[Closed] Twenty years ago....What were you riding?

I'd stopped and had no bike 🙁

one of these;

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A young lady considerably thinner than the one I am betrothed to now :o)

Bike was a Raleigh Activator though!

One of these (photo nicked from another thread)

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Raleigh Mantis I think.

As a 16 year old, I couldnt quite aford the Ascent Ex, I had the Ascent (the white one with black paint splatter), got the train from Doncaster to Grantham to collect it.
I blinged it up with pink Onza bar ends 🙂

edit - and despite the thousands I have spent on new bikes as an adult in the last 20 years, I would say I had more fun, and rode many ,many more miles on my trusty DB Ascent, than any other bike. Ahhh good times 🙂

Roberts White Spider.

A Raleigh technium like this one.

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Was a bit of a handfull coming down Snowdon. 😆

An Emmelle of some description, a Laser maybe? Either way, it was ridden lots and lots.

A white Muddy Fox, with cromo 21" frame and 3x7 rapidfire gears. Had had it literally a few weeks, following my 14th birthday.

A Raleigh Nitro. I was 7...

My mate's Kona Fire Mountain. I had a Peugeot racer too, I considered myself a roadie back in the day.

I was 17 and got in a car. Got back on a bike 15 years later

one of these

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A blue GT Timberline. In trainers and trackie bottoms over the Brecons, usually.

Gary Fisher paragon in pastel pink.A Dp firebird bmx and a Raleigh 653 roadbike.....which I ride to work everyday.

KHS Montana Comp. Rigid, DX/LX mix (I think). My first proper bike (I was 17).

Looked a bit like [url= http://www.eandsweb.com/cgi-bin/bikes.cgi?bike=KHSMontana%20Team ]this.[/url]

Your mum

An old Raleigh 10 speed road bike

'90 Eldridge Grade, in "gate" size, must have been about 22", looked like this:
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That was my 4th MTB, after destroying a '90 Lava Dome like this:
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an '88 Hardrock:
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and starting out on a POS Falcon Sierra:
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Diamond Back Topanga - couldn't afford the Ascent 🙂

A Peugeot road bike. 😳
Bought my first MTB in '93, a GT Tequesta.

This

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And I still have it, (although all in bits at the mo).

20 years ago almost to the day I had to make the heart breaking decision to retire from playing football! 🙁

It would be another 2 years and about 4 stone in weight gain before I took up MTBing!

Specialized Stumpjumper. Fully rigid (obviously) and fitted with Onza bar ends. I think it also had a 1" steerer. My mate bought this from the Bike Shop in monk street, Derby. I couldnt afford one, he was a Chef on good money at the time so bought it, got bored, and flogged it to me for £300 quid. Brilliant stuff until it got nicked.

I rode a pair of identical Diamondback Axis.
I was part of Rory Hitchens 'Scott Diamondback' race team.
I was national BMBF series winner, and national champion (veteran +35yrs).

Seems like only yesterday!!!!

Time flies!!!!!

SB

First mtb was one like this ... cant remember the year though

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happy days.

one of these. And I loved it!
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Muddyfox Alu pro

Flying scot roadbike

A blue and silver Raleigh Dyna-Tech - Deore LX, iirc.

Great days.

A Peugeot Flame. I can't find a picture, which is a shame as it was fluoro-yellow with purple decals. I was 13 so it didn't see much mud but was used for riding off concrete steps and pulling skids.

A late 80s Dawes Ascent (the basic one). I broke a crank on Sheeps Tor, Dartmoor, and had to phone my mum to come and get me. Think it's still in my dad's garage somewhere... [wanders off to phone dad...]

Raleigh Mustang, I think it was a halfords special version, white, black and red IIRC. Probably did more miles on that bike than any other. Mostly road miles though to see mates and girlfriend(s).

Purple funk with rockshox rs-1

Proflex 552. Still got the frame, forks and flexstem in the garage, somewhere.

Claude Butler Pagan. White, with pink cables.. 🙁
I DO NOT miss that bike.

Early on, a Fisher CR-7 stolen uninsured. Replaced with a Diamondback Apex, about all I could afford.
Only remember because it was the year I moved to the UK.

A few Diamondbacks mentioned I see- where did it go wrong for them?

I had a GT Backwoods that I bought off Steve Peat. I still miss it as it was run over by a rich docter!

1992, Just sold my Marin Pine Mtn for an Orange Alu 'O' with Pace rigids, Deore 2 with short XT RD, Magura brakes, Ground Controls on Mavic CDs, flite ti, a flex-stem with Zoom bars and fluo pink onza bar ends (retired the Scott AT3s for that build). Just over a grand, pretty good vfm really in hindsight.

Scott Impulse, with wierd shaped bars. Usually laps of Rutland Water on a Sunday morning.

Got rid of that bike about 6-7 years ago, now really wish I'd hung on to it!

A 13" offroad (before they did the proflex) with a u-brake, massive seat post, toe straps, farmer johns, zoom stem, turbo saddle. Sporting a rather spiffy racing green and silver Hammerite finish. Loved that bike!

A Peugeot road bike from the 80s - total crap-heap.

oops...nevermind

A red peugeot equipe road bike and a bright yellow british eagle 'mtb'. I think the Peugeot was actually better off road and I destroyed the BE during a drunken, no-hands with your eyes closed competition in a pub car park.

Orange Prestige and then a Kona Explosif.

Another one on a fully rigid Stumpjumper here. Black with pearl purple haze over. Yes - I'm pretty sure they were 1" steerer. Defo had X-Lite bar ends, white Onza Porcupines or a Panaracer Smoke / Dart combo (summer or winter!) and thumbshifters mounted under the bars...

The other bike in the garage was another Specialized - an Allez Epic. The carbon one with the aluminium lugs. I've actually still got one of those joints cut in half that Spesh gave us at the bike shop. It was a lovely bike - had it set up for triathlons with a Profile seatpost thing to steepen the angle, rear mounted bottle cages, disc wheel, tri bars - those were the days!

Farmer_John - Member
one of these

I had one of those too 🙂

Onzadog - Member
Purple funk with rockshox rs-1

POIDH! 😉

Proflex 552. Still got the frame, forks and flexstem in the garage, somewhere.

I have one, too. In superb condition; original tyres, cables etc. Would love to know how much it's worth so I can flog the damn thing...

A marin pine mountain (just like this one - not my pic/bike), fantastic bike which lasted two years before i went for a tricked out marin indian fire trail.

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I had a Dawes Off chance which got nicked then a Dawes Rough trade then the Off chance got found so I had two bikes

thinking back, my favourites were always the marins and their lumi forks and detailing.

I was still on one of these:

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It wasn't until 2000 that I got anything to replace it! My uncle still rides it mind, despite it being a 24" frame or something utterly stupid!

Splatter paint Explosif with Tange Switchblades... awesome bike! 😀

I had one of these, a Carrera Krakatoa, then it got stolen

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I have one, too. In superb condition; original tyres, cables etc. Would love to know how much it's worth so I can flog the damn thing...

Best bet is to ask over on [url= http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/ ]Retrobike forum[/url].

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Hi GW - * waves *

Raleigh Mustang with the addition of yellow Profile Aero bars, the ones that plugged into the end of your bars, with the v shaped front for optimum downhill flying. Managed 45mph on a local hill with that set up. The Mustang was going to be replaced with a Orange Clockwork the following spring but I was seduced by a reduced Cannondale M400.

Oh.. and a Cannondale M1000

with the addition of yellow Profile Aero bars, the ones that plugged into the end of your bars, with the v shaped front for optimum downhill flying.

Durangos?

I had some of these for a while;
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Orange Aluminium O. Suntour XC Pro groupset and very, very rigid, especially so for the peak district. It's still a light bike and in the garage for pub duties :). Oh and still riding Oranges, 25miles on the 5 last night and 20 miles on the Clockwork the night before.

Either my Kona Cindercone or Orange Clockwork.

In 1992 I had a Raleigh Peak like this one
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it was a great bike, sadly destroyed in a collision with a Post Office van around the middle of the year.
Replaced by this, which I still have
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Diamond back just like the captains
then
Marin Pine mountain
Pace RC200
Marin wolf ridge
Marin Attack trail
and now
Mmmbop and Nukeproof mega

The Pace is still close by and had a ride on it a few months ago
it felt a tad weird.

Diamond back just like the captains
then
Marin Pine mountain

That's a little creepy! I had a Pine Mountain as my next bike! 🙂

A Dawes "Lightning" road bike that I'd been riding for about ten years.
My first MTB (93/94ish) was a Marin Palisades trail, I rode it so much the frame cracked and they sent me a Pine Mountain frame as a replacement, by that time I'd worn out the original Alivio groupset of the Palisades and upgraded everything to XT. The better frame of the Pine Mountain was a revelation after the Palisades.

It would be a lie if I claimed 20 years, but I'm pretty sure I started 18 yrs ago with a GT Timberline. This pic taken in the Yorkshire Dales, I think near the Tanhill Inn (highest pub in UK)
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I'd just got a Prometheus and was about to start a solo tour of the Colorado trail on it (this one not mine).

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http://www.coloradotrail.org/

One of those blue Saracen Tufftrax. Huge mish mash of, what a teenager at the time considered to be, upgrades. That was where the bug truly set in.

Probably a Raleigh Extreme. It was not awesome 😯

I was riding a Cannondale SM700, black with multi coloured splatter paintwork. Lusted after some Cooks Bros cranks and Pepperoni forks for it. Fully rigid but carried me up and down Snowdon three times no bother. Still have the bike and went out on it a couple of weeks ago, did feel a bit harsh though compared with my current bikes.

Best bet is to ask over on Retrobike forum.

Thanks. I'll give it a try.

Raleigh Montage with Reynolds 501 tubing great bike and was replaced with a silver clockwork orange with gold rockshox and fitted with white onza porcupines. Loved the orange but looked like a dogs dinner with all the different colours.

a legal secretary from Wakefield.

Bike-wise, I had a Falcon Sierra like the one on pg. 1 and can confirm that it was indeed a POS. Think I'd killed it by '92 though and was off bikes altogether for a few years.

+1 for Marin Eldridge Grade and then a Cannondale M800 (Beast of East). Still got the Marin or at least my old man has commandeered it!

'92 started on a Saracen, think it was an "Eiger comp" but googling images I don't remember it looking like the ones coming up. It had a massive chunky U-brake on the chainstays, and the clicky dx thumbies.
That got nicked and I replaced it with a raleigh. Don't remember the name but it had a reynolds frame and suntour thumbies and kit. Rode lovely and was my fav bike, but it but got nicked too that year. 🙁
Replaced that with a Carrera Krakatoa just like euans2's and that saw me through most of the rest of the 90s.

Marin 1991 pine mtn. Fully rigid and early oversize frame without the reduced wall thickness, so was a bit hefty. Bomb proof it was. Upgraded the drivetrain with pace rings when some **** stole it.

I was riding a Cannondale Beast of the East. The black one with green splatters. It had a U Brake on it I think, Pace rigid forks, xt bits, Turbo saddle, Girvin alloy Flexstem and Specialized Ground Control tyres.