Follow up from the how many bikes do you own .

How many have you had

Me not many A lowly 10

first a 4 speed sturmy archer ladies bike made from bits scavenged from the local tips as a kid

long layoff then a 5 speed roady bike for riding to work
another roady after we got married
then mtbs
diamond back
Marin pine mountain
Pace RC200
marin East peak
marin wolf ridge
marin attack trail ( and I find it very difficult to grow a beard)
pace 303
Ragley MMMBOP

17-18 in 5 years

Only ever had the one bike.

Loads of new bits on it and several new frames. I just evolves.

If any bike shop owners come on this thread be prepared for some long lists of exotica

Including road/mtb/cx in 25 years of biking 27 bikes 21 of those some sort of mtb .

Raleigh Mustang '91??, first 'proper' bike.
GT Tequesta '93
Marin Muirwoods '95
Marin Bear Valley SE '96
Peugeot road bike '97
Canondale road bike '99
GT OCR1 '02
Marin Nail Trail '03
Skip rescued road frame now running as a fixed comuter '04. Still have it
Specialized Stumpjumper FSR Comp '07. Still have it
97 Orange C16r Singlespeed '08
On one 456 singlespeed. Still have it

Thats it I think.

About 60 I think.

2005 Trek hardtail (Can't remember the name!)
2006 Marin Wolf Ridge (Stolen)
2007 Marin Wolf Ridge (Replacement)
2007 Orange 5 frame (with aboves components)
2009 Orange 5 Pro
2010 Lapierre Zesty 514 (Current)
2008 Cove Handjob (Current)

1997 Edinburgh bicycles contour 400
2000 Specialized Rockhopper
2002 Kona Kikapu Frame Upgrade (with parts from rockhopper)
2005 Specialized FSR XC
2006 Specialized Enduro & Cove Stiffee
2009 Dialled Alpine (with parts from Enduro)

Seems like less than i thought… In need of a new bike I think now.

9 mountain bikes in the last 20 years
can't remember how many bikes I've had in the twenty years previous to that !

Kev

2 MTBs in my… 5 years of MTB. One of them is a Trigger's broom of a bike but is about to bec ome No. 3 with a new frame and forks.

'92 GT Pantera (stolen)
'93 Calio (now pub bike)
Took 10 year break from cycling to to beer etc…
'03 Scott Racing comp (horribly stiff)
'04 Scott Genius (never got on with it)
'06 Mongoose Amasa (got me back into hardtails)
'07 Commencal Meta 5 (great bike)
'07 Gary Fisher Xcal 29er SS (current – purchased sh late 09)
'08 Dialled PA (nice but didn't really suit most of my riding)
'08 Genesis Vapour (lovely bike but hated cantis and didn't use it offroad enough)
'09 Lapierre Zesty 514 (current)
'09 Ribble Sporting Racing (current)

Now trying to resist an 29er full suss

Been riding about 8 years. So far…

Raleigh Activator II – Broke
Dawes Tamarak – stripped and sold
Specialized Stumpjumper – stripped and sold
Coyote Dual – still got, now single speed
Kona Stinky – stripped and sold
Dialled Alpine – stripped and sold
DMR Trailstar – not yet built…

1) sunbeam hard tyres
2) chipper
3) chopper
4) grifter
5) raleigh something flat handlebar bike with sturmeny archer
6) ammaco team pro bmx with bent rear chainstays
7) Curtis Expert Stolen
8) 1991 Rockhopper comp
9) 1993 Rockhopper pro still got, it got nicked in 2001 found it in the car boot in 2005 paid £20 to get it back.
10) 1999 Specialised FSR hated it sold it pronto
11) 2001 Giant NRS (XTC Mammoth wish I'd never sold that)
12) Medium SC 2006 bullit
13) small sc 2006 bullit
14) mountain cycles battery
15) cotic bfe
16) Orange P7
17) On one 456
18) pinarello trieste racer
19) dawes racer waiting for single speed experiment
20) Motobecane racer from 60's
21) Robinson Ruckus bmx
22) Wethepeople Untied 24 bmx cruiser.

Had a good rethink and this is the list from age 15 onwards.

Road bike

Peugeot Equipe
Peugeot Chorus (loved that bike till some scroate bag nicked it 🙁 )
Raleigh Criterium
Raleigh ?
Cannondale Synapse

CX

Cannondale
On-One Ti (Still own)

Mountain Bike

Emmelle Cougar
Kona Cindercone
Kona AA
Orange Clockwork
Orange P7
Specialized Enduro Sworks
Specialized BigHit
Specialized Demo7
DMR Trailstar x2
Planet X Cheetah
Cannondale -Caad3
Cannondale SV
Cannondale Jeykll
Cannondale Gemini DH
GT Zaskar LE x2 (first one snapped)
GT LTS
On-One inbred
On-One 456 (Still Own)
Surly 1×1 x2 (1 non disc then a disc version)
SantaCruz Bullit (died cracked rear swing arm)
Trek Session 7

3 or 4 BMXs as a kid
an Apollo Atomic was first MTB

then maybe 15 others
.
Marin Pallisades Trail
Marin Pallisades Trail
Specialized Rockhopper
Sunn BMX
Marin Alpine Trail
Santa Cruz Chameleon
Mongoose Black Diamond
Haro BMX
Dialled Bikes Kobe Ti
Dialled Bikes Prince Albert
Specialized Singlecross
Specialized Enduro
Kinesis Racelight RC2
Cotic Soul

I've been riding for over 30 years, so mine are too numerous to mention. Have 7 full bikes at the moment though and 5 frames. Off the top of my head, I would say well over 40 as I can recount 30 bikes!

1994 Marin Pallisades Trail
1998 Specialized Rockhopper Comp
2000 GT LTS 2000
2001 Klein Attitude Race
2006 Enduro

New bike this year!

marin bolinas ridge
marin nail trail
brand x hardtail
dmr trailstar
dmr trailstar
dmr trailstar
orange patriot
fly pantera (still have)
specialized supercross
dialled alpine
cotic bfe (still have)
road bike (still have)

Wooden push-along
Raleigh Chopper replica
Green BMXy thing
Raleigh road bike of some sort
Townsend mountain bike.

1993 Raleigh M-Trax Ti
1997 Claude Butler Psycho
1999 Marin Attack Trail
199? Coppi Gavia
199? Coppi K14
200? Rondelli F1 TT
2003 Raleigh Absolute
2003 Redline Conquest
2004 Saracen Killi
2004 Marin XC100
2006 Marin Mount Vision Pro (warrenty replacement for above)
2009 Yeti ASR-Carbon

Still have the ones in italics.
Frames counted above, many, many builds.

20 since year 2000

Gary Fisher Tassahara
Specialized Enduro 04
Kinesis 4T CX
Saracen Kili
Gary Fisher Bitter
Nicolai Helius FR
Specialized Enduro SX Trail05
Gary Fisher Bitter (regretted selling first)
Woodman DS
Specialized Enduro S-Works 06
Specialized Stumpjumper S-Works
Turner DW 5 Spot
Turner DW Sultan
On One Inbred 29
On One Ti 29er
On One Ti456
Kona Unit 29
Planet X Sportive
Ribble Winter Trainer
Lynskey Ridgeline

24 bikes and about 6 frames that have never seen bikes with me in 4years

Fcukuking hell my 10 in 45 years looks sad compared to some in 10 years

6 in 20 years. But the current one is Triggers Brush & I've had it for about 10-12 years. Absolutely no intention of changing it either, mebbe just some bits eventually.

rat bike
tomahawk
grifter
Eddy Merckx racer
1983 Pro Star mx1 bmx
1985/6 DP freestyler bmx
1991 Alpinestars cro-mega DX
1996 KHE Beater bmx
Raleigh 531 road bike
1998ish Haro race bmx
1999ish DK race bmx
2000ish S&M Next Gen Holmes bmx
2004/5 Orange sub zero
Brew race bmx
2008? On one 456
2010 BMC elite hardtail
2010 Lynskey Cooper roadbike
2010 On one inbred

Not bad.

Apollo Creed (yes really)
Diamondback Topanga
Orange Clockwork DX
Marin Team Marin
Fat Chance Wicked
DBR Axis TT titanium
Litespeed Pisgah
Mtn Cycles San Andreas
Amp Reasearch B3
Specialized S-Works HT
Koga Miyata road bike
Kinesis Shogun roadbike
Specialized S-works road
Empella Bonfire Cyclocross
Univega Alpina
Santa Cruz Superlight
Kinesis Alu road
Litespeed Vortex road
Columbus Cross
Scott Genius RC10
Scott Scale 10
Scott CR1 team Issue Road
Trek Elite 9.9
Trek Elite 9.9 (again)
Trek Madone 6.9 road
Trek Madone 6.8 road
Trek X01 cross
Scott Spark RC
Scott Scale RC
Scott Addict R2 road
Commencal Meta 4
Scott Addict SL road
Scott Plasma TT
Scott Addict cyclocross

Good god! there's some list and I've probably missed a few along the way.

Raleigh Small Rider
Raleigh Strika
Raleigh Grifter
Raleigh Burner GS
Raleigh Olympus (small)
Raleigh Olympus (large)
Emmelle Mountain Bike shaped object (lasted three weeks of MTBing)
Townsend Explosion
1991 Orange Clockwork No1 (scrapped)
1991 Orange Clockwork No2
1992 Specialised Stumpjumper S-works (given to me in the noughties and scrapped after a few years commuting)
1995 Trek Road Bike
2000 Orange Gringo
2006 Planet X Kaffenback
2010 Orange R8

Er, 83 since I started mtbing in 1992 (excluding the ones which never even made it out of the front door . . . and there've been a couple of those in the last month 😳 ). Tomorrow I shall mostly be building up number 84 🙂

Hmmm – 10 I can remember

Some silver BMX (raleigh freestyle?)
Raleigh Lizard
Saracen Rufftrax
GT Aggressor
Santa Cruz VP Free
Santa Cruz Nomad
Charge Duster
DMR Sidekick
Genesis IO

and just bought an mmmbop frame….

Cant remember all the ones I had as a kid but in the last two years since I started again it's been

Apollo fs26e
spesh fsr xc
boardman pr ht
and just bought a 96 trek 800 sport as a project/commuter but now thinking of scrapping that for something a bit better.

very hard list to compile this…..

I know I had a chipper.
Then a grifter
Then a chopper.
Things get a bit confused now
Probably some sort of raleigh road bike
Definately a tracker now
Then a much better tracker
I also had a BMX now, possibly a burner.
Then some orange road bike,
Then an eddy Merckx, that was a fine bike.
Then an old peugeot.
Then a much better peugot, I raced on this one for a while.
Back to a raleigh roadbike which I had for a long time.
Then a rigid scott of some description.
Then a scott race MTB, that was a nice bike.
GT iDrive 2.0
inbred
gimp
surly 1×1
chameleon (still got)
Giant roadbike
Specialized enduro
pompino
Lemond roadbike
Handjob
Kinesis roadbike
humuhumunukunukuapau'a
kinesis CX bike
another pompino
van tuyl trackbike
no-name roadbike
Kaffenback
Canyon roadbike

I've missed some out for sure, but it's late and I'm tired.

edit: this wasn't a career, it was all just for fun. And it's all been AMAZING fun. Bikes are the best invention, ever.

not enough…

A no name black one with fat white tyres (learned on that)
not sure after that, until…
Raleigh Grifter
Raleigh Winner
Peugeot 10sp roadbike
Ridgeback 14sp roadbike
Scott Vail HT
Cotic Soul HT
and a pile of bits that will be a Drössiger Q-Cross CX bike

Mama, that it a truly impressive list 😯

The Intense Pro 24 cruiser is very nice 🙂

My count is about 20 from 1989, no roadbikes or bmx.

Konas, FSR, GiantVT, On-Ones, Voodoo, Genesis SSs, Kinesis, Dmr, Maverick, Airborne and Cotic.

Quite a modist list, in over 40 years

Jack Taylor (grew out of)
Dawns Knat (crap bike with really bad front break)
5 speed sport bike I can't remember the name of (grew out of)
1976 used my mum Harry Quinn track bike (yeah I went fixie long before it became trendy)
1977 – Reconditioned Bates road bike (destroyed in accident)
1982 – Claude Buttler majestic (ridden into the ground)
1989 – Peugot mtb (stolen)
1992 – Trek 830 (still have)
1998 – Spesh commuter (stolen)
2001 – Trek 6500 (scrapped)
2004 – second hand road bike (broke)
2004 – Turner full sus
2006 – Trek Pilot
2010 – Band X hard tail.

As a kid…

1. Raleigh Kite
2. Puch Chopper
3. Raleigh road bike
4. Peugot equipe road bike

much time passed…

5. Raleigh burner bmx

more time passed

6. Kona explosif
7. Diamondback bmx
8. Cove Hustler
9. Handsome dog HT
10. Cotic Soul
11. Singular Swift

pre 1998 – some random unknowns
1988 – Peugoet Ranger x2 (snapped the first)
1989 – Emmelle Dolomite
1991 – Saracen Trekker Competition Hydrotech (e-stay maguras)
1993 – Kona Kilauea
1994 – Mountain Cycle San Andreas (silver) (disc brakes – before v-brakes were available)
1996 – Mountain Cycle San Andreas (red) (with silly stuff like zyzzyx forks and spin wheels)
1997 – Mountain Cycle Moho (still have – hanging on wall)
1998 – Mountain Cycle San Andreas (black) (killed this by putting mr dirt forks on it – hehe)
2000 – Mountain Cycle Shockwave (still have with the mr dirts) (the original one – not the newer shape)
2001 – Mountain Cycle Moho (nicked)
2005 – Devinci Johnson (still have – but for sale shortly)
2007 – Giant Reign (still have)
2010 – Giant Faith (new shape)

Everything gets upgraded as far as it'll go and either snaps or with the devinci (doubt i'd ever be able to break that) fancy something lighter – hence the faith (only an inch less travel but a full 10 lbs lighter)

I'm thoroughly amateur.

Raleigh Chippy
Raleigh Buster
Raleigh Mini Burner
Raleigh Burner
Raleigh Marauder
Raleigh Max-Ogre
GT Timberline
Specialized Rockhopper (snapped) and warranty replaced with..
Specialized Rockhopper Comp (still got and singlespeeded..) favourite bike ive owned!
No-name alloy jump/trials frame (the worst bike)
Original On-One Inbred 456 in that blue
93 GT RTS Team (retrotastic!)
Commencal Meta 5 VIP

13..!

sunn vertik 2
sunn crossss
Orange Crush(06)
steel winter bike – unbranded but apparently its an old saracen?
Santa Cruz Heckler

been riding for about 7 years…

92 Scott Peak (Cro-mo Hardtail)
Mtn Cycles San Andreas (4" travel)
Mtn Cycles San Andreas (6" travel VPS)
24-7 Dark Angel V02 (Cro-mo Hartail 24" wheel)
On-One 456 (Cro-mo hardtail)
Orange 5 (5" travel)

Last two are current, although at one time I did own all the bottom four,it was hell picking a bike for a ride…….. 😀