[Closed] Bikes you want (or wanted) but never got round to buying?

santa cruz v10

Loads as a teenager!

Klien
Fat Chance
San Andrias
Just about anything in the old Freewheel catalogue
Those Tioga disk back wheels

A few now,
Just about anything by Ritchey

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I really wanted one of these, just for dossing about on...

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Couldn't really justify it to myself. Still fancy one....

I wanted an evil sovereign, santa cruz vpp dh bike, a ti road bike, cervelo r5. All an investment too far given they would be crashed or sold on when the next fad came along.

Curly Hetchins

Pink 224 Evo- had done a deal on one, even bought the pink stickers for the boxxers, but it never materialised 🙁 Got a blue one now but it's not the same!

GT 24" pro cruiser

Fancied a second hand bike off Hora. If only he got rid of bikes more often 🙁

Lusted after one of these in times gone by, in fact I still do.

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Raleigh Burner

Santa Cruz Jackal, earlier type with the humpback top tube in shiny. Never had a jump bike as could never justify it due to my nads being normal size. Just a sweet and different looking bike.

Raleigh Super Burner (the gold one). I now have one, so all is good

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always wanted a kona lava dome

but could only afford a hahanna still lovely bike sadly was nicked

I now have 2 lava domes:-)

Never mind "didn't get round to buying"- i could never afford it.

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Still can't 🙁

And that San Andreas up there ^^^^

Bad, bad thread - found a San Andreas on ebay.

"step back from the laptop and put the credit card down!!"

This...

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EDIT: Is that San Andreas actually a good bike? It looks nasty. 😉

Actually, unklehomered +1 on the Trek

Hated my San An, after spending a year building it up.
+1 on the Pace, also really wanted a GT Lobo, the later carbon K2/Pro Flex and I wish I'd bought the Intense M1 a friend mugged off dirt cheap.

tomhoward - Member

GT 24" pro cruiser

Same here. Bought myself one in a moment of madness a few years back too. Seriously the wrong side of 30 to get the most out of it though. Oh well. It was fun! 😀

EBB Ti inbred

Had my finger over the buy it now option, all those years ago and balls it, regret it now 😉

No idea why but the idea of a bike that looks like a Zundapp really appeals.

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I actually had one, it came in the box instead of my Meta AM. I got to hold it and look at it. Then I had to send it back, momentarily very confused.

[quote=unklehomered]"**** me this is heavy, hey I've got a coil shock, sweet, no wait do I mean that, maybe I'd prefer one? Bugger me that is a slack angle, oh wait hang on here just one moment..."

And with a pair fox 32s to put on the front of it... 😆

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Always liked the look of these. Waaay more bike than I could do justice though.

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Edit: Foes FXR btw

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Prob never happen 🙁

Harry Halls in manchester as a kid had the Klien range.... always made a visit to see lol 🙂

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GT Lobo, oh yeah

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I always wanted one of those Pace frames too.

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More recently a Cotic Soda - they stopped making them just as I was getting the funds together - GRRRR!

Currently lusting after a 29er full carbon XC race rig - 'Dale flash is the favourite or a Canyon. Full carbon Turner got the pulse up too!

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I rode one on a demo day - I lost my full suss cherry to it and never got around to buying one.

...dialledbikes KOBE TI...

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I saw a kid ride past on a Raleigh Team Burner when I was a kid and it was like I'd just seen Jesus.

Thebeard!

Do you still want a Soda, I have one I'm willing to part with. Medium size. Need to reduce the fleet.

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^^ This

Is the saddle a lot closer to the camera than the rest of the bike?

@MT

Sorry, but at 6'2" I'd need a large! Thanks for the offer though!

An original pace. Rigid forks, Bullseye cranks, Magura's please! I used to race one that belonged to a mate. Great bike

Or a Funk. They looked fantastic.

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*Droooooool*

CaptainFlashheart - Member
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*Droooooool*

Are you sure? It's not grey. 😕

😉

I rode them a lot, BITD. Loaners from Scott Towers. Just wish I could have persuaded them to leave one with me, especially in that exact spec.

Really wanted but pockets weren't deep enough. Those tubes just looked really massive in the early 90s.

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Klein Mantra, they looked ace, Orange UFO, My LBS had one in the window for ages..dammit....when I was young always wanted a Grifter, ended up with a Chopper..(no s****ing..)

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And I really want one of these!
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As an 80s kid, I longed for this bad boy:

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Momentarily felt good that i own two of the bikes on the thread, then realised that them must be both out of date timed-out models 🙁

CaptainFlashheart - Member
Are you sure? It's not grey.

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Night burner

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Chrome Burner -

when I grew up though I wanted one of these

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Both of mine are very old school,

Alpinestars Al-Mega XT

And one of those Whyte PRST-1 thingys with the BMW-esque front ends on it.

I suspect I would be disappointed by both.

Always wanted a T1 Barcode bmx, or an S&M Dirtbike. MTB wise I've always loved Bottlerockets. Got a Scott Voltage which seems close enough without the stupid price tag 🙂

A particularly nice example of a Barcode 😀

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Whyte 19 Carbon (or a Whyte 20 C).

I always wanted one of these:
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But ended up getting this instead (will get an M1 one day just to hang on the wall!):
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In fact, just looking at Google Images for Tomac 204 Magnums has made me want another as well! That was a flippin bonkers bike. Weighed a tonne but brilliant!

Schwinn straight 8.

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Bimota SB6, one day maybe 😉

Salsa Juan Solo.
Reissued shiny silver zaskar.
Yeti arc x, or indeed that sc cross bike (?crux?)
as above/page before, trek 69er singlespeed in rootbeer with duc32's
Foes xct5

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mate had one of those recently.... bought from a thrift shop in Munich for about 60€... sold for 300+

PRST-1
Orange 5 or Five
Couldn't justify (too tight) the expense.

Wanted this

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Got this

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it's all been downhill since then

Loads....

1998 Spesh FSR Extreme (lime green thing with Judy XL's)
Cannondale Super V Freeride (I had an SV500, but the freeride was so much cooler)
1997 Kona Lava Dome
Any of the high end Cannondale hardtails from '97
Santa Cruz Bullitt
2005 Kona Stab (I know they wetent great but that paint job was ace)
Specialzed FSR DH like Palmer had

Sure there's many more too!

How much do Burners go for?

I always wanted:
GT Dhi
Specialized Demo 9
Spooky Metal Head
Intense Tazer
Orange 222

Another I always wanted was the Standard Trail Boss, back when I spent all weekend at the jump trails on my XC Trek MTB 😆

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^That's well nice. BMXes always look so much better than MTBs!

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................yet.

Toxicsoks you really are converted aren't you? 🙂

Me, I've always hankered after a 5 spot.

Yeti Ultimate

or a Trimble......

Remember looking at these longingly in Dales bike shop.
No idea if they are any good but they looked so good...
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Orange P7. They just look so right, though they seem to do nothing spectacularly well.

Specialized Epic (2005/2006 ish). AGain, just based on looks.

Of course, both have now been superseded on account of the wheels being too small.

soma_rich
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I had one of those 😉

Dales in Glasgow had an absolutely gorgeous Klein when I was a kid - deep metallic red, with matching tyres. I lusted after it, kept going to see it - it got dustier and dustier and moved further back in the shop, then one day it was gone...

A mate had a San Andreas when I was about 15 and I wanted one as well, but just couldn't justify it since I really only rode XC

I wanted a Rocky Mountain ETS-X for years, when I got round to buying a new-new bike (as opposed to just a frame and build) I ended up with a Trek Fuel EX 'cause I didn't want to spend the same money on the lowest-spec ETS.

Then D45yth from these parts put up a fame and fork at a price I liked, so now I own one. And it's flamey-patterned. And I loves it. 🙂

I wanted one of these so much. Obviously in the eye of the beholder but I think it's the best geared bike I've ever seen.

One day.
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Transition tr250. One day, when I can afford it :-O

I came very close to buying one of these before I got my meta... I'd still have one in a shot if I won the lottery, for my Leno like bike stable. Many afternoons spent staring at the pictures.

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Kryton57 - Member
Toxicsoks you really are converted aren't you?

Me, I've always hankered after a 5 spot.

Not so much a conversion, more of a lean-to, tbh.
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MTB-wise I always fancied one o'these.

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