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In the last few years I have had:
Saracen kili 97
Sinister Ridge
Ns surge
Specialized enduro 2010
Dmr rhythm
Dialled alpine
Chumba xcl
Gt fueler 20"
Evil sovereign
Giant reign x
Cannondale rush
Specialized p2
Kona Cowan
Giant trance x
Difficult to choose one. The NS surge and evil sovereign were both brilliant hardtails. The specialized p2 is the best bike I have had for jumping, and manualling.
I still own the giant reign and have recently built the trance and love them both.
It's a toss up between the Sovereign and the trance x..........
In no order.
Kona Cindercone 89
Orange Clockwork 92
GT Zaskar
GT LTS
Cannondale super V
Cannondale M300
Zasker LE
Cannondale Jekyll
Cove Handjob
Specialized Bighit
Cannondale Gemini DH
Specialized Demo7 2009
Specialized Enduro Sworks 2005
Orange P7 2010
SantaCruz Bullit
On-One inbred ss
On-One Inbred geared
On-One 456
Surly 1x1 x2
Enigma Ego Ti Current bike
Commencal Meta SL Current bike
Think their might be a few missing that I can't think of.
The one that sticks out is the Enduro Sworks, silly light, did 24hr races on it and a trip to Canada and was just a blast to ride.
O6 Enduro - Still makes me giggle to this day 
I've had very few but this one is exceedingly awesome:
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Definately my old '92 Orange Clockwork. Just about to use it now for a shop run 😀
1999 DeKerf Team SL, Pace RC36's.
God, I loved that bike.
I thought the point with Hora's bikes was that they all had something wrong with them? Hence the never ending search?
Mamadirt, which was your favourite?
Best bike I have owned was my Rocky Mountain Hammer Race, closely followed by my current Soul..!
Here's a quick rundown of bikes owned.
[b]Raleigh Burner[/b]
[b]Grifter[/b]
[b]Raliegh Massif[/b] (nicked)
[b]Raleigh Apex[/b] (nicked)
[b]Edinburgh Bike Coop Courier[/b] (nicked)
[b]Edinburgh Bike Coop Courier Race[/b] (given away)
[b]Specialized FSR XC Expert[/b] (sold)
[b]On-One Pompino[/b] (current)
[b]On-One 456 Summer Season[/b] (sold
[b]On-One Inbred Slot-Drpout[/b] (sold)
[b]Singular Swift[/b] (current)
next ????
They all have their own pros and cons, I suppose I've had the Pompino the longest, and it's had the most use. The Spec got me back into MTBing in earnest - I came of age on the Raleigh Apex - the Swift is a keeper, I can't think of anything it won't handle (within reason).
Next?? Maybe a Cannondale Caad something? Or a Giant Defy?
Cannondale cad1 with pace proclass2 back in 97 or cannondale prophet. Hopefully my next bike is better still yup another cannondale 🙂
List can dale cad1
Kona caldera
Sun revolt gt
Original kinesis maxlite
Maxlite pro
Prophet
Deade virsa
Voodoo wanga
Coming soon cannondale .......
Oh forgot I had a Prophet MX that was a great bike.
1988/89 Wheeler 3500
-> 1st bike and most emotional (long chainstays, high toptube, slack HA, short stem, funky Exage Trail shifters)
1990 Trek 8000
-> cool at the time with fat rigid forks an sprinkled black on white colour scheme, but still makes me avoid aluminium frames (harsh)
1992 Breezer Storm
-> most desirable, nice ride, but not great
1994 DEER KB-1 -> my own project
-> pretty much perfect then
2011 Inbred29
-> too small frame size, might have stayed, loved the looks
2012 Soul
-> my best bike
I'll skip the BMXs and some of the dross and list the good uns...
86 Cannondale SM600 (still in the loft)
89 Saracen Tuff Trax (full XT and M231 Mavics on that one, a cracking bike)
87 Wicked Fat Chance
92 Fat Yo Eddy
93 Fat Titanium
93 Fat Shock a Billy
93 Mountain Goat WTR
92 Yeti FRO
Lots of misc Oldskool stuff for a few years, some good, some bad.
Yeti 575
Moots Rigamootis
Independent Fabrications Ti Deluxe
Cotic Soul
Cotic Bfe ss
Banshee spitfire
Surly Pugsley
Surly Karate Monkey
Salsa Fargo
Surly Krampus
Favourites were the Fat Titanium and the Moots. Current fave is the Fargo.
list of the main bikes i have owned through the years.
1988 dawes ascent mtb
1992 marin eldridge grade
1993-4 raleigh elan steel road bike
1994 specialized stumpjumper m2 ht
2001 cannondale F800 with lefty fork
2005 mongoose fireball (used as a runaround)
2006 specialized stumpjumper fsr comp
2008 swapped fsr comp frame with s works stumpy ht frame
2010 specialized stumpjumper fsr comp 140mm travel
2010 giant anthem x2
2011 charge duster mid ht
2013 specialized tarmac sport road bike 😉
out of all those my faves would have to be the cannondale (i sold it in a moment of complete stupidity/i regret it to this day,it was awesome 🙁 the 2010 spesch stumpy fsr.the anthem and the tarmac sport.
i currently only have my duster and tarmac now.
Owned lots of bikes but the best-
Cove Stiffee - great handling bike, loved to bits
Litespeed pisgah - took it everywhere, even did Snowdon, and kept up with a few full suss bikes down the ranger path
Current Bike- Santa Cruz Nickel - great FS bike, just a shame SC no longer wanted to market the APP concept 🙁
76' Grifter
2004 Rock Lobster 853 - Rockshox Reba SL 115mm forks, Mavic EN321 rims on xt hubs, M775 4-pot xt front brake - various colours.
Wonderful to ride, could be used in many guises, travelled far including a road descent of L'Alpe d'Huez in 15 minutes on Schwalbe Kojaks. He fell in battle whilst descending the ranger path on Snowdon, terminally denting the chainstay. He lives on in my shed, and in all the memories [wipes away happy tear]...