In The Beginning.... Forum History.

I haven't climbed any Everests.

I think it's 9000 meters.

I keep telling people I've climbed three Everests on my Galaxy in the last year and they get confused:

"Isn't it terribly icy?"

"No, I mean in Crete"

"But Everest isn't in Crete"

That's like boasting I've wanked off hundreds of thousands of men when in reality it's mostly myself repeatedly.

Great thread and nice to know the history of the site.

Chapeau to Velocio for starting this and to all those who have contributed in various ways over the years. I came to this site through word of mouth which is always the best way to find new things.

That's like boasting I've wanked off hundreds of thousands of men

It's not very much like that.

It's how you measure cycling elevation, like saying a meteor the size of half a giraffe.

I'm currently on 180,000m of elevation gain this season just in audax.

The international space station ride

This appeared around there ...

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Backed with Crystal Crescent and Spirea X 👌

8848 though I think it's been adjusted recently.

But I've never "done an Everest".

I'd like to get over 200,000m for the season.

Apocryphal story, when Everest was first measured the height was recorded as 29000 feet, but it was feared to be considered an estimate so was officially stated as 29002ft.

Current height is 8848m or 8844m depending if you include the snow/ice at the peak, or the rock height.

Quite impressive that in the 1850's they measured it to within 99.9% accuracy

Standard BBC SI units

Along with football pitches and widths of a human hair

Wow. You've already done 1,363 Shooters Hills.

Still can't get over New Oxford Street without sherpas and oxygen though. One day...

That's an awful lot of humped back bridges and manhole covers.

Joined in 2007 looking for advice on how to remove a stubborn sprocket. Have been using the non-bike related sub forums ever since.

It's how you measure cycling elevation, like saying a meteor the size of half a giraffe.

I wonder if the mountaineering community refer to how big a climb is in "box hills" or "ditchlings".

I've still got the 12" of that bought from Eastern Bloc in Manchester, when the shop was just a dusty table or two upstairs at Affleck's Palace. IIRC Crystal Crescent was the A-side.

E2a: I joined to buy some cheap parts for my Ciocc that I'd bought for not much off the East Dulwich Forum, which included some of the pedal straps Deleted was selling back then (still going strong).

I was trying to sell something on Moving Target, didn't have much luck so was told 'go try and sell it to the fucking fakengers on their forum' came here, sold within 2 days, stayed for the super helpful advice on fixing almost anything on my bike, don't think I've even browsed outiside misc& meaningless in 5years

More like, "I just climbed 0.35 of an Everest" or do they prefer fractions "Bagging that 1/19th of Everest this weekend"

Joined in 2007 looking for advice on how to remove a stubborn sprocket

So did you ever remove it ?

Can we use these as standard measurements on the climbing/mountain thread from now on?

Joined in 2007 looking for advice on how to remove a stubborn sprocket. Have been using the non-bike related sub forums ever since.

Try the bike related ones.

That's correct actually. I had it on 12" picture sleeve, one of many records that has gone awol over the years sadly

I joined because I brought a titanium track bike, thinking it was a road bike for small beer from china. Had no idea how to build it up, so went on t’internet to find out, t’internet lead me here, over a decade later I’m still here.
Have to say the forum was the saving of me, providing a group of like minded cycling bods who have became close, close friends, at a point when I was finding it difficult to make new friends and relationships.
And I’ve had so many amazing, laughter filled times with them, some are still on here, and some aren’t. But all of them live on here, unless of course they’ve flounced and become deleted..
Witnessed births, deaths, marriages, and migrations on here.

Still remember my first forum ride, the first bridges ride, out on my road bike as the track bike was still in transit from china, and how every bridge was a sprint along the champs elysees, so much fun! So many forum OG’s. Was dead the next day, had to lie on the sofa to recover.
I’d been on a couple of forums before, and have been on a couple since, but this one is the one I keep returning to..
May up the beer donation to a decent bottle of wine, to show my appreciation.

Ps, there was nothing like the early days of the forum, when I’d spend my time riding round town and sticking spoke cards in the rear wheels of any track bike I came across. Remember putting one into @jonny during an open house one year..

Shoutout to @clefty for the original airfix spokecards, I still have some somewhere, @snowyagain first person I brought/sold from/to, and the amazing bods who I’ve met, spoken to, drunk with and ridden with on here, some that come to mind are :
@pajamas, @DDM, @pj(pj), @mashton, @ma3k, @hippy, @justMouse @andyp @stevo_com @StandardPractice @BRM @Balki @roboto @rik @rpm @Skülly @Arvy. @dicki @dubtap @ChainBreaker @Chalfie @Pistanator @EEI @edmundro @photoben @TW @IdealStandard @Oliver Schick @Object @Aroogah @dan @Fox @fussballclub @furious_tiles @Greasy_Slag @General_Lucifer @handtightenonly @HatBeard @JD @laner @Zebra_Cyclist @cliveo @Vince @villa-ru @veLLo @NurseHolliday @cake @freddo @fruitbat @NorthLondonLight @mmccarthy

Love you too Corny.

I joined after single handedly killing BikeRadar in a mere few weeks of getting my first specialized tricross on C2W. Then I realised that the reprobates on here much better fit my uncultured essex ways and I went to SEs at the roebuck with @duncs for moral support and spent the first 15 minutes trying to secure my tricross to a bike rack and remove the seven thousand things I had attached to the bike handlebars while the Southeasties all looked at me with confused amusement out of the big bay window. the forum died about 18 months later when I killed it singlehandedly.

the ridiculous turnout at my 30th as it turned from drinks with the SEs and a few stragglers to a convenient place for people from all the compass drinks to catch-up, getting barred from the dover castle for dancing and then riding to brighton in torrential rain the next day is one of the highlights of my adult life. the comradery and community of the place back then was truly something special. I literally couldn't go more than a day or two without being "spotted on tooley st", everywhere you went in london you were likely to cross paths with a friendly face.