I was given a '92 Orange Prestige in *that* black colour with a stuck seatpost.
It was just as we moved house to Scotland, and we had too much stuff already. I gave the frame to a friend.
It was XL/21" and would have made either a brilliant old-skool commuter thing or a nice wall art piece.
meh.
For me it was a 2003 Santa Cruz Heckler i bought in Vancouver and rode all round the west cost of BC and the states for a 5 month road trip, bought back to Scotland rode in various guises all over the UK, then for some reason sold it to a bloke off here as i needed to fund a road bike (why?) with the caveat if you ever think of selling it call me first... he did, I bought it back with a view to rebuilding it. It was poorly resprayed, wrong era decals added badly, the 5th element shock i sold it with was replaced with a seized piece of crap off an ebay bike, the original Hope enduro HS looked like it had been on and off using a crowbar. I still bought it back for too much and I was so gutted when i actually looked at it properly and couldn't then bring myself to rebuild (that and the fact geometry had moved on and I'd discovered 29rs) so its sat in my office on a shelf to remind never to make rash decisions when selling or purchasing bikes ever again!..... didn't quite work.. but still love that frame and what it meant to me at the time!
sold it to a bloke off here as i needed to fund a road bike (why?) with the caveat if you ever think of selling it call me first… he did, I bought it back with a view to rebuilding it. It was poorly resprayed, wrong era decals added badly, the 5th element shock i sold it with was replaced with a seized piece of crap off an ebay bike, the original Hope enduro HS looked like it had been on and off using a crowbar.
Go on, say who bought it...
nope!
I used to think the same, but I reckon my gravel bike has filled the gap now and I ride it a lot more.
I know exactly what you mean, and that's sort of why wish I hadn't sold it...I always used to wonder what the Solaris would be like with rigid forks on and some big wide drop bars on.
Then I had to sell it to fund a Nukeproof Reactor. Then my gravel bike cracked and I ended up buying a Cotic Cascade, and have ended up running that with flat bars as a rigid mtb....