Here's a thought.
Next Christmas it will be 25 years since i started on the road to eternal poverty that is mountainbiking.
During that time it has given me a reason to travel around the world, i have loads of friends that i would never have met and for about 8 years it was my career as a bike shop owner.
i have raced in all sorts of events with the first being the first cheddar challenge closely followed by the first of the ledgendary Malvern Hills Clasics. i have managed to avoid the draw of downhill racing (although i have waived spanners ath the bikes of some of the worlds best).
Mountainbiking eventually dew mw into road racing, where i competed around the country and in the 1997 tour of Malta.
I've tried to put together a list of all the bikes i've owned (i've not included the ones i had for a few days in the shop (to sell as ex demos as these include low-lights such as cannondale ravens and the like.
This year i'm planning to revisit some of the old places, disciplines and events to prove to myself i can still do it :-/
It would be really interesting to know if there is anyone else out there who has been riding this long (who was dragged into this world by seeing the muddyfox advert with Jaquie Phelan with the fox paw-prints up her back) and maybe we could organise some sort of get together at on of the bigger events (Clic's on my doorstep).
Anyhow, heres a list of my bike (so far) 
Muddy fox Bigfoot 2 (1986)
Holdsworth professional roadbike (still got as winter fixie)
Diamondback accent (1988 - u brake under bb shell)
MS Racing al mega dx
Diamond back Axis (white with black specles)
Trek 700 road bike
Specialized stumpjumper fs
Diamondback Axis (green)
Diamondback Apex 700C (29r in 1992)
Peuogeot 708 road bike (what is this new STI stuff)
Trek 990 (one of the bikes i wish i'd never sold - light, steel and lovely)
Cannondale m900 (yellow) posibly the harshest bike ever made
Eddy merrkx SLX (Red with white and gold anniversary decals)
Cannondale killer v 500 (polished) nope, this was the harshest
Gt rts 2 (why???)
Cannondale f700
Gt sts (thermoplastic) SNAP!!!!!
GT karrakpram (purple!!)
Cannondale supper v 700 (got through 2 of these in a month - bendy!)
Trek OCLV ROADBIKE
GT Karrakpram (blue)
Pinnarello Low-Pro TT bike (ex tem banesto)
Cannondale silk road with spinergy wheels (WHY!!!!!????)
Kona A'ha Singlespeed cruiser
Colnago BiTitan titanium road bike (ex team mapei -tdf)
Trek Y- bike (Y22)
Kona cindercone (matt blue)
Kona A A (Urt suspension)
Kona caldera (orange)
Coyote titanium (was bent out the box, but took ages to notice)
specialized S-Works M2 (team bike)
Specialized S-Works Enduro (Black with Brain etc)
Specialized Roubaix expert
Curtis (custom built based on cove hummer / enduro)
Trek 9.8 OCLV hardtail
Own built single speed (dave yates course. 853 proteam
The Curtis is just being rebiult with Hope wheels, DT forks etc etc and i recon is the best bike i've had and is the evolution of all the above
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