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Main bike, pimpy bike etc as I'm sure there's loads of old bikes on your pub bikes...
Me,
Magura Louise Fr from 2006 on my "Alp" bike. Still going strong, never let me down.
The rider
I have a set of Shimano M545 pedals on my Five that must be 15 years old.
Never been serviced, just a squirt of lube every year and they spin freely. I don't think they have must life left though as the left one make a creaking noise once in a while.
my SRAM shifters and my saddle on my current bike both came with my 2007 Enduro.
There's a set of X lite barends which must be over ten years old, the frame is next at 8 years.
I have a SRAM shifter thats probably 5 or 6 years old, a Hope ProII from about 06 on one of them, 36's of a similar vintage.
Mavic 317 citron rim on a old school hope hub. Until recently shimano dx pedals circa 1998.
Rear hub, it's a Hope XC from early '05 vintage I think, bastard thing won't die.
Black Chris King headset. Bought in 1998 so 15 years old.
GB
My main MTB is now 17 yrs old, still has the original Control Tech seatpost and until very recently the UN72 BB that was fitted from new.
I have a Pro II which would be 06 on a Mavic D521 which must date back to 2000. I have a frame from 2000 which still going strong.
Mine is pretty modern with a 2005 frame. I've just retired the 1997 frame from the wife's but she does still have the rear mech from my first mountain bike which I bought in 1991. It's still working fine
Depends on the bike......16year old UN71 bottom bracket on one, 20yr old XT cranks on another.
Three sets of 2004 Hope Mono Minis. They still run fine, so why replace them?
I have one shimano LX gear shifter from my first proper new mtb in 1999, only thing is I can't remember which one it is! The other one was replaced in 2005 so is only 8 years old.
Main bike - Spesh FSR. Frame is from 2002.
Hack bike - Trek 950. most of it is still 1995 vintage.
Roval Traverse EL, bought way back when they were just out. Bought from freeborn on offer. Still true to .5mm.
The frame, stem and shifters on my hardtail are from 2006.
Orange E Six from 2001/2002 now passed on to the GF, still in full working order and used every day. Only changed the bars (to riser), grips, saddle and forks (to some exotic carbon numbers).
All 2001 / 2002: Easton Ultralite alu frame, full xt, raceface turbine cranks, hope xc hubs, hope minis.
It'll probably die now.
My one and only bike is a '99 SC Heckler Superlight. Still looks new even now and has all the original parts other than stem, headset, and grips. Even had an original tube in the back until it punctured yesterday!
A superb bike!
Red Shimano DX spd pedals on my hardtail.
Middleburn Square taper cranks on full sus.
Main bike 2003 specialized sx supercross built with all new kit. Reverb sektors xx1 etc.
Hack bike 2011 cotic bfe built with all old kit from 2005 enduro.
2012 Trek Fuel EX9.7 with 1995 clear Onza Ules grips and a 'dosage information' sticker that must have come free with a really old copy of MBUK or some such rag waaaay back 'in the day' and has lovingly been transferred from bike to bike ever since...
The tubeless valves - must be from 2005 so 8 years old.
Everything else was new about 4 months ago 😉
Tell a lie, the patriot chris king headset is one of the original release, think its from 2002
1994 Synchros seat post (once repaired) on my winter bike.
Hone cranks. Bought second hand off a mate in 2008. Bomb proof.
Rock Combo off-road drop bars form 1989.
Couple of bits (bars, seat post, front der) on my tourer are from when it was new in 1984.
My frame and forks are both from 2005 ( SX Trail and Van 36 RC2's). Rest of the stuff is quite new though.
My BFe has original Hope Bulb hubs on D321's which are heavy but still going strong. The Diabols stem and post on it are pretty old too.
2005 ? Hope xc hubs / ?17 FiR, mavic made, I think, rims. Holding up remarkably well on my trail bike, although there are "roundness" issues and many dings in the rear one now, not helped one iota, by a recent Antur Stiniog play day. Hubs though and freehub have only been serviced once and run as smooth as ever, despite many, many miles in red sandstone gloop in the winter.
Opened this thread thinking "I should do quite well here", then started reading some people's posts, and then remembered since I got rid of all my old M952 XTR shifters and mechs to go 10spd, I'm not quite in the ball game any more!
Had a set of original 4 pot XT brakes on main bike until a year or so ago too, they would have been 12 years old when I sold them!
Oldest part on my main bike now, in constant use, would be the ODI lock on grip collars. Think I've had them since 2004. Do own a set of Easton Flat boy pedals that still get used from time to time that I bought 2nd hand back in 2003 and are still going very strong! Rear disc rotor on my hardtail must be quite old too, can't remember buying any 160 6 bolt Shimano rotors any time in the last 7 or 8 years.
The SS has a nice XT 4 pot brake which has been the most hassle free part of any bike I've ever owned. '06 I think.
The TT bike has a Campy Nouvo Record Crankset, which as far as I can tell is early 80s.
My One9er has a 7mth old set of rims on it, some 355's that I bought new that never built up until now..
Does that count?
I have a set of original silver 4-pad Hope M4s which I bought new in 2003 or 2004 so they've done close to 10 years of quite hard service - trail centres, trips to the alps and general local riding.
Rear caliper finally sprung a leak recently, so £3.99 caliper seal kit for each end and an hour in front of the telly stripping, cleaning and rebuilding and they're back to good as new 🙂
Many old bits on other bikes. But on the main rider (ti456) I'm running HED carbon rims from the early 90s.
SRAM Attack Trigger shifters, 9 years old this year. Feeling very protective over them now these days! Lots of sentimental value 🙂
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Frame,forks and mechs from 2002
Atomlab flats I got in 2004. Ran a 2003 XTR mech that broke in a crash fairly recently.
Mine would be a crud bung. Remember those?
Shimano M520 brake calipers. Still going strong though I have changed the levers after smashing the originals.
I've got a front hub from a 1994 Hope mechanical disc brake on my main mtb. It's got a 2009 ish Mono Mini Pro on it though.
An XTR rear mech from 2004
Mine but not on my bike but on a friends bike, a Flite Ti saddle circa 1998
Raceface XYO post on my Orange 5 - has to be 15 years old! - still the best post I've ever had - easier to adjust than a Thomson and bomproof - if only I could find an XY in good nick!
I thought all STWers had a new carbon 29er every six months 😉
My main tarty bike is pretty much a fresh build , but single speed has my original rs7 an Royce bb
Which must date from 98 ish
If I can find a good way of getting internal bb in a pf30 shell I'd prob still use the spare rs7 I have
91 flite saddle. tried many other saddles, but still prefer the original flite 🙂
Cotic X has 1970's Records Mechs and 8 speed so early 90's? Ergos.
so simple and faultless
A ti railed original selle italia flite vintage c. 1995.
The frame on my singlespeed / lightweight xc bike (depending how currently built) is 1998 along with the xt and xtr shifters and xt front mech.
I am older physically and maybe mentally than all of the bits.
Sorry the san marco rolls on the road bike is older. C. 1991 but was bured in a cupboard in my dads garage for 15 years so not sure it counts.
My only bike Frame lefty elo fork wheels brakes hope m4s front and rear mecs and shifters even wheel bearings are all original from 2001 head set bearings replaced 9 weeks ago dont think ill ever get rid of it id post a pic but dont know how cannondale f1000 don't think iv ever see another one
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Frame from 1996, and lots of bits on it from the last millennium. Still riding it, but feels very different to my singlespeed 29er, which is more of a sherman tank than a scalpel.
All the bits on my bike must be at least 10 yrs old, orginal xt 4 pot brakes, un 72 bb, xt cranks mechs monkey lite bars all circa 2000
1998 big un on my 456 , and m 960 XTR shifters
Deore LX brakes, 2007 I think, but still bloody good brakes.
Anodised purple bottle cage from when that sort of thing was cool...
The 1992 frame 😀
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And the Chris King headset on the other one- it been through 3 bikes now
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My HT frame was built in 1990, fillet brazed Tange Prestige job.
However....It's a Triggers brush affair & I'm picking it up from the framebuilder on Monday in It's Mk 8 guise. The only original tubes are the right side chain & seatstays.
Satin black powdercoat with grey decals this time. Stealthy as owt!
Just looked up 'Cud Bung'. When were they around?!?
On my carrera, the frame, forks and rear wheel are original, exage and weinmann and tange. But fresh paint as the old stuff was a bit tired after 20 years of abuse.
On the new bikes... Heh, probably the gravity dropper or the monkeylites on the hardtail, but nothing on any of them is very old.
Airlite front hub on my summer fixed wheel, radially laced to a Mavic GP4 and sporting a Tufo tub. Campag pista on the back. I have no idea of the age, but the hub could be 1970's at least.
'98 Pine Mountain frame still has the '98 LX V brake levers.
Just replaced seatpost, stem and flat bars with Easton EA50/70 stuff.
Suntour XC Pro 8 speed thumbshifters and Shimano M900 12-32 8 speed cassette. State of the art in the early to mid 1990s. I've always run Suntour thumbshifters, this particular set was new or nearly so when I built my full suspension bike in late 2007. Its been my main bike ever since.
I've never run 9 speed because it is just a fad that will soon pass! 😉
Their days of being used regularly are numbered, however. I built a fatbike over the winter with a 2x10 drivetrain and it is fantastic. So, a new 2x10 was just ordered for the full suspension bike...
I built my CX bike up from scratch, mostly with new parts, a few bits from elsewhere. The front mech on it is a Shimano 600 (so pre Ultegra) which came off my first road bike, that's 18 years old. Still works perfectly.
I had a Chris King headset that did duty on 2 MTBs before I sold it with the frame but that was 12 years old.
Rather boringly my old dx spuds . Zero maintain and won't die
Ringle H2O bottle cage from late 90's. Moves on with each bike. Fortunately black rather than some of the more choice anodized options!
i have quite a few old bits still going strong...
xtr 8sp front mech...bought in 2000
x-lite bar plugs...bought in 2000
deore square taper b/b and cranks....bought in 2000...b/b is still running perfectly....they have now been taken off the bike due to an upgrade to HT2...but will go back on when i find a suitable frame
stx-rc front shifter....bought in 1998...still runs perfectly...will soon be getting replaced...but will be put aside for new project the same as the cranks
rear atomlab trailpimp hub is from 2004 and is still working perfectly...
atomlab dhr rims are from 2005ish...still run perfectly...
Main bike, 1998 Flite saddle. SS, 2001 Middleburn cranks. Klein is old in itself at 1992 along with most of the components being early '90s.
My road bike is older still, its a 1977 Lejeune with nothing newer than 1979 on it (apart from the contact points and chain!)
My Patriot LT is 1999 with a pair of 1998 Boxxers on, with Hope Bulbs laced with D321s from the same time. I have not changed the bearings since then, maybe I should. The boxxers have only been serviced once many years ago, but everything is still working fine. The hope M4s must be about 10 years old now, still running the same pads in them that came with the brakes, and they have never been bled. What colour will the fluid be, do you think in them.
Forks on my HT are 2004 "Vintage"
The Boxxers on my DH bike are a similar age too.
SS frame is from 1997 😯
My DH bike has an original Bulb on the back with the 5 arm rotor adaptor, I'm sure I've got plenty of late 90's early 00's parts still in service.
I'm nothing like as poor as I would have been if I bought Shiney new stuff all the time...
I love the idea that stuff from ~2008 is "Old" to some people, that was only like last week...
Ringle aluminium bottle cage from my dear departed 93 Manitou HT now on my ellsworth truth
My whole road bike is from 1997. Chain, tyres and tubes are all thats been changed 😳
Think the rear Hope TiGlide hub on one of the singlespeeds is probably the oldest bit in use - from 1995 I think, maybe 1996.
Also using a set of road wheels from an old bike of my brother's - a 1998 Caad 3 Cannondale. 105 and Open Pros, untouched since new, carried me over 250 miles at the weekend!
Frame 1994
Forks 1998
Brake levers and v-brakes 1998
Saddle 1999
Rest is pretty much up to date stuff.
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Saddle, seatpost and, I think, an inner tube are the only parts from the original bike that that have not be replaced / upgraded - that makes them 7 years old'ish.
Sram gripshifts. 1993 and still gripping and shifting.
WTB SST 98 saddle - bought new in 98, still being used as my main saddle, umpteen bikes and 15 years later
Me
1981
King headset & M959 pedals both circa 2002 and both on their third bike.
2001 XTR rear mech