[Closed] Iconic bikes that you've owned....?

White SS Inbred.

Pace RC200F3. A watered down version of the RC100 since it was rather more conventional and machining the outside of the tubes to create 'butting' is a bit of a bodge but I think the old square tubed Paces are classics.

S-works FSR, the JMC one. Best use of a student loan ever...

A Raleigh Burner with mag wheels.

My Zaskar.
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Is my 2001 Orange Patriot LT iconic? Still got it, and regularly wonder what I should to with it since it never gets used.

'93 (?) Explosif Pro (Suntour XC Pro), couple of RC200s, an M800 and, that's it.

2000 Santa Cruz chameleon, i loved it and never felt under biked whatever the terrain.
Climbed like a mountain goat to, I bought the later model but it wasn't as good

Funk e-stay, does that count? It was highly prized in its day.

Manitou hard tail and full sus, but both th answer version rather than the Bradbury ones.

Intense uzzi sl although it was the M1 that had all the glory.

Turner 6 pack although it was the 5 spot that was always highly coveted.

So, that would be a "no" from me then.

A first-gen Santa Cruz Superlight.The first bike that really felt " right" and coped with anything I pointed it at.Fond memories,sniff 😥

Spooky Metalhead - still got it

Muddy Fox interactive (briefly after it had been languishing in a bike shop cellar for years )
MK1 Stiffee
Original Turner Burner

My Zaskar LE from year 2000 Xtr Drivetrain was a great bike, so many great times on that bike

DP Freestyler
Mongoose Proclass
Closest I can get with an MTB is a Trek Pulse (Klein almost)

First gen Scott Genious Limited. 2005~. Remote rear pull shock travel; open, pedal, locked. Still have it. Ridden a fair few trails, miles, continents on it. In retirement now. Considered newer versions but never have.

Not a bike but a bike part. Rohloff 14 speed hub first in a WhyeE5 then WhyteE120. Still running today 10 years no problems. My 'winter' bike. Built to combat the Hertfordshire/Bedford mud. But as my wife put it "You may be able to ride and not have your bike clog up but you will still have to stop. Stop and wait for your friends"

Turner xce....after the burner
Turner rfx.....first incarnation
Santa Cruz heckler first gen after the tamzon.
Intense tracer.....
Pace rc

Litespeed Kitsuma
Miss that bike still.....ti hardcore hardtail

Off the top of my head:

Original steel Stumpjumper
Muddy Fox Alu Team
Kirk Magnesium
Alpinestars Al-Mega
GT RTS
Steel Kona Cindercone
Windcheetah (both faired and unfaired)
LWB Ratcatcher
Streetglider
Slingshot
Moulton AM
Tinbred
Tomac Revolver Ti

3 that i would call iconic that i have owned are (first 2 pics not mine,but the last one is)

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i still miss my cannondale (and deeply regret selling it in a moment of stupidity 🙁

I guess they may be more iconic in certain circles but the Mk1 & Mk2 DMR Trailstar

Brompton.

You want road or MTB?

MTBs i've not owned a single iconic bike, must be some sort of achievement in itself, all mass produced cookie cutter aluminium or CF.

Road stuff i've probably had half a dozen that would be considered iconic. (Or at least, retro bikers would get hot flushes.) Vitus 979, Original TCR, handful of top end 80s/90s italian stuff (pinarello, bianchi, colnago) proper GO'D 753 Raleigh (first bike i took to france in the 80's) most of it i've smashed into the ground and generally treated like shit...... 😳
Should have taken better care of it, stuck it in storage and used it as a pension fund.

Does a 2005 5 Spot count ??

Had one of these back in 1989. I was working for the main Raleigh dealer in Worcester and managed to get me a team issue one. Curved top tube on mine, Suntour XC Pro etc. Fitted a pair of Syncros bar ends too.
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Also had one of these 😳
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I've owned two 90's Konas but never a fancier one just Fire Mountains, I owned two DMR Trailstars, both late 99 - early 2000's I think, both with Slot Dropouts, one was Chrome finish, I really wish I'd kept that one...

Had an 05 SX trail for a bit, didn't like it TBH, others seem to think they were iconic bikes though.

I'd consider the Yeti DH9 I owned for a while to be 'Iconic' simply because it was the right colour for a Yeti and was an utterly ridiculous bicycle...

I am still riding a 456 Summer Season which to me is a fantastic Hardtail, and despite it's relatively skinny OD gas-pipes and obsolete wheels, seemed to have quite "Current" geometry...

1997 GT Zaskar and then a year later a GT LTS DH, I was a student at the time and blew my grant on the bikes 2 years running. Lived off salad cream sandwiches as a result.

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Is the Orange 5 an icon? They've been around for ages and are instantly recognisable so I reckon they may count, at least in the UK. I've had one of them.

I have also had a Cotic Soul. I'm not sure if it's iconic in the MTB community at large but on here I reckon it qualifies.

The Ibis Mojo SL that I've just retired is very similar to the initial carbon Mojo, which possibly kicked off a rush of long travel, light weight, swoopy carbon designs. I reckon that the carbon Mojo may now be a modern(ish) icon and the SL gets to ride in on its coattails a bit. 🙂

Still got a Mk1 Cotic Soul

Had a lovely year or so with an original shape Santa Cruz Blur. Nearly cried when I had to sell it.

PRST-1 in the shed.

This bike changed so many things in the industry, i owned a pink/white/green one and I loved it.

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89 Kona Fire Mountain, OK low end but was the first year of the P2 fork
GT STS
One of the original batch of 853 Inbreds
Cove stiffee
Ibis Mojo
Jones Spaceframe

Pace RC200 F3 - still got it, but it's now a singlespeed.

PRST-1 - sold last year

Intense Tracer Mk1 - bought on here in a charity auction - sold last year

following on the Kona theme...

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GT Pro Freestyle Tour - Fully chromed, Tuff 2 wheeled beauty.

Kona Hahana - my first proper MTB. It was pink.

Yeti Ultimate - wish I never sold this one, ugly as sin, but a good ride.

Gazelle Mondiale (80's road bike) - built this up a few years ago, full 80's Campag and tubs. Lovely bike.

1994 Zaskar LE
2002 Superlight

Both great bikes.

I'm waiting to build this up (It was iconic for me 🙂 )

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Of the many I've owned, the ones I'd consider to be 'iconic' are:
Orange Clockwork Mk 1(skinny steel Classic)
Klein Fervour (classic fat alu tubes, internal cables and push fit BB, before their time)
GT RTS (although it didn't work when standing it was a proper rideable full sus bike)
Marin Mount Vision (first version, proper game changer full sus you could ride all day)
San Andreas (was awful, high bb, bobby, heavy and noisy but by god it looked cool!)

The rest were just bikes, either seen as good at the time and rubbish now or nothing particularly outstanding.

The only mildly iconic ones
Mk1 rockhopper
1990 explosif
Orange Clockwork
Cotic soul mk1

Bontrager privateer (pre trek)

Kona Cindercone 1990
Klein Rascal
GT Zaskar LE
Cove Stiffee 69er

Kona Explosif Pro (1992?)
Specialized M2 (with Judy SLs)
Pace Rc200 F8 - still have this, it's ace!
Klein Quantum Pro - again still have this as my road bike.

'93 Orange Clockwork
Mk1 Cotic Soul

SC Bullet.
Evil Sovereign and Imperial.

Muddy Fox Courier (mk3 - the purple u-braked one)
Kona Stinky (mk2 - the one whose chainstays didn't break)

The courier was the first bike I rode with indexed gears. Much loved, but sadly missed as some mackem arse niked it.
The stinky is still my favorite bike. Like sitting in a big comfy armchair that's falling down a hill. I put some AM1-SLs on it and a Roco shock which extended its life to nearly 10 years.

Cannondale RZ120 2010 - marked the end of Cannondale's USA production. Otherwise wholly unspectacular to be honest.

I think a 2005 5 Spot qualifies but I would as I had one. IIRC it was the first bike MBR scored 10/10 and MBA described it as "the perfect mountain bike". It was a great, great bike.
Also had an XCE (still hanging in the garage with the BB hacksawed out) but the Burner was the iconic one. Had a 2006 RFX too which was a beautiful ano bronze but the 5 Spot was a far better all rounder.

Mongoose Motomag (wire wheeled couldnt afford the Mag version in 1980 as I was only 9)
Diamondback Silver Streak (Met Harry Leary too when I owned it)
CW Pistol Pete (still my favorite bike of all time, mad geometry and scary quick too)
1987 Cannondale m900, xc9000, roller cams, bought on a whim SH in mid nighties, crap to ride, beautiful to look at
1990 Kona Cinder Cone (why did I sell it!!)
1991 GT Zaskar LE (custom build, U brake version, Scott AT4 bars and Pace hubs, mavic ceramic rims)
1993-94ish Fuquay custom in Crom-OR tig welded rather than filleted
and finally the bike I should have never sold...
Klein Adroit, MC1, full xtr apart from Grafton cranks

Since those days its pretty boring, cant justify big spends these days rather have a few bikes of different types than 1 very expensive one

Of all the bikes that I've owned, there are two stand out game changing icons.

My 2004 Enduro was the bike everyone wanted to be seen on. Back in 2001 when the frame first appeared, it sported a whopping 132mm of travel, radical geometry (69.5 degree head angle, 1 degree steeper than the seat angle!) and that monocoque frame. I still have it, the frame hangs from the dining room wall.

The other is my 29er Stumpy Evo from 2014. It's also my favourite bike, ever.

Whyte PRST 4
Maverick Ml 7
Condor Cadet

4130s0ul - Member
I guess they may be more iconic in certain circles but the Mk1 & Mk2 DMR Trailstar

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1991 Stumpjumper Team
1992 Orange Prestige with Ritchey Logic tubing.
92 or 93 Kona Explosif (the black one)
GT Zaskar
Cove Stiffee (with the Easton Rad tubing)
White On One Inbred single speed.
Santa Cruz Superlight (last of the 26ers)
Turner 5 Spot (Horst link)
Cotic Soul in orange and blue.

29ers are too modern to count unless it is a Ritchey.

My first mountain bike back in 1988, a Specialized Rockhopper comp. Me and a mate who had a Gary Fisher Hoo koo e koo used to have a such a great time getting out on them. Blimey, that makes me feel old

The only bikes that i've owned that I reckon were iconic were an original Merlin Mountain and a early nineties Kona Explosif. Mrs mw had the grey with black forks Marin Bear Valley which I reckon is probably the bike that is most identified with Marin from the time when they were at the top of their game.

My first MTB was an utterly nondescript Townsend when I was 15. it got nicked after 2 weeks and I didn't have a bike until I was about 22 when my brother in law gave me his old Raleigh Dyna-Tech. That was a game changer for me!

Joining the long list of Pace owners - still own it - silver RC200 F3 originally with Pace elastomer (chrome tube brake bridge) suspension forks, now with Pace carbon rigid forks. Still wears the matching clear plastic crud catcher! It never fails to get positive comments.

my list of what i think were iconic bikes ive had

marin b17
whyte prst 1
k2 proflex 5500 and 4500 with noleen active front and rear shock with girvin forks
Muddy fox interactive
bmw Q6 folding full suspension
sintesi bazooka with girder girder frame
cannondale raven 2
reef ? belt drive
giant atx 1

and best of all ibis mojo

I'm waiting to build this up (It was iconic for me )

@bearnecesseties if you ever want to sell that let me know ,I had one and loved it, and wish it had never been stolen

Kona Lava Dome with P2's
GT Zaskar
GT Xizang
GT LTS Team
Yeti ARC
Specialized Enduro S Works 04
I would also include my Turner 5 Spot in it's HL design and I had 2 of those.

Various Hecklers but especially my Transparent Blue Mk1 with a chrome swingarm, RC36's + XTR. How I loved that bike.

Lava Dome
2x Zaskars
Ibis Mojo

All iconic in my mind and that's what counts... 8)

Nothing much other than my 98 sts.
Half dare not ride it for fear of it cracking

Interesting what some people consider to be 'iconic'. I think in a wider context, the only one that's been mentioned so far which is truly iconic in the proper sense of the word, is the Brompton, as it's instantly recognisable worldwide, by a far greater number of people than some bike geeks. Many of the models mentioned would, if you stipped them of branding decals and particular paintjobs, be indistinguishable from other bikes except to a very small number of people.

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Some mentioned that would stand out within the narrower context of bike geekery, would be things like the GT triple triangle design, the fat-tubed Cannondales (particularly with Lefty forks), the Marin Mount Vision and the Specialized Stumpjumper FS design. Not so sure about the Klein, as so few people actually owned them, so 'iconic' in myth more than anything else.

Apart from my Brompton, the most 'iconic' bike I've ever owned has to be one of these:

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I had an '89 Fisher CR7, aluminium main triangle bolted to a steel rear end was pretty special, plus oversize headset & press-fit bb. It was a Nishiki design sold/licensed to Fisher.

My wife has an early Courier, not that it ever gets used.

I lusted massively over an Attitude when they first came out. I'll get one someday.

GT Zaskar in polished aluminium with Suntour groupset
Mountain Cycle San Andreas
Orange E3
Yeti 575
Ibis Mojo
On-One Ti 456 (Lynskey)

Kona Stinky Six. The original one (2001 / 2002?) Loved it and regretted selling it ever since. 😥

The stinky is still my favorite bike. Like sitting in a big comfy armchair that's falling down a hill.

Yup.

98 Scott Endorphin

Interesting what some people consider to be 'iconic'. I think in a wider context, the only one that's been mentioned so far which is truly iconic in the proper sense of the word, is the Brompton, as it's instantly recognisable worldwide, by a far greater number of people than some bike geeks. Many of the models mentioned would, if you stipped them of branding decals and particular paintjobs, be indistinguishable from other bikes except to a very small number of people.

Yep.

Ritchey P20 (still own)
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Bontrager Privateer (regret selling that one)
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Cannondale Raven(s)

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Old Rockhopper Comp (not my pic)

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Klein Fervor frameset with Mission Stem. (not my pic)

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I forgot.

I had a Raleigh Chopper too 8)

If ever the big one is dropped, only two things will be tough enough to survive the end of civilisation; cockroaches and Raleigh Grifters.

Had a ~90 Clockwork and a ~92 Bonty Race Lite. Does a Classic Soul count?

When does a bike become iconic?

I had a purple Chopper.

And later a Raleigh Ultra Burner. (is the Burner considered iconic?)

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forget it, too obvious.

575, of course
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I've had a 90s steel Kona, an Inbred and a Heckler, but they were all fairly late models. The one truly iconic frame I've had would be my Sovereign, and even that is a mk2:
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Pace RC200F3.

I had a very bling build of one of those in 2001. It was so flexy that if I stood up and sprinted it would shift at the front. Nice bike though otherwise. The externally butted square tubes were good because as you handled the bike only the corners got scuffed, and the faces of the tubes stayed gleaming shiny and scratch-free.

I also had a '92 Fire Mountain, and I still have an Orange Patriot but it's a later model so less 'classic'. Having read people's attitudes towards them on other forums I'm wondering about giving it a re-spray being nice to it 🙂

Cove Stiffee x 2 and a Superlite.
I miss my stiffee 😥