[Closed] What's Your Dream Bike?

Cervelo Aspero GP Lama spec for the everyday.

Evil The Wreckoning for the fun stuff.

Nice van to put them in with a kettle so I can make a tea at the end of my ride.

This month it is:

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My G13 that I'm lucky enough to own!

It's big enough for a start. I was a relevation being able to ride a MTB without banging my knees on the bars.

It's 160/130mm travel so not full enduro ground sucking monster

I love the made in Germany by very specific folk to specific standards back story.

I like being able to talk to the factory and get bits for it when I've broken them.

Pootling tick
Uplift weeks tick
Bike packing tick
Riding my local stuff tick
Riding decent loops in the peaks tick.

currently that yeti Hardtail...I'm doing mental sums/fantasy excels to work out my dream spec....so far it's just shy of £6K. I might have to just steal @Chipps'  when he's not looking.

Also just a non specific Ti hardtail... Designing the spec and geometry of which keeps me occupied in dull meetings

I'd be happy with the one I have if it would just stop clicking when I'm peddling it.

If someone could clean it properly at the same time as sorting the click that would be even better.

I don't really believe in dream bikes, because really good MTBs aren't that expensive and I know that the really pricey ones aren't necessarily any better.

But if you gave me an unlimited budget and told me to pick a bike it'd likely be between a custom build Spesh Enduro or Geometron G1 - or one of those stainless Starlings. Or maybe an eeb.

A brace of (well, if I had to choose one then a gravel bike) custom Ti bikes from Firefly, each one with different but amazing ano artwork

Lauf True Grit Ultimate, Specialized S-Works Turbo Kenevo SL and Yeti SB150 T3.

My dream bike doesn't exist and won't until battery technology advances quite considerably.

Sub 16KG 160/170ish 27.5 eeb with full power motor and lots of Wh please. The Forestal Siryon is currently the closest but no one has seen one in the wild yet.

The next one.

At the moment i would say a Transition spur and for a bigger bike between a nukeproof giga or cotic rocket max , and chuck in a Deviate highlander because why not 🙂

Mine is very specific, I nearly got as far as putting in the order before 2020 went A Bit Wrong...

I've got an old Trek Remedy 29- absolutely love it, best suspension I've ever felt on any bike. Done allsorts on it- enduro racing, uplift days, the mega, hundreds of runs in the tweed valley, it's old but it's still brilliant, and I've evolved it a lot.

Buuuut, it's a little short despite going up a size, and a little steep despite a longer fork and angle headset, and hte BB is a little high with 2.5 tyres in it, and I can only get a 190mm dropper post in it. So I thought, how about getting a new front triangle built for it. Could fix all of those at one stroke, give it maybe an extra 40mm reach and slacken it off,change the seat tube shape slightly to clear the pivot and let it take a longer post, drop the BB even if just to balance out the slight additional height from the tyres and fork...

But, circumstances changed and made spending all that money on this not a smart idea- I've got a size XL frame to try though. But it's definitely still my only real dream bike.

I don't know exactly what make model it is, but I'm looking to update my now rather dated Genesis Altitude, and I think I'm after something like:

Nice steel
'Classic' kinda looks
Geometry and finishing kit aimed at all-day riding around, mainly in the Peak, so capable uphill and downhill without being too XC racing whip or hardcore gnarpoon
Hardtail (probably)
Lowest gear equivalent to 24/34 on my current triple 🙂

I don't really have dream bikes anymore.

But I'd settle for this and a month in Whistler...

This will remain firmly stuck in dreamland unless something magical happens.

@abingham

It's a clean bike that.

I dunno..

Sometimes I think hand built steel other times I'm thinking carbon..

this makes me go weak at the knees

@ElShalimo
Maybe change the orientation of the elliptical chainring?

Every time I think about what my dream bike is, I change my mind...

Swarf Contour
Starling Murmur Trail with reduced travel
Short travel 29er from Curtis in the raw finish that would look suspiciously like a Swarf Contour

All sadly way out of my price range but I guess that’s the idea of a dream bike

My dream bike would be a magic "ride any bike" bike. I've been looking at full sussers for 2 years and haven't got anywhere really. There's a bunch that would probably be great, and I could plunder savings to buy something very decent e.g. Deviate highlander, Airdrop Edit, Norco optic Trek Slash/Remedy(?), Yeti SB130 lunchride, transition spur, Cotic Jeht, Jeffsy/Capra, etc etc. with a nice/non ridiculous build - say SLX/XT, ally DT wheels, that sort of thing.

But I haven't because I'm clueless and it's a big wodge of cash to spend on something that's benefit would be going a bit faster on some trails than I do on my current bike.

If I ****ing loved one of them, that would obviously make the world of difference, but even on nice long test rides of the handful of bikes I've tried i nthe last 2 years, it's taken a good long while to work out how/where to push, where the envelopes are, whether the negatives are felt or real or relevant or able to be ridden round, and where the best geo trade offs are.

Pretty close to this but with discs.

Passoni ti frame

Dura-Ace Di2

Lightweight Wheels

Fancy carbon finishing kit

Filth.

Moots of some variety, currently liking tbe look of the Womble.anything else I should be considering that could rival Moots ?

Dream bike? .... a sub 35lb 180mm Enduro slayer with properly water-tight e-bike motor complete with mega battery capacity to winch me back up the hills, no silly speed limiter, full AXS groupset and tyres that don't shred or go flat.

it's a dream because it doesn't exist... yet.

I'm not sure, at present I think the new Cotic Flaremax in purple, built with full XT and Hope, and a load of lighter parts.

Plus.

Shand Stoater in some lovely glittery colour or other.

I am riding one, its a HB130. Like all dreams the reality wasnt initially as good as I had hoped, however with a lot of adjustments its now amazing and really progressing my riding.

I am riding stuff only 6 months ago I walked and smashing pb on local trails I have ridden for years.

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I however still lust after another bike. (Feels like cheating on your mrs) I have never ridden anything as good as this down a steep trail, it was however too slow on the up and i kept hitting my heels off the chainstay...

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If I won a wadge of cash I would buy one with a coil in an instant and have it as a golfie/laggan/munro bashing special.

My problem is that my "dream bike" (and I'm not short of imagination there!) would be an absolutely useless nightmare on my very-much-not dream local trails. So dream bike has to live in dream world, while I ride "best compromise" bike. Ho Hum.

Buy it, OP!

I bought my dream bike (also an HB.160 mid-2018) and it's mint. Now has GX AXS, DVO Jade, DT XM481, One up 210mm dropper (shimmed to 190mm).
Only way I afforded it new was stars aligning - insurance payout, selling old parts and a 0% credit card and don't regret it in the slightest.

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Though now I have it, my new dream bike is an HB.130.

https://singletrackmag.com/user/nedrapier/

Get the Highlander, with the 150mm link and a coil on the back. Amazing

@teethgrinder - few up for sale between 4 and 5 k, get on the hope riders facebook page
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Ohlins equipt, carbon Stumpjumper- carbon Hope hubbed wheels, with mix of saint and Xtr.

In fortunate enough to have one to ride already. Carful what you wish for though- It’s a little disappointing when you get to the point where you have your dream bike.

Makes browsing for kit and reading reviews a little hollow.

@stevemuzzy

I'd have to sell the 160 and the BFe spares bike to do that. I have thought about it but have a fear that I'll miss out by not selling them in time.

New RM Solo.. but then it wouldn’t be much better as what I already have (my Tripster), hmm except the fatter tyres... so it’d be an
MTB, Maybe the new Instinct... depends on weight really. Medical reasons (excuses) mean I need a light bike, so if a full sus 130/140mm travel-ish, weight about 26lbs exists... then that.
Bought my Throttle as it was my dream ht. so got that.
Eebs can still go swivel until I can’t actually ride any more 😂

Carful what you wish for though- It’s a little disappointing when you get to the point where you have your dream bike.

It's also very difficult to drop down from such lofty bikes to more modest/less dreamy ones, even if functionally they are the same/better due to advances in geo/trickle down tech, or to improve them any further will be ruinously expensive.

Don't get me wrong, having these sort of bikes is amazing, but I guess the type of people that build them for themselves are always seeking out the latest and greatest 'what dreams are made of' kit, and the goal posts are always moving, there's always something new on the horizon. Then some cleverdick like Dangerholm or one of the supported insta pages comes along and makes your pride and joy look like a BSO.

I should probably see a psychologist/psychiatrist.

One of these... Alas e-bikes seem to be moving further and further from my grasp.

I picked up my dream bike yesterday.

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38s on a trail bike eh??? 🙂 🙂

It changes all the time, but currrently I would love a steel -frame d bike, always loved the feel of them in the past.
Never ever been a racing snake so it would be far more specced towards comfort than speed. Never been fashionable a day in my life so brands,etc. would mean nothing to me.
Currently lusting over a Thorn Rohloff model or something like a Ridgeback Expedition or Genesis CDF.
Like I said, I have never knowingly been fashionable for a single day in my life.

Or, thinking about it, a Rose Activa.
Yeah, I'd be happy with any one of those really.

This, because it looks awesome. I would hardly use it, but who cares.
I’m not even sure if you can buy one anymore.

starling murmur. it is in my garage right now.

edit: and i really have a hankering for a rocky mountain growler 40.

and a steel hard tail that feels like the dekerf i owned in the olden days

edit edit: the new blue flare max with a SID on the front.

and a transition spur (with xtr)

edit edit edit: but i’m very happy with my murmur.

An all around do it all thats carbon, custom built to my body specifications. 6" F&R.
Health dictates it be an Ebike.
Flights of fancy make it under 30lb

To be honest, that HB160 would do it for me too.
But you’re safe enough, OP, because Lowey won’t sell it to me because I can’t collect it, so you might as well buy it instead.
At least my bank balance will be £3.5k better off - I’ll just have to make do with my old 301...

Might be a dream bike, but not justifiable at this point unfortunately - I’ve just splurged on some spendy wheels!

If the finishing kit was purple on the other hand, I’d have much more difficulty resisting...

My dream bike is a bit different as I'm lucky enough to own a couple of bikes that I probably wouldn't swap for anything else right now.

The only bike I lust over is actually one I've owned, (well the frame) for a day before taking it back as the seat post wasn't finished properly.

This wasn't my bike, apologies if it's yours.
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Something about that frame design just looked right at the time. I bought the last frame in stock, realised it was damaged and took it back to swap for the fancy Cosmic Sunrise multi coloured paint.

Loved that bike and regret selling the frame on but as said I'd still have chosen the white one.

Pretty much the same as you OP!

No health reasons, just want to do hunners of descending, fresh.

Go go gadget bike. It would be able to convert from bmx to DH to touring bike to fix wheel town bike and everything in-between. Change colours as well would be nice but not essential.

The problem with a dream bike is dream upkeep. I couldn't trash a wheel and replace with a £1000 wheel.

So, I'll take my new Bird Aether7 thanks

Dream MTB would be an Ibis Mojo HD5 with full on bling. I have the HD3 but there’s a couple of tweaks they’ve made which make me think it would be perfect. And I’m currently waiting on my dream Gravel bike which is a Mason Bokeh GRX Di2. Been waiting since January for it but won’t be here until at least mid June ☹️

i would like all of these bikes

... and a big garage

Something along the lines of my genesis grapil/ a yeti asr 5 but 29 and updated geo, but not radically. Link activated single pivot, aluminium, simple, light build, in ano purple

And a cotic soda max

It’s also very difficult to drop down from such lofty bikes to more modest/less dreamy ones, even if functionally they are the same/better due to advances in geo/trickle down tech, or to improve them any further will be ruinously expensive.

I found working in the bike industry very helpful for that. I had the full XTR, DT Swiss top end, custom 953 or Ti etc and as nice as it was it didn't that do much for my riding enjoyment. Great geometry and fit, good tyres and a few bits that work for your own personal tastes or quirks in riding and that's it, I'm happy. I have dream rides and trips and locations in mind 100x more than dream kit.

Dream bikes though... for me it's something beautiful that comes out on sunny Sundays, something high-end that doesn't live under a layer of dried mud. Full Record 10s on an early 90s Colnago Master in Lampre colours, threaded forks and skinny bars, all NOS. £££££.
Or a Sturdy custom all-road rando bike for 650Bs. I'm a bit more grounded with MTBs, my Ti Jones is a very nice bike but parts go on it to get trashed in the end, it's all about function. When the Ti version dies I'll have a steel one and that'll do just fine.

My dream bike is one that stops me feeling tired, pays the bills so I don't have to work, makes all the cars that get too close break down with a bike icon flashing on their dashboard, stops the rain, and drys up the mud.

My dream bikes have changed as the years and technology have progressed.

I'm lucky to have my dream bike for now, built to the spec that I wanted.

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Edit. Not sure why my profile link is on the first page 😉

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Got one of mine already! I adore my Spur, it does everything I want it to and way more, the fastest but also most fun bike I've owned by far. It'd be nice to have some even lighter wheels and a 200mm Reverb AXS whenever they do one, and I will get round to sorting out some oil slick ti bolts for the stem one day, but aside from that, it's perfect as is!

Great geometry and fit, good tyres and a few bits that work for your own personal tastes or quirks in riding and that’s it, I’m happy. I have dream rides and trips and locations in mind 100x more than dream kit.

I agree, but you're kind-of implying that the serious gear freaks actually ride their super-spendy steeds. I think that's unproven at best.

For my MTBs I just need a decent frame (metal is fine), very good suspension, decent wheels, tyres and brakes and a functional drivetrain. Anything beyond that is wasteful in terms of my overall budget (having to maintain multiple bikes).

For road: a nice carbon frame, decent wheels about 1.5kg and Ultegra with discs - just to keep the overall weight around 8kg.

Diminishing returns are even sharper in road than MTB, to my eyes.

Don't think I have a dream MTB really. That Spur above is really nice or a Hope HB 130 would be nice but I don't think I have one that I lust after or I think I'd find some sort of way to get it.

I do have a nicely spec'd AM9 which if you told me I'd have a few years back I wouldn't believe you so I'm pretty happy.

I think the fact MTB trends move pretty fast and can look pretty dated after a few years doesn't help.

Now I'd love a Bianchi with some nice parts hanging off it but I think that's just because my grandad always loved Bianchi bikes and it stuck with me.

My dream bike would be a slightly higher end version of the bike i've just pre-ordered - a privateer 141 but i'd like it a bit more refined (and a few lbs lighter wouldn't hurt) like the Raaw Madonna but 140 rear, 160 front built with EXT forks and Storia coil shock, and a good mix of strong but posh components such as EE wing cranks, xtr shifting, EX511/chris King wheelset, maybe some of those Thomson ti bars if they still do them, trickstuff brakes,AXS Reverb....etc etc
As it stands i'm pretty excited to be getting the 141 - converting the 36's to 160mm with the vorsprung smashpot kit and hoping to get an EXT Storia for the rear (it's going to be a lump but i want coil), the only other instant spec change will be replacing the Hans Dampf for a SG Big Betty - no idea why a UK company like Privateer would think the Hans Dampf was appropriate!

dream bike vs best bike for me are two different things.

1st was a liteville 301 the second was a stumpjumper. Im lucky to have had both.

i would like all of these bikes

… and a big garage

I worked in between jobs once for a company that created and installed very high end garages (cabinets, ceilings, floors, everything) We went to one chap who had  a line-up of Santa Cruz that would shame a bike shop. He had about 25-30 (something like that) couple of the same bikes in different colours, claimed that he rode all of them. Not only that, a good percentage of them were full XTR and so on...Amazing collection.

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Mine too, I assume it just defaults to the user that is viewing it. Because reasons.

Own my dream bike, Geometron G1, proper bit of kit and brilliant everytime I ride it. No carbon to worry about cracking (seen far too many bikes, bars and wheels recently to backup my distaste for its use in the mtb industry)

The Banshee Prime in my garage right now but change...

Drivetrain - XTR 12 speed

Cranks - Eewings

Shock - EXT Storia LOK or Custom tuned DHX2?

Fork - EXT Era or whack a Grip2 Damper in the Bomber?

Brakes - Trickstuff Maxima

Bars and Stem - Chromag OSX35 and BZA (currently running Chromag OSX and Ranger)

Wheels - Chris King Hubs and nice rims

Dropper - One Up 180mm

Tyres - MaxxGrip Assagai upfront, Maxterra DHF out back

Nice SirHC - i had my eye on the classifieds for a Geometron before i hit the pre-order on my 141, there were a few G16's but the only G1 was a shockless XL which was just a touch too big and once i'd factored in a nice shock it would've been way over budget even second hand.

@stevede.
Got a G16 in large with Storia and coil 36 up for sale if that interests you?
Replaced it with a G1 which although nice isn't all that different to ride than the G16.
Current "dream " build. Though it's not that dreamy as I couldn't run to Trickstuff brakes and Eewing crank.
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I would've been very interested in a couple of months time, exactly the type of bike that i'm after. The pre-order of the 141 has bought me time to get the rest of the cash together - i will be keeping my eye out though as the 141 deposit is refundable.

Was going to say a full AXS Transition Spur. Seems someone already has one and posted it 😉

But would still need a big bike for occasional use, which while its an occasional treat is the highlight of my riding year... so would I then resent riding a perceived inferior quality but more appropriate bike on those rides?

Custom geometry Curtis Hardtail with lots of fancy parts (AXS, nice forks, etc)

I have mine, a BTR Ranger. Pretty sure it’s not high on many people’s lists but I’ve wanted one for around six years, so that makes it my dream bike. No amount of high end parts can substitute a hand built frame that you’ve had a say in the build process.

Have wanted one of these for over 20 years so should really get one one day

Colnago Mexico, in red obvs or an old steel Gios Torino, obvs in blue. Timeless classics both of them.

I think my dream build would have to be based around a Last Tarvo or Cinto, incredible looking frame.

As for the build I would go Chris King hubs on either ex511 rims or maybe carbon, EXT suspension, GX AXS shifting but with Garbaruk cassette and Chainring, Eewing cranks, AXS dropper if they did one in 200mm, Oneup bars and Trickstuff brakes.

I think that would definitely be a build you would need to win the lottery for though!

Probably an S-Works Levo SL if you're buying thanks.

My dream - what I call my race retirement everything bike - was a Turner Flux, but ultimately i want something that’ll do everything most of the trails we all ride can throw at it - Tracey’s Specialised build and Transition Spurs have always appealed to me.

However the thought of all the testing needed to throw that kind of money at one bike expecting it to be around for a good fills me with a kind of “can’t be arsed” attitude. So, If I has to buy one tomorrow on the basis my Spark has been so good to me it’s probably be a Genius, although that’s not a dream it’s a lazy and easy purchase.

And and Enigma Excel.

Custom Ti...

Or maybe a Nickel plated BTR...

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I have mine, a BTR Ranger. Pretty sure it’s not high on many people’s lists but I’ve wanted one for around six years, so that makes it my dream bike. No amount of high end parts can substitute a hand built frame that you’ve had a say in the build process

Definitely on my dream bike list.

The best bike I've ever ridden.

Burf's personal whip, at a demo a few years back. It just hard something...

I've got relatively conservative tastes, so I'd say the Stooge MK4 I bought last year IS my dream bike 🙂

Chucked some nice bits on it...
Paul's Klamper brakes and Love Levers, Middleburn cranks + Uberbike steel ring, funky S&M BMX stem, Surly Sunrise bars, Brookes Cambium, Stans Flow Mk3 wheelset, Rohloff tensioner for my dingle speed setup.

There's a few more additions I fancy. Maybe a Royce Ti BB, lighter dropper post (though the Brand X works very well), a Rohloff rear wheel for when I want gears, but that's about it.

At the moment it be this.

My dream bike changes as tech and geo evolves... But currently it's a custom ti frame that's being built for me at the mo. Parts are all top end and already accumulated.

Btr pinner for me, I love the way it looks, the way it's been engineered and the passion burf seems to have for what he does.
I'll never be able to justify a new frame so keeping my eyes peeled for one coming up for sale.
That's if a cotic rocket/max or Stanton fs or swarf 155 don't take my money first.

I'm a big believer of UK engineering and building.