Ok,
moving on from the how many bikes have you owned...
1992 RM blizzard
1996 Gary Fisher Procaliber OCLV, pace RC30's commuter hack thing.
1998 Kona Kilauea. owned in the early 2000's.
2000 Cannondale F800, not the first CAAD4, had CAAD 3's CAAD5's too, but this was the last.
2002 Cannondale Scalpel. perfect for what I was doing. went through a set of bushes a month!
Trek EX7, wibbly
Orange Sub 5, very tall.
DeKerf Elysium. bought from a STWer. such a nice looking bike.
Mk1 Soul, possibly the nicest riding hardtail I've owned.
Cannondale Prophet. possibly the nicest riding FS I've owned! light and quick.
2004 Gary Fisher X-caliber, fisher price My First 29er.
edit, some of the links aren't working for me....
£1.00 for anyone who guesses what this is!
I can remember that bike Muffinman, struggling to remember what it was though, definitely a prototype but was it a aluminium 456? Or even 567!?
Oldest picture I've got, taken 1995 on the China/****stan border: 93 Clockwork, Manitou 4s, Tioga tyres and Club Roost bars...
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Raleigh Technium up Snowdon late 80's.
Pre helmet days. Complete with Cosmic Trail frame bag.
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Alpine stars Almega 1990.NEMBA race at Bosley
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Loving the chopstick-wide handlebar!
Must dig my old pix out.
Great thread 🙂
I went to that Bosley NEMBA race to watch. Them bars are ace!
My bikes up there
Pic 1 is an 1988 Marin Palisades (red) and its 1990 cousin where Marin did the whole range in grey with the different bikes with different coloured forks and stem
Pic 2 is a 1991 Specialized Rockhopper Sport
Alpine stars Almega 1990.
pre e stay noodleness. and those bars! I think I was running the widest bars I could find back then, which was about 23", Syncros shotgun flat bar, then the advanced composites, carbon/e-glass 'battle bar'
amazing, the rubbish info I remember.
Can’t see any images but omg I remember
1990 cousin where Marin did the whole range in grey with the different bikes with different coloured forks and stem
I desperately wanted a Marin then… rather than the Raleigh Massif I had.
Some time last century on top of Codden Hill with my lava dome . Dave James with his cannondale. Anyone know where he is now?
I guess most photos of my truly old / original bikes are on film somewhere.
Mid-90's Saracen Sahara (my first MTB), I know there's definitely pics of me at the local BMX track on that (aged about 17!).
There's a few pics from various races of my other MTBs.
I know the late simonfbarnes of Bogtrotters had quite a few of me on my 2002 Cove Stiffee from when I was living in Lancaster and occasionally riding with them but those photos will be lost - he hosted them directly. Tragic really how a lifetime of digital memories (and Simon had millions of images) can be wiped out like that. 🙁
Anyway, the bike is here:
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That's more or less original guise, it's had a few changes over the years but remarkably little. Still got it although I very rarely ride it.
My bikes that date digital photography are in photo albums somewhere… here a few since about 2003
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Loving the chopstick-wide handlebar!
I could only just fit my brakes, shifters and grips on they were that narrow 🤣
Cannondale SDelta V, way too big for me but was on sale so I persuaded myself it fitted. Headshok was shockingly bad.
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Sunn Radical +, bought from a scouse mate of a team rider. Rode amazing but I trashed the damping and couldn't get it servivced, the hubs were an odd standard as well if I recall.
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Foes Weasel bought of a team mechanic, fitted out with cooks cranks, goldtec stub stem, pro taper bars and awful Stratos forks. Note the cannibal corpse T and Rox pads combo. Snapped it in half later on doing a drop.
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Another On one one-off - On one Ti compo with SC Shivers
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Custom Setavento Ti, basically built to correct everything that I didn't like about the above Ti compo. Fitted with the best looking forks ever - Manitou Supernova. Predictably the frame cracked.
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I was on a Retrobike ride a few years ago and one of the riders was running a pair of Scott AT2 bars. Whilst not as narrow as ^^ you had to rotate a brake lever to adjust either as there simply wasn't room to adjust either barrel in situ. Amazeballs design 😂
Will dig out some photos.
18months ago I started rebuilding an homage to my first “proper” mountain bike that was sadly stolen in the late 90s. It was a 1988 Rockhopper Comp. The frame has been modified to recreate how I received the bike - both canti and u brake mounts(!) and freshly painted by Argos. I’ve even sourced a NOS in box Quadra fork for it to replace the one I had fitted in 1994 by Leisure Lakes in Cheltenham ……. 48mm of seasonal affected elastomer travel …… no MCUs here.
My Cannondale Raven on Windy Gyle, I’m guessing 1999. I’d always wanted a Cannondale Super V and working in a bike shop the chance came along and I took it! Full XTR M952 and Avid Arch Supreme brakes and levers. This is the second frameset, the first parted company with itself at the seat mast…. It was light and fun, though the headshok wasn’t the best.
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My P20. In its original build. XTR, Avid brakes from the Raven, Bontrager by Chris King ceramic wheels and Dart 2.2 & Z-Max 2.35 tyres 😎 Fabulous thing to ride. Kept it 20 yrs before selling it. It flexed, but that just added to the way it rode.
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Couple of pics from the FOD circa 1992-3 I guess.
Just noticed the Scott Unishocks on my Raleigh White Lightning. The worst sus forks ever!
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Those whyte designed marins still look modern. Such a great bike
Hmmm... I rode this again just before I sold it a few years ago. I could not believe how bendy it was - everywhere, not just the bits that were supposed to flex. But it was light (I held off buying a FS until it was the same weight as my old Eldridge Grade), which might have been part of the problem.
I desperately wanted a Marin then… rather than the Raleigh Massif I had.
@reeksy, This is a '92 but the principle was the same - all black, with different colour highlights for the different models.
@onewheeledgod that’s pretty much the year I remember lusting after them. Funny how they look now compared to modern geo.
1989 - Tufftrax - Cadair Idris
@scuttler x2 Marins and a Spesh Rockhopper?
(Will guess at Pine Mountain in red and Eldridge Grade in yellow)
Terrific pics folks!
I can't believe just how small, short and narrow these bikes look now! How did it take us all 25 years to work out that a big mountain bike is a better mountain bike eh. Probably also explains why looking back i spent soooo much time falling off mine............
Forgive the photo of a photo, but this my Spesh Enduro from roughly 2001 I think. There are bikes from well before that, need to dig out some photos though! This thread has got me inspired to do it!
@scuttler – is the second picture a Raleigh Peak?
@DickBarton, I had a Peak, it was a bluey green colour, and had a titanium bar, not a black one. The next year it was orange, I think. So it's not a Peak. Wish I had pics, it was a lovely bike, but it well pre-dated digital cameras and mine didn't last long as it was murdered by a post office van - which also led to me spending my first ever night in hospital.
Class, looks like a boy band due a reunion tour 😉
My Trek Diesel-Rheola
My old Heckler - fod
My Chain Reaction Brand-X cheapie hardtail
My Tomac Omen - Cotswolds
My Transition Blindside - Caersws
The bikes used to get so wrecked on the uplift trailer here, and it was a fairly new bike so I covered it in inner tube to protect it 😂
Didn't work
My classic Intense M1 - Hanging off a lift in France
Never mind old bikes….some of the guys i ride with are so tight half of the above is still their “new bike” used week in week out!
Not my first bike...but the 1st I actually paid for.(2006)
Marin (can't remember which) I upgraded the swinging arm, shock and put zzrr forks with a upgraded 7inch travel...I was (still) so light they barely moved..but I thought at the time I looked cool...ha ha ha
Pictured next to my chums Specialized (he got the same forks coz he liked mine so much) we were at the London Eye for a charity ride
RetroBike forum ride, Surrey Hills 2007, riding a 1990 Kona Explosif.
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My old RC100, Frame number 248, photo taken in 91/92. upgraded to RC35's from the original RC30 and Racelines from the Hydrastops.
XT, Bullseye cranks.
It was stolen and stripped but I got the frame back and it went off to Adrian at Pace to rebuild it.
222 - first DH bike, looks tiny now
KeeWee Chromo8
SC Bullit
In action at Esher Shore
Intense M1 - my dream bike at the time.
Intense in action at Rogate and Sulham Woods
So I think that one is the '93, the '92 was blue/green - such radical product development! It was a lovely bike though.
I liked that whole range of models, think there were 4 in it - Peak, Summit, Ridge and I think a 4th that I now can't recall...
I liked that whole range of models
Wasn't the range Raleigh's last serious effort at competing in decent MTBs? Those and the Ti Dyna-Tech's.
I think the Dyna-Techs came out just after the first year of these and were marketed as Titanium, the Peak, Summit, etc. were steel frames (from memory) and were (I think) sort of their offering for a steel decent to higher end MTB instead of going Titanium (which again from recollection was from a Russian source so plenty people were very sceptical about it).
Wasn’t the range Raleigh’s last serious effort at competing in decent MTBs? Those and the Ti Dyna-Tech’s.
Nah, the RSP line which followed Dyna-Tech were pretty decent. I had a Ti one and still have an 853 one which was hardly ridden and still languishes in my mum's garage. The 853 one is from 97ish if I remember correctly.
No photos of my first mtb (Saracen Ltd Edition).
Second mtb was a Saracen Kili Flyer. And I'm still mostly riding fillet brazed steel today (but now made by myself).
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Mrs Mick. Hopton NPS downhill riding for Parkpre in 95. Back in the day when you could still (sort of) race downhill on the bike you rode for XC the next day 🙂
She raced Worlds XC in Germany that year (and qualified to race the downhill but declined).
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