[Closed] How few bikes have you had in the past 20 years?

20. Which is bonkers. Still have 12 of them although 3 are just frames and one of them is cracked.

😳 19.

4 in the last 20 years, 6 in my life ever.

Raleigh Boxer
Apollo Blizzard
GT something
Kona Caldera
Genesis Day One Cross
Bird Zero

Still got the last 2.

In purchased order ...

1998/9 Marin Nail Trail
2004 Marin East Peak
2006 Giant XTC Comp
2010 Whyte 19
2011 Orange Five
2009 Felt Breed (secondhand)
2009 Niner EMD (secondhand)
2014 Stanton Sherpa

Only the Sherpa remains.

Nick

15

Raleigh something
Stumpjumper
Rockhopper
BadBoy
Flat bar hybrid
rock lobster 853
Jake the snake
Enduro
5
CDF
Defy Comp
Dolan precursa
Soul
CDF 30
Anthem SX

Still got the last 5

Scary when written down 😳

5.

Fleet HT, still got.
Stumpy FS.
Merida FS.
Orange 5, still got.
Road bike, still got.

6

Specialized Hardrock
Giant XTC
Giant Anthem X29. Still got
Felt f95 still got
Felt QX70. Still got
Planet X Pro Carbon. Still got

*mamadirt to the forum please, paging mamadirt*

1995-2005 Trek 950 - bought new in about 1991

2005 - present day, way too many to think about making a list

6

Viper B-52 Bomber Pro
2001 Coyote Dual Slalom
2001 Coyote HT-5 (still got)
2006 Santa Cruz Heckler
2012 Cove Stiffee (still got)
2012 Trek Remedy (still got)

None were complete bikes, only the HT-5 and the Stiffee were new frames. Parts were a mix of new and second hand.

6

Hmmm, I know I've not had many.

'95 diamond back topanga,
'98 Orange o2 (still got it),
'99 Orange Msisle,
'13 On one C456,
'13 Boardman Cx team,
'14 Santa cruz bronson C (still got),
'14 Specialized roubaix sport,
'14 Kinesis crosslight pro 6 (still got).

Couple more than I thought and three still owned and in working order, although the old orange is just used on the turbo now. Think I could do with a new hardtail 😉

4

1995 kilauea - still got- lovely rigid flyer
2005 Kona sutra - sold- bit heavy
2010 Orange crush- just retired for a bit- it will live again
2015 Arknose 2 - green hack- great bike

although , I have heard reliably that I may pick up a Segment tommoz- so then 5 🙂

Carrera, can't remember the model, about 1994 ish.
About ten years off then
2003 carrera lrs2, snapped the rear swingarm.
Carrera vanquish road bike, think about 2005. Still got and use it.
Be one full sus, can't remember the model. Didn't have it long, the seat tube snapped coming down whites level.
2009 Cove hand job, great bike, sold last year
2010 Boardman pro fs. Still got it, don't use it though.
2013 specialized stumpjumper evo comp.

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Last complete bike was 1991 - Raleigh Mirage, then a succession of Trigger's brooms
1993 - Heff's Bike shop aluminium thing like an Alpinestars Al-Mega (new)
1999 - Coyote F2 (new)
2002 - Kona NuNu (2nd hand)
2008 - Carrera Vulcan(2nd hand)
2009 - Spesh Rockhopper FSR (2nd hand)
2013 - Spesh FSRxc 2nd hand)
2015 - Banshee Spitfire (new)

Got given a hardtail and a rigid retro Trek so not including them.

Old peugeot mtb with suspension forks! (they did not really ever work but the bike took a long time to die. Bought in about 1990)
Some kinda very cheap awful mtb (circa 2000. Was stolen, the joke is on the thief lol)
Voodoo hoodoo (the wheels and drive train did not last long but it got me into mountain biking. I've given the frame to a neighbour)
Canyon Nerve 9.9 (killed by car)
Mekk Poggio 1.5 (sold as I didn't use it much)
Genesis Croix De Fer (Current commuter, I like)
Commencal Meta V4 trail (replacement for the canyon and more fun)

Oddly enough you can track my wage financial health

92 Saracen Tufftrax. Sold when I graduated because I was very skint.

94 Kona AA, bought with student loan, had front suspension. Now owned by brother in law, bit of a triggers broom.

08 Genesis 20. Still in use mostly as tow truck for trailer in forest.

05 stump jumper fsr, bought second hand on here to try out FS, love it and am aiming at a newer replacement sometime.

11 Whyte Kings Cross. Bought when kids arrived as easier to ride from home. Prob most used, school run, evening hacks etc.

A BSO that took me a year to kill
1997 Rockhopper A1 FS til it cracked in 07
(^did go missing for 9 months in 2000, my old man gave me his scott which promptly had the wheels stolen and a shopping trolley dumped on it)
2009 rockhopper expert, stolen after 9 months
Merlin frankenbike commuter (mostly built from bits of dead 97 rockhopper, rebuilt for a friend and then some tool decided to take a set of golf clubs to it in his basement)
2011 Voodoo Wanga (now just a frame and fork)
2012 Spesh Crosstrails (very worn - dismantled)
2013 Heckler (built from frame- most parts donated by the wanga)
2014 Ramin (built from frame)

Giant something
GT Avalanche
Titus El Guapo
Cube Acid 29

Lots...
Marin Nail Trail (2001)
Cannondale Super V 700 (2001)
Trek 6700 (2003)
Cove Stiffee x 2
Cove Handjob (2009)
Kinesis decade Virsa (2011)
Currently - Rose Granite Chief (2010)
Cotic BFE (2013) 😆

Not quite sure on the year but had 2 GT RTS-3's. Both shit, don't know why I bought the 2nd.

1999 -Trek 7000 - nicked.

2000 - Cannondale F700 - broke in 2004

2004 - Cannondale HT warranty replacement - still got

2008 - Commencal Meta 5.5XT - Broke

2009 - Commencal Meta 5.5 - Replacement for above, broke

2010 - Commencal Meta 5.5 - Replacement for above, sold

2010 - Turner 5 Spot - Sold

2012 - Lapierre Zesty 714- Sold

2012 - Cannondale CAAD8 105 - Still got

2014 - Transition Covert - Still got

2015 - Cotic Soul 275 - not quite built yet

A few more than I thought but most have fallen apart before I fell out of love with them.

I got to reminiscing...

1997-2001ish Carrera Mission 21speed then, in (rough) purchase order
01 Azonic DS Evo
99 Kona stinky
04 Apollo vortice BMX
04 Corona branded full suss BSO
05 Specialized demo 8
08 Specialized SX trail II
06? GT IT1
05? Orange Hitman
09 Intense Slopestyle
03-05? On One inbred SS
13 Trek 1.5 (still got)
04 GT pro series 24 cruiser
13 Trek Madone 5.2 (still got)
14 Santa Cruz 5010C (still got)
14 Santa Cruz Nomad Mk3 (still got)
15 Specialized fatboy pro (still got)
NOS 13/14 Santa Cruz chameleon (still got)

Oops, 18.

MTB's
1996 Specialized Hardrock
2000 Scott Yecora
2002 GT Tempest
2006 Mongoose Teocali
2008 Specialized Enduro
2012 Nicolai Helius
2014 Orange Gyro (still got)
2014 Surly Karate Monkey (still got)

Plus 🙄

Genesis Croix de Fer
Cannondale Caad 8
Specialized Singlecross
Ribble Gran Fondo (still got)

I think I've still got every bike or bike part that I've ever owned 😯

2009? - Raleigh Freeride (it's now my mum's MTB)
2011 - Specialized Hardrock Pro (BB threads died so it's hanging on the shed wall)
2011 - Merlin Maven road bike (now stripped down and ready to go to the powdercoaters to give it a paintjob to disguise it's age/poor quality)
2012 - On One Whippet (still use it as a SS commuter from time to time)
2012 - Saracen Amplitude Cr1 (now a brakeless lake jump bike)
2013 - Canyon Grand Canyon CF SLX 29 8.9 (now a (shamefully expensive) winter bike)
2013 - Raleigh Mountain Lite 1984 (now a SSCX, and an awesome one it is too)
2014 - Singular Swift (now set up SS, although had gears on it for the winter races)
2014 - Revell Throttle (still the good jump bike, no lake jumps for this one)
2014 - Dawes Atlantis 1982 (been repainted in gloss black/nickel flecks and is the SS cafe ride bike)
2015 - Niner Air 9 RDO (the race bike for this year, courtesy of Bikesoup Test Team)

So 11 bikes in 6 years, 9 of which I'm still riding, with another 2 coming soon(only to review though 🙁 ), do I have a problem? Is there any such thing as bike rehab?

Mountain biking for me started on a 23" Raleigh Massiff then
- Carerra STX (Stolen in Edinburgh so back to the Raleigh until it was nicked in Edinburgh to.)
- Saracen Tuff Trax with LX & Ritchey and upgraded to XT
- GT XCR 4000 (with XT then newer XT)
- Carrera Kraken (with the GT's old XT)
- GT Aggressor (with the Carerra's XT)
- 2008 Specialized Stumpjumper FSR (with the GT XCR's XT)
- 1998 Saracen Kili Team (with the Aggressor's old XT)
- 2010 Mondraker Foxy RR (with all new bling)
- 2011 Saracen Kili Flyer

and 3 Road bikes appeared somewhere in there aswell. 13 in 30 odd years. Hell that's way better than the almost ex missus claims!

22 that I can remember.

[i]waves[/i]

I can't possibly tell you 😳

Bloody millions. But I do still have the very first real mountain bike I ever owned, 25 years old so that probably cancels out all the ones I owned for 17 minutes, right?

a nondescript HT in the 90's
Orange EVO 2 - snapped
Spec S Works Enduro 04 - Snapped
Kinesis pha5e - given away
06 Heckler - scrapped before it snapped
09 Heckler - given away
OnOne 456 - sat in store room
09 Spec Allez - still ridden
SC Blur LTc2 still in use
Rocky Mtn Element - in use
Commencal Supreme DH2 - in use

only 11, though I did,t really ride properly till 03

Carrera something - stolen
Carrera something else - hung on a while
Kona Fire Mountain - 1st proper MTB
Kona Lava Dome - no actual improvement over the Fire Mountain
GT BMX (briefly) - WTF? srsly?
Kona A'ha - love at first sight
Trek VRX200 - worst bike EVER
Kinesis Maxlight XC - possibly best bike ever - lavished upgrades on it
Raleigh road bike - OK
Carrera road bike - OK
Condor Italia road bike - awesome - kept for nearly 10 years
On One Inbred SS - OK
On One Inbred geared - OK
(another) Kona A'ha - ripped off on eBay, Xtracycle conversion
Pace RC303 - Better than an Inbred
Surly Big Dummy - Amazeballs
Brompton - folds up
Chromag Samurai - rad as hell
Surly Karate Monkey - came at a bad time
Trek Remedy - didn't love
Cotic Solaris - brill.i.ant
Salsa Vaya - never gelled
Chromag Samurai65 - lovelovelove
Whyte Suffolk - emigration forced early sale

That's 23 in 18 years. There are a couple of big changeover points:

- moving to London and getting into road riding
- having spare money for the first time
- trying to get down to 1 MTB and 1 road bike
- moving to Hong Kong and getting rid of almost everything

The only one I still have is the Chromag Samurai65. Big Dummy and Brompton out of indefinite loan. Konas still with members of my family.

1988 dawes ascent
1992 marin eldridge grade
1992-3 raleigh elan road bike
1994 specialized stumpjumper m2 ht with direct drive fork and first gen xtr groupset

2002 cannondale F800 with lefty fork
2004-5 mongoose fireball
2007 specialized stumpjumper fsr comp
2008 specialized s works carbon ht frame
2010 specialized stumpjumper fsr comp 140mm
2010 giant anthem x2
2011 charge duster mid (still have/my only bike currently)
2013 specialized tarmac sport road bike.

that's it (for now 🙂

I've had six, five of which I still have.Four of those are still regularly used except none recently as I crashed on one and have broken bones and severed tendons in my right hand.
1995-Raleigh 'Max' bought to get to work on when I was living without a car
2004- Marin EastPeak sold after I bought a
2005- Orange Five
2005- Trek SLR bought (second hand in 2009) components upgraded over time
2010- Avanti 'Kiss' Singlespeed 29er
2014- Kona 'Sutra' bought to fulfill some touring dreams (Well! I do live in New Zealand)

5 1/2
Pre-1985 too many and then stopped cycling
Tandem (the 1/2, or is that two) and five others, although I generally only keep two or three at any one time (two currently)

12

5. A Raleigh steel framed thing my Bro gave me as transport when I came back to England. A Giant Escape hybrid. A Cannondale Trigger 1. A Whyte Shoreditch. A Cannondale Bad Boy. I still have the last 3.

Only been riding ten years but I'm now on bike number 7 😳

2004 Claud Butler Cape Wraith. Off the shelf. Great starter bike, brakes were shite, fork was average but it was great fun to fun to ride!

2006 Kinesis Maxlight XC120. First custom build absolutely loved this thing and could never bring myself to part with it. Very dated these days but still have the frame in the loft ready to hang in a future man cave.

2011 Ibis Mojo HD140. First Susser. Awesome. Brilliant. Kinda regret moving it on to fund bike #7

2012 On One 456 carbon. Replaced the Maxlight frame and moved the parts over fun over a short ride but never bonded with it. Sold the frame after 18 months.

2013 Stanton Slackline 631. Didn't last long, gutted as it had massive potential.

2013 Cotic BFe. Possibly the most fun HT I've owned. Looks awesome, rides brilliantly and is cool as hell. Don't ride it as much as I should really.

2015 Mondraker Foxy Carbon XR SE. Second carbon full sus and first off the shelf bike since 2004. Didn't stay off the shelf for long though. Complete game changer of a bike. Best of the lot? Quite possibly.

Four.

Scot FSR-2 An early DH rig: big heavy and lumbering like its owner
Orange EVO-2: A sprightly HT
Marin Mt Vision: the 2005 edition I think
Cotic Solaris.

Only ever had 5 road bikes in 50+ years.

after the childhood Raleighs i had these starting in about 1998

(underlined ones have pics)

Raleigh M-Trax
GT Zaskar LE
Kona Chute - Stolen
Generic Aluminium Jump Frame
[url= http://www.pinkbike.com/photo/115247/ ]On-One Gimp
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On-One Inbred
[url= http://www.pinkbike.com/photo/36807/ ]On-One 24" Cruiser
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On-One Trails Bike
Planet-X Jack Flash
[url= http://www.pinkbike.com/photo/114140/ ]Azonic DS-2
[/url]Orange Patriot
[url= http://www.pinkbike.com/photo/451956/ ]Turner DHR
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[url= http://www.pinkbike.com/photo/493212/ ]Orange 222
[/url]Cannondale Chase
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Cannondale Prophet 4x
[url= ]Yeti 575
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[url= ]Santa Cruz Blur XC Carbon
[/url][url= ]Cannondale Scalpel
[/url]Planet-X Pro Carbon
[url= ]Planet-X Cragg Vale
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[url= ]Merida Scultura
[/url][url= ]Cannondale Supersix Hi-Mod
[/url][url= ]Santa Cruz Blur LTC
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[url= ]Santa Cruz TallboyC
[/url][url= ]Santa Cruz Highball
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[url= ]Surly Krampus[/url]

Some Dawes mtb, which I bent the forks on after a week.
Emmelle mtb, I forget the name of
Scott 7005 aluminium
Dave Yates Diabolo with specialized future shock (my first suss fork!)
1999 specialized stumpjumper FSR XC Comp - dads still got it
2008 Trek Fuel Ex7
2015 Canyon a Spectral 7EX

since 1990 i ve had from new

a '90 dx clockwork orange, 150mm 0 degrees rise stem, fitted spd and rockshocks as they were released bought from stif when it was still a lock up in a back street selling boards..rode NEMBA 90 and 91 on it
a '02 spesh enduro from that shop in bury over iceland
a '12 five pro all the trimmings from shop by the walls in York

still got them all rarely ride but putting some f20's on the 5 for summer.

Not sure if I had my Rockhopper 20 years ago, I might have just bought my Rocklobster frame.

Going from 1994 'cause I know I had my Rockhopper then:
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1994 Rockhopper (complete bike)
1995 RockLobster (frame only)
1998 Orange X2 (frame only)
2001 Stumpjumper FSR comp (complete bike, insurance payout)
2009 Stumpjumper FSR elite (2nd hand frame only)
2011 SC Heckler (2nd hand frame only)
2011 RockLobster (frame only)
2013 Cotic Soul (2nd hand frame only)
2014 Banshee Rune (frame only)

My '94 Rockhopper (and a 1988 Giant Sierra) are the only complete bikes I've ever bought.

Started off with a few Emmelle bikes but my first MTB of note was...
Trek 920. I cracked the frame so they gave me a...
Trek 930. I cracked this frame too so they gave me a...
Trek 6800. This is still in use by my dad as his MTB. it's not a bad bike but I'd always craved a steel Orange bike and so bought a...
Orange P7. 2007 vintage, this was and still is my only MTB. Next came the draw of the road, my first bike of this kind being a...
Orbea Aqua. I liked it a lot but cracked it so was given another...
Orbea Aqua. Which I still have, still love and currently use as my summer commuter/winter Sunday bike. I needed something practical though so bought a...
Kona MinUte. I now do all my shopping and most of my pootling on this, so much so that it was a big driver in selling my car. Next up I fancied a road bike so got a...
Planet-X Kaffenback. My most versatile bike but dull as dish water, mainly used as a winter commuter now but soon to be moved to CX duties. Next I fancied a fast roadbike so bought a...
Sensa Guilia. And it really is fast, I adore guys bike, it's bloody awesome.

So 9 then, 6 of which are still in use. That's not too bad that.

5 (1988 - to now...)

Cannondale SM1000 (the teenage, cherry popping, xc racing years)
Cannondale M1000 (the art school, inactive and beer belly years)
Stumpjumper Carbon Expert (the getting my shite back together years)
Kona Unit (the single speed experiment)
Jones Ti Spaceframe (the destination)

Probably not few enough as it took two mugs of strong coffee to remember (including pub bikes and curios)

Carlton Criterium (custom build) 😀
Dawes Tracker (a) 😀
Specialized Rockhopper (custom) 😀
1936 Police bike 😀
M-trax 1500
Kona Cinder Cone (custom) 😀
Diamondback V-Link 1.0 😀
Rocky Mountain Thin Air
Rocky Mountain Vertex (build) 😀
Giant XTC Team NRS (build)
Sunn Roader
Universal Folder
Daewoo Shuttle 😯
Raleigh X1 🙁
Club Roost XC4
Pashley PDQ 😯
Dawes Tracker (b) 😯
Dawes Galaxy Tour
Cannondale F500 (a) 😀
Cannondale F900SL
Marin B-17 (AXC)
Dahon Mu P8
Raleigh Apex
Kona Ute 😀
Batavus Personal Bike 😀
Gary Fisher Big Sur 😀
Kinesis Maxlight 😀
M-Trax 150 (custom)
Kona Lava Dome
Saracen Rufftrax
Raleigh Stowaway
Raleigh Twenty
Genesis Core 20
Cannondale F500 (b) 😀
Dahon Speed D7
British Eagle Touristique 531ST (under evaluation)

As indicated - have been happy with many, some surprisingly so. Some not so much.

- and a Charge Mixer (Alfine), nearly forgot. We didnt get along at all - imo looked great and business-like for the commute - but 30lb weight with a brick-weight rear hub that loved potholes like an anchor loves the ocean floor? Bah. I wanted to like it, I really did.

Spesh Rockhopper Comp
Hoffman Condor
Raleigh Torrus Ti
Klein Pulse
Hoffman Taj
Trek VRX 300
Dragonfly DFX
Santa Cruz Chameleon
Trek Fuel
Norco Team XC
Santa Cruz Blur
Kona Cindercone cut and shut SS
Ridgeback Classic Hack Commuter
Turner 5 Spot HL
Gary Fisher Rig
Bontrager Warthog
Genesis IO SS
Gary Fisher 29er HiFi PRO
Gary Fisher Roscoe
Gary Fisher Superfly SS
Cannondale Badboy
Gary Fisher Rumblefish
Bontrager B29 Cruiser
Genesis Day One SS Disc
Kona Honzo
BSD Trailorpark
Genesis Fortitude
Salsa Horsethief SP
BSD Forever
Zealous Division
Genesis High Latitude SS

Think that's it.
Still got quite a few of them

[url= http://pickled-hedgehog.com/?p=2868 ]How long have you got... ?[/url]

That was over two years ago so obviously things have changed a bit!

Sold the Solaris and the Rocket
Bough and sold a Nukeproof Mega AM

and bought and still have
PYGA 29-oneten
Bird Aeris

I'm done now tho. So I keep telling myself...

10 by my count (11 in total for my 22yrs of mtb-ing). That includes 2 sub-£100 rat bikes that I had for commuting and which were subsequently stolen. 7 have been nice mtbs, and one cheapie SSCX, and I currently still own 4 of them.

2 or 3 for me (as a main mountain bike, At least 6 commuters)
1990 Saracen Ltd edition bought new
2002 A 1997 spesh ground control
The spesh is a bit triggers broom in that every part has been replaced including a 'new' stumpjumper frame so I'll concede that it is a 3rd bike.

I am thinking about a new one but with upgrades and tweaks I've got it riding just how I like.

6. One was stolen but I've still got the rest, although 2 are basically just tired frames with a few bits on.

Last one was bought in 2013, and it'll probably be a few more years before there's another new one.

GT Outpost, GT Vertigo, KHE Catweasle, DK General Lee, Giant Boulder Alu, Diamond Back something-or-other, GT Chucker, Diamond Back Overdrive, Sunn Tzar (Al frame), DMR Exalt, 1994 GT Performer, 1998 GT Performer, Kona Stinky and now Sunn Tzar (CrMo frame) + Commencal Absolut CrMo + GT Pro Series XL + DK General Lee 24 + GT Fueler.

Dunno really. 18-ish? Ish. Only four decent MTBs though and those were built from parts apart from the ally frame Tzar.

Raleigh Kellogg's pro tour
Giant peloton
Kastle mtb
Proflex 857
Trek hard tail
Marin mt vision
Marin team dh
Another Marin team dh
Atomic ds1
Planet X jack flash
Trek BMX
Giant BMX
Santa Cruz bullit
Santa crux super 8
Cants Cruz chameleon
Giant team dh
Kinesis xc hard tail
Santa Cruz heckler
Trek hard tail
Intense Uzi vpx
Trek madone carbon
Another Kinesis xc hard tail
Trek EX8
Look fixie
Trek remedy
Ragley td1
Bsa 1938 butchers bike
Viking 531 road bike from the 1970s
Genesis day one 853 disc singlespeed
Genesis volant
Genesis zero
Saracen Kili 12x
Saracen BMX
Genesis volare (coming soon)

Most of us have something that could realistically be called "a Problem", don't we?

😀

Sunn Cross
DDG Axis
Kona Smoke
Pipedream Sirius (still got frame)
Cannondale Prophet
Planet X Kaffenbak (still got)
Cotic Bfe (still got frame)
Surly Big Dummy (just built)
Genesis Grapil (just built)

Surly Big Dummy (just built)

PICTURES PLEASE!!!! That's allowed its own thread. 🙂

one.

a 1996 cindercone - 1999 cindercone - 2002 cove handjob - 2005 inbred 456 - 2007 cotic soul - 2013 cotic soul.

all been the same bike. just different iterations thereof.

From 2005:

1. Rocky Mountain ETSX
2. Santa Cruz Chameleon
3. Orange P7 SS
4. Airborne Lucky Strike SS (r3)
5. Ibis Mojo (r1)
6. Cove Hummer (r2)
7. Cotic Soda (r6)
8. Ti456 (r7)
9. Independent Fabrication (r8)
10. Klein Attitude
11. Genesis Aether
12. Litespeed Sienna (r11)
13. On-one Ti 29er
14. Salsa Mamsita 29er
15. Kona Band Wagon
16. Genesis Croix De Fer
17. Singular Pegasus 29er (r14)
18. On One Pompetamine 11
19. Genesis Day One Alfine 11 (r18)
20. Singular Pegasus 29er V2 (r17)
21. Singular Pegasus 29er V2 Singlespeed (r13)
22. On One Pickenflick (r16)
23. Klein Attitude (another)
24. Niner RLT9 (r19)

Damn, that's a lot of time money and effort...

since 1997:

[s]Scott Boulder - nicked[/s]
used GT zaskar - still got frame. Will become commuter this summer
[i][used Cove Stiffee frame - still got it, mate uses it][/i]
[i][SC Bullitt frame - still got, never ride][/i]
[b]Airborne Carpe Diem (cx) frame - winter/wet road bike[/b]
[i][Giant Trance - still got frame in garage][/i]
[s]Planet-X pro carbon frame - sold[/s]
[i][On-One Scandal 26er frame - still here, now unused][/i]
[i][Planet-X pro carbon frame - bigger than the last one. Bit too big 😳 🙄 still here][/i]
[b]Giant Trance-X frame - summer mtb[/b]
[b]used Foldy bike - ss, brand unkown - still used[/b]
[b]Salsa Mukluk frame - winter SS 29er (no fat wheels, yet)[/b]
[b]Scott Foil frame - summer road bike [/b]

(and a BMX in the garage somewhere - virtually never ridden (was my failed attempt not to buy a folding bike))

In the last 20?

GT Zaskar LE
Gazelle World Trophy CX
Klein Pulse Pro
Cove Stiffee 69er
Genesis Io SS
Genesis Fortitude SS

Quite a modest 13 for me (MTBs only), Cannondale was a hand me down from my Dad when I was 12 which got me into riding, didn't really get into mountain biking properly until I got the Stumpjumper

1994 Cannondale M500
1999 Stumpjumper hardtail
2001 Trek 9.8
2001 S-Works FSR
2005 Titus Racer-X
2006 S-Works carbon hardtail
2007 S-Works Epic
2007 Trek Fuel Ex 9.5
2008 S-Works Epic
2009 S-Works Epic
2010 Top Fuel 9.9
2011 Top Fuel 9.9
2014 Superfly 9.8

Reckon I win an award for the least variety 😳

5 S-Works
5 carbon Treks
3 assorted 'other'!

Carrera B52 (stolen)
Proflex Animal
Specialized Stumpjumper Hardtail (Stolen)
Foes FXC
Edit; Forgot one...Pastey Howler.
Cove Hummer
Nicolai Helius
O-O Inbred SS
Santa Cruz Chameleon
PP Shan
Cotic Bfe
Yeti ARS5C

Not as bad as a lot of you...

Muddy fox rock and roll
Haro something
Merlin hardtail
On one inbred 18"
On one inbred 20"
on one 456 18"
Orange evo 4
Norco fluid
specialized FSR
Airborne liberator
Specialized enduro 2006
specialized pitch 2009
Specialized enduro 2009
Specialized pitch 2010
Specialized stumpjumper 2010
Specialized stumpjumper 2011
Specialized pitch 2011
Specialized stumpjumper 2012
Lapierre zesty 2011
Turner five spot 2009
cotic bfe2012
Turner 5 spot 2010
Carerra subway
Boardman Hybrid
Voodoo bizango 2014
Giant Trance 2015
Genesis Equilibrium 20
Orange 5 29 2014

Erm 28 ...thats more than I thought !!

EDIT 29 ... I forgot the Giant NRS

I've only been riding 10 years, well I rode a bit in the 90s but I had a long break.

2005 GT I-Drive Halfords special, it was actually a late 90's frame wrapped in low end kit. cost £600, spent as much again making it decent - sold it for £150 12 months later.

2006 Enduro Expert - probably the best bike I ever owned, rode it every week for 5 years, cost me £2000, by the time I was done it had had a new fork and shock under warrant, new wheels, new crank, new bars, several seats and drive trains, and a set of chain stays.

2007 Norco A-line, a tank of a bike, weighed more than the moon and I crashed it A LOT, but great fun to ride.

2008 Cove Shocker custom build, went a bit mad speccing it, cost me £5k in the end, brilliant, amazing bike, but I released I hated racing (and still do) so it mostly sat in my living room looking nice - except the odd uplift day or week in the Alps - I actually boxed it up for 2 years after an accident in 2009, pulled it out again in 2011, rode it at Afan (lord knows why) crashed, bashed up my ribs and spent a few weeks in pain - flew to Canada and rode it for a week in Whistler - a sort of homecoming for it. Had the best time, saw my mates on lighter 6" bikes going just a quick - realised I was never going to be a proper downhiller anymore after the accident, also released it was pretty much new even though it was 3 years old now because I never rode it - sold to a chap in Greece - really, really miss it now, especially since BPW opened 30 mins from my house.

2011 Spicy 516 - sold the Enduro and the Shocker to buy it. Have to say, not a great bike - very fast out of the box thanks to the insanely light wheels (for that type of bike) but the open bath damper on the forks was appalling - very inconsistent, the tubeless set-up didn't work and the tyres were terrible (non black chilli contis) so you had a bike that was incredibly fast to accelerate, with no grip and a fork that sometimes worked and sometimes didn't - coupled with the brilliant, but insanely sharp Formula brakes made it a bit of a wild ride. I refused to believe it was anything but perfect though and blamed myself, in the end some scrote nicked it.

2010 Spicy 316, bought with what little money I had from a Roadie who bought it on a whim, rode it once, crashed it and sold it. It only had a single mark on it right on the part of the chain stay where it bends, it looked on the photos like a dent, I'm sure he thought it was a dent, but it wasn't it was just a little mark in the wrong place. It rode better than the newer 516 if anything, but the fork was equally as bad until I worked out the previous guy had turned the rebound so many times past the stop it had snapped the shaft meaning it was like a logo stick - easy £5 fix. Rode that till last summer.

2013 Cove G-Spot, missing the Shocker and always wanting one made be buy a suspiciously cheap G-Spot frame online, it's been repainted cheap and nastily over the original paint, it's got a little dent in the chainstay but it's wonderful - like a mini-shocker, it's pretty heavy but it climbs okay, it's more at home on faster trails, it's a bit too slow to spin up on the slower stuff and it can be a bit frustrating, but given a bit of gravity and space it's a proper hooligan bike. Going to try to lighter tyres soon to try to speed it up a bit.

So, 10 years and if you discount the foray into DH bikes, 4 bikes - my 'cheap first bike' which I think most people have and ditch for a better one soon after and one that got nicked.

i can remember at least 16 of them... 😯

Are we talking MTBs?

last 20 years, that's since 1995.
Discards 1985 Rockhopper
1988 Stumpjumper - then
1998 Stumpjumper M2 (still have)
another 1998 M2 (currently road trying hack bike) (second hand, thanks donald) - still have
1995 Kona Kilaeua (converted dropouts to SS) -- (second hand - thanks dRjOn) still have

4.

NEED TO UPDATE MY SPREADSHEET, MUST BE AROUND 50

Edit Damn CL, 56 since 1987 I think

Forgot about a ratty old muddy fox used for commuting and a Cotic Solaris.

1. '00 Trek 2300 road bike (still got)
2. '05 Trek 6500 hardtail mtb (still got)
3. '98? Specialized Crossroads tour/CX bike (still got)

All in regular use.

4. Only really been riding 10 years though.

Specialised Rockhopper
Giant Reign
BFe
Covert

Still have the 1st, 3rd and 4th. Frame from Reign I must sell, the wheels will go onto the PAC frame I have and forks are on the Covert.

95: Univega Alpina 5.3
98: Cheap aluminium frame thing I built up
99: DMR Trailster
08: Pitch Pro
11: Kona Kula
12: Langster
13: Kona Unit
14: 456 EVO II

CX/gravel/road bike is on the cards next.

[b]1994 - 2005:[/b]
GT Timberline
GT Zaskar
GT LTS
GT STS
[b]2005 - 2011:[/b]
Turner 5 Spot
[b]2011 - Now[/b]
Transition Covert (2010)
On one Inbred 456
On one C456
Nukeproof Mega tr
Transition Covert (2014)
Dialled Alpine

More than I thought!

i had a Trailstar, missed that off my list, had a Sidekick as well 😆

Let's not go there! Less than mamadirt though. 😀

98: Specialized Rockhopper
06: Specialized Stumpjumper FSR Expert
07: Orange Five Pro
11: Brodie Ti Holeshot
12: Yeti ASR5C & Cotic Solaris

New 29er FS will be next...and maybe a second-hand CX/Road bike for pootling/commute.

That I actually used quite a bit?

1989 Saracen Tufftrax.
1990 Orange Clockwork.
1999 GT XCR 4000.
2005 Orange Evo 4.
2006/7 Orange 5 Pro Hope.
2009 Orange 5 AM.

Currently:

2007 Orange Clockwork.
2014 Orange 5 29.

I've had a nasty retrobike habit for a fair few years but to be honest I have not ridden many of them much except the 1993 Orange Clockwork and 1993 Orange Vitamin T I used to have.

Other retro that have passed through include Orange Prestige x2, Orange Aluminium Elite x3, Orange Clockwork/C16 x5, Marin Eldridge, Bear Valley, Pine Mountain (all 1990/1), Diamond Back Ascent EX + Apex, Saracen Tufftrax x3, Kili Racer, Eiger, Orange Aluminium 'O' x2, Raleigh Dynatech, various GT, Ridgeback, Univega......

Currently have a 1990 Marin Pine Mountain, 1989 Saracen Tufftrax, 1992 Orange Elite and 1989 Orange Clockwork in various states of disrepair.

5

one nicked, still got the other 4

Got back into pedal bikes in 2007 but still had my trusty Haro Sport that i got in 1992 so don't know if that counts?

Since '07 i've had...
'07 Marin Wildcat Trail (still in shed - donated to my eldest)
'07 Commencal Supreme 6.3 (sold last year)
'09 DMR Drone (sold last week)
'11 456 Summer Season
'11 Stumpy Evo

17. 😳

12/13

Specialized Rockhopper (complete)
Scott Yecora (complete)
DMR Trailstar Mk2 (built)
DMR Trailstar Mk3 (built)
GT Avalanche (SS pub bike - built)
Kona Stinky (built)
Commencal Mini-DH (built)
Commencal Supernormal (complete)
Trainsition Bottlerocket (built)
Santa Cruz Nomad (complete s/h)
Cotic Bfe (built)
Santa Cruz Blur Ltc (built)
(Stanton Switchback in the pipeline)