Things that you’ve changed since using this site?

Here are some of the things that this forum has changed for me since I’ve started using it

• Buying and riding a hardtail following the Marley PSA.
• Starting to think about dirt-road touring/flashbikepacking rides.
• Bought some studded tyres for winter commuting.
• My next waterproof is going to be luminescent following the mountain rescue thread.

So thanks for those.

What have you changed thanks to the advice given on this forum?

An awful lot of coke and hookers

Things that you’ve changed since using this site?

No one’s opinion on anything. Ever. Not even pies.

Nothing, though now I try to click on Daily Mail stories as often as possible to make up for the clicks lost to Marxists and snowflakes.

I’m back on plutoline chain wax after trying it in 2003 ish. I didn’t bother wiping it – Never bothered on the MX bike, so why would mtb be any different?!?? Suffice to say, it was messy. I didn’t think about it too much and just went back to whatever else I was using back then. Also, ended up getting a baby deep fat fryer for the above process.
There’s probably other things too, but I can’t remember any at the moment…

My time spent actually working has reduced a little bit.

My underpants.

Phones have got smart, politicians have got dumb.

Full suspension bikes work and dropper seat posts are a thing.  Bar ends are no longer on my bikes.

I bought an mx5.

I went skiing a couple of times.

I did a few driving across Europe type holidays.

I started wearing proper goodyear welted leather soled shoes.

I still need to get a log burner and too many expensive watches

No one’s opinion on anything. Ever. Not even pies.

Thanks for reminding me. I now have a set of geographical reminders set on my phone to tell me when I’m passing a recommended purveyor of pork pies.

I vote Conservative and don’t ride mountain bikes.

I bought an aeropress.

Rarely use it now I have a v60…

STW. Where humour goes to die 😂

Sitting down to piss at night instead of putting the light on

since using this site or because of it?

Bought and ridden FS bikes.

(And can’t change my username to keep up!)

Well the because is implied by the phrase “things that this forum has changed for me since using the site”. My italics.

I changed all sorts of stuff when I first joined twenty years ago – I leapt on the singlespeed bandwagon when that rolled through town, and I’d say the site is to blame for me being a serial bike swapper for about ten years. I had an Inbred for a bit, and went to a few singlespeed world and national champs. I started, then stopped, using Superstar shite but did develop a fond affection for octopuses.

These days I’m less impressionable and ride what I like, how I like and don’t get sucked into buying stuff from cheap niche brands.

My willingness to attempt posting pictures in internet forums.

A good man knows when he’s beaten.

My opinion on how good my life is compared to everyone else’s. For the worse.

Lots of stuff.  A huge influence on my biking from buying cheap secondhand parts off here to knowing about Shand who I bought my “bike for life” from

Meeting folk in real life from here, support on my big bike ride

Political knowledge and better understanding of the scots access laws

7 Prime ministers, a large pile of sovereignty and many new bikes. The first two I can’t claim total responsibility.

Not changed but purchased a shit ton of stuff I don’t need really good bargains from the various PSA threads.

My hair is changing to grey since I started using this site.

I bought an Orange electric mountain bike with a Shimano motor.

I am no longer running panaracer fire xc pro.

Honestly…. social/political views.

As an Essex boy straight into work in the City my exposure to a wider social/economic, even geographical circle was/is extremely limited.

You guys have widen it …. yes I know to a still very limited spectrum, but its wider none the less.

I guess 20odd years later my views may have changed anyway as I matured or they might have got more entrenched. But many many STW posts on wide ranging subjects have opened my eyes to far more diverse view points.

I thank you

Oh and mountian bikes …. I don’t do use them anymore….. far too much hassle…. Run and turbo boys. Run and turbo.

Moving house after a thread started about Sheffield and the OP moved somewhere completely different.

Well the because is implied by the phrase “things that this forum has changed for me since using the site”. My italics.

Things that haven’t changed for me: reading properly.

I am no longer running panaracer fire xc pro.

No, cos I upgraded. My lad, on the other hand, is now running my old Fire XC Pros….

Accounts. Cos me last one broked 😉

What have you changed thanks to the advice given on this forum?

ah, advice… er absolutely nothing. I started Inktober cos I first saw it on here and that has changed my life a bit. Wasn’t any advice though.

Years ago i sized down a bike because everyone on here suggested a medium would be more “flickable” it was a trend at the time. Like a gullible fool i believed them and rode a M instead of a L. Bastards the lot of you.

My self-imposed opinion that my poor mental health was something to be ashamed of…I’m still working on convincing myself of that, however, I’m getting there…

Thats a really good one Fazzini

Now have a Volvo and a dog, don’t ride my mountain bike anymore 

Oh, I also bought a long travel FS thinking I’d be ‘radding’ it up like some of the other cool kids on here…its done about 75 miles in total 😳 probably didn’t help it got delivered the day before lockdown 🤦‍♂️ and I’m anything but a cool kid 😂

I’ve learned the proper use of apostrophe’s. To annoy people.

I despair less when I watch UK TV or read a paper, I know I’m not the only one thinking it’s bollocks. Somewhere in the UK there are woke, leftward leaning humanists who do care.

My alertness levels when anyone mentions picolax.

I am no longer running panaracer fire xc pro.

I bought some brand new ones only just a week or two before Christmas. Cos I’m generally not very fussy about ‘stuff’ (that bit’s not changed, I’d say)