MegaSack DRAW - This year's winner is user - rgwb
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I shouldn't have sold this Cotic Solaris. Back in 2017 I needed the £ to buy my first gravel bike a Sour Purple haze so let it go. Regretted it ever since. I think soon after Cotic went to the new long shot geometry and I never gelled with that.
Which frame or bike do you regret letting go?
My dialled bikes love/hate. Sold it to someone on here, and have regretted it daily since. This was about 12ish years ago!
Wish I still had this to hang on the wall.
my 2002 cannondale f800 in matt black with lefty fork. was my dream bike and loved it (sold it in a moment of stupidity and depression have regretted it ever since 🙁
My 1990 Team Marin with Zolaton paint and magenta forks/stem/bars
Only to keep to hang on the wall as it was what I considered my first "real" mountain bike. Certainly the first one I ever had in the right size.
My 2005 Turner 6-Pack was a pretty special bike as well. I had that a long time, over a decade, it was the most dialled bike I've ever had but 26" wheels, straight steerer, QR wheels, all started to age it somewhat. Having said that, I sold it on and I think it's still going strong.
I have initially regretted selling bikes but I still have my first ever bike hanging up in the garage (Raleigh Blazer!) and it just gets in the way so thank goodness I haven't got any more relics, I already need to do n-3 for a starter. I'm now firmly in the "golden age is now" camp so anything that goes will have been replaced by something objectively better.
@Tom83 I've got one hanging in the garage if you want to buy one! 😉
I wish I'd kept hold of my red Pace RC200 (and the matching RC30 forks) I sold a few years ago. No to ride as such, but it'd make a sweet wall hanger.
I do still have my '97 Indy Fab steel deluxe singlespeed frame 😎 tried to sell it a few years ago, but only got lowball offers. Very glad I kept it as it's a very cool bike,/frame.
@Tom83 I've got one hanging in the garage if you want to buy one! 😉
I wish I'd kept hold of my red Pace RC200 (and the matching RC30 forks) I sold a few years ago. No to ride as such, but it'd make a sweet wall hanger.
I do still have my '97 Indy Fab steel deluxe singlespeed frame 😎 tried to sell it a few years ago, but only got lowball offers. Very glad I kept it as it's a very cool bike,/frame.
Oo what size?
My 94/95 Greg Fuquay.
Kinda wish I'd hung on to my 2nd Charge Blender frame, it was one of the raw/chrome ones and looked great. Would probably still be a good bike for the local bike parks that have popped up as it was basically just an oversized DJ.
My dialled bikes love/hate. Sold it to someone on here, and have regretted it daily since. This was about 12ish years ago!
I think that was me you sold it to. Large?
Cotic Solaris in xl, lovely frame and would be great to rebuild one now
@Tom83 I've got one hanging in the garage if you want to buy one! 😉
I wish I'd kept hold of my red Pace RC200 (and the matching RC30 forks) I sold a few years ago. No to ride as such, but it'd make a sweet wall hanger.
I do still have my '97 Indy Fab steel deluxe singlespeed frame 😎 tried to sell it a few years ago, but only got lowball offers. Very glad I kept it as it's a very cool bike,/frame.
Oo what size?
Mines a large, think that equated to a 19" frame - it's the pearl/off white colour.
Great frame/bikes. But I have too many SS frames (is that possible?!) - 2 Stooges, a Surly, and a Pipedream Moxie 😆
My dialled bikes love/hate. Sold it to someone on here, and have regretted it daily since. This was about 12ish years ago!
I think that was me you sold it to. Large?
If it was, you sold it to your mate who was a teacher. He agreed to sell it, during a half term. But my emails got wiped and I couldn't get in contact with him! Inwas gutted.
Shouldn't have sold my Specialized AWOL, a bike that was sort of ahead of its time. I replaced it with a custom Waltly titanium equivalent of the same thing and definitely shouldn't have sold that as well.
Recently bought the Waltly back though so I'll get that built back up again soon and basically never sell another bike again just in case...
a kokua balance bike, it was lush and I wish I’d kept it for when I hit grandparents age (still many many years away)
I’d post a pic if I could work this bloody forum
My 1990 Team Marin with Zolaton paint and magenta forks/stem/bars
Only to keep to hang on the wall as it was what I considered my first "real" mountain bike. Certainly the first one I ever had in the right size.
I'd regret that too tbf, dream bike bitd. Been trying to find a decent one for years but they're rare and expensive.
Don't think I've ever regretted selling a modern bike as the replacement has been better? Certainly regretted selling my original 1989 Orange Clockwork around 2006 and that led me to retrobike. The only retrobike era bike I've really regretted selling was my mint Vitamin T with M900 XTR and period posh goodies.
Sold my Soulcraft option 3 frameset to YoGrant (previously of stw) about 6 years ago, wish I'd kept it.........
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Very happy with my cotic solaris & specialized AWOL thanks 😉 but regret passing on the singular swift I bought & sold on here - it was a non ebb version in bronze, bloody lovely 😕
There's a lot of solaris regret here, and I'll join it. I wish I hadn't sold my cosmic black solarismax a few years ago.
My bontrager.
converted to disc by the previous owner. Such a great handling and riding bike.
No, never felt any regret about selling any bike. The only slight twinge would be for an eighty something Orange Clockwork but that was because it got nicked shortly into my ownership and I felt unresolved issues! I have never been sentimental about vehicles. My wife got all dewy eyed about a car we just sold that we had had for eleven years. It was just a car.
GT iT1
Not because it was particularly great to ride (ace in some areas, awful in others).
They do now go for 5-6 times what I sold it for though…
I've only ever regretted selling one frame, and that was a 2006 Kona Unit 29 in Kermit green. It was just a really nice riding frame.
Not a regret as such but my 1997 Saracen Kili Ultra titanium. Full XTR, the battleship grey stuff. Mavic CrossMax wheels. Rigid titanium forks.
It did look amazing and they were super rare but it was only ever going to hang on a wall and get dusty. Sold it to someone in Cardiff, via this forum IIRC.
Other than that, every bike I've sold (and one that I gave away to a youth cycling club) kind of felt like the right move at the right time.
Norco Optic frame.
So much fun but was a bit of an impulse buy (2nd hand) and when the wife found out, either that or the Rallon frame had to go. I opted to stay slightly overbiked, rather than slightly underbiked so sold it. Gave me some big smiles for those few months I had it!
Now 'biked' with a Cotic Jeht so turned out all good in the end
I regret lending my Marin Bear Valley to a mate who carelessly had it stolen a while ago, but more for sentimental reasons than anything to do with how it rode. I occasionally check them out on eBay and think briefly about buying one, but it's frankly, a really daft idea.
My old 26" Nukeproof Mega, pictured here in the Swiss Alps
It was a phenomenal bike, but I felt I had to sell it as 650b was the future at the time and I convinced myself the new wheel size was just going to be better
Sold the Mega and bought a 650b Spesh Enduro which turned out to be a huge mistake. The bike just never felt right underneath me. Plus it was an absolute dog. Everything that could break on it, did. Forks twice, shock once. Used to eat bottom brackets for no obvious reason. Brakes were terrible Eventually swapped out all the trouble parts and got it working ok, but by that point I was totally out of love with the bike so sold it on and bought a Santa Cruz Hightower LT which was an utterly fantastic bike which I finally sold a couple of months ago
I had a Breezer Storm (1988 or so) which I wish I'd kept. And my Orange SubZero. And maybe my 2016 Martin Pine Mountain 1.
My Brooklyn Park bike
My Curtis S1
For hanging on the wall, my Tomac 204 and my Pashley 26mhz
My dialled bikes love/hate. Sold it to someone on here, and have regretted it daily since. This was about 12ish years ago!
I think that was me you sold it to. Large?
If it was, you sold it to your mate who was a teacher. He agreed to sell it, during a half term. But my emails got wiped and I couldn't get in contact with him! Inwas gutted.
Sound possible as I was a teacher also. Cannot actually remember whom I sold it too.
Sound possible as I was a teacher also. Cannot actually remember whom I sold it too.
Funnily enough I'm also a teacher!
I've had about 35 bikes over 30 years, so sold a lot and a hell of a lot of rare bits
One of them i do regret, which isnt a great bike, or even good for that matter, but one I found in cash converters brand new was a Marin Quake 9.0 FSR
The reason i regret it is because i found it new in 2014, so had sat somewhere (possibly in its box) for 16 years.
I parted it out 🙁 all the top spec of that era all shiny and new, right down to the skinwall tyres.
Regret selling my dialled bikes alpine mk3, to fund a full suspension build regretted and never found another since! 😩
Regret selling my dialled bikes alpine mk3
I liked my Dialled Alpine, but *loved* my Prince Albert.
I do regret selling that, and I thought the Alpine would be even betterer, but I never really clicked with it ☹️ it was partly why I bought a 2nd hand Love Hate, as the geo was basically the same as the PA.
how long do you have.......
rock lobster 853.
bontrager privateer.
jones plus 29
ventana el capitan
singular swift
and many many more.
Also have pangs of regret about passing up stuff when it came up for sale, notably a Giant DH team that Gee Atherton had put on eBay, and a Lahar M9.
My Evil Offering. Loved that but was too concerned about it breaking. 160 for and a coil on the back. If they did a mullet version…….
I have never been very good at selling bikes and I now have a garage full of old frames that will probably never get used again, this thread has made me wonder what they would ride like compared to a more modern bike
Not regretted selling any mountain bikes as generally the tech, geo etc has always meant the newer bike was nicer to ride.
Do regret selling my all city sparkle horse. Let it go for silly money, can’t afford to replace it with anything and it would be well used by me these days.
I wish I still had my Nickel Plated Orange P7 but one in one out finances meant it had to go. I keep looking but I haven’t found one I liked enough to buy a replacement as a project. It would be an ornament now any way since old age and health have me on an ebike these days
There's two, the first GT Fury Carbon. This was one of the spare Atherton team frames. Bloody loved that bike.
The second was this Spesh Demo, a TLD version, the paint job was divine.
Charge Cooker SS
Easily as good (maybe even better) than the Singular Swift, certainly better than the El Mariachi. What made it even nicer was it wasn't suspension corrected, there wasn't that ugly 100mm gap between the fork and the tyre. A decent EBB. Nice neat and tidy frame details and dropouts. I really should just have chucked a slightly higher gear on it and used it for gravel.
86 Hutch Trickstar, and Hoffman Taj.
No regrets selling any of my old bikes as I've always replaced them with something better or more up to date.
That's not to say I don't have fond memories of old bikes though, most notably my old SX Trail. You could chuck it off or down anything and still pedal it back up for more.
I wish I still had my Nickel Plated Orange P7 but one in one out finances meant it had to go. I keep looking but I haven’t found one I liked enough to buy a replacement as a project. It would be an ornament now any way since old age and health have me on an ebike these days
If you put a wanted ad up on Retrobike I'm sure you'd have a few offers. Plenty of nice ones still about.