[Closed] Who's the fastest rider on STW?

Well, it's not me, I can tell you!

Who cares, really....

Just ride to enjoy

Judging by the FAIL thread, it's not going to be a tightly fought competition.

You've not seen my latest video have you?

freewheel race from a standing start with no chain on a smooth road downhill.......me for sure. 😆

Just ride to enjoy

For those who are hard of humour, this is a joke thread.

The older I get the faster I used to be. 🙂

surely the STW definaition of fast is unrelated to kph but more who spends the most on a pimpy race bike, that in the hands of a pro, would be capable of going fast?

so that definately rules all you pitch pro riders out!

Surely [url= http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/profile/dougal ]Dougal[/url] has to be up there in the XC category.

freewheel race from a standing start with no chain on a smooth road downhill

What a brilliant race format. Four people in each round, 4x style, drag racing on a road downhill! Can we have that at the next STW member organised event please?

I may not be fast, but I am rad to the power of sick.

Innit.

HTTP404 - Member

The older I get the faster I used to be. [:-)]

I bought that No Fear t-shirt from Noahs Ark Cycles back about 12-13 years ago - later the same day I took it back and exchanged it for 'It's not how good you are, it's how bad you want it!' 😉

Thing about fast riders is that they miss all the nice views and scenery and fall off a lot. Think tortoise and hare 🙂

Me.

Me! my Mrs says I'm the quickest ride she's ever had!!

I believe Elbry Sandland is still a member of stw following his excellent contributions to the recent thread about him. His comments there would suggest that he may out of the rest of us be the the fastest at both DH and singlespeed xc with a beer in each hand.

igmc

CaptainFlashheart - Member
I may not be fast, but I am rad to the power of sick.

Innit.

Hardly my dear, as it's 'sik' as any fule kno 🙄

Amos - Member
Me! my Mrs says I'm the quickest ride she's ever had!!

Thank Gawd someone beat me...

How is she these days, by the way?

I am usually slow.

But I can find alarming bursts of speed when the cake shop is close...

Thing about fast riders is that they miss all the nice views and scenery and fall off a lot. Think tortoise and hare

too true.
i ride with a large group, about 20 of us, ages from mid 20s to mid 50s.
last autumn we went to cytb for the weekend.
a trio of us are a bit steady to say the least.
after the 1st mile of the beast of brenin the younger ones looked a bit miffed waiting
a spokesman for them said 'i have a idea, lets split into 2 groups, faster and slower'.
so i waited at the back along with 2 more.
off we went, after about a mile or so on the 2nd rocky decsent we passed 2 of them puntured.
at the bottom of the descent 1 more had punctured.
we carried on, 1 more tagged onto the slow group.
i said to the other 3 'we can take it steady now, they wont catch us'
my mate asked why, i said ' because they will be going crazy on the downhills trying to catch us, and they will puncture all day long'
to cut a long story short we rode the entire beast of brenin route and they never caught us.
we had been back at the cafe, and drank 3 bottle of the organic cider there before they turned up.
i ofcourse did not rub it in for the rest of the weekend.... 😉

Apart from glupton? Gotta be smee- god he is fast/cool...

Touché, Jojo!

😉

I'm posssibly the slowest. But I don't care.

I have found that I ride faster downhill than uphill...

Not me Im too fat, lazy & oh drunk most of the time as well!

TSA

Unsatisfied obviously!!

jcromton and moi have some not bad results.

1st Hit the North, Dawn Raid, 4th SXC champs in sport, 2nd Relentless 24, and cromton was 2nd in the SXC sport series. I was only about 6th I think. There's a load more but that'd be boasting...

I reckon njee20 and simply_oli_y are probably the quickest, I doubt any elite riders would come on here.

ton - Member

freewheel race from a standing start with no chain on a smooth road downhill.......me for sure. [:lol:]

Not if we enter on the tandem. all up weight approaching 30 stone - eat our dust boy 🙂

I know there are a couple of fast riders on here. Does the lady who won the SXC thingy ( IIRC) want to stand up / be outed?

[i]I probably look the fastest[/i]

crouch_potato - Member

Apart from glupton? Gotta be smee- god he is fast/cool...

Hold on, I thought that glupton = smee ???

N'est pas?

MANY MANY years ago bought some forks off a guy who was on the old Singletrack forum. He was in the winning team at SITS 24hr race back in 2002/3 iirc, was a very nice bloke as well as being ridiculously quick on an XC bike for a sustained period of time!

what about general trail riders? some of us don't fit into either of those cats.
Not that i'd win that either..

Are there really that many racing whippets and DH gods on here? I thought the majority were weekend warriors or trail riding people??

Its not about speed.

Simply olly would be if he got his finger out and trained
🙂

or more specificilly train at one disapline.

Me.

Oh, sorry, thought you said fattest

I'm scary fast . . .

or should that be scared when I go fast?

I am 😆

TandemJeremy - Member
Simply olly would be if he got his finger out and trained

He has done, and I reckon he could be.

There's a thought for WCA - has he got a slowest race event at the BBB?

Well you'd win that hands down DezB that's for sure 😉

we'll find out if/when i step up to expert later this year dougal 😀

[i] aleigh - Member

Well you'd win that hands down DezB that's for sure [:wink:] [/i]

That's coz I as skillz

This calls for a race!

cannock chase (its about as central as trails get) , 1 lap, mass start in a megaavelanche style?

Any niche alowed, including drop bar'd wierdo's.

anyone else up for it?

we'll find out if/when i step up to expert later this year dougal

Presumptuous yoof.

Lets make it a Le Mans style start as well! Bring the chaos! 😈

Its not about speed.

It can be. I like speed.

TINAS - I'm up for that 🙂

no, my knees too ****ed to run, i just have to use the piles of falen riders as doubles to get to the front!

we'll find out if/when i step up to expert later this year dougal

Presumptuous yoof

pppffffftttt, application pending (seeing how the 1st couple of the season go!)

I can't speak. I am the picture of racing chubbiness at the minute.

fat biffer with yer 34" waist *shakes head

The usual hare and tortoise speed or stamina replys.There is a saying that goes something like. A young bull says to the old bull lets run down the field and shag one of the cows. The old bull replies lets walk down and shag the lot!! For me slow and steady is alot more satisfying.

34 waist? I'm more of a racing snake than you then Rolf 🙂 A trim 31 wait here. Its that diet of champions I adopt

29" here 🙂

I'm honoured to have been nominated, but certainly not at the moment!

Will Simmons lurked on here, he's been very quick in the past, and has threatened to come back! George Budd certainly used to crop up (Gee), he's bloody fast, although I should be as quick as him when I've actually done some speed work... Dunno if Ben Thomas ever comes on here, he's an Elite now.

Sure there's some very fast not racers too frankly!

[ big head ] I am fairly confident I'm one of very few members to have won an NPS race though, even if it was only Sport [ /big head ]

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me 🙂

sport?

you look like 12 there njee 😀

34" waist my arse. I'm a 31 and not a smidge more.

Surely its not about being the fastest rider. Surely its about being the best all round rider? I would class myself as a good all round rider. I ride quite a few cycling disaplines from road time trials, to MTB xc races to trials riding. I am even racing my BMX on Sunday! As I get older speed doesnt matter to me so much. Its more about the enjoyment and the skills development. I am really in to my jumping at the moment. I just like to ride bikes.

Matt

Shaggy's a bit good isn't he?
I'd stand a chance in fastest to 10 pints race but that's about it.

Will used to be very quick. He seems to have chucked in racing though.

BTW nick, I don't think you are the only member to have won an NPS sport race 😉

He said.. [i]one of very few[/i]

I've been told I'm well hung by a lot women and some married women.

Modelled underwear too.

Do I win? 😈

[ big head ] I am fairly confident I'm one of very few members to have won an NPS race though, even if it was only Sport [ /big head ]

Aaah yes, Mr Cockburn, a definite Elite rider among our ranks 🙂

Not 12 in that shot, 20, I do still look about 12 though!

Surely its not about being the fastest rider.

It's what I asked.. Best all-round rider or most diverse rider is another thread 🙂 I was mainly curious as to how many serious racers there are, and how many expert/elites there are.

I'd be doing well in Expert or Master if I didn't have 10kg of spare lard 🙁

Well there's definitely 3 experts: Me, Gee and Oli Y, and one Elite: ac282

So, a reasonable number of 'serious' racers. Aracer's obviously no slouch either!

Aracer's obviously no slouch either

slight hijack - have you seen Steve James' results at the Gorricks? How quick is that boy (because he is barely a boy after all)?

i'm currently still sport nick (junior last year) but if the 1st few races go well, i'll see if bc will let me move to expert.
up to 3rd cat on the road now, so i can race the easter 4 day!

and bikey thats true,
even when it goes to all round riding, i'd say i'm quite good there (up till now others have said i'm good).

with rather quick tt times, and decent road racing results etc, then being as quick downhill as up. going out jumping one day, then racing xc the next is what keeps it interesting.

oh, and jcromton is expert as well

Jojo?

I was top ten junior in NPS races circa 1947. Max Glaskin and Jeremy Torr for goalposts....

I'd like to be considered for fastest Veteran.

[url= http://www.stratobiker.com/?page_id=82 ]My Palmares[/url]

SB

Eh up SB. Forgotten about you 🙂

Goodtimes!

dont forget me nick ....im expert for 09 too ;)(but will be bottom of the pack .....not been on a bike for 6 weeks ! )
oli , just move and be done with it .... everyone that waits till season starts doesnt get to move till the next season !

matt page is on here sometimes .... hes gotta be up there.....

so not me in either category!

29" thin pah you big lardy...
Last 3/4 I bought (on minx) was a 28" you lot need to stop pies 😉
Plus being fast never was on fashion.

Qu va piano va sano he va lentano (spelling?)

I was 13th in 1982(ish) NBMXA standings, when I was about 12.

Me but only when chasing meta 5.5s on my rigid ss down inners (ah how i miss that thread from so long ago)

me... i once did a skid that lasted for two weeks!!