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There was a post from some guy onhere about his 1st ever bike so I thought I'd post a pic of mine, then I thought I'd retrace my mtb steps so here goes
1990 Ridgeback 601LX. bent forks/ stem within the first 9 months of it's life but it got me round the yorkshire moors and the peak district on a number of rides.
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which led to a spangly new Scott Windriver (91), deore lx and free for a year courtesey of a local shop sponsorship scheme! Kept this for four years and rode it almost everyday. Upgrades included SPD's and rockshox mag 21's, remember those?
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Followed by a Proflex beast. The naff maguras were ditched in favour of XT v-brakes and the gripshift for xt shifters. Raced for 3 years before a few years off regular mountain biking
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returning to bikes my Orange zero was a peach and spent many weekends at trail centres chasing full sus bikes before I finally relented
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and got my meta 5.5 which is just awesome. Three days in coed y brenin told me just what i'd been missing out on!
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so what's your history?
87 Tufftrax
88 Rockhopper Comp
89 Stumpjumper Comp
1990 Epic (canti's)
1992 Prometheus (rode the Coloradoi trail on that bad-boy!)
1996 FSR (made new links to get 4")
Then Ibis mojo, various Giants, Treks & Santa Cruz...
Now Nomad, Superlight & Shand custom hardtail.
any pics cynic? specially from the old days?
returning to bikes my Orange zero was a peach and spent many weekends at trail centres chasing full sus bikes before I finally relented
thats not a zero , a zero was a trials frame.
sub zero i think to give it it's full title!
94/95 GT outpost which I bent!!
99 GT zaskar made me ride far too fast crashed alot! sold on due to having no money GUTTED!
Got a 2000 GT tempest frame and built that up to keep me going
Then got a Scott Genius MC 50 frame which I HATED sold that on very quickly
Again due to having no money bought a cheap kona roast HT frame on here an I still ride that now although it has been tricked out with posh shiny stuff. Best bike I've had.
82-89 various bmx's
89 Alpinestars cromega DX e-stay (still got it in original spec)
91-02 various nicer bmx's
02-03 bmx injuries, ouch
04 orange sub zero
08 on one 456 + road bike + bmx
in the pipe line cx bike for the winter
Crumbs - the bikes are floating in through the ether, emerging rose-tinted through the mists of time......
Lovely, bright yellow Muddy Fox Courier bought at Aberdeen's police auctions (89/90?) - as above, forks bent within a few months.
Kona Lavadome (91?) took me all over Scotland and through the Pyrenees for a good few years.....
Brief ownership of super-niche Alpine Stars weird purple machine with very odd frame - my first ever suspension forks (RSTs!!)
....Swapped for a strangely un-stickered, non-branded, fully rigid, very shiny Carrera - purple and silver job, weighed almost nothing.
Chromoly Trek (can't remember the model) bought second hand...
Sold it a few short years back to fund the purchase of a GT Zaskar ZUM (Zaskar Urban Machine) which lasted about two months before some twunt stole it (prompting expensive insurance).
Nearly there - almost forgot the Dawes Edge Pro hardtail which fell off my rack on the way back from Glentress (doh!).
Replaced with another GT - an i-Drive from Halfords this time - also stolen about two months back now.
And the current bike is a Boardman MB Pro (hardtail) which is just about the best thing in my life right now (excluding wife, dog, fully rigid Hahanna and favourite old metal Nikon bodies 😀 ).
khs
marin bear valley
marin pine mountain
santa cruz heckler
santa cruz bullit
turner xce
turner rfx
intense tracer
dialled PA
litespeed Kitsuma still got
cove g spot
giant trance
ellsworth moment
titus supermoto, still got
nicolai heluis cc
Yeti Asr sl just got
User-Removed.... HOW many of those bikes are from halfords?
Didnt you learn the first time?
Eeeerrr, three, now I look again. But that's just the way my insurance company roll....... Besides, the Boardman fits the bill in an oustanding fashion - wouldn't swap it for anything.
anyone got any pics of their old rides?
Some pics, not on digital though.
Well I can do a pic of my 'new' old ride...
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Almost the same as the Lavadome (first proper mountain bike).
here's mine from 2000 onwards
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Emelle mtb
Giant While I lived in New Zealand
Trek zx8000 alu bonded frame. Still got frame now painted specialized Grabber Green!
First generation SC Heckler
Merlin Malt 1
Kona Cindercone (Steel)
Rocky Mountain Hammer ( my fav ride so far) and hopefully i will get it back one day.
Orange 5
OnOne Inbred
first was a black, heavy frame, no idea what exactly. built up with LX groupset, and some zocchi Z5 forks.
then i got a marin pine mountain (this is about 2003/2004 iirc). similar running gear, but zocchi marathons.
then that got rohloffed.
then i got a solitude custom frame (for rohloff), this is in 2006.
then...
on-one inbred 29 SS
then soma juice 29 SS
then genesis IO SS
then kona kula 29 (rohloff got put in this, solitude becomes SS)
then kona A SS
today solitude became double + bash geared.
currently got the 2 konas and the solitude.
My bike ownership phases:
Raleigh Marauder
GT Outpost
Diamondback Apex
Scott Endorphin
Scott Endorphin and Zeus road bike
Scott Endorphin, Zeus road bike and Kona Humu 7
Santa Cruz Superlight, Zeus road bike and Kona Humu 7
Santa Cruz Blur, Zeus road bike and Kona Humu 7
Santa Cruz Blur and Wilier Lavaredo road bike
Santa Cruz Blur
Santa Cruz Blur and Kona Explosif
On One Inbred 456 and Kona Explosif
On One Inbred 456
On One Inbred 456 and (reunited with) Diamondback Apex!
This is interesting; starting with bikes I owned after riding BMX and borowing mountainbikes:
I have given them a rating from * to *****
GT Karakoram (U-brake one) **
GT Avalanche (Respray, Ringle, Ti-Flexstem, Pace forks, CQP, etc)
Orange Aluminium Elite (frame gifted by Orange, full XTR) *
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Orange Clockwork (Which I nickel plated and anodised everything purple) ***
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S Bike *
Cove Hummer (this is 1996, I have a feeling it was the first one in the UK) ***
Pace RC200F6 **
Pace RC200F8 (Disc)
Pace RC200F8 (Team) *
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Pace RC200F8 (Grey XTR/Crossmax) *
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GT STS *
Funny little hardtail **
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Trek 8900 *
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The First Bike I made (which I broke in the University Car Park) *
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Orange Patriot (Magura Forks & Brakes) **
Orange Patriot (DH build) ***
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Rocky Mountain Switch **
Orange Patriot (Custom Flames, Shiver SC, Race Face) **
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Litespeed Owl Hollow FS *
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Flameboy (the second bike I drew and had made in China)
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Pace RC250T (Street Build)
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Orange 223 *
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88 - Raleigh Mustang
89 - Raleigh Lizard
89 - Al Carter DX
91 - Ridgeback 603
94 - Parkpre something
95 - Saracen Tuftrax
97 - Diamond Back Topanga
99 - GT Backwoods
then no biking until...
03 - Spesh Epic
and in random order since then
Giant VT
Giant Trance
Orange 5
Stumpy fsr
Yeti 575
Cove Handjob
GT Avalanche
Litespeed something
Giant NRS Composite
current bikes...
On One456 (now missus bike)
Scott Spark
Felt Virtue
'97 Rockhopper
Scoot Octane FX3 (MBR test bike - cheers Brant :wink:)
'05 FSR XC Pro
'06 Inbred
'08 Uncle John
Still using the last 3. The Octane frame is in terrahawk's underground lair. The Rockhopper has been sold on about 4 times but is still going strong.
Carrera Krakatoa (1998 ish)
Raleigh Montane x2 (both got stolen)
GT Timberline ( old steel framed grey speckled paintwork)
GT Pantera with RS Quadra 21's (Nasty fork lol)
GT ZaskarLE (1999) frame set ended up with mainly XTR and Pace EVOII forks.
SC Superlight
SC Superlight (New design frame as old one cracked)
And have now resurected the Zaskar and it flies :o)
Flamejob's Pace just gave me the horn. That would have been from about the time I had my Endorphin.
Just noticed a mistake in my list, sorry it was late when I posted. I didn't get the Blur until after I'd sold the Wilier so it should read:
Raleigh Marauder
GT Outpost
Diamondback Apex
Scott Endorphin
Scott Endorphin and Zeus road bike
Scott Endorphin, Zeus road bike and Kona Humu 7
Santa Cruz Superlight, Zeus road bike and Kona Humu 7
Santa Cruz Superlight and Wilier Lavaredo road bike
Santa Cruz Blur
Santa Cruz Blur and Kona Explosif
On One Inbred 456 and Kona Explosif
On One Inbred 456
On One Inbred 456 and (reunited with) Diamondback Apex!
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Jeebus. I had one of those pro-flex bikes circa 1997. I didn't realise it at the time though as it was given to me by the father of my then girlfriend.
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Flamejob's Pace just gave me the horn. That would have been from about the time I had my Endorphin.
I assume you mean the grey one? I loved that bike ;(
Don't you think it is funny that we mostly seem to do things in waves, me with Oranges and Paces, twonks GTs and SCs, willej Scott SC, On One etc ??
Get the feeling I've kept my bikes for too long! When ownership overlapped I could never bring myself to ride my older of the bikes as the newer one were always a step up.
a raleigh for 50 quid in 1988
alpine stars around about £400
then a diamond back apex full xt rigid
p7 with girvin forks
new p7 with rockshox
new p7 with pace forks
pace rc200 with pace and xt new in 1997 ish
specialized stumpjumper 2006
scott scale 30 in 2008
scott scale 10 in 2009
looking back worse decision was the girvin forks, and fondest memory alpine stars is deeply missed
95 Marin Palisades Trail
97 Specialized Rockhopper
99 GT LTS 2000
03 Klein Attitude Comp
06 Specialized Enduro
Don't plan on changing the Enduro anytime soon cos I still love it every time I ride
God there's some history here. And some people who've been riding a long time (and should probably know better)
This one flamejob:
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Yes, agree about the waves/phases. You can see in my history that it also correlates to my financial status and willingness to use credit ;o)
94 Marin Palisades Trail
95 Marin Pine Mountain
97 Mt Vision (still have the frame)
98 Mt Vision Pro
99 Mt Vision Pro
01 Mt Vision Pro
Whyte PRST-1
Whyte PRST-4
05 Whyte 19 SS (still have)
06 Whyte 19 Race (still have)
06 Whyte E-5 (still have)
09 Whyte 19 Ti SS (still have)
Emelle Cheetah (skipped after years of doing my paper round it was dead)
Iron horse flagstaff (snapped headtube off)
Marin B17 (snapped into 5 bits, warrentied and sold)
Spesh hardrock (still got)
Coyote DH3 (sold)
DMR trailstar (snapped headtube off)
Dawes Oxide (sold)
Mr Big ST10 (still got)
Kona Mcrae SS (still got )
Gary fisher Rig SS (still got)
Santa Cruz heckler (sold)
Merida FLX 3500D
Lots of these overlapped each other
Mongoose Zero G SX 1998
On-One Inbred s/s 2000
Gary Fisher Sugar
Giant XTC self build
1992 Kona Fire Mountain retro build project
Giant NRS Carbon Comp
Giant Trance1 self build
On-One 853 geared Inbred
Nicolai Argon singlespeed (still own)
Giant XTC self build (still own)
Dibbs, do you work for Marin/ATB Sales? If not that's some serious brand loyalty!
My 1st off road bike was back in the early 70s it wasnt a mountain bike because there wasnt such a thing those days but a gang of us used to make bikes to ride on the rough
Mine was a 3 speed 24 inch wheel frame with everything unnecessary hacksawed off and filed down to save weight. It had handlebars off a motorbike trials bike, handlebar grips made out of inner tube wired on and a brooks saddle off my dads bike. Our next door neighbour had a garage and we used to do his garden in return for getting frames brazed back together which was a pretty common job. He even made me a set of forks with straight legs and an offset crown which took a 26 inch wheel.
88 MBK falcone
91 dawes something or other
94 Specialized Stumpy stolen in 99 replaced by a
99 Specialized Stumpy mangled in a accident replaced by a
99 Marin Mount Vision still going (just)
03 GT I-Drive sold after 2 weeks at a vast loss
06 On-One Scandal
My mountain bike history is pretty much as follows:
1992-2000 Marin Bear Valley (until stolen)
2000-2004 GT Avalanche which was upgarded over time (until stolen)
2004-2009 Cove Stiffee (until stolen)
2009 Cove Stiffee mark 2
Can you tell I am a cheap skate.
Forgot the Carver 96'er.
85-88 Muddy Fox Bigfoot. Got Nicked.
88-90 Muddy Fox Courier in white with lilac fade, chainstay mounted u-brake, indexed thumbies and 24 Carat gold inlay in the outer chainring. Got Nicked.
90-Present Giant Coldrock. In bits outside awaiting rebuild as electic bike.
93-97 Dynatech Mt4000ti in lurvelly pearlescent purple. Downtube snapped 2 years after crash at Malverns '95.
97-02 Kona Manomano. In bits outside awaiting retro re-build
02-present Kona Stinky. Still loving every minute I ride this.
86 - Rockhopper
88 - Roberts white spider frame built up with components off the Rockhopper. Frame now rusty and hanging on a nail in the garage.
98 - Marin East Peak - still in the garage needing new cables.
3 Children came along including twins and it didn't get that much use. In fact bar the headset and pedals it is totally original.
06- Thorn Catalyst. Bought as an on road commuter but decided to try it out off road last year and now commute off road and use it as my only bike.
So only 3 bikes and 1 frame in 23 years. 2011 will be 25 years since I bought my first mountain bike and I plan to buy something new to celebrate that. At the moment the favourite is a Van Nicholas Zion Rohloff frame and I'll use most of the parts from the Catalyst for it to start. Of course I'm open to other suggestions as to what to get but somehow Ti seems the appropriate way to celebrate a silver jubilee.
GT outpost (made of iron, lead and other very heavy metals)
GT Avalance 1.0
Gary Fisher Fat Possum LX
Yeti 575 '07 (snapped going "up-hill")
Yeti 575 '08
This last one is the best bike I've ever ridden except maybe amn intense I borrowed off a mate for a day. Love it.
saracen tufftrax: crap, not good enough to tempt me away from road riding
diamond back ? (hardtail): better but still not good enough
orange p7: o.k. but geometry was wrong (think it was intended to run rigid, but i bought it 2nd hand with a sus fork on it which made it too slack. i couldn't work it out at the time, but its clear to me now)
on-one inbred: started to really enjoy off road on this.
dialled morning glory: really liked this until.......
gary fisher rig: opened my eyes to 29ers, but this one wasn't quite right
niner sir9 (cracked and repaired): fantastic, brilliant bike for me.
niner air9: great, but prefer the sir9
niner sir9 (another one): as above, this one is 2x9 with suspension, the other is rigid ss.
still own the last 3. been riding road bikes for longer and don't think i could list them all.
I can really remember but I'll try.......
1987 - Raleigh in a green colour made from reynolds 501 - Stolen
1988 - Raleigh Technium Chill - gave to an up and coming rider
1988-1995 - Cyclo Cross bikes for training
1996-2002 - did nothing apart from play golf
2003 - Merlin hard tail- didn't feel right - eBayed
2004 - Giant XTC with an XT/Dura ace mix, hope minis and SID teams - Sold
2005-07 - Cove Hummer x 3 - broke 2, gave the remaining one to a friend
2007 - Stumpy - rode till it died
2008 - Another Stumpy Expert and an Epic Expert
2009 - Kona Coilair Supreme
1998 GT Lightning bought in 2000.
Converted to singlespeed using bits scounged from number one son in 2003.
Still riding it today
made redundant in 93, company car went, needed transport , redundancy bought ,
Scott Peak (you spent how much on a bike!), then,
Mtn Cycle San Andreas 4" (prostop mount on frame) then,
24-7 Dark Angel (still got for sale!)
Mtn Cycle San Andreas VPS 6" (hope mount on frame) then,
Orange 5, (still got)
OnOne 456 (still got)
1989 - Raleigh Mirage (steel, white, Reynolds 501, u-brake, exage trail grouppo)
1992 - Scott Boulder (steel, red/yellow/white, rigid, Deore LX)
1994 - Marin Pine Mountain (Frame, transferred parts from Scott)
1998 - Marin Mount Vision
2003 - On One Inbred (Frame, rigid fork, transferred parts from Mount Vision)
2004 - On One Tinbred (Frame, transferred parts from Inbred, now with Fox vanilla fork)
2007 - Yeti ASR (Frame and Rock Shox Reba, transferred parts from Tinbred)
2007 - Kona Major Jake (c2w scheme)
2008 - Rebuilt Tinbred (now rigid with Pace RC31 and 1x9 for winter duties)
So, in conclusion, I rarely buy bikes off the peg as the specs are never satisfactory!!
92 Kona Hahanna
96 Bontrager Privateer
97 Bontrager Race
2007 Trek Top Fuel
Ridden the whole period, no gaps, Why change bikes every year when you find one you like.
No year as I can't remember but...
Raleigh Mustang
GT Tequesta
Orange Prestige
Klein Attitude Race
Specialized Stumpjumper FSR
Marin Rift Zone
Litespeed Pisgah
Ellsworth Truth
OnOne Inbred 853
OnOne Inbred 29er
SC Superlight
Bit of a short list:
1986(ish) Emmelle something or other. Barely counts but it got me started.
1988(ish) Specialized hardrock. Too big.
1990 Specialized Rockhopper which is still in the shed. Incredibly narrow bars and insanely twitchy handling. What were we all thinking?
1999 Second hand Specialized M2 bought from some dodgy bloke in West London. Very much a racing bike. Now the ugliest bodged from the spares bin singlespeed.
2005 Second hand Cotic Soul which I still have and is fantastic.
'88 - An Emelle somethingorother which got me hooked
'90 - Kona Explosif
'97 - Trek 9000 (Stolen after 2 days thank god as it was crap!)
'97 - 853 Custom steelie with Pace forks and XTR (stolen)
'99 - Weird white Decathlon hardtail with SID's and XTR which was so cheap i couldn't say no
'02 - Cove Handjob
'04 - Added in a Litespeed Unicoi
'07 - Sold Litespeed and bought a Rocky Mountain Element Team
'08 - Serotta TiMax 29er
So now i have the TiMax, the RM which is my race bike for AR and the Explosif is a S/S. Plus the road bikes 🙂
Ha Ha! How long is this thread gonna get? (And how many bikes have some people had!) This is surely the ultimate ME TOO thread..
Well, here we go:
[b]1990 - some cheap mild steel 'Halfords special'[/b] type-thing with a plastic rear wheel 'disc' that was my friend's originally, but it fell off my dad's roof rack on the M3 at 70 mph. My dad replaced it with a new bike, and I got the Halfords special. Used for my first forays into the wilds of Surrey
[b]1991 - some cheap-as Townsend[/b] - made with Reynolds 501 - woo - it had aluminium rims! Did my first races on this bike, and spent hours of my life cursing its retchedly poor specification and build quality as it greadually fell to bits and I tried to put it back together
[b]1993 - Marin Eldridge Grade[/b] - the sweetest cro-mo hardtail ever! Had rapidfire plus shifters and it actually worked and everything. Did more races and started finishing top 3
[b]1994 - Canondale M100[/b] - I decided to upgrade to aluminium as by this point my biking had become *serious*. I did loadsa racing and hours of painful training on this pig-of-a-bike. Rigid as, with a disgusting pant-job and useless 'Canondale Original Design Aplications' (CODA) components, which just fell to bits. It got stolen in 1997, much to my eventual apparent benefit. I've loathed all Canondales ever since.
[b]1998 - Giant MCM Team carbon monocoque (1997)[/b] purchased on a whim whilst blearingly hungover one day because I liked the colours - but probably the best decision I ever made. It had done a season as one of the Giant pro-team's race bikes. Lovely bike, soooo, soooo light and my first bike with actual front suspension! I still own it and ride it to this day, and enjoy every moment. I've upgraded most of the bits on it now so that it is a thing of ultra-light retro beauty
[b]2006 - Klein Attitude (2001)[/b] frame built up gradually over a summer with old spares and bits off eBay. Intended as a winter bike to stop the Giant from dying. Totally love it though. Beautiful paint-job and a lot of fun. Feels a bit more robust than the ol' carbon Giant. Currently riding (and racing) it here in Tasmania.
...still haven't made the leap to full-sus yet.
I think you're all slackers for not providing pictures 😉
We are a bunch of old men eh?
I won't bore you with mine, apart from:
wondering if anyone remembers the black-to-fluo-pink-fade 'townsend equalizer' from about 1989 (my first mountain bike)
and realising that I haven't bought a brand new bike since 2001. Quite a few second hand frames and forks though.
and realising that the only components I have ever properly broken (as opposed to worn out) were a quill stem in 1992 and a crank arm I cross-threaded with a crank puller (you only make that mistake once!). I must not be riding hard enough.
Has anyone got any more old pics of their old rides? fascinating how much things have change over the last 20 years or so.
having owned well over 100 I'm ****ed if I'm listing them all, let alone typing something about them.
GW, some sort of bike whore? what about your highlights?
Rob - Nah, not really.. just bought and sold a lot of S/H bikes in my time.. in the last 15yrs pretty much always had at least 5 keepers.. currently have 7.
highlights of current bikes..
07 Giant STP - do everything jump bike. small/strong enough for DH/DJ 'just' big/light enough for proper XC/trailcentres.
07 IH Sunday - race DH bike.. light, strong and fast - 'nuff said
Giant OCR - 9yr old and not the lightest/fastest road bike out there or fitted with the best/latest parts (old Ultegra) but it's strong and durable (and maintenance free as possible) and more importantly it just fits.
have had more expensive bikes than I currently have and prob enjoyed some older bikes more but that would be more down to a combination of youth, fitness/balls, time available to ride and nostalgia rather than the actual bikes being any better..
Think you're right about nostalgia. When I look back on my racing pics I only remember the good times, never the pain of the climbs/ punctures that cost you good race positions/ crashes that forced you out. I also forget the wet races and rides, the summers seemed to be sunny and I was always riding. Not anymore....
Started off with a Marin Palisades in 1989, followed by a Roberts White Spider in 1990 (to small) then a 91 Stumpjumper Team then a Klein Pinnacle.
A hiatus followed until 2002 (although I did buy the Stumpjumper back, resprayed. God, I loved that bike). Then, chaos as I owned in no particular order (got a bit complicated keeping track):
Orange P7 with fresh dropouts to make an ss
On One Inbred ss
1990 Marin Team
1991 Stumpjumper Comp
IF SS Deluxe
Merlin XLM
L Yo Eddy
1993 Orange Vit T
Bontrager Racelite
XL Yo Eddy
Roberts White Spider/DOGS BOLX (also too small)
Surly 1x1
Early 90s Specialized M2
1994 Explosif
That looks bad when listed and I may have embarrassingly forgotten some.
Dad tried to teach me to ride and bought me stabilisers at 4.
Next day I stole his adjustable spanner and taught myself to ride like the older kids on two wheels not 4!
The rest is history :O)
1988 Muddy Fox Aluminum.
Broke the frame just before the end of the warranty. Frame was then replaced with the Aluminum Pro frame.
2003 Stumpjumper
2004 Epic Pro
2007 Stumpjumper FSR pro Carbon
2007 Enduro Sl Carbon
2008 Cannondale Taurine 3
2008 S-works Stumpjumper Carbon
2008 S-works Stumpjumper FSR Carbon.
2008 Tri-Cross Singlespeed.
* On One Inbred 853 Singlespeed.
* Sanderson 853 Life.
Just about to sell the S-works FSR and go back to the Enduro, just been out around some of the trails around Bath...I might even look at something other than Specialized..
1988 - Peugeot "Mountain Bike" from the Grattan catalogue - immediately returned due to fault.
then
1988 - Green Raleigh Montage - Heavy iron clunker with horizontal top tube - pretty nasty
then 1990
Black/Dark brown (sort of coca cola coloured) Stumpjumper, my first sloping top tube mountain bike, all DX components. It was actually really nice.
Then 1991 - Grey (matt) Stumpjumper Comp - lovely bike
Then a Kona Kilauea in about 1994 - two tone silver & red frame - nice bike
Then no bike for a few more years (marriage kids etc)
Then 2003/04(?)a Spesh Epic - nice bike
Then a Kona Explosif custom build from frame & also had a Coiler deelux at the same time (really cheeky! These remained a "guilty secret" for quite some time! oooops)
Then finally my current bike from 2006 - Orange Cove H/job - my best bike to date - will last me a long time methinks.
As my first post I thought I'd dig up this thread from last week. Here is my history:
'85 - hear about mtbing, then start riding offroad on my BMX (couldn't afford a new bike at the time)
'86 - get a Raleigh Maverick - with 5 gears, steel rim and side pull brake combo for total wet weather lack of braking!
'89 - Dawes Ascent - bit too big a frame but it was cromoly, 15 index gears, alloys rims and canti's.
'90 - Fisher Celerity - this bike I still have, hence the 'oldfisher' username - over a period of time (about 3 years) it got deore low profile cant's, original Gripshift, Flexstem, Flite saddle, etc, etc.
'93 - Fisher Supercalibre ('91 model) - then over the next 2 or 3 years added Manitou 2 forks, various bar and bar end combos (last ones being Club Roost and Onza), lighter front rim to balance the forks weight out. X-lite stuff and other titanium bits and bobs.
Also had a couple of 'commuter' mtb's around '92 - '96 - Firstly a Giant Stonebreaker which was rubbish! Then a '93 Marin Bobcat Trail which lives on as a mate's bike.
'96 - nigh on killed by a errant motorist. My riding stops as I concentrate on new things like learning to walk again!
Don't ride till mid-08. My kids are hooked on bikes and it re-lights the fire in me. Supercalibre dugout and huge crack in headtube shows it to be dead. Celerity in need of parts, lots of parts, so look to get riding by buying a basic mtb.
Dec '08 - Commencal Normal - with added Wellgo Mg1's - arrives.
'09 - Still riding the Normal and plan to singlespeed the Celerity at some stage this year.