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Until last year I was still riding a silver 1994 Orange Clockwork. Fully rigid with elegant curved forks & capable of a real turn of speed too. You just had to keep your wits about you or you were off, especially in the rough stuff! Loved riding it in the peaks, lakes & dales. A great bike!
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old bikes
you're joking right?
'95 Turner Burner is a top notch XC race mount. Modern (ish) parts mind. Circa 2005
2004 enduro, a classic. Loads of fun and dressed in "modern" bits it's just as capable as newer offerings.
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mountain cycle-san andreas
Where are my manners, I forgot to post the mandatory pictures of my bikes..
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^ This was by far the oldest looking bike I saw in Whistler.
this thread has cheered me up, my only bike, a 2003 Kona Cinder Cone got some TLC today, was starting to think I was the only person with a bike older than 5 years:
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98 Schwinn Homegrown USA now as an SS (although yet to be ridden like that)
Another vote for 04 Enduro here. Just rebuilt mine after two years hung bare framed on the wall.
Fab bikes both. Schwinn is very direct and lively and the Enduro is great fun so long as its not bonkers steep.
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I have newer, fancier stuff with much carbon fibre. This bike is the most fun though, the one I'll never sell. It's a 1999 frame by the way, bits range from 1998 to 2011.
Those Marins are phenomenal!
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Marin-Shoreline-Trail-Frame-Super-Rad-/230758947914
So are those Enduros judging by the feedback on here (some of which is mine).
Still my benchmark for what an MTB should be like. 2001 Trailstar. Lively (would now be described as twitchy), great balance of weight and bombproofness, cool looking and capable of most types of riding.
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Still my favourite (for now) bike to ride in terms of shits and giggles, although I suspect that's about to change now I've gone back to steel from the ali Mr Hyde and tried to build something that is to 2012 what the Trailstar was to 2002.
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slainte 8) rob