In 15+ years, 4 bikes of which I still have 2.

Approx '94/95 bought a 2nd hand rigid Scott

'97 Lava Dome (still have it)

'06 Spesh Enduro, sold to fund…

'08 S-Works Enduro built up this year.

Kona Cindercone
Kona Cindercone
No name alloy frame
Specialized FSR XC
Specialized Enduro
Kona Explosif
On One Inbred
Giant VT
On One Inbred
Kinesis Virtue
Maverick ML7

I started riding again in around '92.

My bikes in order are

Emelle thing
Saracen Protrax (snapped on rear stay)
Saracen Kili Pro (snapped on rear stay)
Dawes road bike (for working on but ended up in two pieces after an altercation with a van)
Massi Road bike (sold to another bike messenger and still working in London AFAIK)
GT Zaskar LE (snapped)
Giant XTC (snapped)
Giant TCR roadbike (first frame snapped the replacement nicked)
Giant NRS the 'freeride' version (sold)
Intense Tracer (first frame snapped, the second nicked)
On One Inbred SS*3 (all snapped)
Kinesis (alu framed monstrosity which is hanging in the folks garage)
Seven Sola Ti(first frame snapped awaiting the replacement :|)
Specialized S-Works Tarmac road bike (still got)
On One 456 (still got)
Unique Dirty Sanchez (custom made CX bike which I still have)
On One Inbred Reynolds version SS (still going)

Roter Stern
how have you managed to snap so many bikes…. ❓

I'm 40 next year and haven't had a break from the age of 4, so this could well be a big list (from when I remember and in the right order as far as I recall):

Variety of kids crap, then:
Chopper
Grifter
Burner
Mongoose freestyle
Haro something or other
GT fueler
SE PK Ripper
Pananonia (?) 1st MTB, which I built!! This was dad's tourer that I fitted a BMX stem, flat bars, took off the mudguards and fitted CX tyres.
Raliegh Scirroco (road)
Raleigh Team (road)
Trek Singletrack 930
KHS Montana Comp
DDG (Piece of shit) 1st full sus'
Rocky Mountain Thin Air – still best hardtail I've ever ridden
K2 Razorback
Sub 5 x 2
Marin Wolf Ridge
Tomac special 98 (or something)
Cove Hummer
Cove Handjob
Patriot LT
Norco A-line
Van Nicholas Zion
Inbred
Cotic Soul
Scott Ransom 30
224 (why oh why did I sell this bike?)
Dialled Kobe ti
GT Pro series cruiser
Massi team issue compact (road)
Haro SX cruiser
KHE cruiser
Dialled PA x 3
Cotic Bfe
Cotic soda
Dialled Alpine x 2
Patriot 66 x 2
SE Floval Flyer
5
Marin Quake 7.3
Nicolai Helius FR
Nicolai helius ST (will never sell this baby)

**** Me!!!

Lots of these have overlapped such as the bmx's and road bikes, but that's quite scary. Ah well, we all need a hobby.

mildred, that is a very good list mate……….awesome.. 8)

I'd like to say that it's cathartic to write these down but it just shows how sad I am!

To be fair, 3 have been refunded under warranty, 5 have been stolen, and some I've ridden maybe twice before getting shut ('cos they've been crap – particularly the Ransom, which has got to be the overrated bike ever!!).

The A-line tried to kill me in the Alps, but I got my own back by dropping it off my bike rack – HA!

I had the Scirroco from age 15 to last year, and it spent the last 10 years on a turbo trainer.

Oh, I forgot the Titus Super moto.

Roter Stern
how have you managed to snap so many bikes….

JRA!

Raleigh Tomahawk
Raleigh Grifter
Eddy merckx kids racer
Pro-star MX1 bmx
DP firebird freestyler bmx (Still got)
Alpinestars cro-mega DX (sold today!)
KHE beater bmx
Retro raleigh road bike (still got)
S&M Holmes bmx (still got)
Haro race bmx
DK race bmx
Brew race bmx (still got)
Orange sub zero
On one 456 (sold last week)
Trek road bike (still got)
BMC elite HT (not built yet)

Think that's about it.

Started riding (seriouslyish) when i was 17 and had that bike till i was 22!
marin palisades
gt rts
saracen kili comp x 3 (they all broke!)
gt lts
saracen kili ultimate
cannondale r600 (road)
scott endorphin
specialized allez (road)
on-one inbred ss
cove handjob (frame – never bulit up)
specialized enduro (frame – never bult up)
monoc qc2 (road)
ribble winter (road)
whyte PRST-1
velo ecosse (road)
scott genius
on-one inbred 29er ss
on-one pompino (fixed)
thorn xtc (touring)
thorn raven rohloff (touring)
litespeed firenze (road)
setavento titanium hardtail
thorn audax mk3 (road)
surly steamroller (fixed)
dolan preffissio (road)
planet x sl carbon (road)
trek 9.8 carbon

right i think thats it, 29 in total! 😆

I have no idea but I guess it will look something like Milded's list. I started riding/racing on the road in about 1986 and I'm a serial bike owner. Before 1986 I had a Puch tourer, a Raleigh something or other, my sister's old bike, a RSW16, loads of "trackers", an old (kid's) trike with a tin "boot" that rattled while you rode and probably a hatful of others.

From memory

A Rondinella Road Bike
A Roberts oad Bike
A Fuquay Road Bike
A Raleight M Trax Road Bike
A Massi CX 2000
A Merida 901 Road
A Boardman Team Carbon
A Spesh Hard Rock
A Raleigh M Trax mtb – my dad has it now
An Orange X1
A Massi steel mtb – Rotchey Prologic tubing and was my best frame ever
A Massi Z3
A Massi Z7
Another Massi Z7
A Massi full suss (can't remember what it was called) a pile of poo!
A Cotic Soul
A Massi Z8
A voodoo Wanga
A Surly 1×1
A SC Superlight
An on One Scandal
A Singular Swift
A Giant Bowery (road fixie)

I'm sure there were more but I just can't remember them all.

Since about 1992ish,
Raleigh Apex
Cindercone
Zaskar LE
Stumjumper M2 Team still got,
Attack Trail
Cotic Soul
Hummer

1989 – Marin Bear Valley (still have)
1996 – Marin Pine Mountain (stolen november 2007)
2002 – Dave Hinde M4 (mistake)(over build onto..)
2003 – On-One Inbred (over build onto…)
2007 – On-One Inbred (still riding)
2009 – Cotic Roadrat

I started at about 3 and have had!

Red one
Blue 1
2 Raleigh Grifters
Sun Solo
Peugeot Racer
Evans tourer
Another Evans tourer coz I rode over a pedestrian on the first one and bent it.
Falcon made from 531pro
Specialized Stumpjumper Team (the deep purple pearlescent one)
Orange Prestige
Kona Explosif (Black with Tange Prestige tubes and later Manitou 1's bought second hand)
GT Zaskar
Another GT Zaskar because the first one broke
Marin MountVision (2000?)
Cove Stiffee (Red) Paint Fell off.
Cove Stiffee Red (Warranty replacement
Cove Stiffee Black as above
Airborne Lucky Strike
Orange Sub 5
Another Cove Stiffee (White)
Another Cove Stiffee (Crash replacement in Orange and then Purple)
Turner 5 Spot – still owned.
SC Superlight – 2009 still owned.
SH Love Hate (for sale)
Cotic Simple – Still owned.
Boardman Pro – imaculate frame – for sale
Condor Fratello road bike – still owned
Old Raleigh Road bike
Specialised Allez

eek!

plastic trike (red, blue AND yellow)
blue "big boy's bike" (bro's then mine)
bro's bmx I rode a lot, cos it was cool
orange, stupidly sensible gent's road bike (not a racer – and probably incredibly trendy now, though)

MTB's:
1993: Puegeot Tim Gould """Replica""" (sold to a friend, stolen from him)
1996: Cannondale Beast of the East (stolen from me)
2000: Dekerf Generation (still got; it should probably count as 1 1/2 bikes, bit of Trigger's broom except for the frame!)

Since 1989;

I have owned and either sold on or broken 9 MTB’s I currently own 2 which I’m using and I also own a BMX and a Road bike at the minute, this is the most “Biked up” I’ve ever been, but I think I’ll hold where I am for a bit…

But excluding non MTB’s that works out at an average of one MTB per 21.8 months over 20 years (although I’ve owned some of them simultaneously), so I reckon if I’m happy with a bike I’ll hold onto it for at least 2 years, sounds about right…

Offroad
trek 8000
trek oclv
dekerf
merlin xlm(still got)
kona lavadome SS
tinbred SS (snapped)
robin mather SS(still got)
hummer (for sale)
singular swift SS
jake the snake (still got)

Road
dawes hybrid
specialised langster(still got)
raleigh ti special products
seven axiom (still got)

Since '82

Dawes Super Galaxy
Claude Bultler Dalesman
Dave Yates custom Audax (still got)
Sandy Gilchrist 531 road bike
Battaglin Columbus Sl road bike
Spec Rockhopper – 1st in uk
Spec Stumpjumper Comp (broke and was replaced, still got)
Alves Custom mtb (still got)
Giant NRS
Giant Trance
Giant VT
Turner 5 Spot
Turner Flux
On One Ti CX
Roberts Audax
Giant TCR carbon. (on third frame, warrantied)
Stumpjumper M4

Not as bad as I feared.

Been riding since 1996.

Mountain:
Specialized Rockhopper
Specialized M2 HT
Specialized M4 S-Works HT
Another Specialized M4 S-Works HT
Specialized M5 S-Works HT
Specialized Epic S-Works M5
Titus HCR
Kona Something or other – the Easton tubed race bike
Klein Mantra
Titus Loco-Moto
Specialized Enduro S-Works
Specialized Epic S-Works Carbon
Salsa Moto Rapido
Salsa Selma
Salsa Mamasita
Kona Cinder Cone Singlespeed
Yeti AS-R SL

Road
Cannondale CAAD2
Ambrosio Rapide Carbon
Trek Madone 5.2
Specialized Tarmac SL S-Works
Scott Bowery

Other
Focus Cross Expert

Still got the HCR, Selma, Mamasita, ASR, Tarmac and Bowery.

Had the cross bike for a month and hated it.

GB

Mountain Bikes owned since starting in 1987
(approx dates)
1987 – 89 Raleigh Mustang
1989 – 90 Raleigh Ambush
1990 – 93 Trek 7000 (still got the frame)
1992 – 95 Scott USA Superlimited (Stolen)
1994 – 98 Diamondback Response Elite
1994 – 96 GT RTS 3
1995 – 98 GT LTS DH
1998 – 99 Proflex Beast DH
1998 – 09 Sunn B-mix
1999 – 00 DMR Trailstar
2000 – 02 Specliaized P3
2001 – 03 Specialized Hardrock
2002 – 04 Specialized P1
2003 – 07 Haro Extreme
2005 – 06 Tomac Omen
2007 – 08 Charge Duster
2008 – Still in use Commencal DH
2008 – still in use Solid Harlem
2009 – still in use Kona Dawg
2008 – still in use Cannondale F5

Since around 1992

3 x Emmelle bikes that got me hooked, 2 of which were nicked
Trek 930 – frame broke, replaced with…
Trek 920 – warranty replacement, frame also broke, replaced with…
Trek 4200 – warranty replacement, now build up for my dad with the frame and seatpost the only original bits
Orange P7 – my main bike now, unlikely to be sold any time soon
Planet-X Jack Flash – built as a play/dh hardtail project, rarely used but still in the garage (anyone interested in buying it?!)

I think that is it, so not too many then.

Mountain Cruiser (£70 brand new)
GT Timberline
Nigel Dean
C'Dale Killer V700 – wish I still had
C'Dale Super V2000
Scott Endorphin
C'Dale Super V 400
C'Dale F900
C'Dale Super 700SX

finally saw the light

Mountain Cycles San Andreas
Kona Stuff

still got

Specialized Rockhopper – restored to life from frame only
Nicolai Helius FR – you'll have to prize this from my cold dead hands

Griffter
Striker
Mag Burner BMX
Muddy Fox Courier Comp
Some Diamondback
Rockhopper
Cannondale M500? (Black with pink flecks, huge tubing)
Patriot LT
Transition Dirtbag
Lapierre Pro Race 500
Airbourne Lancaster
Merlin Malt 1
Transition Preston
Trek Session 77
Demo 8
Commencal Furious
Intense 5.5 Evp
Scott Ransom Carbon
Trek Remedy 8

Bike from skip with stablizers
Striker
Grifter
Falcon Pro Theta
Falcon Olympic Tourer
Raleigh Tourlite
Specialized Hardrock
Specialized Rockhopper
Specialized Epic
Kona Kula Primo
Commencal Super 4.1 (puts the others to shame though I broke the frame in Wales)

In order of purchase
1992 Raleigh Nirvana, died when it made contact with a VW Beetle
1993 Ridgeback 706RS, bought S/H is '95 & still have it
1997 GT Zaskar, 1st bike I ever won a race on-still have it
2002 Giant XTC Team
2001 Giant XTC Mammoth (NRS)
2003 Giant NRS1
2004 Giant VT1
2005 Giant Reign 2
2006 Giant XTC Composite
2007 Felt RXC Pro
1992 Kona Explosif-skip resue!
2008 Giant Anthem 1
2009 Giant Anthem Advanced 1
On One 456
2006 Giant Trance to replace 456 for something more comfortable

Not including CX or road, or ones built up to sell

Lost count so heres the list……….

21" Diamond Back Sorrento 1993-94 (Like riding a gate)
18" 1993 Kona Cindercone 1994-96
19" Proflex 856 1996-98
19" Giant ATX 990 1998-00
17" Giant Team ?? 1999-00 (Real cheapo team replica)
17" Cannondale KV 3000 2000-01 (Coda "Magic Motorcycle" cranks)
19" Kineses Maxlight 2003-04
18" 1993 Kona Cindercone 2006-07
19" Marin B-17 2007-09
18" GT Aggressor XC2 2009-09 (frame and forks on eBay)
17" Kona Cioler 2009-09
16" On One 456 SS (ordered on friday)

eek, in 4.5 years…
FSR, Blur, Meta55, Patriot(for couple of weeks), Bighit, VPFree, ST4 and Alpine…
O, and then the hardtails, inbred, 456ss, hardrock, Lobster, Malt1, PA, Pace.
And a 80's Ammaco Team Sprint.

2retro4u
Marin County, Cali

Since I took up cycling in 1970, too many to count. My Colnago road bike, which replaced my Peugeot PX-10, lasted from '71 to 2003, replaced by a Lemond when the frame finally broke.

Since I took up off-road around 1974, I have had two Breezers, four or five Ritcheys and I still own a couple, and have added a couple of newer FS bikes.

I don't remember how many other shattered hulks I left in my wake, but it's quite a few. I hold the distinction of having broken at least one of every part that can be found on a bike, as well as a dozen frames of varying quality. I'm a big guy, I've been riding for 40 years, and I don't hold back. Stuff happens and then you get new stuff.

(mr Mc posting)

blimey some kit whores out there!
Only classing "proper" MTBs;

1994 Gt Pantera – still have it as hack bike
1997 Trek Y22, pretty but shocking, kept it for 3 months then got
1997 FSR Extreme in kawasaki green, stolen and replaced by insurance with
1999 GT I-drive- really underrated, sold recently to mates g/f.
1998 Litespeed Obed, reluctantly sold as a spine problem stopped me riding hardtails, replaced with
2004 Kona Coiler, still have as my winter/play bike
2006 SC Nomad bought used this summer for my main bike.

So out of 7 bikes in 15yrs, 1 was stolen and I still have 3.

Raleigh Striker
Rock Cross 20
Raleigh Super Burner
Dawes Wildcat (1st Mtb still being used by Brother in Law as Commuter)
Saracen Ltd Edition
Coyote HT2
Specialized M2 S-Works
Specialized Rockhopper
Merlin Titanium
Cannondale Raven
Klein Adroit (best looking bike in the world…..EVER)
Dekerf Singlespeed 725 Reynolds
Giant NRS xtc team
Sunn Bmix
Gt Zaskar Team
Trek OCLV
Cannondale R700
Eddy Mercx Road Bike
Kona Cindercone 2001 (Argos adjusted with disc mount)
Cove Stiffee
Mongoose BMX
Schwinn BMX
Turner Flux
Custom Curtis SS (Current)
On One Ti456 (Current)
Diamond Back Sorrento commuter (Current)

Thats since about 7 years old

Easily over 50, as I started riding in the 1950's. One a year? Not too bad. 8)

Raleigh Mustang
Raleigh girl's bike – the shame.
Pantha BMX
Bent Raleigh Racer
Gios Road racer
Weird unknown road racer
Mercian Track Bike (for riding on the track)
ALAN road bike, full Campag record AKA 'The Noodle' for flexibility
1986 KHS Montana Sport
Weird 24in girls bike for poor student/druggie phase
1991 Diamond Back Apex
Unknown brand quality frame racer one
Unknown brand quality frame racer two
Hack Raleigh used for courier duties
1994 Scott Team Edition – with elastomer forks – 4cm travel!
Crap Hybrid for getting around Melbourne
Blucher 653 racer
GT for hacking around London
Ribble MTB for commutting in London
Ridgeback Horizon
7005 scandium racer
Unknown brand 7005 expedition tourer
Raleigh 653 single/fixie
Unknown brand Easton taperwall MTB
Rock Lobster
Kinesis 4t CX

26 – but oh the variety!

It's also my observation over 30 years of riding that the quality of the riding experience (ie how much fun you are actually having) is not particularly related to the quality of the bike.

i can't get my head round the rapidity some people change bikes!

since '92 Kona Hahanna, in '96 Bontrager Privateer, '97 Lemond Tourmalet, '98 Bontrager Race, '07 Trek Top Fuel, '08 Lemond Croix de Fer.

Variouds kids bikes but never a Chopper!!! Regrets..
1981 – Elswick Stag
1991 – Dawes Rough Trade
Rocky Mountain Hammer
Rocky Mountain Equipe 95
Rocky Mountain Equipe 95 crash replacemnet frame, then many guises to date
Santa Cruz Heckler DH build up
Santa Cruz Bullit DH build up
Trek 1200
Lightspeed Vela
Santa Cruz Superlight to date
Lightspeed Ardennes to date
Yeti 575 to date
Some interesting bikes out there!!

The real MC here!

1992 – Emmelle Cheetah (£99 Halfords special). I don't think it counts as a "real" mountain bike!
1993 – Kona Fire Mountain (lasted 3 months and it got nicked).
1994 – Kona Fire Mountain: still have it now, used as adventure racing.
2005 – Giant Reign 2: still have it DH bike!
2009 – Cube SL WLS women's specific hard tail: still have it as only just got it!

So in theory only 4 bikes of which one has been stolen, and I still own the other 3!!!!!! Some real kit whores though!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 👿

If my non riding mates ever shake their head at me again for buying bikes I'll show them some of these. My list is pretty poor:

Raleigh Mirage
GT Tempest
GT Pantera
Stumpjumper FSR
Scott Speedster S40
Orange Patriot
Orange Alpine (Should turn up next week)

Ok So I havn't had as many as most but I have enjoyed them all. Started riding properly in about 1997.

GT Timberline (got nicked)
Cannondale Super V 1000 (got nicked)
Kona Roast (now my wife's bike)
Revell custom 4x/jump
GT Zaskar (now brothers)
DMR Switchback (just rebuilt as a SS)
Spech Enduro 05
Spesh Pitch (main bike)

So only 8 in about 12 years or so.

From first adult MTB (1993):

1993 Emelle Shadow
1996(7) Scott Vail (still got)
2005 Kona Firemountain (still got)
? Identiti P-45 (still got)
2009 Ragley Blue Pig (still got)

Unknown steel fully rigid: Mid '95 to Dec '96 (GBP 10) – given away
Slightly better unknown steel hardtail: Dec '96 to Dec '97 – sold
Alpinestars Alloy hardtail: Dec '97 to Feb '98 – stolen
Cannondale M900: Feb '98 to July '05 – sold
Santa Cruz Blur: June '03 to Oct '03 – bought for a season in the Alps then sold
Intense Uzzi XC (yes really): March '04 to June '04 – stolen
Airborne Lancaster: Sept '04 to Sept '08 – cracked
Independent Fabrication steel Deluxe: Dec '08 onwards
Giant 2010 Reign 1: Dec '09 onwards (it should be arriving in 2 weeks)

That's 9 bikes in 14 years of riding.

Everything I've owned since starting riding bikes 'properly':
– cheap 18spd fully rigid thing when I was about 13
– Dawes Edge
– Trek 970
– GT Zaskar
– Kona Cindercone
– Santa Cruz Chameleon (possibly THE first hardtail in the UK to have 5" forks as I got the first set of 130mm Z1 BAMs off the boat when Stif built this bike!)
– Pashley 26MHz
– Orange MsIsle
– Sunn Vertik
– Santa Cruz Bullit
– Curtis SuperX
– Specialized Big Hit
– Specialized Vegas TRX
– Tomac 204 Magnum
– Santa Cruz Chameleon
– Santa Cruz Heckler
– Kona Lava Dome
– original Orange Clockwork
– Cotic Soul
– Cotic Roadrat
– PDC Kingpin (still have and currently in its 3rd or 4th guise)
– Santa Cruz Blur 4X (still got)
– Yeti 4X
– Saracen XIle custom build (stripped for parts for the PDC)