Origins of "Own him with some bombers"…

"oneeyedwilly" still posts on here from time to time, albeit using a different account these days.
i ride with him every now and then too. he's a decent enough chap.
i'm not gonna tell you who he is though!

I'd forgotten how good that Badger thread was.

Toss away tossers.

Chasealex where are you??? old Spunky…

black man thread years back was funny,but got locked down dint it lukeb…

Anyone know a 'Lee Anderson'?

There was picture kicking around for a while that one of the Cannock Chase crowd had – Scruff, Snakebite? That had a young lad that also used the site who appeared to be in his jimjams.

I loved the derek starship belly thread.
I was properly laughing at that.
http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/a-warning-to-all-look-at-this-mofo-of-an-injury

deadlyhifi: just got round to reading that, brilliant! I salute you.

The Carbon steerer troll was a classic from a few years back

What I find mildly amusing is that in a whole 'seven degrees of seperation' type way… 'own him with some bombers' has seeped into mainstream culture..

I've heard the phrase used well outside of any STW spheres of influence… and also had the displeasure of helping to see off an angry chav from the local pub… who had turned up to 'own someone with a set of bombers' by way of settling some feud or another..
fact!

(in fact it was a set of unbranded oem forks from an apollo or something similar)

We need to get Oneeyedwilly back again, to thank him. It's a classic phrase!

how come im the only one that remembers the guy that was pretty new to the whole MTB thing.

he bought a new cycle top and posted up a pic of himself in said top infront of a mirror in his house.

the thread actually read "does this top look too tight on me" (or words to that effect)

he took it on the chin mind when about 400 people replied taking the p*ss out of him

Saw this at Sea Otter and thought of you all. Google revealed this origin story thread, and now I have learnt something new.

Surely these legendary threads should be mandatory reading as part of the STW towers onboarding process 😉

Also, seeing a 14 year old thread that I remember has made me feel old!

Wow, look at everyone (including me) talking about owning people with bombers already being an old piece of STW folklore 14 years ago!

The Oneeyed willy didnt just threaten the perp with his bomber lowers iirc  he locked him in a room until the police arrived!

Read from the start and thought Jamie was back until I saw the age of the thread. 😔

It’s a great list of the fallen. Did they all get a life beyond the Singletrack chat forum?

14 years! Jeez I feel old.

Chickenshit poltroon!

“Badger-San is unsatisfied with the responses to his innocent query about tyre inflation.”

14 years! Jeez I feel old.

it’s a 14 year old thread about a 10 year old thread, feel even older now?

Never mind all this, how do you get Sudocrem off a cat?

Anyone know a ‘Lee Anderson’?

Now you say it, the name rings a bell.

it’s a 14 year old thread about a 10 year old thread, feel even older now?

We can never be friends.

A trip down nostalgia lane reading the contributors of this post.

kaesae or whatever his name was, in the “Whats this joker on about?”

Was it kaesae who started the thread about the postman shining him in the eyes with a laser, which every one thought was some kind of performance “joke”. Unfortunately it turned out he was actually “troubled”, and he committed suicide not too long after. Personally I don’t think anyone did anything wrong on that thread, it realy did look like a deliberately comedy thread, but obviously the eventual outcome was very disturbing.

Read from the start and thought Jamie was back until I saw the age of the thread. 😔

I am sure he popped up not that long ago. No gifs though

“Never mind all this, how do you get Sudocrem off a cat?”

Involves a dog, some frozen artisan sausages, and a baby robin.

dirtyrider Free Member
it’s a 14 year old thread about a 10 year old thread, feel even older now?

It’s not quite that old, I didn’t discover the forum until 2002 and I’m pretty sure I remember the thread in question. And the running jokes from the early days often seemed to be more about the weird way anyone could use any name they wanted for a forum post – I think hora is referring to one of those in this thread when he talks about carbon steerers.

I never found picolax thread that funny.

Sudocrem cat and magnetodog though…

Where’s Louise when you need her? And the frozen sausages

Louise will be with TrollingZooFighter

All that time ago those people were just strangers on the internet, and now after all this time, I’ve come to know them as… strangers on the internet. 🙂

The Oneeyed willy didnt just threaten the perp with his bomber lowers iirc he locked him in a room until the police arrived!

And to add to the comedy value of the story iirc he was the spitting image of Screech in Saved By The Bell.

magnetodog

Quality thread.

Indoor and outdoor girlfriend anyone?

Some of the links to the old Mums Net threads were amazingly funny and amazingly eye-opening in equal measure.
Still chuckle about the penis beaker or the Dino deniers, it is very sweary over there mind!
Reminds me of some classic threads, but 14+years!!!

Found the dino thread!

 I’ve come to know them as… strangers on the internet. 🙂

Thank you, Arnold.

Quality thread.

Indoor and outdoor girlfriend anyon?

I searched for it and found the goodbye magneto dog thread… And cried all over again. RIP Murphy.

🤣🤣🤣 at @martinhutch post!

And thanks also for the resurrection of this thread – I can remember reading this one first time around, and the original threads mentioned in this one! It really does make me feel old.
Actually, I am old!

I think the penis beaker and dino and probably other ‘classics’ are planted by Mumsnet HQ to create a fuss. Too unlikely to be real.

No way is the plane on the conveyor that old!