Bikes you wish you'd kept.

andy162

Which of your past machines do you wish you still had?

Mine, 1994 Eddy Merckx In Telecom colours. It was Columbus SLX with full Chorus on it. Mavic 4cd's. It was pink and pearlesent white. A thing of beauty!

Flogged it for next to nothing when I joined the Carbon revolution...eejit!

Andy.

37monkey

My Electra Jeremy never used it but it did look good, sold it to my cuz to fund my road bike

reluctant

My Overbury's from 91. Trouble is, some thieving scum decided to "keep" it for me!

alecstilleyedye

when i decided my shimano 105 wheelset made my best bike too good to commute on, i regretted leaving a fairly junky nishiki carbon steel road bike i'd previously had. it had a cinelli headstock and bars and look pedals which were worth keeping, but the bike got left in the shed during our last house move. doh.

FSR_XC

I sold my Cannondale Delta V900 - A 1992 hardtail mtb (probably a classic now) - in order to buy my FSR XC 2 years ago.

Wish I had kept it for a winter bike and trail work.

Gutted

DevUK

My raleigh burner. I swapped it for a trilby hat when I was about 13 years old

Andy140

Raleigh Record c1980 gloss black - full campag record, down tube shifters (non index). Sold in 1994 for next to nothing

Realy wish I had kept it

bagpusscp

My first Mercian.Spent hours working during the school hols to afford it.Sold it for a fast car{it was then} and a stunning woman :P .I was17 at the time. [You can't put an old head on young shoulders}.

1975 is along time ago :shock:

drummondjhn

Griffter and muddy fox from about 1991

markos1963

Dawes Jaguar cica 1980 did a sub 25 min TT on it. Discovered motorbikes, girls and mortgages and sold it for a pittance, would give my first born to get it back now.

dbmnk

1997 Kona Explosif, don't know why I sold it... now I am with aluminium

DavidBelcher

reluctant wrote:

My Overbury's from 91. Trouble is, some thieving scum decided to "keep" it for me!

Ooh, nice. Columbus frame AND Campag off-road parts for extra Italian flair.

Shame on that toe-rag for swiping it!

David

holmeboy

Them All!

dilemna

Have never parted with a bike as an adult. My first racer at 13 years old an Eddy Merckx in platinum silver which could have ridden me to the moon and back. It was awesome. Sadly it got left behind in a house move along the way. It was a revelation compared to the tank Commando I had previously. I cycled miles and miles on the Merckx. Then during my student days I acquired a Carlton which had been abandoned in a property I rented which should have been sold/dumped after my studies ........ but I kept it until the head tube snapped around the lugwork going up Hartside pass whilst riding the C2C in 1999ish. I was gutted. It fitted me perfectly, but the frame was so shot, blasting and restoring it was hopeless. It had a decent Chorus chainset and transmission on it by then as I was commuting on it in and out of central London from Bromley for 2 years. So I stripped it and finally took the remains of the frame to the tip in 2004 once it had forlornly sat next to the shed for 5 years begging me to save it. That was not one of my happiest days.

Smokin Joe

I don't do nostalgia when it comes to bikes, or any vehicle for that matter. Everything I've owned has been replaced by something lighter and better and I'd hate to have to regress to anything I owned in the past.

The past is all right in pictures, but disappointing in reality.