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I've usually had second hand bikes and sometimes struggle to move them on as they are too old. Mine are 2011 and 2010 ish currently which is young for me.
Newest frame 4 days old
Best road bike 8 years old
Hack road bike was made about mid 1960s
Some I keep a while some last only a few months
2 DAYS
brought friday PM
My hardtail is 5 days old and my full sus will be finishing by Wednesday.
[i]I've usually had second hand bikes and sometimes struggle to move them on as they are too old. Mine are 2011 and 2010 ish currently which is young for me. [/i]
Ride them and get your monies worth.
Mine is an 2008 456Ti, and the frames s/h go for the same price I paid new.
But tbh its the bits that wear, especially if you ride them.
P7 from about'04 , Keewee cromo 8 from '05
my oldest bike is a 1985 rebuild of a 1978 frame (road). Don't ride it any more but I'll keep it forever I think.
newest is about a month old (rigid f&f with mostly old stuff clapped on it)
I have a mid-90s zaskar frame that's going to be my commutah next year
I don't really sell stuff - just not worth it as I tend to keep things in use for quite a while and by then the sale value's **** all. Might just sell my previous rigid f&f if the new one works out; that'll be my first mtb I've sold ever
Hardtail - 8 years.
BMX - 10 years.
Tourer - 12 years.
Road bike - 17 years.
Don't want a 29'er, never owned a full susser, can't see the point in a Maxxle and tapered headtubes are for social inadequates. 🙂
Newest 3 years, oldest 18 years (how long I've had the frame, though it was NOS and actually 21yo I think). Also a 16yo and 17yo. Of course most of them are Trigger's brooms - still regularly using a set of wheels I've had 20 years which I bought s/h.
7 odd years. I also do not want 29 inch wheels and tapered head tubes.
Old! like me
5yrs
2yrs ( road)
18 months
2 weeks
08 Meta 5, new to me in 2011. Had upgrades every few months since though.
Mostly bought secondhand...
Ragley Ti- probably 2010
Cotic Hemlock- probably 2010
Cotic Soda- 2007
Orange 224 Evo- no idea, maybe 2009 if the stickers are original
Carrera Krakatoa- 1991
Another 08 Meta 5 here, and a 2009 Carrera Virtuoso which will hopefully be replaced with something shiny soon, because it's freakin' heavy.
commuter 16 years
hardtail 8 years
dh bike 7 years
bmx 5 years
am bike 5 years
no real plans to replace any of them, maybe the am bike as its the one im racing enduros on this year but tbh its fine as is
All my bikes are from 2008 vintage. Good year.
'89 Kona Cindercone - commuter, slicks
'04 SC Blur
'06 Trek Fuel
'10? Carrera Vulcan - mud/winter
Blur is favourite but good weather only as rear clearance is v tight and 2.1 nobbies is biggest I can go
HT is 21
FS is 3
Roadie is 2
Winter road bike, 6 months old
Summer road bike, 6 years old
MTB, 4 years old
Oldest is my Marin Mount Vision from 2004
next is my Marin Wolf Ridge from 2009 but bought in 2010.
Then my Boardman hybrid road bike 2010
newest is my Mango singlespeed, two weeks old 🙂
Ironhorse Sunday 2008 - wont age, a classic.
Intense Tracer 2 - about 6 months old, pimp as.
On One Whippet - 1 yr old, rapid as!
Mine get upgraded a piece at a time, the MTB frame <2 yrs but has some stuff that must be nearly 10 years old. Road bike frame is from 1990s running 2010 SRAM.
Oldest is either my '89 clockwork
Or the vitus 979
Most of the bits on my mtb are 2001 ish frame is probably only 3 or 4 yrs old I bought it 2nd hand
Nothing from this millenium.
Zullu road bike was 2nd hand in 1992
Cannondale f900sx is 2000.
Trek 5900 road bike is 2002
S-Works FSR is 2007
buy good kit and there's no need to replace it
1958
1982
1986
2004
2004
2007
2009
2011
2012
Kinesis Maxlight XCPro2 - 1998
Yeti DH9 - 2003ish
Honda NC30 - 1989
Claud Butler Cresta - 1970ish
Patriot LT - 2000
222 - 2002
Redline - 2010
Cannondale - 2011
Prince Albert - 2004
Newest main mtb 2009 (components from 2005-12)
Road bike c.2005
Xc bike - 1999 (components 1999-2012)
Oldest Muddy Fox hybrid 1993 (mostly original except 2009 v brakes, bb and pedals)
All but one SH and owned by me for 4 or less years.
The "one" is one of the first Shands, 8 years old.
I never buy bikes new (since I folded the one and only new frame I've ever bought-2nd ride out=£1k down!)
I have custom built:
-2011 Corsair Crown DH
-2007 DMR ExALT
Both running 2006 Model Marzocchi 888 and 66 as I know them inside out and can home service/tune them. Other parts are mostly new/ within a year old.
Boardman 2010 Hardtail, with many new parts.
Boardman 2012 Hybrid - pretty much standard.
I can buy bikes via cycle 2 work so can just about justify buying new...
Weirdly all three frames are 08 and bought over the last 4 years.
Pace RC305
Trance X
Spicy 516
Trance - 2008
mmmBop - 2010
Inbred - 2012
(all bought as frame only)
Rigid SS 29'er - 6 months
'Big' FS bike - 6 years
Rigid hardtail - 17 years
Road bike - 6.5 years
All owned from new - not sure if that is good, bad or indifferent.
All 2008, except for one of those 1950s? raleigh rod braked bikes..
'94 Hahanna rigid singlespeed'ish and a '98 Kilauea
Soul 09
PX alu winter/ commuter 08?
Chinese ebay road 10
Bianchi Oltra 12
Recently sold my 2010 parlee, and a C59 disc is calling.
All secondhand bargains for me as well. I shul get rid of at least 2 but can't bring myself to sell any of them and Mrs Eye is very understanding about my affliction.
Classic steel MB, now a turbo slave 1994
My lovely 853 road bike/commuter/sunday special 1998
XC HT 2001
Carbon 140mm FS 2008
140mm HT 2009
Rigid SS 2010/11 - not really sure how old it is.
March 2010
March 2011
June 2012
Feb 2013
18 year old hard Hardtail
14 month old Hardtail
both Dales both awesome
road bike = 24 years
old mtb = 16 years
hardtail = 5 years
cx bike = 3 years
1
6
9
12
15
18
The frames?
Heckler 2009
On One 2010
Allez 2008
The parts are a mix from 05-13