Who are you?Where you from?Whats your ride?

The Northern Monkey
The Northern Monkey Posts: 19,174
edited December 2012 in MTB general
Just thought i'd be kewl to put faces to usernames....got a few rides coming up and if you see me come say hi!

This is me...
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and this is my ride (the black GT)...
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N i'm from the NW Near Blackpool :)

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  • sparrowlegs78
    sparrowlegs78 Posts: 2,583
    This is Me and My Merlin Malt 2
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    Yes i AM a lady :lol: ,just a 6ft 2" one :oops:
  • supersonic
    supersonic Posts: 82,708
    This is me in my favourite environment!

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    After bikes that is ;-)
  • Wag$ter
    Wag$ter Posts: 69
    edited August 2012
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    Cannondale Scalpel
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    Brandon, Suffolk, East anglia
  • GT Destroyer
    GT Destroyer Posts: 1,719
    lol at sonic all "branded" up!!

    This is me diving in Turkey
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    This is one of my fish - A plec
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    This is my bike - An orange crush, which is magnificent
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    This is me enjoying a drink in Leeds - Im the guy on the left
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    This is me the other weekend at Llandegla, check out my feet pointing together, what a goon!
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    This last one is a shot of a racing grid, at Tsukuba on Forza 2, I am part of a JGTC racing series on there. Im in the BMW M3 GTR on the front row in 2nd place, although that was quite a rare occasion, as I ma normally found at the back of the grid!
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  • Surf-Matt
    Surf-Matt Posts: 5,952
    edited August 2008
    Me with my other favourite toy:

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    My "ride" on Winter mode - now got new tyres, pedals and the mudguards are off!

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    And trying to new sport of "aqua MTBing" on Dartmoor...

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    And our other "ride" when it was sunny - which seems like ages ago!

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  • mellex
    mellex Posts: 214
    Me, grinning like a loon :D

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    The trusty steed.

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    Where I only wish I could ride daily, the Atlas Mountains in Morocco.

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    I'm from the Midlands, currently down London way.
  • toasty
    toasty Posts: 2,598
    edited August 2008
    Myself pulling mad air on a 7 foot drop off.

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    It's just the camera angle OK, made it look smaller than it is.

    Honeymoon and wedding shots from fairly recently.

    (Yay, Glentress again, we miss you!)
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    (on the left)
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    (looking particularly chuffed for some reason in Cyprus)
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    (we managed to maintain the silly hatted tourist look the entire week)
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    Previously from North Yorkshire, now living in the Midlands.
  • Surf-Matt
    Surf-Matt Posts: 5,952
    Toasty - LOL at jump comment :lol::lol:
  • Mrs Toast
    Mrs Toast Posts: 636
    This is me and Mr Toast - I'm the one in the dress!

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    This is me on my Trek 4500, landing from a massive jump. Honest...

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    And here's a closer look at my bike:

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  • gkf9
    gkf9 Posts: 176
    This is me ready to go out...Don't i look a bobby dazzler!!
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    My usual haunt is in and around the Yorkshire Dales
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    And this is my bike i ride them on!
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  • Papa Smurf
    Papa Smurf Posts: 776
    edited May 2010
    My names Papa Smurf (no really) and this is my trusty Steed:
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    It's pretty much custom apart from the handlebars, frame and the back wheel!
    (excuse the crappy RST's, I got meself some nice shiny Tora's to play with a few days after I took this pic)

    This is me in action, almost sh!tting myself might I add (it's steeper than it looks, honest!)
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  • Johnny Napalm
    Johnny Napalm Posts: 1,458
    'Tis I.

    My Mug!

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    My Bike!

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    Marin
    SS Inbred
    Mongoose Teocali Super
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    edited August 2008
    Im from stoke on trent but based in essex at the moment.

    this is me at work:

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    this is one of my bikes:

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    this is me in the falklands last yr testing light sabres in the cold:

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  • Moose.
    Moose. Posts: 43
    edited September 2008
    This is me:
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    Dam those DMRs hurt :shock:

    This is my ride:
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    06 GT Avalanche frame, RS Revelations, Hayes brakes and finished with mainly XT stuff

    This is me on my ride:
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    earlier this year at the Clic24.

    And I'm from Somerset just at the base of the Mendips, near Cheddar. Always up for some local riding. If anyone fancies it, please PM me :)
  • BigStu2
    BigStu2 Posts: 794
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    Ahhh the bike shed....
    Big Stu here, tucked away in the middle of Sweden moved here 4 years ago from Australia.
    .........all
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    fun..................&
    ..no.............no
    .....is......play
  • awesome, glad this thread seems to be taking shape slowly :D thought people were just gonna ignore it :(

    Hello to you all :)
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    tis a good thread, deserves a sticky i would say.
  • BigStu2
    BigStu2 Posts: 794
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    tis a good thread, deserves a sticky i would say.
    Yes a Sticky I'll drink to that!
    Numbnuts in the kitchen as usual and as usual I forgot to add my photo to my 1st reply.
    .........all
    ...at........work
    fun..................&
    ..no.............no
    .....is......play
  • Johnny Napalm
    Johnny Napalm Posts: 1,458
    I agree...it's good to see some faces!

    It's also great to see so many hardtails!
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    Marin
    SS Inbred
    Mongoose Teocali Super
  • Chaka Ping
    Chaka Ping Posts: 1,451
    OK, here's me riding my Handjob in Spain...

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    And here's me 'nailing' The Qualifier at Dalbeattie on my Yeti, while wearing late '80s roadie clothing...

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    My Anthem having a rest at Kirroughtree...

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    And finally, for the softies among you, me and my newborn baby daughter (three weeks old)...

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  • :) congrats mate!!!
    she is uber tiny!
  • Chaka Ping
    Chaka Ping Posts: 1,451
    Thanks, yes - she came two months earlier than planned.

    She only weighed 3.6lbs - lighter than most bike forks!

    Oh, forgot to say, I'm in Hertfordshire.
  • Rich Hcp
    Rich Hcp Posts: 1,355
    This is me, Richard, 43, from Herts
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    Much missed Univega (Sold to a guy at work who commutes on it) Pictured after doing the South Downs Way last year, it rained for two and a half days out of three!
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    New MTB, Orange G3
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    My other bike, Spez Allez Sport
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    My other wheels
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    What I do to try to get to A & E!
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    Richard

    Giving it Large
  • zero303
    zero303 Posts: 1,162
    Gary, 25, Bristol
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    Orange 5
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    Me on Dreamtime at Coed-y-Brenin last week...
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  • johnnyrotten
    johnnyrotten Posts: 216
    edited September 2008
    Beat this Mr Toasty!
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    Love of my life (again)
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    My other favourite thang...
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    I am a Jock living in Macclesfield and working in High Wycombe. :shock:
  • Nick, 23 (for another 6 days!), a Yorkshireman living in Basildon, Essex

    Being a bit of a rebel:
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    Looking pretty in pink:
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    The other money-draining activity:
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    The bike:
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    p.s.Rich HCP you're freaking me out a little, I've got an Alfa 147 too and I'm supposed to be starting Club 100 in a few weeks!
    "The problem was, I was still using my eyes even though I had them shut"

    Demoted to commuting duty

    Orange Crush!
  • Me with one of my favourite things, outside a restaurant in my beloved Spain:

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    Making friends with the locals on honeymoon in inland Andalucia last year:

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    And again from the honeymoon photo's:

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    Halfway up Puig de Maria in Mallorca a few years back:

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    Another of my favourite places, just as we cemented our play-off final place at Wembley last season. Which we won!

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    Lastly, a photo of my ride, when it was with its previous owner:

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    I am considerably more rock and roll than you.

    Road. Mountain. Up hill and down dale...
  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,675
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    I wont scare you with my ugly mug.
    "Do not follow where the path may lead, Go instead where there is no path, and Leave a Trail."
    Parktools :?:SheldonBrown
  • Here's me looking odd with straight hair:

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    Here's my bike:

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    And this is my most impressive injury so far :shock: (the fractured wrist wasn't so impressive once I realised it was more than a sprain)

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    If every action has an equal and opposite reaction does that mean I will be eaten by a fly?