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@HatBeard
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.