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My On-one 29er commuting hardtail will be 12 years old this spring; does that count..?
At 3-4 thousand miles of road and hill commute each year, there's not much in the way of original components left on it, although the front wheel is still original and the headset is now 15 years..
In the same photo.
2009 - 100mm Giant Trance with U-turn Revelation fork.
2019 - 150mm Orange Stage 6 with 170mm Lyrik.
Two completely different bikes due to change of location
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Giant Trance in 2009
Transition Smuggler 2019
not sure if those pics worked
2009 - Cotic Soul MK1, 3x9 XT drivetrain, Pace forks
2019 - same Cotic Soul MK1, 1x11 XT drivetrain, Reba forks
If it ain't broke, don't fix it....
Then
Now
My main MTB in 2009.
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And now.
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Then (part built):
Now:
And
With 2 FSR's and a Spitfire in between
2009. Many bikes, including this:
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2019. One bike:
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Interesting thread, like the experimentation of epicylo. Think I must be getting too old for this, as I have my same bikes from 10 years ago,On One SS, Cotic Solaris (I am the only one alarmed by modern Solaris head angle / front fork hanging out there?). And still have my 88 Stumpy (a road bike now) and 99 Merlin (most wall art) but I still have my Brian Rouke from 79... so clearly troubled with letting go...
From this:
to this:
The Boardman HT Pro was well over budget as a returning MTBer and I thought I’d ride it for ages. Then a frame swap to a Cotic Soul happened two years later, then the usual upgrades. Then a Banshee Spitfire joined in as my first full-sus.
Then the Soul was replaced by a Bird Zero AM. Then the Spitfire frame swapped to a bigger newer one. And the eMonster Truck just joined the party.
The Boardman has just been donated for sale to a local bike charity after a good few years as a toddler transporter.
I don't have any pics of the bike, but one of these around 2008-2009,
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to this from 2018-now,
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via too many others 😆
Never had such a chunky frame, but somehow I snapped this one.
Never had such a garish thing as this
Loads of other bikes inbetween and around those, but now I have a slightly simpler approach
