Here we go:
1975: Raleigh Record
1992: Diamond Back Sorrento
1994: GT Tequesta
2003: Marin Wolf Ridge (nicked in 2008)
2008: Orange 5 Pro (nicked in 2010)
2011: Orange 5 Pro (nicked in 2023)
2020: Sonder Camino AL Rival 1 (nicked in 2023)
2023: Sonder Camino Ti AXS Rival 1
2023: Orange 5 Pro Evo
I would probably say more than any single individual on here.
Reckon you & @Mamadirt should have a showdown 😉
Without joking I reckon it must be near 50. If not more.
Mamadirt was my role model years ago....... just ace.
Around 10 in 55 years. For last 20 have mostly bought used frames and put them together myself so they have all the parts that I actually want rather than having to change almost every part.
4 I think. A Raleigh Marauder Index (with 18 gears, hell yeah), A Carrera Krakatoa (with a flexstem), a Voodoo cross bike, and my Calibre Dune fatbike. No coincidence they're all under £500 and 3 of them are from halfords!
FunkyDunc
How the hell do people remember what bikes they have had !?!
I've got a list! Created years ago in response to piss-taking from mates about frequency of bike swappage. Not sure it helped my cause and not sure I want to share it at risk of further extracting of the urine...
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Without joking I reckon it must be near 50. If not more.
I'm up to bike #42 and still in my mid-forties 😀
How the hell do people remember what bikes they have had !?!
Quite easily, every penny I earned went on bikes and bike stuff so there’s loads of memories from day trips/weekends away to ride bikes, holidays riding bikes etc. I moved into my council house back in 1993 and lived happily for 6 years with a bike stand and toolbox in living room, bare floorboards, my parents 20yr old 1970s orange velour sofa, small table and a mattress supported by 4 pallets with cardboard boxes for clothes.
Actual complete bikes.
I had a little 24" wheeled Raleigh 10 speed road bike when i was about 10, everything before that was retrieved from the tip and repainted by my dad. Then a Raleigh Quasar at about 13, next actual *bike* was a Trek 970 at 17 then a Steel GT Karakoram when i graduated at 22. (i'd built half a dozen bikes up from new frames and kits of parts through my teens though.)
Next complete new bike was a carbon HT in 2009 in my mid 30s, which i actually dismantled before i rode it, wheels, bars, stem, brakes, rear mech, chainset. Then a carbon FS that i got in 2019 and a road bike last year.
Probably built ~25 bikes between the Karakoram and now. I mean, i've got more bikes in my bike room, ready to ride, than i've ever bought.
And i won a BMX once, does that count?
Only one complete bike - first MTB a 1990 Trek 950, since then mostly 2nd hand apart from 4 (1 Prince Albert & 3 Genesis frames) I've built up from new frames but with some new and some 2nd hand parts.
Makes me realize how staggeringly spoilt I've been, particularly over the last 15 years.
Every bike I've ridden has been new except
2001 loaner of a Giant ATX880 for my first season in Whistler.
2003 purchased ex-rental Kona stab garbanzo,
2006 season loaner of a Banshee chapparal
2016 weekend rental of an Ibis mojo in Sedona.
New bikes.. I don't think I should put a number down.
Here goes
Challenge mtb
Muddy fox explorer
Diamond back axis
Diamond back apex
Diamond back to panga
Fisher tassajara
Fisher hookohekoo
Rock lobster 853
Bontrager privateer
Specialized rock hopper x2
Bridie holes hot
Orange sub zero
Heckler
Fisher big sur
Fisher 29
Kona hoss
Kona hoss deluxe
Saracen eiger
Specialised rock hopper Pro
Halo Mary ss
Halo Mary geared
On one 29
On one 456 green
On one 456 blue
On one summer season
Ragley blue pig
Ragley mm bop
Chumba 29
Ventana el capitan
Surly karate monkey x2
Surly ecr x2
Surly trucker
Surly disc trucker x3
Dawes galaxy
Ridgeback tourer
Genesis tour de fer
Cannonball t2000
Fisher fat possum
Singular swift
Jones plus 29
Salsa fargo
Salsa fargo ti
Kona woo
Spa cycles detour
Trek procaliber
Specialized rockhopper sport.
Kalkoff e bike
Haibike e bike
Specialized tricross
Specialized sirrius
There may be more.
3
2002 Carrera Fury
2011 Specialized Pitch Pro
On-One Fatty
A couple of new frames but built up with s/h or parts bin bits, and quite a few nearly-new bargains. Generally I've bought things 2nd hand and had a succession of triggers broom bikes, buying complete bikes, swapping things I want to keep onto the new one, then selling off the resulting pile of bits.
A puch 10sp racerback in the 70s. An ex demo salsa beargrease a Shand and i just bought a cube ebike
(after realising that every new bike I've ever bought was from a supermarket, I'm pretty sure every new frame and fork I've ever bought was either from On One in a sale or CRC in a sale)
I'm a serial bike changer, clocked up over 60 different bikes in 23 years, but some of the bikes I've had have been either new bikes, or new frames;
1988? peugeot ranger, then a Laser 15 as a warranty replacement, both from Mycycles, Malvern
1991 - 1989 Cannondale SM600 from mycycles in malvern
1996 - Orange E3 frame from Medway Cycle Centre in Chatham
1998 - Gary Fisher Ziggurat from Spokes and Saddles in Malvern
1999 - Cannondale CAAD4 frameset from medway cycle centre, Chatham
2000 - Marin East Peak frame, from Denton Cycles in Newcastle.
2000 - Sunn roader+ from Bikedock
2000 - Sunn Urge UN from Bikdock
2001 - Airborne Lucky Strike frame from Airborne at the bike show in the NEC Birmingham.
2001 - Santa Cruz Roadster from Alpine bikes, Glasgow
2003 - Cannondale F3000SL (ex demo) from Dales Cycles, Glasgow
2004 - Cotic Soul frame, direct from cotic.
2006 - Trek fuel EX7 from Alpine bikes, Glasgow.
2008 - Cannondale Rush from online somewhere....
2014 - Sobato carbon frame, maybe new fromebay store.
2018 - Pinnacle Ramin frame from evans.
2018 - NS Eccentric cromo from chainreaction.
2019? - titus fireline from on one.
2020 - On one Scandal frame, direct obv.
2021 - Carbonda FM936 frame, from carbonda direct
2022 - Spcycle M028 frame direct from Spcycle
Think that is it.
First MTB was second hand.
A Diamondback Ascent in 1985/6 cant really remember.
Then from then onwards everything has been new.
Some full bikes some frames with a mix of new /carried over parts.
Owned a lot of them at the same time and still own some of them now.
Raleigh Technium
Malcolm Smith XT/CR2
Alpinestars Almega
Klein Pinnacle
Santacruz Heckler (the original pre Superlight one)
Santacruz Chameleon
Santacruz Bullit
Cove Stiffee
Santcruz Heckler
Santacruz Blur
OnOne Inbred
OnOne TInbred
Santacruz Nomad
Salsa Las Cruces
OnOne Pompino
Garry Fisher Rig
Salsa El Mariachi
Surly Karate Monkey
3x Blacksheep Custom built Ti 29er frames that were all in some way wrong or broke
Jeff Jones Ti Spaceframe
Salsa Mukluk
Jeff Jones Steel Spaceframe
Fatback ( can't remember the model)
Canfield Yelli Screamy x2 (1 medium 1 large)
OnOne Fatty
Santacruz Tallboy LT
Santacruz Hightower
Geometron G16
Last Fastforward
Specialized Kenevo MK1
Geometron G13
Marino Custom 29er Hardtail
Specialized Kenevo MK2
Geometron G1
Specialized Levo MK3
There was also a tandem in there but only the front half belonged to me.
I may have missed a couple there but that's the main bikes I can remember.
Usually buy frames, don't think there's a production bike out there that I wouldn't wanna change half the parts on, being a Shimano, Rockshox and Hope guy. SRAM seem to dominate bike spec, lots of brands don't even have a Shimano specced model.
Singlespeedstu, Jesus h Christ dude, bravo just for remembering all of those, what a list 😀
From when I started riding again as an adult aboyt 10-15 years ago,
Raliegh Tundra BSO thing
Genesis Core 20
Specialised Rockhopper SL
Trek Fuel ex8
Trek Cobia
Orange Crush
Orange 5
On One dee dar
Bird Zero
Orange five29
Orange Crush29 (still riding)
Privateer 141 (still riding)
Ragley BigWig frame waiting to be built up.
All bought second hand bar the On One built from a new frame.
also,
cove handjob
cove stiffee x 2
orbit tandem.
Looking at some of the lists, what percentage of PX/OO frame/bike sales are accounted for by STWers? Are you even a proper STWer if you've not owned at least one three PX/OOs?
Back to the original question of 'brand new' bikes, of my 42 bikes only 9 were brand new, full-builds. The others are mostly frame swaps with an even split between new and used frame-only, plus a handful of complete used bikes. Here's mine 😀
Random BMX 20”
Apollo Blizzard – new, complete bike, 24” wheels, first ATB on my 7th birthday.
Townsend BSO – new, complete bike.
Trek 930 – used, complete bike, first ‘proper’ MTB at age 11, Tru Temper steel frameset.
Univega Aluminum 703 – used, frame-only, replaced Trek 930.
Trek 7000 – used, frame-only, replaced Univega 703.
Specialized Enduro – new, frame-only and new everything, first FSer.
Kona Explosif – new, frame-only, replaced Trek 7000. Didn’t live up to expectations.
Orange 5 – used, frame-only, via ‘LardLover’ on STW, replaced Enduro which ate shock bushes monthly.
Cotic Soul – new, frame-only, replaced underwhelming Explosif.
Specialized Allez – new, complete bike, for commuting.
Dialled Bikes Love/Hate – used, frame-only. Built into a cheap SS.
Giant Reign #1 – used, frame-only. Replaced Orange 5 frame.
Giant Reign #2 – used, frame-only. Bigger size.
Gary Fisher Rig – used, complete bike. First 29er, dedicated SS.
Genesis Vapour – new, complete bike. Replaced Specialized Allez.
Genesis Altitude – used, complete bike.
Lapierre Spicy – new, complete bike. Replaced Giant Reign.
On One 456 Summer Season – new, frame-only.
Cotic Roadrat #1 – new, frame-only and self-build. Replaced Genesis Vapour for commuting.
Cube AMS29 – new, complete bike. First FS 29er.
Giant Glory DH – (very) used, complete bike. Intro to DHing.
Cotic BFe – new, frame-only. Replaced 456 Summer Season.
Nukeproof Pulse Comp DH – new, complete bike. Replaced Gant Glory DH.
Cotic Soul – used, complete bike. Converted to SS.
Yeti SB95 Alloy – new, frame only. Replaced Cube AMS 29.
Specialized Enduro Comp 29 – new, complete bike. Components swapped with Lapierre.
Santa Cruz Superlight 29 – used, frame-only.
Genesis High Latitude – used, whole bike.
Singular Swift – new, frame-only. Briefly replaced Roadrat #1 but changed back and sold it on quickly.
Nukeproof Mega 290 – new, complete bike. Components swapped with Enduro 29er.
Santa Cruz Tallboy 3 CC – new, frame-only. Components swapped with Yeti SB95.
Cotic Roadrat #2 – new, frame-only. Replaced Roadrat #1 which was flattened by a car.
Intense Carbine 29C – new, whole bike. Replaced Nukeproof Mega 290 with component switcharoo.
Titus Mutsu – new, frame-only. Replaced Roadrat #2. Bought cheap on a whim.
Planet X Jack Flash 25th – new, frame only for £50. Built using old stuff I had.
Geometron G15 – used, frame-only via George Thompson/MUTN. Replaced Intense Carbine.
Nicolai Saturn 14 (current) - used (but unridden), frame-only via Paul Aston (AstonMTB). Replaced Tallboy.
Norco Torrent – new, complete bike.
Geometron G16 (current) - used, frame-only. Replaced G15 to try a smaller frame and more travel.
Cotic BFe MAX (current) - used, frame-only. Replaced Norco Torrent cos steel.
Cotic Cascade (current) - new, frame-only. Replaced cracked Titus Mutu frame.
also
nicolai helius fr. kept for 2 rides.
Just 2 I think. My first BMX (Haro F3) and a CAAD8. My MTBs are usually built up from existing parts and either new or used frames!
nicolai helius fr. kept for 2 rides.
did you send it back? or did you end up having to punt it? it' a kller blow to get a bike you think will be great, only to have it turn out not quite as expected.
Must have had at least a hundred retro bikes since I started collecting back in 2007 but actual new bikes?
1989 Saracen Tufftrax. Second hand Orange Clockwork followed this and both saw me through my youth.
1999 GT XCR 4000. Horrendous thing.
2004 Orange Evo 4. Bent seat post on a tank slapper so got...
2006 Orange 5.
2014 Orange 5 29.
2017 Orange Segment. Got a 2020 Stage 5 frame under warranty and it's still my main bike.
2020 Ragley Trig.
2022 On One Whippet. Terrible SX groups ruined it.
2022 Pace RC627. Built from parts but they were 99% new.
Had plenty of second hand modern stuff too.
I've had 3 brand new bikes
Raleigh super tuff 2 burner ( 1984)
Marin bear something full sus ( back when the frames were tubular and had cross over points) 1999
Rose Tusker fat bike 2015 ( still have this and still one of my favs, infact I was out today on it)
Don't know if this is included
But for road bikes I prefer to buy new frames and build to my spec
2012 Pinerello Dogma
2016 Cipollini RB1k
2019 Sworks Venge ( my current road bike, I only got it because its disc)
I still have the other 2 frames one is in the loft , the other is my zwift bike
Had a bunch of borrowed bikes, then 2nd hand, couple of ex-demo bikes when I got properly into mtbing…2016 was my first brand new, in an online sale. Still got it. Took it to BPW earlier this year.
Built my ti gravel bike with all new parts shortly after that, but it doesn’t count as the stem was 2nd hand off stw classifieds.
And then the eMTB, again in a sale, this year… almost cost as much as the gravel bike, which is all top notch kit.
So 3 brand new (there was another emtb but didn’t keep that very long)
Privileged enough to have never bought (or been given) a secondhand one.
1984 - Raleigh Night Burner BMX.
1990 - Peugeot roadie, can’t remember the model.
1991 - Raleigh Mustang. First MTB. Purple!
1993 - Orange Clockwork with Pace RC35s and XT.
1995 - GT RTS 1, bought a new frame and moved the kit from the Orange as I cracked the Orange’s frame.
2001 - Kinesis T roadie, custom built 105
2003 - Rock Lobster 853, custom built, Pace forks and XT
2005 - Planet X Pro Carbon Dura-Ace roadie
2006 - Specialized S-Works Epic custom build with Rockshox forks and SRAM X0
2014 - Orange Five Pro with Fox forks and XT
2015 - Kinesis TK2 custom build with 105
2015 - Planet X EC130e custom build with Ultegra DI2
2016 - Specialized S-Works Epic World Cup
2017 - Cannondale Super-X
2023 - Ribble CGR-Ti, Ultegra DI2
Everything has been sold or died bar the Ribble and the last Kinesis. In between all those were a bunch of new bikes with engines. And I don’t mean e-bikes.
91ish ATB BSO
93ish ATB BSO with 200gs
95 Univega Alpina 5.3
98 No name aluminium frame custom build
99 DMR Trailstar
08 Specialized Pitch Pro
13 Kona Unit
21 Bird AM9
A few used and triggers broom builds mixed in there but not listed.
Think the last brand new complete bike I had was a Halfords 5 speed road bike in the very early 80s.
Everything since has either been...
A klunker MTB built from stuff picked up at Police auctions. Probably built 3 or 4 of these in the early 90s.
Built up from a frame (although admittedly they've all been bought new). This is how the vast majority of my bikes have come into being - Lee cooper one-off XC, DMR Trailstar, Identiti Mr Hyde, Cotic BFe, Orange Alpine 160, Cotic Rocket, Sonder Transmitter, Cotic RocketMAX.
A second hand complete bike (Specialized Epic) but this was immediately strippped down and rebuilt with a few different parts.
Built from scratch (bamboo road thing).
The last one was a Raleigh wayfarer in 1975. Everything some version of Trigger's broom.
50+ bikes in the last 18 years - I bought my first new one last year...and then promptly stripped everything from it and kept only the frame.
Not many brand new 'Bikes' at all -
1990s 99 quid Apollo Kaos
1999 (?) Kona Hahahanna, first proper MTB
2001 Kona Chute
Then a huuuuuge gap till I bought a Boardman Pro FS in 2017.
However I have had dozens and dozens of used and new framesets in that gap and post-boardman, I've usually got two or three bikes on the go and dont often keep them more than a couple of years, I'm very fickle. I much prefer the custom building process and its highly unusual anyone ever puts an off-the-shelf bike together that tempts me!
A couple when I was a kid, one was a Peugeot Premier, loved that bike.
GT outpost in about 1996
Kona Lava Done in about 1997( still used for daily commute)
Rock Lobster 853 in around 2001/2 still got it.
Felt something or other road bike in around 2003
Giant Defy in about 2008
Specialized Diverge about 5/6 years ago.
On one Inbred in 2022
I just assumed most people bought parts and swapped stuff around as a way of getting 'new' bikes, so genuinely surprised to hear about so many bikes bought new.
Only ever bought one complete new bike, a Merlin Malt 1, which was my first proper MTB after doing my first off-road ride on a borrowed bike. Ever since it's just been frames and parts mashed together.
Sounds like it's time for a proper new bike!
I returned to the world of bikes as an adult in 2016. Since then I've owned six bikes, of which none have been new...
200X Genesis touring bike of some description, gifted by my BIL and I ended up gifting it back as it's not really my thing.
2008 26er Giant Anthem: first proper MTB built from used bits, rode it 6 months or so then smashed my wrist and (unfairly) blamed the bike so stopped riding it. Still have the frame.
2008 Cotic Soul: frame/fork/wheels from eBay/classifieds, partially cannibalised the Anthem. Still have the bike, is my shopping/hack bike now.
2010 Saracen Ariel: rolling chassis from a mate, partially cannibalised the Soul for the rest. Still have the frame.
2020 NS Eccentric Evo: new(!) frame from CRC sale, eBay/classifieds/partsbin everything else. Got nicked 🙁
2022 Cotic BFEMax: new frame again, eBay/classifieds everything else. My current MTB.
Probably the closest to new is the BFEMax in that the frame was new and a lot of the bits very nearly new; but none of them could really be considered a "brand new bike".
200? - Giant XTC
2009 - Spesh Enduro Expert
****2015 - Second hand SC Nomad 4
2019 - Starling Murmur (bought in parts and built by me)
2020 - Privateer 161
2023 - Whyte e160
Having an older brother, I even had hand-me-downs all through my childhood ☹️
Complete bikes only?
Bought for me (as a Child) I had four new bikes, my very first kids bike (think it was a Raleigh), a Raleigh Burner BMX, An Emmelle ATB thing and finally a Diamondback Ascent EX when I was about 11 I think.
Then I Bought for myself a new Kona Fire mountain with my own money (circa 1995 IIRC) as a teenager. About 15 years after that I bought a Carrera Road bike (via C2W) and a couple of years after that got a dirt Cheap 'Viking' Fixie New (straight out of the container I assume, sold via eBay) which has done sterling service as a commuter/pub bike in various iterations over the last decade or so (currently being rebuilt again).
So a grand total of seven complete, new bikes over a roughly 40 year period.
I've also bought a few brand new frames and forks and then built those up with a mixture of new and used parts over the years, but most of my current bikes have been assembled by me around a used frame.
New complete bikes only
1993(ish) - Apollo 3000 - must have been made of tungsten, was incredibly heavy
1996 - Marin Bolinas Ridge
<gap for beer, weed, women>
2010 - Revolution Triad from Edinburgh Cycles
2013 - Voodoo Bantu
2014 - On One Fatty
2016 - Pinnacle Arkose
2018 - Cotic Rocket
Plus numerous other bikes made from bits and bobs, or bought secondhand.
Interesting topic, listing mine out as much for my interest as anything!
1989 Raleigh Mustang SIS
1991 Trek 830
1991 Trek 8000 (got myself a job in a bike shop :-))
1993 Diamond Back Apex? or Ascent?
1997 Marin Mount Vision
2005 Giant Trance
2012 Giant Anthem X3
2015 Giant Anthem 2
2015 Boardman CX Comp
2016 Pinnacle Arkose
2017 GT Grade X
2017 GT Grade Carbon
2022 Rondo Ruut Carbon
I think the only new, complete, ready to ride bike I've ever had was my C2W scheme Condor Pista Steel bought in 2004. The frame cracked in 2018, so got rebuilt with a s/h Genesis Flyer frame. That's since learning to ride aged 19 in 1993.
All the rest have either been used or frameswaps (frame new or used), or a new frame built up with a mix of componentry sourced new and used (eg my 40th b/day Enigma has a s/hand Super Record groupset, most of the rest of it was new, but all sourced and built up by me).
TBH, I can't really imagine walking into a shop and going "I'll have that one, please"
TBH, I can’t really imagine walking into a shop and going “I’ll have that one, please”
Agreed. Even the sole new bike I bought was just for the frame.
As for warranties - I’ve never broken a frame or fork. I guess I’m not gnarr/rad/brave enough.
My only brand new mtb was my first 'proper' one. A 2005 Kona coiler, bought in 2006 for something like 1/2 RRP.
Turns out there was a very good reason for this 'bargain'. It was rubbish.
I always built bikes from parts secondhand thereafter.
One. A mongoose hard tail, 12ish years ago. Everything else 2nd hand, either full bike or frames that get built up with a collection of new and used parts.
