Bulldog chewing a wasp thread

Clever Pun
Clever Pun Posts: 6,778
edited August 2010 in Commuting chat
Here's a place for all you people who commute who don't like other people or can't be bothered meeting others (for whatever reason) can talk about conspiracy theories and different levels of being bitter...

Go..
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  • cee
    cee Posts: 4,553
    I can't be bothered meeting in the morpeth 'cos it would be be a 660odd mile round trip....

    thats too far for me....and a taxi fare home would be a brute!

    I do find myself in London for work and/or fun on every now and again, and would pop along for a hello and a cheery beer if it coincided though. Unless Clever Pun was there...I heard that he promulgates sensational ruin, and i can't work out if he wears an occasional hat, or occasionally wears a hat. either way....hats scare me (don't ask).
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  • Clever Pun
    Clever Pun Posts: 6,778
    Sounds like a Will3/Running Man commute (not an in joke, see stats thread)

    I'm a little surprised a no one from Edinburgh or Glasgow seems to meet up for rides as there seems to be a fair few of you

    fyi I don't wear a hat in the pub, it's a lot warmer down here and there's aircon/heating :wink:
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  • cee
    cee Posts: 4,553
    I think some of the folks on the mtb forum meet up.....

    to be honest.....i wouldn't be interested in a road ride anyway......roads are for getting to work on....trails are for fun!
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    H.G. Wells.
  • suzyb
    suzyb Posts: 3,449
    There was talk of a meet up in Glasgow but only 3 of us seemed interested and we couldn't find a good time.
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  • supersonic
    supersonic Posts: 82,708
    Yep, have been a few MTB meets. Even mods have gone ;-)
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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    Yeah, y'all mods don't care for our meets, do you? I do invite you...

    :cry:
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  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    supersonic wrote:
    Yep, have been a few MTB meets. Even mods have gone ;-)

    Is it true that these mtbers are a feral bunch then?
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  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    Yeah, y'all mods don't care for our meets, do you? I do invite you...

    :cry:

    They may start splitting us up into different groups, though...

    :P
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    "It stays down, Daddy."
    "Exactly."
  • supersonic
    supersonic Posts: 82,708
    I'll go to a commuter meet, nice urban blast!

    Or just a pint. I am actually human hehe. And not a sour, grumpy barstard...
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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    cjcp wrote:
    lost_in_thought wrote:
    Yeah, y'all mods don't care for our meets, do you? I do invite you...

    :cry:

    They may start splitting us up into different groups, though...

    :P

    :lol::lol::lol:

    'If you can't be serious go and stand over in the corner'...

    I did send a message to nicklouse specifically inviting mods... never heard owt back.
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,411
    You know he's in Sweden, don't you?
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  • Wallace1492
    Wallace1492 Posts: 3,707
    suzyb wrote:
    There was talk of a meet up in Glasgow but only 3 of us seemed interested and we couldn't find a good time.

    Yeah, just seem too busy.... you should come along to the MTB meet up group - had a great night last night.
    "Encyclopaedia is a fetish for very small bicycles"
  • supersonic
    supersonic Posts: 82,708
    edited August 2010
    Sheffield would be a good spot. Show you some of our famous 'ills. Commuter killers lol.
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  • lost_in_thought
    lost_in_thought Posts: 10,563
    rjsterry wrote:
    You know he's in Sweden, don't you?

    Yes, but being a techy type I'd also presumed he had the ability to communicate the invite to other, less geographically hampered mods... :wink:
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  • suzyb
    suzyb Posts: 3,449
    Wallace1492 wrote:
    suzyb wrote:
    There was talk of a meet up in Glasgow but only 3 of us seemed interested and we couldn't find a good time.

    Yeah, just seem too busy.... you should come along to the MTB meet up group - had a great night last night.
    I meet up with the Lanarkshire group. And then they all cycle off ahead whilst I struggle slowly along half a mile behind them :wink:
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  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    edited August 2010
    I need a whole seperate thread so I can moan about everyone!

    People who attend the Morpeth (with any frequency) will know that I'm hardly there. I will happily hang with anyone.

    So I don't fit in with the emo 'social-forums-are-not-for-socialising' grumble-bums.

    AND

    I don't fit in with the exclusive 'lets-commute-along-the-embankment-and-go-on-holidays-together' Zach Morris crew.

    I guess that as I'm a social and online outcast I'm completely unique, cool even. I may change my name to iDD'D.*

    *You say the whole thing "i-d-d-apostrophe-d" .
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  • Wallace1492
    Wallace1492 Posts: 3,707
    suzyb wrote:
    Wallace1492 wrote:
    suzyb wrote:
    There was talk of a meet up in Glasgow but only 3 of us seemed interested and we couldn't find a good time.

    Yeah, just seem too busy.... you should come along to the MTB meet up group - had a great night last night.
    I meet up with the Lanarkshire group. And then they all cycle off ahead whilst I struggle slowly along half a mile behind them :wink:

    Come along and struggle half a mile behind us :wink: Different scenery....
    Seriously though, we try and do a slow pace so that even those with little experience or fitness are not put off. Seems to be working so far..... Getting people along from Falkirk, Edinburgh, Gourock Stiring and Kilmarnock, even to some of the midweek runs.
    "Encyclopaedia is a fetish for very small bicycles"
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,182
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    I need a whole seperate thread so I can moan about everyone!

    People who attend the Morpeth (with any frequency) will know that I'm hardly there. I will happily hang with anyone.

    So I don't fit in with the emo 'social-forums-are-not-for-socialising' grumble-bums.

    AND

    I don't fit in with the exclusive 'lets-commute-along-the-embankment-and-go-on-holidays-together' Zach Morris crew.

    I guess that as I'm a social and online outcast I'm completely unique, cool even. I may change my name to iDD'D.*

    *You say the whole thing "i-d-d-apostrophe-d" .
    Note to Mods: can DDD have his own forum? :wink:
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  • Big Wib
    Big Wib Posts: 363
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    I need a whole seperate thread so I can moan about everyone!

    People who attend the Morpeth (with any frequency) will know that I'm hardly there. I will happily hang with anyone.

    So I don't fit in with the emo 'social-forums-are-not-for-socialising' grumble-bums.

    AND

    I don't fit in with the lets-commute-side-by-side-and-spend-weekends-away-together Zach Morris crew.

    I guess that as I'm a social and online outcast I'm completely unique, cool even. I may change my name to iDDD

    so uncool, you're cool? (or something like that anyway)

    i DDD - i'm Delusional Deranged and Disregarded?

    :wink:
  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    Yep,

    But seriously how can people actively resent friendship...

    People on here are genuine friends with other people on here. They know far more about each others lives but keep the conversation bike and commuter related. I'm not as close to LiT as say Biondino, that doesn't mean I resent them for it and get jealous when the go weekend rides with others.

    When I want to go on a weekend ride I either ask or create one of my own.

    Sheesh....

    )
    Food Chain number = 4

    A true scalp is not only overtaking someone but leaving them stopped at a set of lights. As you, who have clearly beaten the lights, pummels nothing but the open air ahead. ~ 'DondaddyD'. Player of the Unspoken Game
  • Greg T
    Greg T Posts: 3,266
    Wallace1492 wrote:
    Come along and struggle half a mile behind us :wink: Different scenery....
    Seriously though, we try and do a slow pace so that even those with little experience or fitness are not put off. Seems to be working so far..... Getting people along from Falkirk, Edinburgh, Gourock Stiring and Kilmarnock, even to some of the midweek runs.

    I'm being oppressed by this talk of Oatmeal heathens going riding as it's too far away and the places sound like fish - "I'll take a fillet of Gourock and some some Stirling Roe please"

    Closed Jock Shop.

    Also

    Can anyone recommend a waterproof toilet roll carrier - stem mounted on a pre WW2 35/78 inch quil, left handed thread as I'm scared of clockwise - also I need a service done - can anyone GIVE ME ONE?

    Mods please feel free to move this to "general".

    Ta
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  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    :lol:
    Food Chain number = 4

    A true scalp is not only overtaking someone but leaving them stopped at a set of lights. As you, who have clearly beaten the lights, pummels nothing but the open air ahead. ~ 'DondaddyD'. Player of the Unspoken Game
  • supersonic
    supersonic Posts: 82,708
    Stevo 666 wrote:
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    I need a whole seperate thread so I can moan about everyone!

    People who attend the Morpeth (with any frequency) will know that I'm hardly there. I will happily hang with anyone.

    So I don't fit in with the emo 'social-forums-are-not-for-socialising' grumble-bums.

    AND

    I don't fit in with the exclusive 'lets-commute-along-the-embankment-and-go-on-holidays-together' Zach Morris crew.

    I guess that as I'm a social and online outcast I'm completely unique, cool even. I may change my name to iDD'D.*

    *You say the whole thing "i-d-d-apostrophe-d" .
    Note to Mods: can DDD have his own forum? :wink:

    Actually that is not a bad idea ;-)
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  • rjsterry
    rjsterry Posts: 29,411
    DonDaddyD wrote:
    Yep,

    But seriously how can people actively resent friendship...

    People on here are genuine friends with other people on here. They know far more about each others lives but keep the conversation bike and commuter related. I'm not as close to LiT as say Biondino, that doesn't mean I resent them for it and get jealous when the go weekend rides with others.

    When I want to go on a weekend ride I either ask or create one of my own.

    Sheesh....

    )

    One more time, the socialising and OT stuff is not a problem in itself, except when it starts to overwhelm the stuff that is actually cycling/commuting-related, which it had started to.
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  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    edited August 2010
    How's that wasp taste?

    :lol::lol::lol:

    I don't think the socialising stuff was overwhelming the board.

    If I was a moderator and I should be... (Oooo next thread) And IF I had to I would have seperated out the commuting buying advice into another thread but left everything else.

    So you would have

    Commuter Buying advice *
    Advice about what bike, what bike and what bike. What helemt and lights.


    Commuter General
    General commuting chat, talk about your daily commute and all other commuter related chat.

    Workshop
    As it is.


    *Buying advice is likely to be the first question a noob is going to ask, it was when I came here three years ago.

    Ironically:

    My very first post
    My first post in this section after buying a bike
    My third ever post - the one that started it all
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    A true scalp is not only overtaking someone but leaving them stopped at a set of lights. As you, who have clearly beaten the lights, pummels nothing but the open air ahead. ~ 'DondaddyD'. Player of the Unspoken Game
  • supersonic
    supersonic Posts: 82,708
    That is not far off what we wanted, certainly all buying advice filtered out: but also some other more serious issues.

    Of course there will be inevitible crossover with some posts, but that happens on other forums too.
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  • supersonic
    supersonic Posts: 82,708
    Is there any more stickies people want? Lights possibly?
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  • DonDaddyD
    DonDaddyD Posts: 12,689
    supersonic wrote:
    That is not far off what we wanted, certainly all buying advice filtered out: but also some other more serious issues.

    Of course there will be inevitible crossover with some posts, but that happens on other forums too.

    There is hope for you yet padawan.

    What you need is user endorsement. Make me a moderator of this section and you'll get that.

    Go on...
    Food Chain number = 4

    A true scalp is not only overtaking someone but leaving them stopped at a set of lights. As you, who have clearly beaten the lights, pummels nothing but the open air ahead. ~ 'DondaddyD'. Player of the Unspoken Game
  • supersonic
    supersonic Posts: 82,708
    Hehe, well, make yourself useful for a while and suggest some content ;-)
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  • waddlie
    waddlie Posts: 542
    Do we need a serious section AND a workshop section?
    Rules are for fools.
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