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Some red thing
Coventry eagle
Grifter 2 frames, 3 sets of forks
Sun Solo
Peugeot racer
Evans tourer
Another Evans tourer after I hit someone on the first
Falcon 531pro thing
Stumpjumper Team
Orange Prestige
Kona Explosif
GT Zaskar - 2 frames
Some Raleigh road frame bike
Cougar roadie
Condor Fratelli
Spesh Tarmac
Spesh Allez
KTM Revelator
Spesh Singlecross
Marin Mount Vision
4 Cove Stiffee frames
Orange Sub 5
Orange Evo 6
Airborne Lucky Strike
Yeti Arc
Turner 5 Spot
Dialled Love hate
One one inbred
On one scandal
Fisher 29er thing
Lynsey Ridgeline 29
CoticSoul
Coptic Simple
Santa Cruz Superlight
Santa Cruz Highball 3 frames
Stumpjumper Evo 29
Camber Evo 29
Salsa Beargrease
Not in order but lots.
a plastic blue and yellow trike with the pedals directly attached to front wheel (remember snapping that when I got too big for it)
a black bike with white fat tyres
raleigh grifter
1984-5(ish) raleigh winner 5sp
1987 peugeot road bike 10sp (dunno if it had a name)
1989 madison/ridgeback rapide 531c 14sp road bike (still got it)
1996 scott vail (still got it)
2007 cotic soul (my main bike)
2010 droessiger CX bike (use that too - german brand that make frames that get rebadged by lots of shops etc. that want their own label bikes, eg cucuma, vortrieb, ...)
Chipper (or tomohawk?)
Arena with cow horns
Grifter
Extra Burner (pimped)
Folding shopping bike for getting to work on
Raleigh MAverick
GT Timberline
GT Zaskar
GT LTS
GT STS
Turner 5 Spot
Transition Covert (2011)
On One 456
On One C456
'92 Marin Palisades Trail
Retro Kona Munimula
Transition Covert 2(2014 - for sale soon! 🙂 )
Dialled Alpine
Nukeproof Mega Tr
Raleigh RSW - Red (Circa 1977) Memory: Falling off, 3 stitches above right eye.
Tricycle yellow c1967, standing on it so I could reach handle to back door, 3 stitches to top lip & then repeat 2 weeks later, 3 stitches to bottom lip
1970ish. Gold fat tyre kids bike with front rod brake (first of many trips over the bars on this)
Slightly bigger kids bike
Raleigh Chopper (death trap!)
5 speed kids racer (24" wheel)
12 speed racer
Cheap mountain bike from Condor Cycles Greys Inn Road
Specialized Rock hopper
Orange Clockwork
Merlin Taiga
Intense Tracer (one of the very first)
Intense 5.5 EVP
Turner 5spot (horst)
Wilier Izoard
Turner 5spot (TNT) Stolen 🙁
Merlin Oreas Stolen 🙁
Turner 5spot (DW)
Fondriest Aluminium (Winter bike)
Viner Aluminium/Carbon (crap weather bike)
Brian Rourke Custom 853 Hardtail
Viner Maxima
......?????
some red thing
Raleigh Jeep
Carrera B52
Profelx Animal
Specialised Stumpjumper HT
Foes FXC
Pastey Howler
On One Inbred SS
Cove Hummer
Nicolai Helius FR
Santa Cruz Chameleon
PP Shan
Yeti ARS5c
1980 - Hand-me-down red girls bike with solid rubber tyres
1982 - S/H Raleigh Tomahawk
1984 - knackered S/H Raleigh Chopper
1988 - Townsend 27" 'racer' that I smeared in Niromors then spray painted white. Fitted it with Suntour thumb shifters and Bullmoose handlebars.
1989 - Falcon Sierra - Hammerited it green and got my LBS to build me a wheel using a 3 speed hub taken off the Chopper (think pre-Rolholf all-weather bike).
1989 - Bianchi Avanti MTB. Hi-tensile steel at it's finest.
1990 - Mongoose Iboc Pro. Bl**dy good bike actually.
1992 - Kona Kilauea frame that I built up using some of the parts from the dented and abused Mongoose.
1997 - Italian built Columbus steel + Campy road bike I bought off some mug for £70. Crashed it badly and ended in hospital. Karma.
2000 - Kona Cindercone
2002 - Santa Cruz Superlight.
2003 - On-One Pompino built up as a commuter
2004 - Intense Tracer. Discounted frameset. Bloody nice bike.
2006 - S/H Brompton for commuting on the train.
2009 - Cotic Soul.
2011 - A frameset so terrible I'd rather not talk about it. Never buying anything from those shysters ever again.
2013-Now - Surly 26" LHT
2014-Now - Surly Karate Monkey Ops.
2016 - Litespeed T3 fitted with Ultegra everything inc. wheels.
2016 - Surly Cross Check.
1969 Old schwinn-type cruiser
1972 Moulton Mini (my sister's)
1974 Sun 3 speed racer
1979 Mongoose BMX
1985 Specialized Rockhopper
1988 Chas Roberts White Spider
1992 Marin Team Issue
1996 Specialised FSR
2004 Orange 5
2009 Brompton S3M
2014 Santa Cruz Bronson C
I've not had many really.
The past:
Circa 1980 - A little purple thing
Couple of years later - A BMX, no idea of make or model.
Sometime in the 80’s - A Raleigh road bike, it was orange thats all i know
Late 80’s - A Raleigh styler mag BMX, loved that bike.
1990 ish – A Townsend MTB (for about 6 weeks) bag of shite!
Long period with no bike (which coincided with me moving to Halifax!!)…..
1999 Raleigh Dyna Tech MTB
2003 GT Avalanche
2010 Orange Five
2012 On one inbred 29er
2013 Btwin triban 5
2013 On one inbred 26”
The present:
Ragley Blue Pig
Planet X London Road
Commencal Meta AM
1997 Specialized Rockhopper cromo (didn't have it long because it was stolen).
1997 Kona Koa - first forray into suspension with Judt XC's
1997 Cannondale SV500
1996 Marin Bear Valley (at the same time as the SV500, small as a jump bike)
1997 Marin Mount Vision (Z1's, Hope Big 'Un's, Maguras etc)
Had an MTB hiatus at this point and skateboarded / rode BMX - 2001 Fly Estampida which was nicked whilst at Uni. Back to MTB...
1999 Specialized FSR
2001 Kona Stinky
2003 Specialized Big Hit
XXXX Planet X Jumping Jack Flash (bought as a cheapo jump bike to go with the Big Hit)
1999 Santa Cruz Chameleon (replaced the Planet X)
2005 Demo 9 to replace the Big Hit
2001 Kona Stinky - rebuilt as a trail bike and replainted
200X Norco Sasquatch (awful bike, didn;t last long)
2005 Orange Sub Zero (loved this bike but it cracked)
2007 Santa Cruz Chameleon (one that fitted, trail bike)
2001 Kona Stinky (rebuilt again as a plpay bike with 66's)
2007 Solid Flair
2005 Orange Patriot 66 (bought to repalce the Chameleon and Solid - hated it).
Another MTB hiatus due to hating the 66 so much.
2005 Specialized SX Trail...loved this so much!
200X Specialized P1 - awful thing
XXXX GT Lopes 4x. Rode really well but hated the way it looked
XXXX Intense Tazer HT to replace the Lopes. Loved it but it cracked
2012 Cotic BFE. Didn't really love it
2013 Banshee Rune V2. Awesome, awesome bike but overkill.
2013 Specialized Allez
201X Stanton Slackline 853...loved it. A lot but too small.
2015 Stanton Switchback 631. Awesome.
1994 Cannondale Beast of the East - inherited from an uncle and is (very slowly) being turned into a single speed.
The Rune has now been sold and the Switchback is joing it. Both have just been replaced by a Ti Slackline