An amnesty

Frank the tank
Frank the tank Posts: 6,553
edited September 2010 in The bottom bracket
Come on roadies own up if you have a MTB in your arsenal of bikes.

Confession is a good thing (so they say)

I have a Diamond back hardtail, Ooooeerrrr!
Tail end Charlie

The above post may contain traces of sarcasm or/and bullsh*t.
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  • Hrun
    Hrun Posts: 116
    I have a BSO mountainbike. Keep it for mum when she visits :)
    A biking runner :)
  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    OK, I have a very old Orange P7, but it has slicks and I haven't ridden it for over a year :D
  • northernneil
    northernneil Posts: 1,549
    Whtye JW2 + 20 year old marin with road tyres on it for shops and pub trips


    .... also confess to having done some down hilling in the alps this summer (in mitigation I was there for the tour)
  • ChrisSA
    ChrisSA Posts: 455
    1998 Spesh Hardrock. Separated my shoulder courtesy this summer on it (or off it).
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  • Buckled_Rims
    Buckled_Rims Posts: 1,648
    I have a...

    Road bike: CAAD9
    Cycloscross: Kona Jake the Snake
    MTB: Merlin Malt 4
    Commute: Raleigh Mtrax MTB.
    Emergency bike: folding bike of unknown Chinese origin I bought for £50 new on ebay.

    I ride all of them regularly (except folding). I enjoy on road and off road. Up hill and down dale. I just enjoy fresh air, freedom and pedaling and I ain't going to bat for either dark side :wink:
    CAAD9
    Kona Jake the Snake
    Merlin Malt 4
  • Ben6899
    Ben6899 Posts: 9,686
    Two. See my sig.
    Ben

    Bikes: Donhou DSS4 Custom | Condor Italia RC | Gios Megalite | Dolan Preffisio | Giant Bowery '76
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  • chunkytfg
    chunkytfg Posts: 358
    Got a Carrera Fury in the shed which is used to chase the missus and step daughter on their horses across the many headlands of Norfolk's countryside.
    FCN 7

    FCN 4

    if you use irrational measures to measure me, expect me to behave irrationally to measure up
  • Cleat Eastwood
    Cleat Eastwood Posts: 7,508
    No wonder the popes coming, this country is going to the divil, the divil I tells ya.....ive some no named one from jjb sports.
    The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns
    momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.
  • -spider-
    -spider- Posts: 2,548
    Got a GT Avalanche 1. Good trails round here so it doesn't really see any tarmac.

    (Honest guv!)
    -Spider-
  • guinea
    guinea Posts: 1,177
    I commute on a mountain bike for a number of reasons:

    1. Bombproof. In the dark and in traffic bumps, drains and holes come from nowhere and I don't fancy taco'ing my road wheels.
    2. Better brakes for reacting to other idiot london road users
    3. More stable. Personal thing, I prefer weaving around in traffic on the MTB rather than the road bike
    4. Slower. The roadbike is too fast. I spent 1.5 years off the bike because of a dopy pedestrain I hit at 38.8km/h.
    5. Flat pedals. Far easier in busy traffic.
    6. Relaxing. I feel less stressed on the MTB.

    Of course it has its downsides
    1. Slower. Can be frustrating sometimes when you want a bit more pace.
    2. Wider bars, help with stability, suck for filtering.
    3. Looks crap :)

    All of this is subjective and my opinion. Hoever, I need both bikes!
  • Smokin Joe
    Smokin Joe Posts: 2,706
    You're names have been noted and reported to the relevant authority.

    Watch your backs.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 43,463
    I have a mountain bike from about 1990 that I bought off a club mate who won it (he rode for Specialised at the time when MTB was a new fangled sport before seeing the light and becoming a pro on the road). Haven't ridden it for years, no suspension of any sort. Might dust it off to do a cross race this winter though.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
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  • all show no go
    all show no go Posts: 542
    What's a Mountain Bike?
    Let's close our eyes and see what happens
  • Stewie Griffin
    Stewie Griffin Posts: 4,330
    NapD. Do the OCP rules not apply to MTB pics then? :wink:

    We aren't blessed with trails in NW London. Thankfully, as I might enjoy it and there isn't the time or the money in my life for another love.
  • floosy
    floosy Posts: 270
    I have a 1994 Kona
    and a 2008 orange 5.. :)
    and another on the way.. :)))))))
  • awallace
    awallace Posts: 191
    1998 CAAD2 ( i think ) Cannondale F500 - now a frame only, ready for re-build

    Giant Trance - also frame only and for sale soon ;-)

    GT Avalanche with bits off the Trance.
  • lfcquin
    lfcquin Posts: 470
    In my signature. A Charge Duster.

    If you HAVE to have an MTB it has to be a HT and steel in my book.

    The struggle is finding the time to ride it! It doesn't do many miles...
  • Ash_
    Ash_ Posts: 385
    A Magellan Pyxis Team (really a Hungarian re-branded Kinesis)
    A Merida Carbon Special Edition
    A Kona Unit Single Speed

    I quite like mountain biking, actually.

    My commute for instance, it can be 10km on-road and no fun at all, or a 15km route, 12km of which are on trails. The off-road route is less stress, more fun and more of a workout. So I use the Magellan for this.

    I also quite like MTB racing, mainly because you can still compete even if you're not at your peak fitness (which seems to describe me for the last decade), unlike a road race. The Merida is for this.

    The Kona Unit, it's got a child seat on and lives outside - it's the zero-maintainance go to the shops bike.

    I do have more road bikes though, and if push came to shove, it'd be those I'd keep......
  • Sirius631
    Sirius631 Posts: 991
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    To err is human, but to make a real balls up takes a super computer.
  • Sirius631
    Sirius631 Posts: 991
    dog-web.jpg
    To err is human, but to make a real balls up takes a super computer.
  • Sirius631
    Sirius631 Posts: 991
    dog-web.jpg
    To err is human, but to make a real balls up takes a super computer.
  • Sirius631
    Sirius631 Posts: 991
    dog-web.jpg
    To err is human, but to make a real balls up takes a super computer.
  • stigofthedump
    stigofthedump Posts: 331
    I have
    92 Stumpjumper
    2010 Marin Mount Vision
    GT Series 2 with 105 groupset
    Holdsworth Fixie (From the Dump)

    But Cake stop is far more entertaining than The crudcatcher.
  • Sirius631
    Sirius631 Posts: 991
    My browser appeared to stall. I only got one 'successfull post' message and found I couldn't delete the duplicates because stig had posted after me.
    To err is human, but to make a real balls up takes a super computer.
  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    Sirius631 wrote:
    My browser appeared to stall. I only got one 'successfull post' message and found I couldn't delete the duplicates because stig had posted after me.

    Oh come on, you think we're gonna believe that? Come on, own up, you have 4 identical mountain bikes...
  • softlad
    softlad Posts: 3,513
    I'm only 30 mins away from Brechfa Forest and some of the best trails in the UK - it would be daft not to have an MTB...

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  • Sirius631
    Sirius631 Posts: 991
    greasedscotsman wrote:
    Sirius631 wrote:
    My browser appeared to stall. I only got one 'successfull post' message and found I couldn't delete the duplicates because stig had posted after me.

    Oh come on, you think we're gonna believe that? Come on, own up, you have 4 identical mountain bikes...

    All taken in the same position on the same file name. :wink:

    This sequencial delete thing is a pain in the arse.
    To err is human, but to make a real balls up takes a super computer.
  • andy162
    andy162 Posts: 634
    Giant Anthem X2...'tis an off road missile & I raced it this very evening.
  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    I have a Scott Scale 70 hardtail. Winter trainer ala' bombproof.

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