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foggy in places but it's a start...
a 3 wheeler, Blue, white tyres (circa 1975) Memory: meeting my mate, we are still mates
Raleigh RSW - Red (Circa 1977) Memory: Falling off, 3 stitches above right eye.
Raleigh Tomahawk - Red (Circa 1979) Memory: Falling off with my mate riding pillion, doing no handed down our road.
Raleigh Grifter XL (Circa 1981) Memory: Shit gears - missing out on BMX. But it's okay,... there was room for a loaf of bread on the rear rack!!!
Peugeot ANC Halfords Racer - white, orange saddle (Circa 1986) - Memory: riding it home from Halfords - Merry Hill shopping centre, with the back wheel loose, and it rubbing on the chainstay taking paint off on its inaugural ride (standard Halfords) Laughing at mtb riders on the road peddling like maniacs and going nowhere as I whizzed by.
GT Backwoods - White/red/black, Judy's (Circa 2000) - Memory: Discovering Cannock Chase and Mountain Biking, meeting new friends, who are still friends. Chosen on recommendation of a What mtb best bike for £600 review.
Devinci Guzzler - Green, Pikes - (Circa 2004/5) - Memory: Saving up £2 coins to by it and being about £800 short. Ragging it around the Alps It was on its limits, but it survived as did I.
Commencal Supernormal - Smokey brown, self build - (Circa 2007) - Memory: Always a bit too small, but fast and bust my hand on it going about 1 mile an hour, bike was bad luck!
Cube Reaction 29er - white, rebas - (Circa 2011-present) - Memory: Being laughed at for being on a 29er, leaving my Wife gift to myself to cheer myself.
Coppi Road Bike 94? - yellow - (owned since 2012-present) - Memory: My get to work bike that i thought was too big, but now realise is a bit too small. People taking pics of it and admiring it during the TdF in yorkshire.
Olagnero Road Bike 95 - red, 105, - (owned since 2014-present) - Memory: first bike I looked at and realised making a steel framed bike was an art. Love it.
Percy Stallard, Cotswold, frame only, Reynolds 531 refurb, 1966? - (owned since 2014-present) - Memory: An eyeopening night with druggies and drink drivers in the pub down near Minehead where i picked it up, and the new village i picked it up from based around an old sanatorium! - awaiting strip and re-paint and build.
Falcon Racer 80s, Jap Pipe - (owned since 2014-present) - Memory: The brakes are extremely vague and it felt like i was going to die! Not been on it since, in a state of undress currently.
Mongoose BMX 2000's, (Owned since tomorrow) - Memory: not yet!
😀
A white bike with stabilizers, no idea of the make, but it appears in grainy photos around 1977/8
Raleigh Tomahawk - 1979ish
Raleigh Grifter - 1982?
Raleigh Super Burner (very second hand!) - 1985ish
Raleigh Bomber - 1986/7
Raleigh Racer (no idea of model, but it had 10 gears!) My first new bike - Xmas 1989
Muddy Fox Courier Mega Comp- 1990/91
Raleigh White Lightening (653 frame and forks baby!) - frame bought Xmas 1991, parts bought and built up over the following year.
Kona Explosif Pro - 1993
Specialized Stumpjumper M2 (Yellow Judys, Magura Racelines, Middleburn RS2 cranks, mmmm!) Bought to replace the stolen Kona 🙁 - 1996
Sunn Crosss - 2003/4
Massi Master racing bike - 2005
Specialized Stumpjumper S-Works - 2007
Identiti Mr Hyde - 2009
On-One Pompino - 2009
Global Ti Softail -2010
Dialled Prince Albert - 2011
Indy Fab Deluxe SS (1997 frame, custom paint, gorgeous bike!) - 2011
Dialled Alpine - 2012
Pace RC200 F8 - 2012
Surly Krampus - 2013
Klein Quantum (NOS 1997 frame, built up with period Campag kit, and some lovely Mavic wheels) - 2013
DMR Bolt Long - 2014
Probably missed a couple out! Still own 7 of them 😉
*edit*
just remembered 2 Saracens (Trekker Hydro Comp and a raised chainstay one) both bought during my 'retro-bike' phase, and a Peugeot racer that I used in triathlons as a spotty teen in the mid '90s.
A not in anyway distinguished history...
Raleigh Boxer - started with stabilisers ended with jumps in the street.
Raleigh Super Burner (the gold one with the skyway wheels - I bloody loved that bike)
British Eagle something or other touring bike with hub brakes that my stepdad got me because he thought I would be interested in long boring rides.
British Eagle MTB that I bought from money earned stacking shelves.
Trek 1400 - in white never got on with it, but it was pretty.
Now come the wilderness years, where I was at uni then doing a lot of travelling and not much cycling. Had a couple of pub bikes, forget the make now.
Marin Belvedere (circa 2008?) bought when I was starting to settle down. Used it to commute for a couple of years - now a pub bike.
Spesh Rockhopper Pro 2006 - ebay purchase around 2009 got me back into MTB and has been fun. Will shortly be donated to a good home.
Canyon Nerve 9.9 (last year -present) - my first new MTB for 25 years. Bought because I needed to treat myself. Never thought I would spend over £2k on a bike. Told the wife it was cheaper than a Lotus.
Pinnacle Arkose 4 - a Ride to Work special which I just finished paying for. So good, the wife got the lady version.
Edit: I have a vague recollection of a Grifter too. Might have been a mates. Would have been between the boxer and the Burner.
A Raleigh girls bike ( totally too big for me , but it was free...times were hard in the 70's) 😳
Raleigh super tuff 2 burner ( oval frame 😀
Raleigh super tuff 2 burner original ( oval frame bike got stolen) 😥
Freestyle BMX ( after the above bike got stolen from inside my house :evil:)
Muddy fox parthfinder
Marin Alpine trail
Whyte 46 (2006)
Raleigh airlite 100 ( first roadie) 2011
Pinarello Dogma 60.1 British Cycling edition ( my roadie bike at present)
Rose Tusker fatbike ( my favourite bike to date)
Raleigh Budgie
Raleigh Striker
Raleigh Grifter
Raleigh Ultra Burner (best bike ever...probably)
PR Racing BMX(Curtis)
Peugeot Road Bike I hand painted yellow?
Kona Lava Dome (yellow splatter paint)
Scott Windriver
Diamond Back Axis Team
Roberts White Spider II
Roberts Road Bike
3 X Specialized M2s
Marin Team Titanium
Mk1 Trek OCLV road bike
Cannondale MTB tandem
Cannondale Super V
Dave Lloyd 650 time trial bike
Specialized Allez
Then nothing for 12 years (got fat!)...
2008....yay...discovered bikes again!!!
Villiers Velo Touriste
On One Scandal 29
Niner MCR
Giant Trance
Lynskey Ridgeline 29
Trek EX9
Salsa Horsethief
Landescape Tandem
Turner Czar
Ragley Big Wig
Nicolai Helius AC 650b
???
tricycle - unknown - responsible for my front teeth being badly bent
gold raleigh singlespeed with white seat
huge, huge gap(*lots of motorbikes, starting with a c50 aged about 13)
Giant Terrago DX - now a mates GF stable bike
Univega 509 (now my pub bike)
Marin MV round (now a mates gf trail bike and kiddy holder)
Orange 5 - winter bike
Orange 5 - summer bike
now got the hump with the 'standards' diversion, so that may be it for me. Stockpile built.
The Raleigh years..
Budgie - silver jubilee edition
Grifter - 2 minutes before BMXs arrived
Mag Burner - stolen at knife point!
Equipe racer
MTB years...
Saracen
Orange P7
Bontrager
STW years!
Inbred
Intense 5.5
Ti456
Salsa Vaya
Genesis Grapil
Christ my list was so long I looked like a rich manchild so had to delete it lol
Little kids bikes, mainly Raleigh I think.
Raleigh mag burner - sadly given away by my mum.
[b]mountain[/b]
Raleigh mustang sis - first "mountain bike"
Saracen limited edition 1993
2 x kona cinder cones
Dmr trailstar (one of the very first, with Judy xl 100mm travel dual crown forks)
Sunn radical+ dh - still one of my favourite bikes ever. Snapped it, welded it, then some thieving scrote took it
Merlin cro-mo jump bike
Diamond back vertex xtr (xc race bike)
Schwinn straight-8 pull shock - insurance replacement for the sunn, and about the only bike of mine which is even better downhill
GT steel something or other - too small so got rid quickly
Muddy fox duel team jump/4x bike. Still got its warranty replacement now.
Dialled love/hate single speed. Sadly sold to buy a 29er - wish I still had this one
On-one 29er, carbon forks, single speed. Great uphill and on some trails, but rubbish in the air & too sluggish on downhills
Univega dh bike - OK, bit flexy and fragile
Various kaktus - ahead of its time, would be a good enduro style bike now. I ride it with boxxers as a light, 6.5” dh build
Sold it and bought a kona coiler which was great at climbing rocky trails, but crap at everything else at speed. Felt like they had taken a good 4" bike and just lifted it 2 inches with more travel.
Ns society hardtail, great xc/jumpy compromise. Still my main bike now.
Orange crush - good, but not as good as the society.
Iron horse warrior. Much better than the kona, 5" travel xc/enduro bike.
Kona howler. Very good play bike, sold it to pay for a ti road bike.
Maverick ml7.5, bought as I've always liked the design. Not riding at the moment as it suits big xc rides and not much time for those with 2 kids etc.
[b]bmx[/b]
Cheap mongoose
Better mongoose when I'd knackered the cheap one
Macneil freimuth as I wanted something with a 21" toptube
Kona big mama xl race bike
Sold them as wrists beaten up, 6 or so years ago
And just bought a link whip a few weeks back to have another go at bmx
[b]road[/b]
Cheap old Claude butler
Cinelli steel with sora, nice but too small
Saracen ventoux. Nice ALU bike, but preferred steel
Ribble 731 with campagnolo veloce
Omega radius with campagnolo centaur. Still my best road bike, now with ultegra 10 speed
Planet x kafenback. Now in cyclocross mode
On-one pompetamine, great workhorse commuter, currently in bits.
Eek- think I've had too many, and probably missed a few!
Raleigh Pixie
Raleigh Tomahawk
Raleigh Meteor
Peugeot "racer£ - Shit, went back after 3 weeks
Dawes Jaguar
<break for many years>
Specialized Rockhopper
Scott Octane
Specialized FSR - Dead in the shed
On-One Inbred - Still got
Planet X Uncle John - Still got
Scott Speedster - Still got
Cannondale Tripper - Still got
A BMX - Hopefully getting one in the near future
This shouldn't take long ...
1970s unknown boys bike
1974 raleigh chopper
1979 raleigh olympus
1991 raleigh yukon
1994 marin indian fire trail
2005 trek fuel 80
2010 edinburgh revolution cross
2010 giant anthem x3
2013 giant defy composite 3
2015 giant trance 27.5 2
(1974) Raleigh Chipper
(1977) Raleigh Tomahawk
(1980) Raleigh Medale
(1997) Specialized Hardrock (stolen)
(1997) Scott Yecora (stolen)
(1997) GT Tempest
(2007) Mongoose Teocali (snapped)
(2007) Specialized Tricross ss
(2008) Specialized Enduro
(2009) Marin Rocky Ridge (swapped for the Croix De Fer)
(2010) Genesis Croix De Fer (should never have sold)
(2010) Nicolai Helius cc
(2011) Kona Paddy Wagon
(2012) Cotic Solaris
(2012) Cannondale Caad8
(2012) Surly Karate Monkey (so good I owned it twice)
Current - Orange Gyro
Current - Ribble Gran Fondo
Current - Kinesis Crosslight
That looks like a lot more when it's written down than it was in my own mind 😳
74-86 various bikes
Mountain bikes
1987 - Raleigh Mustang
1989 - Raleigh Ambush
1990 - Trek 7000
1992 - Scott Ultimate
1993 - Diamond Back Response Elite
1994 - GT RTS 3
1995 - GT LTS DH
1997 - Pro Flex Animal
1999 - SUNN bmix
2000 - DMR Trailstar
2001 - Specialized P3 & Hardrock
2003 - Specialized P3 & Haro Extreme
2005 - Tomac Omen & Commencal mini DH
2006 - Charge Blender
2008 - Solid Harlem
2009 - Kong Dawg
2011 - Gary Fisher Roscoe 3 & Boardman Pro
2012 - Specialized Stumpjumper Elite
2013 - Genesis Mantle
2015 - Specialized Enduro Elite
Started with red trike. Steel, Very old even in 1968
Normal single speed , recollect 20" wheels but in 1970?
Restored racer. 4 speed block, possibly interesting now?
1975 or 76. Falcon Eddy Merckx in blue. 2nd year at grammar school.
Several jump bikes about now. Best had NSU Quickly moped leading link forks and a Chopper back wheel. 21' jump off a breeze block/bonnet ramp.
About 1980 ,Puch Prima Super 12. , started time trialling on that.
1983, Raleigh Competition. 531 with Campag, tubs etc. Deal direct with Raleigh through Bangor Normal College Head of OE John Brailsford.
1984/5? Share in Dawes Pathfinder MTB I think.
1989 Giant Escaper from Sian Roberts in Betws.
1994/5? Gazelle CX bike
1995 Another Raleigh Comp from the previous years BNC intake.
1996 Claude Butler 531 road bike
1996 Raleigh ladies 531 road bike
1997 Quintana Roo 650c wheeled road bike
2000 Raleigh Mirage MTB . Two of them
2001 Offroad MTB Flexi stem fitted!
2003 Raleigh Lenton from the tip
2003 Pre war Dawes from the tip.(nicked 2014,found in the woods last week)
2003? Raleigh road bike.
2003 Marin full susser
2003 Specialized Rockehopper
2005 My aunts Moulton from 1st year of production
2007 Specialized Enduro ( For sale at the moment)
2008 Specilaized Tricross SS
2009 Rgoers trike
2009 Kaffenback
2009 Raleigh Triathlon
2010 Most of Higgin trike
2010 Another Kaff
2011 Cotic X
2011 Genesis IO
2014 On One Pickenflick
2014 On One Pickenflick to replace #1 stolen
2014 Raleigh 3 speed roadster
2014 Giant road bike turned SS
2015 Dawes Kingpin Two of the blighters.
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Since I last updated that in May 2013, I've sold
Cotic Rocket
Cotic Solaris
Bought and sold
Nuke proof Mega
Bought
Pyga 29-10
Bird Aeris
Trek Stache 7 29er
So pretty much replaced what I sold. There's a fine line between a hobby and a mental illness 😉
First bike was a raleigh budgie 1975ish
Raleigh Tomahawk 1977
Raleigh chopper 1978ish (a silver one when everyone else had a red one)
Grifter XL early 1980s
Ultra Burner about 1984 (loved that thing)
Raleigh milk race road bike late 1980s
Muddy Fox mega Trax about 1994 (black and pink thing)
Didn't ride for a few years, until I bought a Genesis core in 2009
Now have Salsa El Mariachi as my one and only bike.
Blimey...
A.N. Other kids bike, late 70s
Raleigh Chipper (given to me by an auntie)
Raleigh Tomahawk & Strika (given by a different auntie)
Raleigh Tomahawk with Strika bars (when I discovered spanners!)
Raleigh Burner (basic red & yellow one, stolen)
Raleigh Chrome Burner (stolen)
Raleigh Ultra Burner (bought from my cousin for £50 BITD- pricey!)
GT Outpost
GT Vertigo
KHE Skunk
DK General Lee (mk1, sold cos I was skint 😥 )
Giant Boulder Alu
GT Chucker
then a few years off as I discovered motorcycles and the racing/trackdaying there of...
Diamond Back Overdrive
Sunn Tzar (2013 ally frame)
then we start getting silly as I have all of these at the same time now, but only one backside-
2011 Sunn Tzar (crmo frame, I will be buried with this bike)
2009 Commencal Supreme 6 (tank/steamroller, bravery & skill compensator)
2009 Commencal Absolut CrMo
1996 GT Bravado
1995 GT Fueler
1999 GT Interceptor
1999 GT Mach One
1999 GT Pro Series XL
2000-ish DK General Lee 20"
2000-ish DK General Lee 24"
2000-ish Giant hybrid £25 (bargain! 6 speed but only 4 actually work!) shopping bike 🙂
Raleigh Striker
Raleigh Grifter
Raleigh Team Banana 531 roadie
Raleigh Avanti MTB
Raleigh DynaTech Pro MTB (team only edition)
Giant ATX970(?)
Giant NRS Team
Giant Reign
OnOne 456C
Intense 6.6
Liteville 601
STRIKER
BOXER
GRIFTER
GRIFTER TO BMX (STARTED SWAPPING BMX THINGS OVER TO GRIFTER)
DIAMOND BACK VIPER
DIAMOND BACK SILVER STREAK
HARO
SKYWAY
HUTCH
PK RIPPER
GT PRO PERFORMER (CHROME)
GT PRO PERFORMER (YELLOW)
GT PRO PERFORMER (BLUE)
BMX DAYS OVER.......
HARDROCK
MARIN RIFT
TURNER FLUX
TURNER 5 SPOT
YETI ASR5
YETI 575
ORANGE CRUSH
TRANSITION TRANS AM
INTENSE TRACER 275
THANKS SORT OF ENJOYED THAT.
I can't remember my childhood bikes, they were a mix of apollos and Raleighs. Had a baby blue heavy full suss Apollo when I joined my uni mtb club, quickly got replaced with my first proper mtb.
2004 caerra fury
2006 specalized hard rock
2007 tank race elite
Old giant road bike, not sure which model.
Old Marin mount vision off eBay- hated it.
Cheap old steel road bike converted to single speed and given flat bars by some hipster in London, bought in 2009
2009 trek 1.7 road bike
2010 kona Jake the snake
2010/11 Scott addict road bike
2012 giant trance
2015 kona Jake the snake disc
2016 Santa Cruz Bronson (arrived yesterday!!!)
Should I . . .
[b]1991[/b]
Dawes Zed
[b]1992[/b]
Diamondback Camarillo
[b]1994[/b]
Polished alloy Merlin Cycles frame
[b]1996[/b]
Kona Cinder Cone
[b]1997[/b]
Trek Y3
[b]1998[/b]
Cheap white boys road bike
Raleigh Grifter
[b]1999[/b]
Kona Muni Mula
Curtis Pro BMX
Diamondback Viper X BMX
DK General Lee BMX
[b]2000-2002[/b]
Federal Nation BMX (raw)
Y2K Kona Roast x 2 (warranty)
DMR Sidekick (blue)
2002 Kona Scab
[b]2003[/b]
Red DMR Sidekick
GT Zaskar Race
DK Fury BMX
GT Mach One race BMX
Kona Mama BMX
Mutiny Raven BMX
Hutch Expert BMX
Dirt Bros Shortbus BMX
White One Flamin’ Speed
DMR Rhythm
Schwinn Stingray cruiser
Kona Kilauea
Orange O2
Dirt Bros Patriot BMX
[b]2004[/b]
Cove Handjob (red)
Kona Roast 2004
Orange C16R
[b]2005[/b]
Kona Scab 2001
Planet X Hammerhead
24Seven Dark Angel
Balfa Minuteman
Kona Scab 2003
Santa Cruz Chameleon
Kona Scrap (green)
Kona Stinky 2004
Kona Chute 2002
[b]2006[/b]
Kona Stinky 2-4
Haro Backtrail BMX
Orange Sub Zero
Mutiny Punisher BMX
Orange Hitman (blue)
On-One Inbred sliding dropout
Santa Cruz Heckler (black)
Flow Moe
Fit baby blue BMX
Kona Scrap (grey)
Kona Stinky Primo 2004
Orange Clockwork
Orange Airo
Kona Cowan (orange)
Kona Cowan DS (blue)
On-One Inbred track ends
[b]2007[/b]
Kona Cowan DS (yellow)
Diamondback BMX (petrol blue)
Eastern Shovelhead BMX
Federal Fraction BMX
Kink Launch BMX
[b]2008[/b]
Dirt Bros Trail R Park BMX
Spooky Bandwagon
[b]2009[/b]
Cove Stiffee (red)
Kona Coiler
S&M Sabbath BMX
Foes Predator
British Eagle Exs
Raleigh Chopper
Intense Tazer VP (orange)
DK BMX (orange)
S&M Dirt Bike (orange)
S&M Dirt Bike NG
Santa Cruz Bullit
Intense Tazer VP FRO
[b]2010[/b]
Subrosa Pandora DTT BMX
Fit Logic BMX
Intense Slopestyle
Cheapo Apollo f/s
Intense Moto Pro Cruiser (white)
Intense Tazer FS (red)
Cove Sanchez
Fit (black) BMX
Federal Nation BMX (red)
Intense Tazer HT
Mountain Cycle Battery
Intense Tazer VP (raw)
Commencal Absolut SX 2010
[b]2011[/b]
Cotic BFe
Subrosa Salvador BMX
Kona Dudu
Santa Cruz Heckler (red)
Intense Tazer VP (orange) – revisited
Intense Uzzi VP
GT Aggressor
GT Timberline
Alpinestars T24
Intense Moto Pro Cruiser (red)
On-One 456
Cove Handjob (orange)
Dialled Bikes Holeshot
Commencal Absolut SX x 2 (2010 and 2011 - warranty)
Kona Five-O 2008
[b]2012[/b]
FBM Guillotine BMX
Intense Tazer FS
Kona Stinky TL
2011 Orange Blood
1992 Specialized Hardrock
2009 Kona Shonky
2012 WethePeople Arcade BMX
1993 Kona Hahanna
1998 Kona Explosif
2012 On-One 456 Evo
2007 DMR Transition 24
2009 Cove Foreplay MX
2012 Cove Sanchez
[b]2013[/b]
2012 Cult CC00 BMX
WethePeople Nova BMX
Cove Hooker MX Ltd Ed
1967 Schwinn Speedster
Kona Operator
Cove STD
1995 Specialized Hardrock Ultra
1998 GT Timberline
1995 Kona Kilauea
2008 DMR Transition 26
2013 Sunday Primer BMX
[b]2014[/b]
2013 FBM Autopilot (AKA Jet Generate)
2013 Commencal Premier HD4
2014 Whyte 802 650b
Cove Stiffee (pixie blue) 650b / 26
1999 Kona Lava Dome
Atomlab Pimp2
2013 Commencal El Camino 2
Transition Trans Am
2012 Kona Cinder Cone
Pinnacle Dolomite One road bike
2009 DK Reaction BMX
1992 Diamondback Apex resto
2014 Whyte 604 650b
2015 GT Bump 24
Transition TOP
2009 DMR Transition 24
2003 Kona Stinky
Spooky Bandwagon
[b]2015[/b]
Cove Stiffee (white)
FBM Ignition BMX
Kona Stinky Six
1995 Dyno VFR BMX
2014 Subrosa Altus BMX
2014 Cannondale Trail 2 29
1990 Kona Lava Dome
1968 Schwinn Fastback
2015 Genesis Col du Glandon
1992 Alpinestars Al Mega T26
DMR Transition 26
2008 Dirt Bros Trail R Park BMX (revisited)
😳 Most expensive form of therapy ever . . . 2014 was not a good year. In my defence, I do only have 3 (the Hooker, STD and Dirt Bros BMX . . . oh and the little Schwinn Fastback project which is work-in-progress).
Raleigh Nitro
96 Carrera Mission - first adult mtb, upgraded every part save for the headset and seatpost.
02 Azonic DS evo - bought as frame only, transferred all the upgrades from the carrera, but swapped the RST Gamma elastomer forks (with a whopping 75mm travel) for marzocchi Z1s. The difference was noticeable.
98-99 ish Kona Stinky - first full sus, Jr T forks, Hope C2 front brake, Avid V brake rear. Stolen.
04 Apollo Vortice BMX - bought for £100, razzed around everywhere on it, great fun. Sold a year later for £60
06 Specialized Demo 8 - first bike bought with money from 'proper' job, lots of upgrades. Stolen from whistler. Best bike ever.
09 Specialized SX trail II - replacement for the the above. Hated it. Too heavy for trail riding, too steep and upright for DH.
08? GT IT1 - Monster bike. 9 inch travel 'gearbox' huck bike. 48lbs.
05? Orange Hitman - eBay bargain, to use when the above wasn't appropriate (98% of the time)
09 Intense slopestyle Mk1 - decided a jump bike and a dh monster weren't ideal so this was an attempt to combine the 2. Kinda worked....
13 Trek 1.5 road bike still got. First foray into road biking. Now winter commuter.
(No idea) On One inbred. Frame bought while drunk...Fancied singlespeed, built from spares originally then upgraded everything again.
13 Trek Madone 5.2 - still got. Enjoyed road bikes. Bought a fancy one. Upgraded to full DA Di2, C50 wheels, carbon everything. Silly fast.
99 GT pro series 24. Was for sale on here. Always wanted one. Rode it once, sold it 6months later.
14 Santa Cruz 5010 carbon - still got. Went on a demo day, decided that all manufacturers should stop trying, as this was perfect. Wish list build. 140mm pikes, ccdb inline, hope/enve wheels, XX1, reverb, 26lbs
14 Santa Cruz Nomad Mk3 - still got. Saw the dozens of launch articles/ on release day. Placed order. Was the first bike for a non sponsored rider in the UK. Same spec as the 5010, save for longer pikes (160) and a vivid air shock.
15 Specialized Fatboy Pro - still got. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
13 Santa Cruz Chameleon - still got. Got a text from Stif saying some (free) replacement stickers had come in for me. This was the result. Bought as a frame only, last of the 26ers in a sale. Remember that /\ inbred? Plan was to use all the parts off that. 😆 decided the 5yr old 120mm rebas wouldn't cut it, so new 150mm pikes were bought. Decided the 711 bars were too narrow, 750mm Carbon bought. A bike like this needs a dropper too right? Reverb bought. There's a 142x12 rear end upgrade available? Oh yes. CBA with singlespeed anymore. 1x11 group set added.... These free stickers cost me close to 2 grand....
Having had all that, I genuinely can't think of a bike I want, save for maybe an ebike when I get really old and broken.
Ooh a use for my spreadsheet
OMG - you people have seriously good memories...I'd struggle to remember my bikes in the last...hang on..maybe it's not so difficult... I may be back soon with a list... 😀
Raleigh Sunbeam
Raleigh Commando
BH Bmx
DP Firebird
Giant Terrago
Gary Fisher Paragon
Diamondback Apex
Marin Bear Valley
Funk
Raleigh 653 Road
Barracuda 4x
Orange Patriot
Haro 24" Bmx
Orange Patriot 66
Dialled Prince Albert
Kona Unit 29
On One Scandal 29
Another Kona Unit 29
Macneil Deuce Deuce
Standard 250l
Kenesis Crosslight
Kenesis Tk2
Trek Madone
Giant TCR Adv Sl
Salsa Mamasita
Planet X rt57
Canfield Yelli Screamy
Dartmoor 4x
Planet X Dirty Harry
On One Codeine
Emmelle kids bike - no idea
Cheap BMX - broken
Emmelle MTB - stolen
Emmelle MTB - stolen
Emmelle Laser - sold
Trek 920 - cracked
Trek 930 - cracked
Trek 4600 - owned by my dad now
Orange P7 - sold
Planet X Jack Flash - sold
Orbea Aqua - cracked
Orbea Aqua - still got
Planet X Kaffenback - still got
Sensa Guilia - still got
Kona MinUte - still got
Small red tricycle which cost me a broken elbow due to to cornering at speed on 2 wheels until I flipped it one day.
Some steel hand-me-down from my older brother
Striker
grifter
Emelle road bikes
Raleigh maverick
very early stump jumper
gt zaskar
dave lloyd custom
big break from riding due to sex drugs and rock and roll, resulting in a few scrapes a brief peiord of living on the streets and some rather bleak times
back on the bikes with another gt zaskar
gary fisher sugar
merlin malt 1
Orange 5
On one inbred singlespeed (the start of the addiction!)
Marin mount vision (hateful ****g thing)
Felt virtue
fisher rig ss
sinister splinter
on one 29er ss
on one scandal prototype thing
on one scandal 29er ss
trek 69 ss
ellsworth epiphany
chumba hx2 modified to be a slack trailsy fat bike
salsa selma 29ss
jones diamond with a fat front ss
jones space frame ss
on one fatty ss
singular puffin ss
blacksheep ss
surly pugsley ss
there are loads of others, but if I really hate a bike it goes bloody quickly sobtheres no point listing
Erm... wow.. some big lists... okay:
tiny blue bike with solid tyres
Raleigh Scorcher
Raleigh Racer
Ridgeback 601LX
Specialized Allez (Carbon, Road)
Orange P7 LX (Nickel)
Orange P7 (Blue)
Orange P7 SS (Nickel became Kawasaki Green)
Gary Fisher Sugar 2
Litespeed Veya (Road)
Gary Fisher Sugar Race
Yeti ASRsl
Voodoo Wanga SS
Cotic Solaris
Genesis Day 1
Salsa El Mariachi SS
Cotic >X<
(Some overlap between bikes at different times)
Raleigh Lion trike.
Raleigh Tomahawk
Raleigh Grifter.
Raleigh Magnum tourer.
Unknown Italian road bike.
British Eagle road bike.
British Eagle 531 MTB.
Marin Palisades Trail.
Orange Clockwork.
Specialized Rockhopper.
Mongoose BMX.
Rock Lobster 853.
Trek 1400 road bike.
Another Rock Lobster 853 - first one nicked.
About to buy a Surly Disc Trucker.
I've forgotten a couple, but that's about it.
A trike (red)
An two wheeler (orange)
Raleigh Tomahawk (red)
Grifter (blue)
My mums Raleigh 18 shopper (red)
A racer of some sort (red)
Super Burner (gold)
Aero Pro Burner (chrome)
New frame for above
Another new frame for above + forks
And another set (Raleighs 15 year F+F warranty was great)
An mtb! Claude Butler something (purpley pink)
Haro Sport (blue/black)
[i]The Motorbike years...
[/i]Marin Wildcat Trail (bronze)
Commencal Supreme Mini (black)
DMR Drone (beige)
On One 456 SS (red)
Stumpy Evo (black/red)
A small red thing
20" Emmelle. it was blue
Apollo Excel 24" FS!!!
Some silver supermarket thing
Trek 4900 Alpha
Identiti Dr Jekyll
GT I drive 7
Giant Reign
One One 456 Summer Season
Ragley MmmBop
Lapierre Spicy
On One Inbred 29er rigid
Mondraker Vantage
Theres a definite line where you can tell the bug bit!
Shorter list than most on here I think...
1974ish
Red trike with a baby blue 'boot' for running errands to the village shop.
1976ish
Raleigh Chipper started my thing for orange bikes.
1980ish
Silver Halfords 'racer' - 15 speed IIRC with downtube shifters. Ridden everywhere including off road and the odd little jump.
Then a few years where bikes gave way to early home computers & consoles, music, beer and finally cars (mostly minis).
1993
Home built 'klunker' from various police auction donor bikes. Heavy and very yellow, but got me round Cambridge in my student days just fine.
1995
Another frankenbike based on an early '90s Peugeot steel MTB frame (which I still have, albeit built up as a ratty shop/pub bike). First taste of proper hills as I lived in Barnsley at the time.
1997
Custom build (a bit of a bizarre one in places - BMX stem and risers) based on a very nice one-off (prototype AFAIK) orange Lee Cooper steel XC frame (still riding this as my slick-shod singlespeed commuter). Mostly used for bimbling along canals and around the edge of fields in Warwickshire.
2001
Mk2 Trailstar custom build. A bit ahead of its time in some ways and was the template for almost every bike I've built up since - small frame, short stem, wide risers, single chainring, big tyres. When I ride it outside every now and again (it's usually set up on the turbo) the only real giveaway that it's an old bike is the twitchy head angle.
Then another gap while I got obsessed with my now wife and some new money pit hobbies (digital music production and then archery).
2009
Identiti Mr Hyde. Burly as anything. This was my bike on my first trips to Scotland and The Lakes - it opened my eyes a bit to say the least.
2012
Cotic BFe. Another hardcore hardtail. Incredibly capable bike - it's an XS so basically a big wheeled off-road BMX that I can still comfortably do all-day rides on. Still ridden pretty often. First riding trips to The Peak and Wales on this bike.
2014
Orange Alpine 160 26. The bike I got when I couldn't get a Rocket (the numbers were VERY similar for geometry, weight and price). Very orange. First full suss and another real eye opener. Eats rocks and rough stuff and surprisingly good to climb with (faster on most off road climbs than the BFe).
Started with a trike- I think it was yellow and red.
Then I was given a Raleigh Chipper by a neighbour, it had been painted with white gloss. I can remember when my Dad took the stabilisers off- I hit my knee and promptly fell out with the bike fit a while.
Next bike was a secondhand Grifter, I think it was stuck in the hardest gear, it had rock hard spikey green grips which were very uncomfortable.
Universal Hill Street Cruiser, my first "ATB". 10 speed Shimano Tourney- wooOOooo.
The next one escapes me, it was black and green and had 200GS and biopace rings.
Quickly followed by a British Eagle ZFX two. This is when constant upgrading took over!
Univega Alpina 5.3 next, STX RC iirc.
Cheap ass aluminium frame build.
DMR Trailstar, with Z1 Bams.
Specialized Pitch Pro.
Reacquired the Trailstar for a SS build.
Kona Kula SS build.
Specialized Langster.
Kona Unit.
456 EVO II, using the Pitch as a donor.
Pinnacle Arkose 3.
Okay...
Moulton Mini early 70s 😕
Raleigh Grifter - mid / late 70s 8)
then a rather big gap:
- Gary Fisher Tai Kai HT 1997 (still have the frame)
- Specialized S-Works Epic FS 2005-2007
- BeOne Team Killerbee HT 2007-2010
- Whyte 19 Team Carbon HT 2010-2015
- OnOne carbon Whippet Alfine HT 2012
- Scott Scale Premium HT 2013 -
- Cannondale Flash Ultimate HT 2015 -
WTF mamadirt!!!
I know right? Who buys a Trek Y3?!?!?
Far too many and I've probably missed out a few.
Raleigh Chipper, Chopper and Arena
Muddy Fox 1st MTB
Dawes Fat Chance
GTZaskar LE
Specialized Enduro (1st Full Sus)
Prince Albert Mk1
SC HEckler
Dialled Bikes Kobe Ti
Some Roadbike runabout
Cove Stiffee
Norco something HT
Prince Albert Mk1 again
Turner 5-Spot
Hungarian Super market special
Saracen Trials Bike
SC VP Free
Specialized Enduro
INtense 6.6
Titus Motolite
On ONe 456
2 X Dutch Commuter bikes
Transition Preston FR
SC Nomad
One ONe 456 Ti
Dialled Bikes Prince Albert
Giant Glory
Evil Sovereign
Planet X Ti Road Bike
Transition Trans AM
On ONe 456 Summer Season
Brompton
Marin CX/Commuter
Kona Cinder Cone
Banshee Spitfire
Banshee Rune
Dialled Bikes Morning Glory
As I remember, it goes a bit like this,
Raleigh Stryker
Mongoose wire wheel bmx
Peugeot trail, first mountain bike.
Muddy fox courier,
Nishiki alien
Nishiki alien acx, both technically not mine but I was sponsored to race them in the early 90s.
Bontrager race lite,
Kona dawg,
Specialized fsr xc comp,
Santa Cruz bullet,
Orange patriot 7+ DH,
Specialized sx trail,
Orange 224,
On-one in bread 456,
Iron horse mk3,
Cannondale synapse, first road bike.
Orange blood,
Commencal meta v4 am.
Something small and red with stabilisers that eventually fell off (after a short period of riding with just one side on...)
Random inherited step-through frame hand painted baby blue. Had a rear rack.
Raleigh striker. Remember repainting the chainguard
Hand me down Raleigh grifter with a bent crank. Ride on any borrowed bike felt weird for a while!
First "mtb" - Townsend something; steel wheels, centre ridge tyres, falcon friction gears, weighed the same as a small sun. First bike I bought new. Should have spent the extra £25 for the model up in the sale with sis and alloy rims but it wasn't green and I was a naive 11 year old.
Muddy fox pathfinder - actual mtb!
Scott Tampico in 1998 bought with a small inheritance
Transferred all the bits to a kona chute frame sometime in 2007, along with a pair of psylos and some avid juicy brakes
Acquired Orbea something hardtail for xc duties
Given an 80's Raleigh road bike of some type
Inherited an Orange ST4 pro - left in my best mates will
A dirt cheap 2nd giant OCR2 while banned from mtb riding for medical reasons.
I've done a lot of riding with not many bikes
lol :@ tomhoward 😆 That was one of the few that was bought complete.
Talera
M500
Explosif (XC Pro 🙂 )
Rc200
Stumpy
Another stumpy
Another Rc200
Another stumpy
..after another RC200.
I should grow up.
My list pales into insignificance compared to mamadirt's, but I still think I have a real problem! Especially as I'm not even sure this is complete... In fact I'm pretty sure I've missed a few out (I've not included any I've bought just to use as donors for parts)...
Raleigh Burner BMX - first I can remember, I'm sure there were others before
Raleigh 10spd road bike of some description (it was about 1987, I was 7, didn't really get bikes still at this age)
Marin Muirwoods - 1990 and first proper MTB
Marin Eldridge Grade - 1995 model, spent all my savings upgrading this one!
Orange X1 - 1996... I know, never be the beta tester. Did lots of miles on it mind!
Specialized Stumpjumper M2 Team Edition - 1997 model, with Carbon legged Judy's, just like JMC's! Bought off "lookmanohands" of this forum (his XC race bike of the previous season), and I kept it for many years to come.
Proflex Animal - 1997 model F&F bought old stock in 2001. Quickly became my then GF's bike
Trek Fuel 100 - 2001 I was working PT in a shop and splashed all my wages on the best FS I could get hold of at the time.
GT Pro Series BMX - 99 model bought in 2001. The longest I've ever owned a bike (only sold it last year), and in 13 years I think I rode it maybe 20 times!
Specialized S-Works Enduro - 2003 champagne coloured model. One of the better bikes I've owned but a terribly unreliable shock!
Trek Bruiser - decided I needed a small fun HT in my life again. Early mid life crisis
Specialized S-Works Allez Road Bike - bought off Jedi from this forum... Did about 200 miles on it inside 4 years! Never mind...
Santa Cruz Bullit - sold the Enduro to buy this. Too much bike for most of my riding, but awesome in the Alps!
Airborne Lancaster - felt I needed something the antithesis of the Bullit, plus it was cheap... It worked on flexy time mind!
Another Trek Bruiser - enjoyed the first one, bought the 2nd one mucho cheap.
Intense Tazer FS - 2002 model I bought 2nd hand then built up as closely as a Nigel Page replica I could. Rode it twice I think, realising 4X wasn't for me.
GT Ruckus - Bought cheap, heavily upgraded. A more modern equivalent of the 90's Zaskar I never owned, or so I told myself.
Cannondale Gemini DH - my one and only full on DH bike. Gracia is, was, and always will be the coolest guy ever to ride a bike, and I owned one like his (albeit with a more modest build)
Maverick ML7 - having tried one about 5 years previously and fallen in love, it took several years for the price of 2nd hand ones to fall far enough to get into my clutches! Great bike, thoroughly misunderstood by the masses.
Genesis Altitude 853 - superb steel HT, in the vain of the Cotic Soul but cheaper. Did a lot of miles on this.
Giant Reign X - superb bike but I was using it for XC blasts in the woods, not trips to the Alps.
Gary Fisher Rig - 2 firsts for me... 29er and Singlespeed. Put an Alfine hub on it after 1 ride, and replaced the frame with something else fairly shortly after.
On One inbred 29er - inherited all the kit off the Rig. Heavy but stable, and less fragile than the (already abused when I bought it) Rig.
Maverick Durance - bought the last one officially imported into the UK at a knock down price to replace the ML7. Superb bike, still own it now although it's not been ridden in a while.
Cotic BFe - had listed after one for years, finally bought one 2nd hand for a good price. Found it ridiculously unforgiving, and didn't gel with it at all. Sold it on quite quickly.
Giant Defy 2 Road Bike - the first road bike I actually rode properly. Bought it to replace 2 MTB's as having been made redundant, I decided I needed to make the hobby somewhat less expensive. Took some time to get used to it, but ended up enjoying road riding with this bike.
Genesis Altitude Ti - Loved the steel version so much, I kept it for a while when I bought the Ti version to replace it just in case. Fortunately the Ti version didn't disappoint, and served me well for a few years.
Holeshot steel HT - bought mega cheap and built on a very tight budget as a mess about bike. Rode it like 4 times. Still have the frame though all the components are long gone.
Merida Scultura Road Bike - My first carbon bike. Did a fair few miles on This inside the 18 months I had it. Started to realise road riding was a lot more fun on a decent bike!
Kona Kahuna Deluxe - Bought cheap as a stop gap HT, ended up being one of my favourite bikes to date! My 3rd 29er, but the first one I got on with. Heavily upgraded over standard, did 12hr solo at Bonty 24/12 on it, my first ever go at a solo, and came 14th out of 60 odd!
Kinesis Sync Ti - was already waiting for this one when I bought the Kona, hadn't expected it would take as long as it did. Superb bike once it arrived though, I did spend some money speccing it up mind!
KTM Revelator Road Bike - in the 18 months I've had this, it's been through about 6 sets of wheels, 2 groupsets, various bars/stems/seatposts/saddles and is now knocking in at 7.2kg with full SRAM Red and Reynolds wheels. Best road bike I've ridden still, and I've ridden a number of high end exotica over the years.
Whyte Dorset - Superb winter road bike. Heavy but supremely comfortable and dependable with full guards, 28c tyres and disc brakes.
Whyte T-129 Works SCR - Bought as an (expensive) stop gap whilst I waited for another bike that was going to take months to arrive. Superb agressive geometry for a 29er, but piss poor rear tyre clearance.
Evil The Following - probably the longest I've ever waited for a bike! Thank god it lived up to the hype though, as I had to buy the T-129 to keep me going for a good few months in the meantime! Still got it as my main bike, won't be going anywhere any time soon...
Kona Taro - bought 2nd hand off this forum, built it to my own spec, rode it a few times. Didn't gel with it, now has been stripped to sell the frame on...
Saracen Avro - recently bought as a new lighter weight winter road bike, but not yet ridden for one reason or another. Upgraded with 1x11 hydraulic SRAM groupset, will be hoping to get some serious miles in on this over the winter.
Whyte 629 - bought last week to replace the Taro. Stripped it for the frame, and currently rebuilding with most of the parts off the Taro. Will be my main MTB through the muddy winter.
Like I say there's definitely a select few I've forgotten, not including the select few that I've built up and then changed my mind and sold before I even rode them!
Too late to edit:-
Ghost AMR 2955 - far from unforgettable, actually a surprisingly good short travel 29er FS bike. It's late, I should be in bed, forgot I'd had that one at the same time as the Sync...
Raleigh Strada 2 hybrid - bought stupidly cheap in the vein idea I might use it to commute to work, or as a pub bike. Got used for both maybe 3 times. Somebody else wanted it and wanted to pay me more than I bought it for, so off it went...
Elswick Hopper 60s
'Track bike' cow horns, nobblers 60s
Club Row 'special' road bike 70s
Condor Cadet fixie 70s
Raleigh mountain bike 90s
Whyte Preston 4 00s
Felt single speed 00s
Maverick ML7 current
Genesis Core 40 current
Eddy Merckx EMX3 current
Missing a few but this is over a 50 yr period
OK
Some red thing
Coventry eagle
Grifter 2 frames, 3 sets of forks
Sun Solo
Peugeot racer
Evans tourer
Another Evans tourer after I hit someone on the first
Falcon 531pro thing
Stumpjumper Team
Orange Prestige
Kona Explosif
GT Zaskar - 2 frames
Some Raleigh road frame bike
Cougar roadie
Condor Fratelli
Spesh Tarmac
Spesh Allez
KTM Revelator
Spesh Singlecross
Marin Mount Vision
4 Cove Stiffee frames
Orange Sub 5
Orange Evo 6
Airborne Lucky Strike
Yeti Arc
Turner 5 Spot
Dialled Love hate
One one inbred
On one scandal
Fisher 29er thing
Lynsey Ridgeline 29
CoticSoul
Coptic Simple
Santa Cruz Superlight
Santa Cruz Highball 3 frames
Stumpjumper Evo 29
Camber Evo 29
Salsa Beargrease
Not in order but lots.
a plastic blue and yellow trike with the pedals directly attached to front wheel (remember snapping that when I got too big for it)
a black bike with white fat tyres
raleigh grifter
1984-5(ish) raleigh winner 5sp
1987 peugeot road bike 10sp (dunno if it had a name)
1989 madison/ridgeback rapide 531c 14sp road bike (still got it)
1996 scott vail (still got it)
2007 cotic soul (my main bike)
2010 droessiger CX bike (use that too - german brand that make frames that get rebadged by lots of shops etc. that want their own label bikes, eg cucuma, vortrieb, ...)
Chipper (or tomohawk?)
Arena with cow horns
Grifter
Extra Burner (pimped)
Folding shopping bike for getting to work on
Raleigh MAverick
GT Timberline
GT Zaskar
GT LTS
GT STS
Turner 5 Spot
Transition Covert (2011)
On One 456
On One C456
'92 Marin Palisades Trail
Retro Kona Munimula
Transition Covert 2(2014 - for sale soon! 🙂 )
Dialled Alpine
Nukeproof Mega Tr
Raleigh RSW - Red (Circa 1977) Memory: Falling off, 3 stitches above right eye.
Tricycle yellow c1967, standing on it so I could reach handle to back door, 3 stitches to top lip & then repeat 2 weeks later, 3 stitches to bottom lip
1970ish. Gold fat tyre kids bike with front rod brake (first of many trips over the bars on this)
Slightly bigger kids bike
Raleigh Chopper (death trap!)
5 speed kids racer (24" wheel)
12 speed racer
Cheap mountain bike from Condor Cycles Greys Inn Road
Specialized Rock hopper
Orange Clockwork
Merlin Taiga
Intense Tracer (one of the very first)
Intense 5.5 EVP
Turner 5spot (horst)
Wilier Izoard
Turner 5spot (TNT) Stolen 🙁
Merlin Oreas Stolen 🙁
Turner 5spot (DW)
Fondriest Aluminium (Winter bike)
Viner Aluminium/Carbon (crap weather bike)
Brian Rourke Custom 853 Hardtail
Viner Maxima
......?????
some red thing
Raleigh Jeep
Carrera B52
Profelx Animal
Specialised Stumpjumper HT
Foes FXC
Pastey Howler
On One Inbred SS
Cove Hummer
Nicolai Helius FR
Santa Cruz Chameleon
PP Shan
Yeti ARS5c
1980 - Hand-me-down red girls bike with solid rubber tyres
1982 - S/H Raleigh Tomahawk
1984 - knackered S/H Raleigh Chopper
1988 - Townsend 27" 'racer' that I smeared in Niromors then spray painted white. Fitted it with Suntour thumb shifters and Bullmoose handlebars.
1989 - Falcon Sierra - Hammerited it green and got my LBS to build me a wheel using a 3 speed hub taken off the Chopper (think pre-Rolholf all-weather bike).
1989 - Bianchi Avanti MTB. Hi-tensile steel at it's finest.
1990 - Mongoose Iboc Pro. Bl**dy good bike actually.
1992 - Kona Kilauea frame that I built up using some of the parts from the dented and abused Mongoose.
1997 - Italian built Columbus steel + Campy road bike I bought off some mug for £70. Crashed it badly and ended in hospital. Karma.
2000 - Kona Cindercone
2002 - Santa Cruz Superlight.
2003 - On-One Pompino built up as a commuter
2004 - Intense Tracer. Discounted frameset. Bloody nice bike.
2006 - S/H Brompton for commuting on the train.
2009 - Cotic Soul.
2011 - A frameset so terrible I'd rather not talk about it. Never buying anything from those shysters ever again.
2013-Now - Surly 26" LHT
2014-Now - Surly Karate Monkey Ops.
2016 - Litespeed T3 fitted with Ultegra everything inc. wheels.
2016 - Surly Cross Check.
1969 Old schwinn-type cruiser
1972 Moulton Mini (my sister's)
1974 Sun 3 speed racer
1979 Mongoose BMX
1985 Specialized Rockhopper
1988 Chas Roberts White Spider
1992 Marin Team Issue
1996 Specialised FSR
2004 Orange 5
2009 Brompton S3M
2014 Santa Cruz Bronson C
I've not had many really.
The past:
Circa 1980 - A little purple thing
Couple of years later - A BMX, no idea of make or model.
Sometime in the 80’s - A Raleigh road bike, it was orange thats all i know
Late 80’s - A Raleigh styler mag BMX, loved that bike.
1990 ish – A Townsend MTB (for about 6 weeks) bag of shite!
Long period with no bike (which coincided with me moving to Halifax!!)…..
1999 Raleigh Dyna Tech MTB
2003 GT Avalanche
2010 Orange Five
2012 On one inbred 29er
2013 Btwin triban 5
2013 On one inbred 26”
The present:
Ragley Blue Pig
Planet X London Road
Commencal Meta AM
1997 Specialized Rockhopper cromo (didn't have it long because it was stolen).
1997 Kona Koa - first forray into suspension with Judt XC's
1997 Cannondale SV500
1996 Marin Bear Valley (at the same time as the SV500, small as a jump bike)
1997 Marin Mount Vision (Z1's, Hope Big 'Un's, Maguras etc)
Had an MTB hiatus at this point and skateboarded / rode BMX - 2001 Fly Estampida which was nicked whilst at Uni. Back to MTB...
1999 Specialized FSR
2001 Kona Stinky
2003 Specialized Big Hit
XXXX Planet X Jumping Jack Flash (bought as a cheapo jump bike to go with the Big Hit)
1999 Santa Cruz Chameleon (replaced the Planet X)
2005 Demo 9 to replace the Big Hit
2001 Kona Stinky - rebuilt as a trail bike and replainted
200X Norco Sasquatch (awful bike, didn;t last long)
2005 Orange Sub Zero (loved this bike but it cracked)
2007 Santa Cruz Chameleon (one that fitted, trail bike)
2001 Kona Stinky (rebuilt again as a plpay bike with 66's)
2007 Solid Flair
2005 Orange Patriot 66 (bought to repalce the Chameleon and Solid - hated it).
Another MTB hiatus due to hating the 66 so much.
2005 Specialized SX Trail...loved this so much!
200X Specialized P1 - awful thing
XXXX GT Lopes 4x. Rode really well but hated the way it looked
XXXX Intense Tazer HT to replace the Lopes. Loved it but it cracked
2012 Cotic BFE. Didn't really love it
2013 Banshee Rune V2. Awesome, awesome bike but overkill.
2013 Specialized Allez
201X Stanton Slackline 853...loved it. A lot but too small.
2015 Stanton Switchback 631. Awesome.
1994 Cannondale Beast of the East - inherited from an uncle and is (very slowly) being turned into a single speed.
The Rune has now been sold and the Switchback is joing it. Both have just been replaced by a Ti Slackline