and Magnetodog for me.

abingham needs to show he is serious about this place by putting the effort in! 😁

You mean a website exists with a search function that actually works? Surely not!

You mean a website exists with a search function that actually works? Surely not!

Google for site:http:\\www.singletrackworld.com and then the search criteria, it works a lot better than the search bar on the site.

The guy (Simon?) who got off with his wife’s best friend on the sofabed and then came here for advice.

Oh I missed this one, any links?

I am still enjoying the gifs thread

Anyone else remember the guy with an “outdoor” girlfriend, as opposed to his “indoor” girlfriend?
Talking maybe 6 or 7 years ago…

The guy (Simon?) who got off with his wife’s best friend on the sofabed and then came here for advice.

Oh I missed this one, any links?

Don’t get excited, it wasn’t me 🙂

Argh! My eye is a great thread and the Ling one was fun

Oh I missed this one, any links?

Google finds nothing so may have been pre hack, definitely a while ago. The username I thought it was exists but hasn’t got any threads linked to it so I guess it was pre one of the updates.

Anyone else remember the guy with an “outdoor” girlfriend, as opposed to his “indoor” girlfriend?

The other way around wasn’t it? He was the outdoor boyfriend, but she lived with another guy?

Argh! My eye is a great thread

Beat me to it. That’s possibly my all-time favourite.

The mammal top trumps (starts towards the bottom of the first page) on this one has been sadly forgotten.

https://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/how-many-of-you-are-bored-stiff-at-work-and-clock-watching-waiting-for-it-to-end/

and seems like many of the pic links no longer work, but still plenty there to raise a smile.

I Google Things So You Don’t Have To. In no particular order:

The Picolax Thread.

Sodocrem Cat.

Argh, my eye!

As it popped up in another thread yesterday, Mr Nutt’s Allotment.

Magnetodog.

Outdoor boyfriend.

Improving my wife signal.

Any more for any more?

Picolax was of a time, still well crafted writing but now locks the shock and awe factor.

Magnetodog, especially the denouement (you did put a magnet behind the picture for old time’s sake didn’t you)

For those that were here at the time, Sudocrem cat, especially his (young at the time) daughter and her emergency Union Jack, I’m sure i read that she’s now at University or started a fmaily or retired or something, hust to make us realise how old we all are.

My neighbour’s hedge or fence or whatever it was – I don’t remember but it was very clever at the time.
{edit – Mr Nutt’s allotment, just reread following the link above. Superb, I’m 4 pages in, when you know the ending the gentle drip feeding in of the clues is just brilliant, and all those that haven’t got it yet getting increasingly angry at his inability to MAN UP!! No spoilers please, but you should be scriptwriting for Inside Number 9}

There was also the thread by the guy who was so fed up with his courier failing to deliver that he arranged for them to collect a parcel from his own address and deliver it to himself to prove they knew where it was.

That was great, if not a classic.

RIP Joe Cocker

RIP Joe Cocker II

RIP Joe Cocker III

RIP Joe Cocker IV

RIP Joe Cocker V

notice the theme?

Improving the wife signal was superb.

Sudocreme cat still makes me cry with laughter, Picolax has worn off. As it were.

The one about the elite Taekwondo club based in Edinburgh. Could of kicked the shit out of pro MMA fighters but didn’t bother as they all earned £500k a year anyway.

There was also the thread by the guy who was so fed up with his courier failing to deliver that he arranged for them to collect a parcel from his own address and deliver it to himself to prove they knew where it was.

That certainly was a small piece of genius

I’m going to add this one
Parcel Force laser and the law

You mean a website exists with a search function that actually works? Surely not!

You’re not new here are you?

The “Badger” thread was mixture of eye-wateringly funny and feeling so sorry for Badger who just dug deeper and deeper. As Badgers do I suppose 🙂

There was also a great thread years ago by a user called “42” who posted pictures of himself in various poses showing you “how ‘ard” he was….

And who can forget the pics of the young lad modelling “full Enduro kit” in his bedroom in his mum and dads house?

So many classics . . .

Not forgetting Smurmatts legendary tales of driving prowess.

iirc the thread where someone ‘had to’ drive over someone else’s verge to get up their own drive.

Any thread to do with removing wasp nests is usually good. Or in-laws at Christmas.

The guy (Simon?) who got off with his wife’s best friend on the sofabed and then came here for advice.

I don’t remember that one either 🙁

(and as a relative newbie to the forum)

Yeah, but are you Fred?

To agree with some of the above, the Tango/Neil threads were epic. And spawned, inexplicably, Octoporn

Found the ling thread
This one went on for a bit

The Ling thread was the only thread I can remember, where I couldn’t read fast enough to keep up with all the new posts as they were coming in so fast.