[Closed] Bikeography

1995 off road Proflex 656
1998 Proflex OZ carbonfs
2001 Gt Zaskar
2004 Kona Hei Hei fs
2009 Cove Handjob
2010 Yeti 575
2014 Trek Superfly fs29
2018 Rocky Mountain Element fs29
2019 On one 456c

If my memory serves me correctly - these are just the Mountain Bikes Since I was 16

Muddy fox courier
Muddy fox courier comp
Dawes Fat chance
Merlin
Trek Vrx 500
Trek Fuel
Marin alpine trail
Specialized big hit
Santa cruz V10
On One - summer 456
Santa cruz bullit
Specialized sx trail
Nukeproof Mega Pro
Specialized Enduro
Cotic Soul

So I think my MTB bike list, purely in numerical terms, is a little lacking:

199? Townsend (yellow and purple!!)
1998 Specialized Hardrock
2005 Specialized Stumpjumper Comp ht
2011 Specialized Stumpjumper FSR Elite
2020 Vitus Sommet CRS

And thats your lot! 🤣

Ive also had 2 Specialized Diverges in the last 6 years too but I'm sure they don't count!

Wow, will admit to being rather jealous of some of you guys! Also some of your attics are better stocked than a bike shop!

1995-1999 hideous heady 'Black Bullet' piece of junk
2000-a few month later the thieving scrotes - Marin B17 hardtail
2000 - still on the garage wall - Marin Wildcat Trail hardtail. Awesome bike.
2004-2010? Santa Cruz Heckler - First Full suspension bike, but never totally clicked.
2011-2017 Trek Fuel EX9 - 2nd full suspension bike and bought when I moved to Perth. Slightly small but a solid if unexciting bike. Sold when I moved back to the UK.
2015 - Current - Charge Duster which is currently a SS Rigid / sort of for sale
2019 - Current Cotic BFe

1986 - $150 Raleigh of some sort
1990 ish - Mongoose something
1993? - Kona Cinder Cone (still have this with drops)
Trek Y22
Specialized FSR XC
Yeti 575
Marin flat bar commuter / road rike
2002 - Litespeed Teramo (road) - just sold
Yeti ASR5
Pyga 110
Salsa Fargo
2016 Intense Primer (still have)
2016 Salsa Cutthroat (still have)
2020 Enigma Escape (road bike) (still have)

This thread makes me wonder if I should be buying more bikes?

1989 Rockhopper (sold to mate, who got it nicked from outside a newsagent in Boscombe)
1992 Overbury's Pioneer (now hanging on my office wall)
2000 Planet-X Compo (broke)
2001 On-One Ti Inbred (still got)
2003 On-One SS Inbred (still got)
2015 Kona Sutra Ltd (sold)
2017 Shand Drove (the only bike I ride nowadays)

This thread makes me wonder if I should be buying more bikes?

1992-1996. Various and ever evolving klunkers usually frankenbiked from Police auctions.
1997. One-off Lee Cooper steel XC frame built up with new parts! Frame is currently adorning our downstairs toilet wall following its retirement last year (has spent the last 10 years or so as a SS hybrid).
2000. Custom build DMR Trailstar. Still in use on the turbo in the garage.
(2002-2009 or so was a hiatus from MTB while I did some archery)
2010. Custom build Identiti Mr Hyde. Passed on to a riding mate's kid a couple of years ago.
2012. Custom build Cotic BFe. Still going strong as a SS 'dog walking' bike.
2014. Custom build Orange Alpine 160. Only MTB I've ever so far sold on when I've done with it.
2016. Custom build Cotic Rocket (mk2/27.5 but built as a 26+ frankenbike). Will be only the second MTB I've ever sold on at some point this year.
2018. Home built bamboo road bike.
2019. Custom build (and custom paint) Sonder Transmitter mk1 (650+). Still in use as my do-it-all MTB.
2020. Custom build Cotic RocketMAX. An absolute monster. 50th birthday present.
2020. Used 'vintage' Specialized Epic 29er. To be stripped down and reborn as my Coasts To Coasts project bike.

some of these owned at the same time, I also worked in a bike shop for a few years so got through a few then! Also bought frames and swapped parts

late 80's Universal POS
92ish, Carrera of some sort
92ish, Marin Rocky Ridge
93, Manitou FS Still got it (frame)
98, Santa Cruz Chameleon. Now lost track of dates!
Santa Cruz Heckler
Identiti, Dr Jekyll
Santa Cruz Bullit
Giant AC Team
Santa Cruz Super 8
Santa Cruz V10, Still got it
Kinesis Maxlight
DMR SideKick, still got it
GT Ruckus I-drive
Had some time off
Boardman FS
Cove Stiffee
Trek Fuel
Giant AC, still got the frame for some reason
On One Scandal
Transition Smuggler
Genesis Croix de Fer
Transition TR29
Banshee Prime V2, still got the frame
Cotic Solaris Max, current bike
Cotic Rocket Max, Current bike
Kinesis Tripster AT, Current bike

Now 46 and have been riding and racing bikes since my teens. Less a few years in my 30's when I switched to Moto Enduro.

1997 GT Zaskar
1998 Litespeed Ocoee
2004 Santa Cruz Blur
2005 Santa Cruz Nomad MK1
2007ish Intense 5.5
2008 Turner Flux
2010 Titus Motolite (still have)
2012 Santa Cruz Blur LT
2018 Intense Recluse
2019 Intense Primer

I've decided to pack MTB in so the Primer is my last one and sold the frame a few weeks ago.

Proper MTB’s (I’m a reformed roadie)
26” orange crush. I was between sizes, got the smaller one. By modern standards must have looked like a kids bike.

Cotic Solaris mk1. Has gone from 100mm forked long distance xc, to single speed, to 130mm hardcore (didn’t work, even with angleset) to rigid. Frame still in loft, ideally it’s my summer long distance and fitness bike. Didn’t happen this year for COVID reasons.

And then the bird obsession began:
Aeris Mk1. Lovely bike, had it 3 years. A mishap with SRAM warrant department sending me the wrong size shock slackened the seat tube out, didn’t notice for a year; consequently I believed my next bike to be a big leap forward.

Bird 120 - and subsequently 120LT. (Frame only) has done everything from HOTS to morzine blacks.

Bird zero29 (frame only). Shares the wheels, brakes and drivetrain with the Solaris. Intended to be a winter bike. This year it has done a lot of ‘from the door mild xc’

I generally keep bikes for a while, the blue pig had the shortest life because I hated it.

95ish Diamondback Sorrento
98 Club Roost Stinger
2002 Curtis SuperX
2008 Trek 8500
2013 Ragley Blue Pig
2014 Specialized Allez
2015 Cannondale Trigger
2020 Chromag Doctahawk

Pretty varied list when I look back it now, definitely gone through phases singlespeeds, full sus, these days its pretty much a bit of everything, garage is still very eclectic but tandems are the main use mtbs for me these days

1988 MBK Aventure
1989 MS Racing Cromega-LX
1990 Kona Cindercone
1992 GT Zaskar (early U brake version and built from frame to spec)
Fuquay Custom Cromor
1994 Dawes Edge LX 631 (snapped rear dropouts off)
1994 Cannondale MT1000 Tandem
1995 Trek 9800 OCLV
Cannondale LOS DOS MT Tandem (Custom build from frame)
Coyote Ti (cracked seat tube)
Coyote AL
Cove Hand Job (bought from a mate, loathed it and sold very quickly)
Cannondale MT1000 (retro 1987 model)
Dialled Bikes Prince Albert
Klein Adroit (Was my wifes, split and sold, one of the few bike I regret ever selling)
2003 MTBtandems Fandango Tourista (Rohloff from this is still going strong on my 18Bikes tandem)
Tomac Eli (cracked)
Litespeed Niota
Specialized Enduro (kind of regretted selling this as was a fun bike)
Commencal Supreme
2005 Bianchi Sass (sold and recently got it back)
2004 Surly Karate Monkey SS (snapped chain stay)
2006 Gary Fisher Rig
2005 Surly Karate Monkey SS (another one to replace broken one)
On One Inbred 29er
Calibre Dune
18Bikes 29er Tandem (second hand frame build using Rohloff)
2015 Cannondale Trigger 4
2017 Pinnacle Arkose 2
Tomo tall bike (my old broken Dawes on top and a Carrera underneath)
2019 Ventana EDCM 27.5+ tandem
Tomo 27.5 bikepacking bike (currently on loan to me)

Kiss Miami Deep Thought
Raleigh M-Trax 600
Orange C-16R
Salsa ala Carte
Giant XTC
Dawes One Singlespeed
Some Norco HT
Ellsworth ISIS
Mongoose Teocali
Kona Blink
Nicolai Helius RC -
Yeti SB95
Orange Alpine 5
Mondraker Summum
Nukeproof Scout
Nukeproof Mega Team
Geometron G1

Diamond back ascent
Marin Pine Mountain
Specialized rockhopper still used as pub bike
Specialized stump jumper hard tail
Parts swapped out to cove hummer which I still ride although is triggers broom
Cove hustler which my son now rides. He is 14 and wasn’t born when I bought it
Cannondale Trigger
Oh and a thorn tandem kiddi back for 6 years

Not many bikes but ridden daily since ‘88.