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IanDG

  • The p*** artist formerly known as 'Windy'
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The first time you met another forum member (when a virtual friend became real)
« on: 11 November, 2022, 11:45:31 pm »
Jaded and Windy 2006

bad hair day by ian, on Flickr
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IanDG

  • The p*** artist formerly known as 'Windy'
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Re: The first time you met another forum member (when a virtual friend became real)
« Reply #1 on: 11 November, 2022, 11:59:14 pm »
Pingus 2006

carloway broch 2 by ian, on Flickr
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IanDG

  • The p*** artist formerly known as 'Windy'
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Re: The first time you met another forum member (when a virtual friend became real)
« Reply #2 on: 12 November, 2022, 12:05:25 am »
Polar Bear 2011 

PB and Windy by ian, on Flickr
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Jaded

  • The Codfather
  • Formerly known as Jaded
Re: The first time you met another forum member (when a virtual friend became real)
« Reply #3 on: 12 November, 2022, 12:18:17 am »
 :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
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Polar Bear

Re: The first time you met another forum member (when a virtual friend became real)
« Reply #4 on: 12 November, 2022, 08:35:26 am »
 :thumbsup:  :thumbsup:  :thumbsup:

Fond memories of meeting Windy but also and in no particular order the Pingus and Jaded.  Happy days. 
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Auntie Helen

  • 6 Wheels in Germany
Re: The first time you met another forum member (when a virtual friend became real)
« Reply #5 on: 12 November, 2022, 10:51:27 am »
Not sure who I met first - probably Wowbagger.

 Most recent meets were Pingu & Mrs Pingu in Berlin and Roadrunner here in Niederrhein.

Oh, and Wow and Dez sometime in the last 5 years when visiting Saafend with my GerMan.
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road-runner

Re: The first time you met another forum member (when a virtual friend became real)
« Reply #6 on: 12 November, 2022, 12:03:28 pm »
I have yet to meet Ian (Windy). Mostly I have met others through forum rides or hosting the overnight Oxford to London group at 2 or 3am a few times, all apart from Fuzzy and the two Helens, Auntie Helen and hellymedic, who I had to go out of my way to meet (and should again when the next opportunity arises).
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drossall

Re: The first time you met another forum member (when a virtual friend became real)
« Reply #7 on: 12 November, 2022, 09:20:09 pm »
It's a few years since I've been on a forum ride, but hi to everyone I met when I did ;D

The ACME crowd are around at those events of course, which is good.
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IanDG

  • The p*** artist formerly known as 'Windy'
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Re: The first time you met another forum member (when a virtual friend became real)
« Reply #8 on: 14 November, 2022, 11:35:37 pm »
cake stop by ian, on Flickr

MSeries, Blonde, Phil Malcolm, Pingus. 2005 Torridon Weekend. At the time C+ morphed into ACF
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Jaded

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  • Formerly known as Jaded
Re: The first time you met another forum member (when a virtual friend became real)
« Reply #9 on: 14 November, 2022, 11:41:52 pm »
Quote from: IanDG on 11 November, 2022, 11:45:31 pm
Jaded and Windy 2006

bad hair day by ian, on Flickr

Still remember my first trip to Lewis and visit to windy’s house.

It was a bit dark inside.
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IanDG

  • The p*** artist formerly known as 'Windy'
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Re: The first time you met another forum member (when a virtual friend became real)
« Reply #10 on: 14 November, 2022, 11:45:04 pm »
I'm a dark kind of person  ;D
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Jaded

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Re: The first time you met another forum member (when a virtual friend became real)
« Reply #11 on: 14 November, 2022, 11:52:21 pm »
Thick thatch on top though  ;D ;D ;D
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IanDG

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Re: The first time you met another forum member (when a virtual friend became real)
« Reply #12 on: 14 November, 2022, 11:56:08 pm »
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Pingu

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Re: The first time you met another forum member (when a virtual friend became real)
« Reply #13 on: 15 November, 2022, 12:07:17 am »
Quote from: IanDG on 14 November, 2022, 11:35:37 pm
cake stop by ian, on Flickr

MSeries, Blonde, Phil Malcolm, Pingus. 2005 Torridon Weekend. At the time C+ morphed into ACF


Bealach na Ba by The Pingus, on Flickr

 ;D
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IanDG

  • The p*** artist formerly known as 'Windy'
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Re: The first time you met another forum member (when a virtual friend became real)
« Reply #14 on: 17 November, 2022, 11:54:20 pm »
Fab Foodie - don't think he posts here anymore

IMG_3128 by ian, on Flickr
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IanDG

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Re: The first time you met another forum member (when a virtual friend became real)
« Reply #15 on: 17 November, 2022, 11:58:53 pm »
With Pagan no longer OTP

tandemming with pagan (acf) by ian, on Flickr
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IanDG

  • The p*** artist formerly known as 'Windy'
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Re: The first time you met another forum member (when a virtual friend became real)
« Reply #16 on: 18 November, 2022, 12:01:09 am »
Glasgow Dave

img_3705 (2) by ian, on Flickr
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IanDG

  • The p*** artist formerly known as 'Windy'
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Re: The first time you met another forum member (when a virtual friend became real)
« Reply #17 on: 18 November, 2022, 12:13:20 am »
The "Wows"

The Wowbaggers by ian, on Flickr
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De Sisti

Re: The first time you met another forum member (when a virtual friend became real)
« Reply #18 on: 18 November, 2022, 09:30:16 am »
I've ridden with Hot Flatus, bought stuff from Rogerzilla and ridden a couple of Phil Whitman and Blacksheep events.
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IanDG

  • The p*** artist formerly known as 'Windy'
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Re: The first time you met another forum member (when a virtual friend became real)
« Reply #19 on: 05 January, 2023, 10:30:00 pm »
With Pingu on the  first "Golden Roads" 300km

Windy and Pingu at the Butt of Lewis by ian, on Flickr
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rogerzilla

  • When n+1 gets out of hand
Re: The first time you met another forum member (when a virtual friend became real)
« Reply #20 on: 06 January, 2023, 02:52:08 pm »
Quote from: IanDG on 17 November, 2022, 11:54:20 pm
Fab Foodie - don't think he posts here anymore

IMG_3128 by ian, on Flickr
He's alive and well and, AIUI, shacked up somewhere near the coast with someone else from CycleChat   :)

I have ridden with FF quite a few times on the Oxford-London night ride.
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CrinklyLion

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Re: The first time you met another forum member (when a virtual friend became real)
« Reply #21 on: 06 January, 2023, 04:24:27 pm »
I *think* that my first encounter with 3D YACFers was probably the 'Essex is (mostly) flat' WARTY https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=31874.0
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Mr Larrington

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Re: The first time you met another forum member (when a virtual friend became real)
« Reply #22 on: 06 January, 2023, 06:11:30 pm »
I met TimO in RL long before any forum-related malarkey and rr even longer ago than that :D
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hatler

Re: The first time you met another forum member (when a virtual friend became real)
« Reply #23 on: 06 January, 2023, 06:21:40 pm »
Hmmm. Naggers, but that was pre-yacf, on the crossroads in downtown Ditchling at about 6am one Saturday morn.
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CrinklyLion

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Re: The first time you met another forum member (when a virtual friend became real)
« Reply #24 on: 06 January, 2023, 08:47:29 pm »
Well, if we're counting that sort of opposite direction Big Blue Room thing, when a real person became a virtual friend too, CrinklyAuntie. Who I met on the day she was born, I think. If not, it was on the day that she and the late Granny Annie came home from the hospital, which on reflection may or may not have been the day she was born - I was quite small, and only really remember taking her in a carry cot round to meet the neighbours.
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