How many bikes have you had?

whyamihere

And what were they?

1. Tiny kids bike
2. Slightly larger kids bike
3. Slightly larger again kids bike
4. BMX sized, MTB shaped kids bike. I learned to do wicked skids on this one.
5. Raleigh Firefly. First 'proper' MTB. I upgraded nearly everything on it, then stripped it down to use the bits. Last year I rebuilt it and sold it to one of my current housemates for £20 and a cake, so it's still sat outside my house.
6. First custom build. Nameless alu XC frame, went through various builds, from 'freeride' bike, through XC race bike, and finally to commuter bike
7. Azonic Steelhead. I'd discovered the DH course at Cannock Chase, enjoyed it, and wanted a more suitable bike. This weighted more than Saturn.
8. Cove Foreplay. This was an utterly amazing bike. I loved it, and still miss it to this day. Had to sell it due to running out of money while I was unable to ride, and didn't think I'd ever be able to ride again.
9. Specialized FSR. Very old (2001 maybe?). Rode it once, the first year I went to Dusk to Dawn, then sold the frame for a profit.
10. Orange Zero. I decided I wanted to try trials, and found someone selling this for a ridiculously small amount of money. Got on it, realised it was far, far too short for me and I couldn't even hop it properly. Stripped it down, used the parts for other things.
11. Ambrosio Stelvio. First road bike. It was red, and very very fast. I got annoyed by the threaded headset though.
12. Coyote road bike. Frame and fork were bought to replace the Ambrosio. Weighed more, was slower, but had an Aheadset, meaning that I could run my choice of stem, and therefore bar. It's now my dad's.
13. Carrera Fury. Got the frame off Andy and replaced the frame of #6. Still got this as my only current MTB.
14. Cannondale R1000. My current road bike. Custom build around a second hand frame, it's awesome and I love it.
15. Scott Octane. Got it off Nicklouse to try full suspension again after hating the FSR so much, unfortunately it was a bit small for me. Now my dad's, who's a bit shorter than me and prefers a more upright position.
16. On One Il Pompino. Fixed gear road bike experiment. Didn't particularly like it, needed space and money, sold it after a couple of rides.
17. B.Twin Vitamin. Well, I'm picking it up this afternoon. It will be my first completely new bike since #5, the Raleigh, which I got for my 11th birthday back in 1999.

Edit: I'd completely forgotten about the old Raleigh and Peugeot road bikes I had. Making 19 in total.

I *think* that's all of them. I may edit in a bit if I remember another.

Edit: I forgot the Pompino.

jay12

1.tiny kids pink bike with stablelizers(sp)
2.slightly latger blue kids bike(no stabalizers )
3.rawd bmx. was pretty good i think
4.green scott rigid hardtail
4.green probike rigid hardtail
5.freespirit redwood rigid hardtail
6.raleigh alona(first suspension mtb)
7.kinesis pha5e custom built. awesome bike

will be getting a fr/dh bike next

supersonic

1. Raleigh Strika (plus various other Budgies, Bullets, Boxers etc)
2. Raleigh Arena
3. Raleigh Banana
4. Emmelle Puma
5. Emmelle Cougar XL
6. Diamond Back Traverse. 1st 'proper. MTB
7. GT Zaskar LE. Still have.
8. Saracen N Zyme
9. Marin MT Vision Pro.
10. Saracen DTox
11. GT Ruckus. Still have.
12. BeOne Drone
13. GT Idrive XC
14. GT Zaskar Carbon Team (with bits off the Idrive)

psymon

1.kiddie red step thru thing.
2.hand me down Raleigh Lizard
4.Townsend yellow steel mountain style bike
5.Saracen Dirtrax Pro yellow (Nicked)
6.Saracen Dirtrax pro purple (sold to mate who the had that nicked too)
7.Trek VRX
8.Raleigh Lizard (freebie)
9.Raleigh corsa road bike (freebie)
10.Trek Fuel 70
11.Trek Remedy
12.Giant VT

Kiblams

1. Tiny kids bike, broke throwing me over the handlebars on the day i learnt to ride it
2. Bigger Kids bike
3. Peugeot second hand rigid MTB (black with green speckles 8)
4. Apollo purple second hand rigid MTB
5. Raleigh rigid MTB of some sort
Some time pased here where I met girls, started getting in trouble with the police and finally going to uni and graduating
6. Raleigh MT10 rigid MTB (stolen)
7. Old second hand blue Raliegh MTB with silver forks (used for commuting) is still living in my cellar
8. Pinnacle Source 1.0 from the insurance from the stolen Raliegh MT10 (stolen)
9. HandsomeDog XC01 - Current MTB built up in December
10. Trek 3700 from the insurance from the Pinnacle being stolen and is now used by the wife to commute on
11. B'twin Vitamin which replaced the old Raleigh MTB commuter
(This doesn't include the wifes Rockrider)

I had no idea there were so many over the years

blister pus

kids bike
junior racing bike wiv proper curly handlebars

townsend 90 quid something or other
giant boulder trail
sirius 853

The Northern Monkey

1. Raleigh BSO (binned)
2. BSO (binned)
3. Daewoo ? with a polished alu frame and blue tyres (binned)
4. Spesh Rockhopper upgraded with Manitou forks (Snapped)
5. Bright luminous yellow BSO (binned)
6. Saracen X-ess (got stolen )
7. GT XCR Aggressor (sold)
8. MBUK GT Zaskar (sold)
9. On One Scandal 29er (frame and forks, never got round to building it)
10. Custom NS Surge 2009 (sold)
11. Saracen X-Tort Team (sitll owned but suspected cracked frame)
11. Custom Orange P7 2010

El Capitano

Dunno really...

Started off with a 3 wheel trike, solid rubber tyres and solid wheels.
Then moved onto a blue & white 'upright' bike, again solid wheels and tyres & stabalisers.
This was followed by a single speed flat bar bike, probably 20" wheels, with pneumatic tyres!
First 'real' bike - a Knight racer, in green. 26" wheels and 5spd gears! This was closely followed by a hand-me down from my brother, same bike, just 27" wheels and in blue.
I then had numerous road & track bikes through my youth. The never seemed to last long and my Dad was always upgrading and changing parts on them.
I also had a Raleigh Grifter for my paper-round
1981 - Custom make Reynolds 531SL Frame and Campag Record specced road bike built. (I still have this bike it lives in the bedroom)
Couple of cheap Carlton or Raleigh bikes for touring/training/winter hacks.
Peugeot Raider - first MTB, 18 gears and built like a tank.
Handsome Dog XC Bike - built up from parts - Stolen.
Scott Expert Racing - Replacement for the Handsome Dog - Stolen.
Claud Butler Levante - this was my commuter stead until the frame cracked.
Giant XTC - Just recently been rebuilt.
Kona Coiler (2004 Dee-Lux) - First FS bike. Spent a lot of time hitting the trails with this bike. Now hung up in the shed awaiting a bit of TLC.
Focus Mares CX Bike. This is my current commuter bike.
Giant NRS - built up over the past couple of years into my uber-lightweight-XC-racebike-of-doom.
Ribble TT bike - bought on the C2W scheme.

Think that's it, although I've probably missed something out that I'll remember later...

pte1643

supersonic wrote:

1. Raleigh Strika

:shock:

Crikey... That's a blast from the past.

MacAndCheese

1. Kids bike (hand-me-down from my brother)
2. kids bike that my dad sprayed metallic purple (in an attempt to make me think it was a new bike, not another hand-me down, which it was)
3. Chrome BMX - 90% it was a Raleigh (hand-me-down again)
4. Red and white peugeot MTB (first MTB, but it still had smaller wheels - It was a hand-me-down again and I wrote it off in a head-on collision with a car)
5. Diamond back MTB (yet another hand-me-down from my brother - looking back it had a paint job that was a total rip-off of the original orange clock work - white with orange sprayed at the front and the back)
6. Specialized Sportrock - my first brand new bike! I thought I was like Jason McRoy cause I had a spesh. oh dear.
7. Kona Lava Dome - what a great bike, but in my 14 year old wisdom I put a Bomber Z1 Drop-Off on the front and ruined it, framed cracked shortly after.
8.Specialized Fatboy BMX -decided MTBs where too expensive and pissed about on a BMX for the remainder of my school years.

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went to uni, forgot about bikes and concentrated on beer, got fat

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9. Kona Kikapu. Inherited some money and used some of it to buy a cheap deal on last years model (2005). Had the worst forks ever (Marz' MZ comp). Still, the frame was good and I spent more money upgrading then twice what the bike cost, until the only thing left was the frame.
10. Marin Wolfridge (current bike) -great bike if a little heavy, brilliant fun and bombproof, brings a smile to my face every time I ride it...unless it's up a big hill.
11. Marin IFT - frame swap for the heavily upgraded kikapu. Brought off the Big Cheese, genuinely looked like it had hardly been ridden so I was pretty pleased! It's a great bike for XC blasts, but in desperate need of some TLC now as the wheels, BB are large chain ring are all on the way out.

Andy

BMX style kids bike
Townsend MTB in purple (stolen
Another Townsend
Miller ZX8000
Saracen Raw
Peugeot road bike
Carrera Kraken
GT Zaskar (stolen)
Carrera Fury
Carrera Zelos
Carrera Bugaboo
Trek 6800
Carrera LRS2
Carrera Vanquish
Giant Anthem
Giant XTC Composite
Cannondle F800
Giant Anthem Advanced
Yeti Arc
Giant XTC (t mobile pink)
On One 456
GT I Drive 5

spongtastic

1. Raleigh Budgie
2. Raleigh Strika
3. Raleigh Grifter
4. Raleigh Olympic road bike
5. Raleigh Bomber (with springy front suspension IIRC)
6. Random Raleigh Road Bike
7. Raleigh Discovery MTB
8. Schwinn Frontier
9. Saracen NZyme
10. Cove Stiffee FR (Stolen)
11. Commencal Supernormal (Stolen)
12. Commencal Supernormal
13. Merlin Malt 1
14. Carrera Fury
15. Specialized FSR Expert
16. On one Inbred

Given up waiting for Pompetamine, now looking at Focus Variado.

nicklouse

trike
red kids Raleigh
Raleigh arena Racer that ended up with knobblies and wide risers in the early '80
Ridgeback ATB in '84
Scott Octane FX3
Scott High Octane
Dr Jekyll
Dr Jekyll ADS
Mr Hyde
RB CRX SS
RB RR 1100R (road bike)
Gusset BMX
Krisis
RB Monster 4X
RB Monster AM
Tank DH2
RB Dragster
RB Boxster
P-45
RB Speedster
a Fixie
some no name Taiwan frame build
a skip rescue Saracen unknown model.
a Probike Hammer BSO

think thats all.

bannedbiker

1. Tiny kids bike, red, pulled out of a skip and given new life by my bro for me 2. Small Black and yellow BMX 3. Emmelle rigid MTB with 6 whole gears 4. Raleigh MTB built from frame and scraps scavenged from my bro's mates (1st 26" wheeled bike) 5. Coventry Eagle MTB, few wierd upgrades as one of my 1st jobs as a kid was in a LBS 6. Unbranded 80mm FS frame built up by my bro as a bike for his mrs, far too small for me! Frame was a Cube copy somebody had built from Easton tubing. 7. 2006 giant Reign 2. Current bike, everything except the frame has been upgraded...! 8. Saracen 14" HT built up with reduntant parts from my Reign. 9. Specialized Langster, bought it for commuting, I live 10 very hilly miles from work, bad idea! 10. Old Onza T-Pro, Current bike, lives in the shed, barely ridden, should really sell it! 11. Specialized Rockhopper Pro, Current Bike, for commuting, lending to mates to ride with me and silly epic XC rides. (soon to be replaced by a Giant Anthem X frame...)

projectsome

raleigh bluebird
bmx can't remember name (burgundy with yellow wheels)
gary fisher big sur
trek fuel ex 6.5

OwenBird

I had personally owned a:

Raleigh Bluebird
Some BMXis thing
Raleigh Mustang
Diamondback Sorrento
Kona Kiluea
Marin B17
Klein Pulse
Azonic DS1 (built with Dorado SCs, lovely bike)
Spooky metalhead
Spooky bandwagon
Spooky metalhead
Curtis Supercross
Bergamont BigAir
Mountaincycle Battery
Spooky Metalhead
(Giant scr3...ahem, Eastern Sequence)

Most of those kinda bled into the next except the few stolen and replaced by insurance jobs I had. The main constant is Azonic Singlewall bars. Feckin ace.

Bikes I have ridden for test/work makes a long assed list but at one point I had at least two of each mountain cycle bike on sale in my garage. Which was nice.

broken weeble

Raleigh Budgie
Raleigh Chipper
Raleigh Tomohawk
Raleigh Chopper
Raleigh Grifter
SkyWay StreetStyler bmx (with 5 spoke plasic mags 8) )
Mongoose SuperGoose
Mongoose Hooligan
GT Palamo
Scott YZ2
GT IDrive xcr

Thats a lot of Raleighs :oops:

bails87

Starting from what I can remember:
1: Raleigh Mustang (purple with other colours 'flicked' over the top of it)
2 & 3: A couple of (much too big for me) mountain bikes I had when I was about 12-14
4: Barracuda something. BSO style full sus. (Bought with paper round money)
5: Claude Butler Pagan. Bought after uni a couple of years ago, my first "proper" MTB. (It wasn't actually a proper MTB, but it was the first bike that I used for proper MTBing) The brakes, gears and suspension were actually worse than the BSO!
6: Boardman Pro HT
Potentially 7: Ribble carbon road bike on C2W

paul.skibum

Little blue kids bike/Purple girder thing with solid tyre (shared between me and my bro)
Borrowed mums shopper
My bro's old racer (Raleigh I think) - stolen
Raleigh silver rigid mountain bike - donated to charity
Merlin Malt 2 - frame destroyed by tree
Rock Lobster 853 - frame damaged and replaced with....
Cove Handjob - frame damaged and replaced with....
Cove Handjob (still own and ride)
On One Inbred - bought second hand never used as mtb became commuter,. now sold
Orange Patriot - sold
Santa Cruz Heckler (still own and ride)

GHill

Probably had some kids bikes that I don't remember, after that:

1. Raleigh Burner BMX
2. Raleigh Mustang (1st generation)
3. Specialized Rockhopper circa 1995 (stolen)
4. Specialized Rockhopper 2006 (stolen)
5. Giant Boulder SE (for commuting - stolen)
6. Specialized FSR XC Comp
7. Falcon something or other for commuting
8. Trek Fuel Ex 8

Seems Cardiff is pretty bad for bike crime.

Anonymous

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 bike i ever had
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
19. Specialized Enduro (still got)
20. specialized p1
21. giant rainier (still got)
22. 09 Specialized stumpjumper (still got)
23. Focus cayo
24. raleight boxer when i were a lad.
25. gt avalanche 0.5

supersonic

Those saracens are ace for the money

jpstar

Blue trike with yellow wheels
Action man bike with stabilisers
Red BMX
Universal Dirt Dog (full sus BSO, but I loved that thing)
Ammaco Kamikaze (again a BSO but I loved it, started MTB'ing properly on it)
Specialized Rigid Hardrock

MrChrisP

Small kids bike
Bright green rigid MTB
Blue Townsend rigid MTB
Road bike of some description
Random MTB
Another random MTB
Scott YZ4 (still have and ride - Also 1st proper crash on a MTB)
Dr Jekyll (stolen - 1st bike with disk brakes)
Kona Dawg - 1st bouncy bike
Viper Skinny boy
Kona Scrap (still have but reckon it is cursed - Not one successful ride in almost two years of riding)
Kona Stinky 6

Kitty

4 bikes, not of which were new when I got them lol

Anonymous

Kitty wrote:

4 bikes, not of which were new when I got them lol

i think only 3 of my bikes were new when go tthem.

jay12

Kitty wrote:

4 bikes, not of which were new when I got them lol

none of mine were new. well you could say my kinesis is about half new

Kitty

Didn't buy any of mine either, got them all given. And my latest 4th one was built for my by whyamihere with bits donated from various forum people lol.

Where are my stabilisers?

Hand-me-down large three wheeled tricycle with solid wheels.

Hand-me-down Green two wheeler, again with hard wheels.

The next I remember was a second hand red girly thing called "Polo" - proper air filled tyres for the first time that I recall!!... I also recall the tyres being flat a hell of a lot!

BMX - red with pads on the top tube and handlebars and rear pegs! Don't know the make, but much fun was had with that one.

Peugeot something, drop handle skinny wheeled job - my most dull bike ever, but it did get me through my cycling proficiency with the top mark in the class!)

First MTB - Peugeot Flame (couldn't afford a Muddy Fox courier with a rear disc wheel )

The wilderness years...... Followed by...

Kona Blast 2006 and Santa Cruz Blur LT2, both currently in service!
Be One Karma frame built up with spares and used parts and on permanent loan to my sister

trekhead

I`ve had all of the bikes in my village

VWsurfbum

i couldnt begin to remember all the bikes ive had, it would be like trying to remember all the girls names ive ever "Seen"