How many in your life?

Pep

Of course bycicles. How many have you owned so far in your life?

For me 13, here in chrono order:

1) first (with stabilizers, then moved)
2) second (single speed)
3) green bianchi graziella (shared with my sis, but she nearly never used it, stolen)
4) red bianchi virginia (shared with my sis, but she nearly never used it)
5) bianchi green MTB. (cycling to school and uni. zillions of miles, climbed Stelvio).
6) a blue comuting Leri, 3 gears
7) a red one. Old and crappy.
8) a road Leri. (great, Stelvio twice, then UK, then Japan, now UK, now garage and only turbo work)
9) a white MTB, borrowed by a Russian when I was in Japan.
10) a Japanese one, given to me by my employer.
11) a Trek 4500 MTB, but used for road commuting, then stolen in Manchester, hope the thief was German
12) a Trek 6700 MTB, but used for commuting. My daily one.
13) a Cannondale Synapse, carbon, ultegra, expensive, used only for sport.

straas

1) First in memory, a little black bmx type thing, with plastic rims and a computer which made noises - best.bike.ever

2) Saracen Fire, front suspension, disc brakes - felt like I was towing a parachute wherever I went and weighed more than me.

3) Revolution cross bike, loved it, put about 1,000 miles on it until some old codger ran me over.

4) Spesh secteur, my current do it all bike.

Flasheart

6 you tart.
Geez you have no morals

DIESELDOG

Flasheart wrote:

6 you tart.
Geez you have no morals

10 and counting...

Love n hugs

DD

Edit, ooppss that's current so at least double that and then some

Homer J

I've owned 9, ridden a friends one a few times

unixnerd

1 Elswick Hopper singlespeed
2 Peugeot five speed tourer
3 Raleigh Routier 10 speed tourer
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4 Edinburgh Country tourer
5 cheap BSO full sus mtb (retained as the house guest bike)
6 Saracen RAW II full sus mtb (since given to a mate)
7 Cannondale CAAD5
8 Marin Mount Vision

jrduquemin

1. Monza Sport Mag Burner (earliest bike I can remember)
2. Raleigh Chopper type bike
3. Raleigh Night Burner BMX
4. Falcon Phantom 10 speed racer
5. Raleigh Mustang BSO
6. Marin Bear Valley
7. Specialized StumpJumper Comp
8. Sunn Roader + road bike
9. Specialized StumpJumper M4 (replaced deceased Stumpy)
10. Mountain Cycle Zen
11. Specialized Roubaix Elite road bike
12. Specialized S-Works FSR
13. Lynskey R230 road bike
14. Santa Cruz Blur LT

desweller

1. A blue Raleigh
2. Peugeot MTB with 12 gears
3. Falcon MTB with 18 gears - that died while I was at university with a seized BB
4. Shogun (?) BSO - got hit by a car which cracked the frame, although it was on its last legs
5. Dawes 20Four Tourismo - cheapo hybrid bought to get me out of a hole after the accident on #4, pretty crappy but still does duty as my utility bike

< - - - The Enlightening - - - >

6. BeOne Storm 1.0 - my first drop bar bike, it's a bit big but I love it! Did my first 100km, 100 mile and 200km on this bike.
7. Faggin (no really, that's what the maker was called) Carlos - 1980s steel road bike with tubular Mavic rims, this is a project bike that I've never ridden
8. Soon-to-be PlanetX Nanolight HiMod (although this will need parts from #6)

kev77

Cannot remember childhood bikes, but the below do bring back good memories.

Raleigh Mag Burner bmx, white with black padding ( black mag wheels!!! )

Giant MTB ( cannot remember name ) good servant.

Another MTB cannot remember the make but it was abbreviated? rear under frame caliper ( very trick )

GT LTS ( very trick and custom one off paint by ridley in belgium ) cost a fortune building it up!

Pinarello FP ( current steed love it )

spinndrift

1) Little red thing
2) Less little blue thing
3) Raleigh Tomahawk
4) Raleigh Chopper MK1
5) Some nasty 5 speed gentlemans bike
6) Raleigh Bannana
7) Marin Rocky Ridge
8) Raleigh Dyna -Tech road bike (was working in a LBS and cut a deal and ended up with dura ace on it
9) GT BMX can't remember the model
10) Intense Uzzi
Then had an accident and didn't ride for 11 years
11) GT Talera (retro mid 90s style)
12) Fuji Cross Pro

holmeboy

Various bikes handed down from Big Brother, first bike bought a dark blue Raleigh. Did'nt have one for while after school tiil I got married and bought a heavy steel framed racing bike from a neighbour for the wife, which she never used but i did for several years (think it had 5 gears). Fitted it with child seat, realitivly easy to remove. Then a steel framed Puegot blue and white. It got some abuse remember the left crank use to work looose many miles from home, so a few one legged cycles home. Then another second hand racer, then given an old Ron Cooper framed bike with Campagnola group set from a work mate who used to be a good young racer. Still got this fitted with Ultergra groupset. then me current Trek 1200 and cyclocross X01. Ooops forgot to mention my old Diamond back MTB which I've still got. (Not going to mention the £100 Halfords MTB which weighed heavier than my Wife's current car).

MaxwellBygraves

1. Yellow thing. Said the word 'Jackal' on it.
2. Raleigh Stonefly
3. Often borrowed my Dads Raleigh Pioneer.
4. Raleigh Nitro
5. Cheapo Saracen mtb
*light bulb moment*
6. 80's Phillips steely road bike
7. Specialized Allez
8. Cervelo S1
9 Cervelo R3SL

ETA: all of the mtbs were essentially just kids bikes, there is a massive gap between 5 & 6 where I grew up.

andy_f

1. Little fixed wheel un-named thing(learned to ride on)
2. Raleigh Tomahawk(my dad wanted to buy me a Bianchi) :oops:
3. Carlton
4. Rudi Altig Grand Prix(built from solid steel bars)
5. Revell(with Shimano Beopace)
6. Gios Megalite(still got obviously)
7. Colnago Start(disappointing)
8. Cheap ATB hack(still got)
9. Ribble winter(still got)
10. Gios V107(still got obviously)
11. Boardman Comp MTB(still got)

nwallace

Oh god er:

0) Ralleigh Trike (does it count)
1) Some small blue thing
2) Some small Red Girls bike...
3) Blue Ralleigh racer
4) REd Motobecane
5) Ralleigh SAbre ATB
6) Dawes Giro
7) GT Zaskar Team
8) Dawes SArdar

Still 3,4,5,6,7 and 8
3 and 4 aren't in a usable state...

MattC59

Not sure what I learned on, but my menory of bikes starts with the little blue thing at the ago of about 4. I've never been with out a bike since, can't imagine not having one. I'm 38 now.

1) A little blue thing....... freewheel went, but I was too small to know what the issue was
2) Raleigh Striker
3) Wierd 'gents' bke (early hybrid type thing I guess)
4) Raleigh Super Tough Burner (complete with black Skyways. oh yes 8) )
5) Raleigh Equipe racer
6) Raleigh Mustang mtb
7) Raleigh 'Team' mtb
8) Kona 'Fire Mountain' mtb
9) Kona 'Kilauea' mtb
10) Kona 'The King' fs mtb
11) Giant 'XTC' (the Mrs')
12) Trek 1.9............ WooHoo.......... road bike at last !!!
13) AMP 'B2'........... 1993 restoration project

I currently ride bikes 9, 10 and 12. Bike 13 is in bits in my study, waiting to find some 1993 Spinnergy mtb wheels.

shouldbeinbed

a red universal
a purple puch
a gold and blue 5 speed racer
a brilliant black tourer with suicide levers / a short lived raleigh bmx

had the tourer for many years, my parents gave it away when I left home and moved to manchester. I had every intention of bringing it down when I got a flat rather that halls with no storage - gutted

a BSO from asda just to get me mobile again
A birdy red / claud buter rock
the red was soon upgraded to a birdy blue / claud buther legend x2

a peugeot racer converted to a flat bar commuter when I wrecked my neck

Canondale Street Ultra / EBC cross 2010 / still got the birdy / 'b'twn sport 1

apriliarider

Tomahawk
Chipper
Chopper
Sun GT10 XL
Peugot Race Bike
Redline BMX
PK Ripper BMX
Giant Cadex 2 MTB
Cannandale Saeco CAAD8 **
Brian Rourke Custom
Ribble Winter Bike **
Spesh Epic Comp MTB
Intense 5.5 EVP MTB **
Felt AR3 **

** - Still got

rick_chasey

5.

Tiny with stabilisers

bike from age 7 - 12.

12 - onwards - mtb which has been used and abused (and altered) through down all the years

16 owards - my road bike (spez allez)

22 onwards - single speed kona paddy waggon.

Pep

jrduquemin wrote:

1. Monza Sport Mag Burner (earliest bike I can remember)
2. Raleigh Chopper type bike
3. Raleigh Night Burner BMX
4. Falcon Phantom 10 speed racer
5. Raleigh Mustang BSO
6. Marin Bear Valley
7. Specialized StumpJumper Comp
8. Sunn Roader + road bike
9. Specialized StumpJumper M4 (replaced deceased Stumpy)
10. Mountain Cycle Zen
11. Specialized Roubaix Elite road bike
12. Specialized S-Works FSR
13. Lynskey R230 road bike
14. Santa Cruz Blur LT

You beat me by one!

Andyb10

1) First new bike was a white Sun racing bike with 5sp down tube shifters back in the 70's. I was about 10 or 11 at the time and it lasted until I was about 19.
Amazing as I gained several inches in height during this time but I don't recall it ever not fitting me.
2) A green Claude Butler mountain bike also lasted me years - still got it in bits in my mothers garage. Yes she is sick of it being there

Gave up smoking 5 years ago and started cycling properly

3) A Specialized Rockhopper Pro - 2006
4) A Spesh Allez Sport 2006 - my oldest son has this now as it was too big for me really!
5) Argon 18 Platinum - 2007 now my winter bike
6) Cervelo R3 SL - 2008
7) Cervelo S3 - 2010

As I said still own the last 5 and my good lady wife has a couple of Spesh road bikes and a mountain bike as well.

Still believe in N+1 as the number of bikes needed though (where N = current number owned)

nevman

1 a kids trike
2 a Carlton racer-stolen aged 14
3 Peugeot racer later converted to flat bars-idiot
4 Saracen MTB-still present 20 years but in bits
5 Spesh Allez-winter trainer,Audaxer etc
6 LE Boardman carbon
7 Alan TopCross bike-commuter
Heh,thats not much?

Harry182

1 - tiny yellow bike from Canadian Tire
2 - red Speedo - given to be by a buddy when he got a new bike
3 - Raleigh Modular 5 - orange, small-wheel, 5-speed road bike
4 - Raleigh Royale - black 10-speed road bike
5 - Miele Tempo (1985) - entry level road bike with Ishiwata Magny steel frame - frame still in use until last year when it was retired (donated it to charity)
6 - Desmarais - compact framed hybrid, bought used in 1990 and sold in 1991
7 - Kona Kilauea (1991) - stolen in 1998
8 - Dekerf Team SL (1998) - stolen in 2002 and got it back in 2007; has since been treated to a powder-coat and converted to a ss commuter
9 - Everti Falcon (2008) - Ti road bike
10 - Colnago Dream Plus (late '90's) - frame bought on ebay in 2010 and built up as a ss winter-bike/commuter

Mike67

apriliarider wrote:

Tomahawk
Chipper
Chopper

Hooray...someone else had a Chipper...thought I'd imagined it.
It was sad chasing after my mates who had Choppers, and gears
Then, not counting early kids trikes etc:
Raleigh 5 speed (had an aero bottle and 650 wheels)
Emmelle something or other...nicked
Raleigh 10 speed...silver...nicked
Super heavyweight early Raleigh MTB
GT Karakoram (still have in bits)
Mongoose IBOC Comp...carbon MTB lasted10 years until it cracked.
Bit of a cycling lull...marriage/kids etc
Cannondale CAAD9 (current)
Giant XTC Alliance (current)
Kinesis Pro 5 Cross bike...self build and current

jrduquemin

Pep wrote:

jrduquemin wrote:

1. Monza Sport Mag Burner (earliest bike I can remember)
2. Raleigh Chopper type bike
3. Raleigh Night Burner BMX
4. Falcon Phantom 10 speed racer
5. Raleigh Mustang BSO
6. Marin Bear Valley
7. Specialized StumpJumper Comp
8. Robinson Amtrac XXL BMX
9. Sunn Roader + road bike
10. Specialized StumpJumper M4 (replaced deceased Stumpy)
11. Mountain Cycle Zen
12. Specialized Roubaix Elite road bike
13. Specialized S-Works FSR
14. Lynskey R230 road bike
15. Santa Cruz Blur LT

You beat me by one!

Oops, forgot the BMX race bike :-)

leedsmjh

1. Purple thing with a basket when I was 6ish - can only remember it cos we took the cat for rides in the basket. He didn't appreciate it.
2. Something in red with butterfly handlebars (wasn't a Chopper sadly)
... possibly some unremembered beasties
3. Lawrencia junior road bike in blue
4. Unknown 2nd hand road bike - had it less than a week before being squashed by a car
5. Cheap MTB can't remember the brand, soon replaced by:
6. Diamondback MTB in the mid 90s
7. Trek 7000 ZX MTB 1997 model
8. Cannondale Synapse 2007 - current winter bike
9. Pinnacle expede 2008 - current commuter bike
10. Look 585 Elle 2009 - current best bike
11. Kinesis maxlight MTB - just bought 2nd hand, can't really justify it

Definate latter day trend to bike purchases

llanelwy_ewok

1983 - Girls bike with solid tyres and stabilizers

1985 - Red Bmx (really wanted a burner but sadly never owned one)

1987 - Raleigh Racer, white

1990 - Apollo MTB, green & white

1993 - Carrera MTB, built it out of the box with my dad.

1995 - Trek 7000 MTB, started with spds, added susp forks in 2002.

2004 - Specialized Stumpjumper FSR Comp, great bike.

2005 - Giant OCR3, 1st proper road bike which gave me the bug.

2008 - Merlin Malt 4 XT groupset, awesome hardtail, still owned.

2008 - Specialized Allez Elite, still owned now a winter bike.

2010 - Bianchi Infinito Ultegra, all I can say is WOW.

squeeler

Raleigh Boxer - in blue
Puch magnum BMX - black with yellow metal mags
Decathlon Chrono racer - still got as pub hack
Raleigh MTB with Girvin flexstem - stolen
2nd hand Ridgeback MTB with skinny slicks - scrapped
Specialized Rockhopper Comp - stolen
Ribble Carbon Sportive - still got
Specialized Pitch Pro - still got
2nd hand 80s Peugot Rotary road bike - current commuter about to be scrapped when my Genesis Day one Alfine arrives in a couple of weeks!

Many happy memories with all of them

Libraio

Tricycle
Something with training wheels
Something with apehangers -used to ride it on the rear rack and pretend it was a Harley :oops:
Noname 5 speed mountainbike -did a brilliant front flip that I landed on my head :oops:
Gazelle 2X5 road bike -someone messed up my rear wheel, I fixed it up then it was stolen :evil:
Crappy 'omafiets' -don't really know where it went
Noname 3x7 mountainbike -bought 2nd hand, painted Giant yellow, stolen :evil:

Mini 1000, Peugeot 105 rally, Mini Cooper, Fiat Panda

Crappy omafiets -Left it on the street when I went to pick up the Kona
Trek District -bought 2nd hand, fitted an Alfine 8speed hub, brilliant bike use it every day
Kona Honky Tonk -1st bike I ever bought new use it on the weekends

Busy thinking up a titianium cross/ do it all bike, either with beltdrive and Alfine 11 or Sram Apex. Still saving up for a XACD frame at the moment.

Monty Dog

1. Something weenie with stabilisers
2. Something else I can't remember
3. A purple Raleigh
4. Dawes Chevron 10 speed
5. Falcon Black Diamond (after I bent the Dawes)
6. A Belgian frame made from Minerva tubing ( my first decent road bike, circa 1986)
7. Dave Kane in Reynolds 531
8. Alan Record Carbonio with Campagnolo Chorus
9. Cannondale MT500 MTB
10. Marin Pine Mountain
11. Colnago CT1 with Record
12. Specialized Rockhopper
13. Planet-X Kaffenback
14. Terry Dolan track
15. Xian titanium custom cross
16. Paul Hewitt TT
17. Gios Aerodynamic 1983 - restored Retrobike
18. Gios Compact 1994
19. Battaglin RS1 - presently run as fixed
20. Ritchey Breakaway
21. Kuota Kross
22. Pompino fixed commuter
There's probably 1 or 2 others that I can't remember either...

Tim jenkins

small red thing, with stabilisers at first and then without
Raleigh Comanche - bit like the tomahawk
Raleigh Jeep - sit up and beg, single speed
Raleigh Arena - 10 speed and drops
Raleigh Record Sprint - got nicked, I was not happy
Hugh Porter 531
Yellow Pinarello, Columbus SLX
Dawes Synthesis hybrid - at the same time as the Pinarello
Dawes One Down - current and used pretty much every day
Colnago Tecnos - current
Avanti Barracuda MTB - waiting for me in New Zealand

Blacktemplar

Erm...

1. Little green trike
2. Little blue thingy with stabilisers - Raleigh?
3. Chipper (hoorah! another one)
4. Red Chopper
5. Another Chopper - Orange (the last one got nicked, I think)
6. Puch road bike - trashed at 30mph+
7. Puch road bike - silver, no idea what model, it was 1978 after all....eventually nicked
8. Green hideous cheap drop bar thing for commuting in London - held together with gaffer tape :oops:

15-year gap then

9. Truly awful Halfrauds "MTB" - made of pig iron but cheap - consigned to the crusher
10. Felt QX75 Hybrid
11. Cannondale CAAD9 Liquigas

Trying to convince Mrs BT that 2 bikes ain't enough, and that I absolutely have to have a carbon-bling "summer" bike........