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Title: The first time you met another forum member (when a virtual friend became real)
Post by: IanDG on 11 November, 2022, 11:45:31 pm: Jaded and Windy 2006

(https://live.staticflickr.com/161/425031365_f6b1d69ace_z.jpg) (https://www.flickr.com/gp/acf_windy/)bad hair day (https://www.flickr.com/gp/acf_windy/) by ian (https://www.flickr.com/photos/acf_windy/), on Flickr
Title: Re: The first time you met another forum member (when a virtual friend became real)
Post by: IanDG on 11 November, 2022, 11:59:14 pm: Pingus 2006

(https://live.staticflickr.com/180/438470227_dd27d05a8a_z.jpg) (https://www.flickr.com/gp/acf_windy/u93Z7207e1)carloway broch 2 (https://www.flickr.com/gp/acf_windy/u93Z7207e1) by ian (https://www.flickr.com/photos/acf_windy/), on Flickr
Title: Re: The first time you met another forum member (when a virtual friend became real)
Post by: IanDG on 12 November, 2022, 12:05:25 am: Polar Bear 2011

(https://live.staticflickr.com/6012/5937670410_37471a43e4_z.jpg) (https://www.flickr.com/gp/acf_windy/422k8gpL7r)PB and Windy (https://www.flickr.com/gp/acf_windy/422k8gpL7r) by ian (https://www.flickr.com/photos/acf_windy/), on Flickr
Title: Re: The first time you met another forum member (when a virtual friend became real)
Post by: Jaded on 12 November, 2022, 12:18:17 am: :thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Title: Re: The first time you met another forum member (when a virtual friend became real)
Post by: Polar Bear 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.
Title: Re: The first time you met another forum member (when a virtual friend became real)
Post by: Auntie Helen 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.
Title: Re: The first time you met another forum member (when a virtual friend became real)
Post by: road-runner 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).
Title: Re: The first time you met another forum member (when a virtual friend became real)
Post by: drossall 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.
Title: Re: The first time you met another forum member (when a virtual friend became real)
Post by: IanDG on 14 November, 2022, 11:35:37 pm: (https://live.staticflickr.com/2352/2294360596_3ff73db607_z.jpg) (https://www.flickr.com/gp/acf_windy/875447gH1n)cake stop (https://www.flickr.com/gp/acf_windy/875447gH1n) by ian (https://www.flickr.com/photos/acf_windy/), on Flickr

MSeries, Blonde, Phil Malcolm, Pingus. 2005 Torridon Weekend. At the time C+ morphed into ACF
Title: Re: The first time you met another forum member (when a virtual friend became real)
Post by: Jaded on 14 November, 2022, 11:41:52 pm: Quote from: IanDG on 11 November, 2022, 11:45:31 pm
Jaded and Windy 2006

(https://live.staticflickr.com/161/425031365_f6b1d69ace_z.jpg) (https://www.flickr.com/gp/acf_windy/)bad hair day (https://www.flickr.com/gp/acf_windy/) by ian (https://www.flickr.com/photos/acf_windy/), on Flickr

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

It was a bit dark inside.
Title: Re: The first time you met another forum member (when a virtual friend became real)
Post by: IanDG on 14 November, 2022, 11:45:04 pm: I'm a dark kind of person ;D
Title: Re: The first time you met another forum member (when a virtual friend became real)
Post by: Jaded on 14 November, 2022, 11:52:21 pm: Thick thatch on top though ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: The first time you met another forum member (when a virtual friend became real)
Post by: IanDG on 14 November, 2022, 11:56:08 pm: Quote from: Jaded on 14 November, 2022, 11:52:21 pm
Thick thatch on top though ;D ;D ;D

;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: The first time you met another forum member (when a virtual friend became real)
Post by: Pingu on 15 November, 2022, 12:07:17 am: Quote from: IanDG on 14 November, 2022, 11:35:37 pm
(https://live.staticflickr.com/2352/2294360596_3ff73db607_z.jpg) (https://www.flickr.com/gp/acf_windy/875447gH1n)cake stop (https://www.flickr.com/gp/acf_windy/875447gH1n) by ian (https://www.flickr.com/photos/acf_windy/), on Flickr

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

(https://live.staticflickr.com/2688/4341211409_102f3d70ca_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/7BBQUz)
Bealach na Ba (https://flic.kr/p/7BBQUz) by The Pingus (https://www.flickr.com/photos/the_pingus/), on Flickr

;D
Title: Re: The first time you met another forum member (when a virtual friend became real)
Post by: IanDG on 17 November, 2022, 11:54:20 pm: Fab Foodie - don't think he posts here anymore

(https://live.staticflickr.com/8789/28481587061_c74cf1dc4e_z.jpg) (https://www.flickr.com/gp/acf_windy/e8538GVX85)IMG_3128 (https://www.flickr.com/gp/acf_windy/e8538GVX85) by ian (https://www.flickr.com/photos/acf_windy/), on Flickr
Title: Re: The first time you met another forum member (when a virtual friend became real)
Post by: IanDG on 17 November, 2022, 11:58:53 pm: With Pagan no longer OTP

(https://live.staticflickr.com/193/448225191_ebb0c804e0_z.jpg) (https://www.flickr.com/gp/acf_windy/7V9gKXY0WQ)tandemming with pagan (acf) (https://www.flickr.com/gp/acf_windy/7V9gKXY0WQ) by ian (https://www.flickr.com/photos/acf_windy/), on Flickr
Title: Re: The first time you met another forum member (when a virtual friend became real)
Post by: IanDG on 18 November, 2022, 12:01:09 am: Glasgow Dave

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Title: Re: The first time you met another forum member (when a virtual friend became real)
Post by: IanDG on 18 November, 2022, 12:13:20 am: The "Wows"

(https://live.staticflickr.com/7092/7369658164_031bb213cc_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/ceeqBN)The Wowbaggers (https://flic.kr/p/ceeqBN) by ian (https://www.flickr.com/photos/acf_windy/), on Flickr
Title: Re: The first time you met another forum member (when a virtual friend became real)
Post by: De Sisti 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.
Title: Re: The first time you met another forum member (when a virtual friend became real)
Post by: IanDG on 05 January, 2023, 10:30:00 pm: With Pingu on the first "Golden Roads" 300km

(https://live.staticflickr.com/2383/2234435590_d031458e2a_w.jpg) (https://www.flickr.com/gp/acf_windy/76872eS4FQ)Windy and Pingu at the Butt of Lewis (https://www.flickr.com/gp/acf_windy/76872eS4FQ) by ian (https://www.flickr.com/photos/acf_windy/), on Flickr
Title: Re: The first time you met another forum member (when a virtual friend became real)
Post by: rogerzilla 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

(https://live.staticflickr.com/8789/28481587061_c74cf1dc4e_z.jpg) (https://www.flickr.com/gp/acf_windy/e8538GVX85)IMG_3128 (https://www.flickr.com/gp/acf_windy/e8538GVX85) by ian (https://www.flickr.com/photos/acf_windy/), 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.
Title: Re: The first time you met another forum member (when a virtual friend became real)
Post by: CrinklyLion 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
Title: Re: The first time you met another forum member (when a virtual friend became real)
Post by: Mr Larrington 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
Title: Re: The first time you met another forum member (when a virtual friend became real)
Post by: hatler 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.
Title: Re: The first time you met another forum member (when a virtual friend became real)
Post by: CrinklyLion 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.
Title: Re: The first time you met another forum member (when a virtual friend became real)
Post by: Kim on 06 January, 2023, 09:44:54 pm: Yes, I think I met TimO, Teethgrinder and maybe Julian pre-YACF. Probably some other Fridays regulars who I didn't know by name yet. And I'm sure I got passed by a few more on the 2009 Dun Run.

But there aren't likely to be photographs, on account of it all going on in the dark. My first official forum event with photographic evidence was Regulator's fenland hairdryer spectacular. (https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=21503.0)
Title: Re: The first time you met another forum member (when a virtual friend became real)
Post by: Ian H on 06 January, 2023, 09:56:09 pm: I have met a surprising number, and probably a surprising number whom I haven't managed to match to anyone here.
Title: Re: The first time you met another forum member (when a virtual friend became real)
Post by: Asterix, the former Gaul. on 07 January, 2023, 11:18:37 am: Long, long ago.

It was on a kind of relay where a cycle jersey was being taken round the country, forum members volunteering for a stage. It got stuck at Middlesbrough and needed to get to York. Someone living near York (Cawood, I think) volunteered and so did I. It was lovely early winter ride but it was lucky we found a shop selling hot food and drink open in Helmsley when it got freezing cold. A week later we took it on to the northern side of the Humber Bridge. Lincolnshire being a bit foreign, you understand.
Title: Re: The first time you met another forum member (when a virtual friend became real)
Post by: Polar Bear on 07 January, 2023, 03:41:30 pm: Without scouring the recesses of my brane and historical posts I could not be certain of which of you I met first from forumland but I have had the privilege of meeting many of you through rides and camping weekends that I have organised as well as rides and camping/hostelling weekends where I have tagged along. I am thinking that I have inflicted myself upon a lot more than fifty of you and no doubt the mind bleach has been unable to relieve your collective memories of said encounters!

A number of folk that I have met have since passed away which makes me feel quite sad but I retain fond memories of each of them.
Title: Re: The first time you met another forum member (when a virtual friend became real)
Post by: cycleman on 07 January, 2023, 06:50:38 pm: Yes mind bleach is ineffective pb :hand: ;)
Title: Re: The first time you met another forum member (when a virtual friend became real)
Post by: Polar Bear on 07 January, 2023, 07:17:13 pm: Quote from: cycleman on 07 January, 2023, 06:50:38 pm
Yes mind bleach is ineffective pb :hand: ;)

🤔 👍
Title: The first time you met another forum member (when a virtual friend became real)
Post by: perpetual dan on 07 January, 2023, 08:12:30 pm: I think it would be the 2012 photo outing in London. (I think that was before I did a fnrttc.). Where I met Roger, Jaded, Charlotte, Crinkly, Clarion, Butterfly, Gerald and Mike. I think.

(http://www.alfiecat.co.uk/yetacf/cafe_pano.jpg)
Title: Re: The first time you met another forum member (when a virtual friend became real)
Post by: StuAff on 07 January, 2023, 10:25:54 pm: Quote from: rogerzilla 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

(https://live.staticflickr.com/8789/28481587061_c74cf1dc4e_z.jpg) (https://www.flickr.com/gp/acf_windy/e8538GVX85)IMG_3128 (https://www.flickr.com/gp/acf_windy/e8538GVX85) by ian (https://www.flickr.com/photos/acf_windy/), 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.

He and Dawn (CC's Hill Wimp) have moved down to Devon. They were in Deal before that.
Title: Re: The first time you met another forum member (when a virtual friend became real)
Post by: IanDG on 03 February, 2023, 12:38:58 am: F***ing stone huggers ;D

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Title: Re: The first time you met another forum member (when a virtual friend became real)
Post by: rogerzilla on 03 February, 2023, 08:04:08 am: He is from near Stroud, and therefore a virtual hippy.
Title: Re: The first time you met another forum member (when a virtual friend became real)
Post by: Arellcat on 01 March, 2023, 09:47:14 am: Quote from: Kim on 06 January, 2023, 09:44:54 pm
But there aren't likely to be photographs, on account of it all going on in the dark.

I don't think there are photographs of it but I met Pingu, Mrs Pingu and Ravenbait and possibly one or two others, in an Edinburgh pub many years ago. It might've been in C+ days, actually. I used to bump into the late rjevans6 quite often when our commutes intersected, though it wasn't until C+'s TGFR that photographic evidence was acquired.

I first met Steph at the York Rally in possibly 2005, but again I don't think there are photos. I also have a feeling I met TJ and/or Butterfly for the first time in That London in about 2006 when I had a spare afternoon and we went round the British Library.
Title: Re: The first time you met another forum member (when a virtual friend became real)
Post by: Ian H on 01 March, 2023, 10:09:38 am: Quote from: StuAff on 07 January, 2023, 10:25:54 pm
Quote from: rogerzilla 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

(https://live.staticflickr.com/8789/28481587061_c74cf1dc4e_z.jpg) (https://www.flickr.com/gp/acf_windy/e8538GVX85)IMG_3128 (https://www.flickr.com/gp/acf_windy/e8538GVX85) by ian (https://www.flickr.com/photos/acf_windy/), 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.

He and Dawn (CC's Hill Wimp) have moved down to Devon. They were in Deal before that.

We met, along with A.N. Other, the weekend before last for a ride via pubs. Also a chance meeting with Chuffy (not on social media nowadays) along the way.
Title: Re: The first time you met another forum member (when a virtual friend became real)
Post by: Wowbagger on 01 March, 2023, 10:21:30 am: I think Fatbloke was the first Forummer I met when we arranged an evening's drinking at the Horse & Groom in Rochford. My dad would still have been alive then and living in Broadoaks, an OPH across the road from the pub.

My next effort was a few minutes before a Critical Mass in which I was recognised by Little Miss Mac, with whom I was engaged in pleasant conversation when Fatters wandered by with the loud comment "You've scored, then..."

After that it was a bit of a whirl with Hummers, Charlotte, Emily, Peli, Zipperhead and others. I think we probably went for pancakes afterwards. I met a whole load more on my first FNRttC, which was August 2006.

Forummers with whom I have cycled naked: Charlotte, Julian, Damerell, Fab Foodie, Phil (can't recall his forum name but not Julian's brother).

(https://peter.chesspod.com/gallery/d/1564-2/DSC01283.jpg)

A picture from the Mid-Wales Ride of 25/9/2006, im the Elan Valley.
Title: Re: The first time you met another forum member (when a virtual friend became real)
Post by: Socks on 01 March, 2023, 08:02:43 pm: A weekend at Clapham YHA with several forumites. Several years ago so not sure about names, however one thing I do remember is a lovely stew cooked by Ruthie for the group; and after drink was taken, reminiscing about the Dad's Army tv series and a sing-a-long of the theme tune. And a wet bike ride with the bonus of a visit to the pub.
Title: Re: The first time you met another forum member (when a virtual friend became real)
Post by: Jaded on 01 March, 2023, 08:48:13 pm: Quote from: Wowbagger on 01 March, 2023, 10:21:30 am
A picture from the Mid-Wales Ride of 25/9/2006, im the Elan Valley.

Ahem 24th ;D
Title: Re: The first time you met another forum member (when a virtual friend became real)
Post by: IanDG on 22 July, 2023, 10:48:26 pm: I think this was the second time

(https://live.staticflickr.com/1258/925095968_883e38d677_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2pKmNu)jaded (https://flic.kr/p/2pKmNu) by ian (https://www.flickr.com/photos/acf_windy/), on Flickr

(https://live.staticflickr.com/1127/925095828_01ed4bc729_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2pKmL5)jaded (https://flic.kr/p/2pKmL5) by ian (https://www.flickr.com/photos/acf_windy/), on Flickr
Title: Re: The first time you met another forum member (when a virtual friend became real)
Post by: Jaded on 22 July, 2023, 10:59:14 pm: I remember those scones and cake!

I think that was The Golden Road. Wonderful!
Title: Re: The first time you met another forum member (when a virtual friend became real)
Post by: IanDG on 22 July, 2023, 11:06:30 pm: Quote from: Jaded on 22 July, 2023, 10:59:14 pm
I remember those scones and cake!

I think that was The Golden Road. Wonderful!

Skoon Art Cafe - A grand day out :)