Bike History

Anonymous

So we havent had one of these for a while so thought id ask about everyones bike history but you have to pick a best and worst bike from your list. Here's mine and ive only been riding for 3 years!!:

1. apollo xc 26
2. GT avalanche 3
3. Saracen Hazzard pro
4. Specialized Epic
5. Specialized Stumpjumper FSR (Still Got)
6. Giant reign
7. Random no name alu hardtail with gucci parts
8. Orange p7 WORST
9. Bionicon golden willow
10. claud bulter cape wrath carbon
11. merida road bike
12. giant scr road bike
13. cannondale f somthing or other
14. 07 stumpjumper fsr comp
15. trek fuel ex 6
16. 07 stumpjumper elite
17. Giant trance x 2
18. specialized allez (still got)
19. Specialized Enduro (still got) (BEST)
20. specialized p1
21. giant rainier (still got)
22. Specialized stumpjumper (still got)
23. Focus cayo (still got)
24. raleight boxer when i were a lad.

Raymondavalon

Hold on, let's look...
Well I've still got me testicles and pointer plus I've been getting some for years.. after all that what this Thread is really all about now..

Anonymous

eh?

Whytepeak

Cycling for longer than you sheeps

Raleigh Blue bike
Raleigh Red bike
Raleigh Road bike
Random rigid singlespeed blue bike
Peugeot Road bike - made in france (brilliant bike)
Dawes Edge FS Team 04 - frame still hanging in the shed.
Whyte 905 09 - best bike i've owned
Charge Blender (parts from the dawes)

Road bikes of the house:

Sun 1959 (resprayed BRG)
Moulton Original
Bob Jackson Reynolds 531
Raleigh Record Reynolds 501
Ribble winter spec.

snotty badger

Raymondavalon wrote:

Hold on, let's look...
Well I've still got me testicles and pointer plus I've been getting some for years.. after all that what this Thread is really all about now..

Thats a bit of a toolish comment! :?

Any ways, my bike history from dot...

A trike
A kiddies chopper- Where it all started
Grifter- Jeez that was heavy
Universal Hill Street Cruiser ATB- It looked like a MTB
FreeSpirit MTB- This looked even more like an MTB
British Eagle ZFX 2- This was my first proper MTB that got me hooked, lovely Reynolds tubing
Univega Alpina 5.3- Always have a soft spot for this bike, covered loads of mileage on this. Currently sitting in pieces in the loft- plans to make it into a pub bike one day 8)
No name custom build alloy thing- hmm possibably the worst bike- just put what ever parts I could get- bit of a mish mash TBH
DMR Trailstar- Bought this about 10 years ago, sold it recently then bought it back. Just rebuilt it as a SS.
Spesh Pitch Pro- current bike and the best I've owned, climbs well and descends even better. Plus its rather sexual in my eyes.

supersonic

Let me think...

Raleigh Budgie
Raleigh Boxer
Raleigh Strika (best)
Raleigh Banana
Emmelle Cheetah (worst)
Emmelle Cougar XL
Diamond Back Traverse
GT Zaskar LE
Saracen N Zyme
Marin Mount Vision Pro
Saracen D Tox
GT Ruckus
BeOne Drone
GT Idrive 4
GT Zaskar Team

Bungalow Bill

Raleigh Fire Fly

Some Scott Full Susser (got nicked after 3rd day Cnuts )

Saracen Full Susser [Just a play bike for getting me around and what not )

Scott Voltage old model

Trek 440

Cannondale Prophet (Current and best so far)

700 Bucks saved up so far for my Commencal Absolout.

Eventually I will own a V10 :-D

marinman1

a little raleigh kids bike
a sliver apollo hardtail
unbranded hardtail no idea where it came from (worst bike i've ever owned)
apollo unleash started to ride offroad
schwinn frontierbecame interested in biking
claud butler trailridgeborrowed from a mate after breaking the schwinn
Commencal Combi (best bike)

Sarnian

Is this every bike we have ever had.

Anonymous

Sarnian wrote:

Is this every bike we have ever had.

it is so mine should inlcude a raleigh boxxer i had as a kid

Chaz.Harding

I don't know if this is a seriously cool thread, or a seriously geeky thread... Can't make up my mind... :roll:

ANYWAY....

Raleigh Grifter (orginal Raleigh 5000 gauge LEAD tubes)
Peugot white psuedo-MTB (Got me hooked )
Raleigh Fire-Fly (looked like a MTB, but really REALLY wasn't...)
Schwinn Rocket 3 (First proper MTB)
2004 Specialized Enduro (Truely AWESOME bike. One of the best. EVER)
2008 Cannondale F1 (Sad to see it recently go... )
2008 Custom 8) rigid On-One Inbred SS (My easy to maintain simple, stupid bike )
2009 Specialized Tarmac Elite (VERY fast, comfortable roadie. Highly recommended)
2007 Intense 6.6 Custom (My do-it-all MTB. So much fun)

turnerjohn

hum...
well mtb wise...

Raleigh Commando....weighed tons !
Some old BSA thing I painted blue...brush work art lol
Silverfox...something!
Orange Clockwork (died)
Orange P7 (the nickel one :-)...died :-( )
Oraneg P7...frames in the garage!
Orange E4 (lovely bike....but died :-) )
Santa Cruz Superlight....still sitting in the garage...bit bobby even with RP3 !
Turner o2...maxed out with trinkets...still have it...the muts nuts :-)

road bikes;
Santa Cruz roadster...given to my bro...was to big for me really !
Time VX Elite...sold it
Time VXR...selling it!
Giant TCR carbon....my winter bike...still pretty respectable :-)
Look 568 VHM ISP...pretty much maxed out with carbon bits :-)....quite simply superb :-)

oh and not to forget my Giant XTC 3.5 for commuting...tho she really doesn't look like an mtb after I got stuck in moding it :-)

not too bad really...was thinking of doing the P7 up all retro and single speed...thats if id ever get time to ride it !....never enough time in the day eh ?!

turnerjohn

second thoughts maybe this is turning me a little geeky lol!

fcumok

Raleigh Buster (Complete with stabilisers )
Raleigh Burner BMX
Racer (Had 5 gears and was hand painted silver)
Raleigh Racer (Can't remember make, but found a pic at http://www.birdseyeviewdesign.co.uk/raleigh/content/bin/images/large/IMG_0665.jpg
18spd Green Raleigh MTB
Marin Rift Zone (1998)

I Currently Own
Merlin Malt 1 (2004) (Favourite Bike as I built it)
Specialized FSR XC Pro (2008) (Best ride)
Raleigh Lizard (Got it given, too small for me but I don't have the heart to throw it)
Ruption Thrust BMX (2008) (Bought it to get me about town :oops: )

I can't say that I really had a bad bike, sure some are better than others but I had fun on all of them.

xtreem

1999 - Neuzer Passat
2006 - Courage Diver
2008 - Ram Ht.one db .......................(The best so far)

:roll:

AndyTheRocketeer

Black bike with really fat white tyres
Raleigh Grifter (grrr @ sturmey archer gear that slips and makes you spack your knees on the handlbars)
Raleigh Winner 5 speed
Peugeot Red 10speed
Ridgeback Rapide 531c 14sp roadbike (ca 1989, midnight blue anodised shimano 105)
Scott Vail 24sp STX-RC HT
Cotic Soul (mostly Formula/XT kit)

still own the last 3. Cotic Soul is the best (obviously).

Northwind

Raleigh Budgie
Raleigh Striker
Scotia BMX branded Tange Hot Heart BMX- lovely.
Raleigh Marauder Index mtb- not lovely. Less capable offroad than the BMX.
Carrera Krakatoa Flex rigid mtb- still got this, brilliant bike, tange tubes and shimano kit all for barely more than the cost of a raleigh activator- you could get awesome rigid steel mtbs for peanuts in the early 90s when crap suspension was taking over.
Then, a 16 year gap...
And another Carrera, a Kraken this time
Then an On One Scandal, which started out with the Kraken as its parts donor then changed all its parts by constant upgradititis, until eventually becoming...
My Cotic Soul, which could honestly be the last bike I ever buy. Though won't be, obviously.

Hah, I found a pic, here's me in... 1990, I think, on my Marauder.

The Big Cheese

Ahem, let me think.....

1. some little Raleigh bike (not a budgie or anything - teenie)
2. Raleigh Tomahawk (with Mags)
3. Team Murray BMX (tres cool thanks to BMX bandits)
4. Mongoose Decade
5. Team Raleigh BMX with Araya rims, the WORKS!
6. Carrera Krakatoa
7. Saracen (electric blue but can't remember the name)
8. Muddy Fox Courier
9. Claud Butler (can't remember which one - but it was about £400 in 1994)
19. Diamondback FS'er (again can't remember the model, but was heavily upgraded) WORST
11. Scott Team Racing (QUALITY bike)
12. Trek 3000
13: marin Indian Fire Trail (BEST)
14. 24/7 Crosser
15 Mongoose Ritual (still have the frame, redux into tres cool jump bike)
16 Marin Attack Trail
17: Mythic WIldcard
18: Marin Quake
19: GT Force
20: 1993 Kona Hahanna (SS
21: Cannondale 1992 M800 'beast of the east' custom retro build (underway)

Quite a list eh?

timthetinyhorse

Raleigh outland
Raleigh activator
unbranded hardtail
raleigh max y-frame
trek 4500
base sj26
kona coiler
revolution courier
santacruz bulit
federal bmx
gary fisher supercaliber
trek fuel ex 5.5
pashley 24mhz
gary fisher supercaliber (2nd one, i love them)

note - this is a geeky thread ha ha

rwsbike971

Raleigh Spider? (purple with solid tyres and stabilisers)
Raleigh Commando (Birthday 1979 I broke my leg two weeks before)
Raleigh Burner (Black with red pads)
Raleigh Equipe
Holsdworth Ultima (Worst - "Mountain Bike" bought from a catalogue, weighed about half a tonne)
Marin Eldridge Grade '93
Orange P7 (with Pace RC35s)
Orange Five Pro (Best - once I'd put Hope brakes and a Fox RP23 on it)
Kinesis Maxlight XC frame (Built up for commuting)
Giant TCR Alliance 1
Kona Kula frame (Built up for commuting with most of the bits from the Kinesis)

2tired2ride

Blue kiddy MTB < Worst
White kiddy MTB
Raligh Front sus kiddy MTB
Diamond Back Skindog BMX
Blue MTB
Fuji Track bike (From my days of track racing)
Giant Acid MTB
Mission Reefer Trials bike
United Recruit BMX
Boardman Team Hybrid 08 < Best
Boardman Team Road 09
Voodoo D-Jab MTB

Joe_Pineapples

Well, in addition to the bikes listed below that I currently have, you can add (in approximate order):

Random toddlers bikes
A Raleigh Budgie x 2
A Raleigh Strika
A Raleigh Arena
A Halfords Trackstar
A Silverfox BMX x 2
A Raleigh Mag Burner
A Redline Prostyler
A Haro Master ( how I miss you so )

Then a gap

Then the Scott Montego listed below.
My Morewood has to be the best so far as the Patriot isn't finished yet (but in the words of Miguel Ferrer "You're gonna be a bad motherf**ker!". Worst had to be the Silverfox, snapped two frames in less than 6 months.

Mastineo

Raleigh Nippy
Raleigh Tomahawk - Hated this as all my mates got Choppers for xmas and ripped the p*ss out of me! Didn't help that I was taller than most of them. :oops:
Puch Pacemaker, cracking 5 speed racer that I went everywhere on.
Univega Alpina 5.3 Brilliant bike, still in regular use
Rockhopper Pro, written off by pensioner in a Fiesta
Giant FCR 2, regularly used for 80+milers.(when on this I make a point of speaking to MTBers :roll: )
'04 Stumpjumper Elite, Sold
2010 Stumpjumper Expert.

paul.skibum

a blue one
a purple one (solid tyres) (WORST)
my mum's shopper
my brothers adopted racer (this takes me up to 22)
Raleigh Silver something (first proper mtb - rigid 21 spd in 96 maybe)
Merlin Malt 2
Rocklobster 456
Cove Handjob
Cove Handjob (BEST)
On one Inbred
Orange Patriot
SC Heckler

I still own one of the Coves, the On One and the Heckler is my recent build.

This is probably a geeky thread but only because the opening poster has had the longest list of bikes in 3 years.

fletch8928

small one in 74 (best. learnt to ride a bike in 1 day so ia told)
budgie
tomahawk
chopper
puch racer
other racer
bmx
universal mtb ha, vvvv bad
ridgback black and green
cannondale m500
cannondale m1000
scott scale 50
this week kona kula
next month giant trance

fletch8928

should mention kona is insurance replacement for written off scott

giant ordered on cyclescheme

fletch8928

ps, do you count the "local bikes"

Anonymous

thats a whole different thread for a whole different place

MacAndCheese

1.Some hand-me-down kiddies bike from my brother that dad taught us to ride on - dad resprayed it in the garage so it made it look like a new bike for me!
2.Raleigh BMX (not sure exact model)
3.First MTB - white and red Peugeot.
4. Diamond Back with a white and orange paintjob that, looking back, may have been a rip-off an Orange Clockwork. (first adult size bike)
5. '95/'96 Specialised SportRock black with red decals (despite it being lowest in Spesh range - I still thought I was like Jason McRoy!! - I was 12!)
6.'97/98 Kona Lava Dome - green - stupidly replaced the excellent P2s with ridiculous Bomber Z1 Drop-Offs and unsurprisingly snapped the frame.
7. Specialized Fat-Boy 415 BMX
8. Inherited 98 Marin Bobcat trail (still use at commuter hack)
9. 05 Kona Kikapu

MacAndCheese

forgot to mention - diamond back was worst, Kona Best!

boogercj

1. Raleigh BMX, can't remember which one but I stuck a number plate thingy on the front of it :oops:

2. Metallic blue racer that my dad bought second hand and completely rebuilt and resprayed. I stuck rear view mirrors and spokey dokeys on it :oops:

3. Diamond Back Topanga in Purple. Was the dogs danglies, and "better than all my mates' bikes" at the time :roll: with LX gears and the like.

4. 1998 Sunn Trall in Chrome. Loved this bike as it was my first "proper" XC bike and it had 2" of front end travel! Got nicked from my work's bike shed. Farking chavs....

5. On-One Inbred in White, which is my current build. Should be finished on Weds and I hope I like it as much as my old Diamond Back!