… as opposed to other bike forum. forums. fori. (?)

For me, it’s because there are very few, if any, threads drivelling on and on about:

1. RLJers (mostly the self-righteous justification of)

2. Riding with headphones (ditto)

3. Pointless ‘almost knocked off my bike’ commuting tales.

4. Not wearing a helmet will kill you to death. Or not.

5. You’re disrespecting the whole world and everything in it if you wear a certain cycle top if you haven’t ‘earnt’ it 🙄

The extreme views…

The smiley back-slappin’ / outraged lunacy combo and these: 😆 😥 😡 😯 8)

I really like that STW forum has such a broad spectrum of the UK population on it so that when subjects are discussed you get balanced views that are not bigoted, or in any way wrong.

The smell.

errrm, . . ummmm, . . .

no sorry!

I like the big hitters, they’re like celebrities to me.

i like all the unopinionated views on different tyres

There’s one poster who above all others makes me come back, again and again.

I don’t want to make them big headed though.

There’s one poster who above all others makes me come back, again and again.

It’s you, isn’t it?

People who post intriguing comments but deliberately leave out the punchline. 🙄

The great minds .

All the same things I like about crack cocaine.

I really like that STW forum has such a broad spectrum of the UK population on it so that when subjects are discussed you get balanced views that are not bigoted, or in any way wrong.

😆

Yeah, wot he sed! ^ 😀

Top banter and good advice. It’s like being in the tap room with me mates!

That you can ask a question on seemingly any subject and get a good answer on it.

I’ve got good advice on engagement rings, TV’s and anti-virus software to name 3. Oh and bikes, bikes as well.

For me its the sharing of routes that I really like. Several times I have gone to otehr parts of the country and met up with folk who have showed me the best of their local riding adn I have also been given routes in places as well

The bargains to be had in the For Sale section

What’s STW?

The total absence of sarcasm!

I like meeting up with people, who always turn out to be sound blokes. Always blokes. Always white. Always christian. Obviously 😉

Met some new folk out for a ride last Sunday and had a right giggle.

And I like getting blamed for everything. Makes me feel, well…. ‘special’ 😀

It’s where I go to get:
a) laughs (the ‘grass needs cutting’ gag still always gets me)
b) answers (no matter how niche – spoke tension on jockey wheel of 1940’s bi-plane anyone?)
c) decent kit (have yet to be sent any shonky gear).

Binners – you are “special” or as Gervais would say – you’re a mong.

*titters*

+1 for the garden / kitchen comments. The one about fence post tops missing some time last week made me wee a bit.

I love it because it’s full of clever funny opinionated people of all sorts, every day it makes me laugh, and learn something. It’s like sitting on a lovely comfy sofa with all your mates and just laughing and taking the piss, lush

Picolax

The one about fence post tops missing some time last week made me wee a bit.

As the recipient of that comment I must confess I still haven’t rectified the situation.

The shame is still making my face burn, though.

I like it cos sometimes you get threads where someone has pallet-wrapped Hora’s car, thus creating happiness and joy for the World and it’s people. 🙂

Bum humour.

Makes me realise that my problems are really quite insignificant compared to some 😉

It’s the funniest, best laid out forum there is. Populated by lots of people who think they know everything but know nothing, some who seem to know almost everything and some who make out they know nothing but actually know a lot! The debates make me laugh, squirm, spit tea over my keyboard and sometimes get angry. And it is the online encyclopedia of all things bike related. Genius and constant entertainment.

The in depth discussion on matters of great importance, like crown races. And planes on conveyor belts.

Tony Slattery

we, the collective are all experts, we are always right and everyone else is wrong. that and threads like PICOLAX

Actually nothing, I think it’s a load of crap. 😈

It’s insight like that, that keeps you in the Top 30 reasons to come here.

The humour, and the way there’s always someone who (genuinely) knows better than you.

As well as another 10 people who just think they do.

the Top 30 reasons to come here.

The other 29 reasons are all about antelopes hitting cyclists in slow-motion. I’m right aren’t I? 😉

I’m right aren’t I?

You think you are and that’s what’s important.

I love the way that instead of getting to the bottom of a long page of text and simply hitting a button to be taken back to the forum section you were in, you have to either scroll all the way back up, or hit ‘back to the top’ (which isn’t in portrait mobile view) and then the right sub-section…..
Just sayin… 😀