[Closed] Post a pic of your OLD bike...!

I wasn't riding in 1995.
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First mtb.
Decathlon rockrider 740.
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No pics fully built but this is my pre-1995 bike (currently in the garage in bits)...

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Did have a GT Tequesta...it was in a lovely cloudy coloured blue with matching stem.

See that sticker on the bars? Malverns Classic 1993..... 🙂

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EDIT
Holy crap! I was using ano alloy stem bolts!

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PHAT

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Me up front about 1976 on a Reg Barnett, my mates behind on a Roy Thame. Racing for Kenton RC. Taken going over Ivinghoe Beacon during a 36 mile 2 up TT.

Wearing my school jumper under my club jersey, life was a lot simpler in black and white.

[url= http://www.ibikedb.net/bikes/14280-rudge-bi-frame ]My first off-road bike[/url]
The link will take you to a pic of a bike I used for my first adult off-road experience. It was followed by a Raliegh Marauder, a Raliegh M-Trax, my sone Trek 8000 and then my Bontrager which I have used weekly until just recently-16yrs!!!. Currently needing a new bb shell.

Living in the country I used to cycle off-road all during my childhood using anything from a ss to sturmey archer 3sp.

So like many of my generation this new niche ss thing aint so niche 😉

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I'm on the left, not the rider I hasten to add (the lack of standover clearance would be too much 😉 ).

Indeed Trekster, we were also riding singlespeeds through the woods on the early seventies. Ours evolved from cycle speedway bikes of old and inspiration came from American Motocross mags.
I've got some old pics of my steel framed bike with rigid straight forks, Canadian cowhorns, knobbly tyres and single cog. I'm wearing a genuine UCLA tee shirt from 1975 that my mum bought in the states to date the pics. I'll have to get them scanned.
You could say we've been singlespeeding for the last 35 years.

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Had this Aero Pro Burner from new as a kid - it was my pride and joy.
After the 80's it lay rusting in my parents shed for many years.
After some serious brillo pad action it came up and became my mode of transport again at University.

It went to the tip 3 years ago.

Trekster - Is it my imagination or does that Rudge's seat tube extend past the BB?

My old Peugeot Elan 24 years old and currently being restored into a fixed wheel.
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This is bringing back memories. I'm using Nigel Deans (you have to be old to remember him) old racing wheels in that pic.

And Trekster my old LBS Birds of Colindale used to custom build those dirt/cross/speedway bikes back when I was at school.

Cheers PP

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The original Mk1, Denton frame, Tange Prestige.

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Mk2, geometry changed among other stuff.

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Mk3, more fresh bits.

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Mk4, same frame but can you spot the difference?

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Mk5, the scruffy look. Still the same frame.

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Mk6, the way it is now except it's now got RC 41's on & M4 brakes. Triggers brush doesn't even get near!

Rocking the rod brakes!
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Rad to the power of MAX
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I had a Cargo bike waaay before they got cool
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The GNAR got so intense, I needed a full face helmet
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First MTB 1990 Ridgeback 600 SIS
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[b]oldgit[/b]you were privileged!
I am going back 40 odd yrs.
no tv or car till we were in our teens, only bus was on a Sat, everything was a hand-me-down, relyed on teh butchers/fish/grocery vans for food,did`nt own a camera until I was into my 20s, only pics of a young me/family are old school pics etc.

[b]peterpoddy[/b] Yes if I recall correctly that is where it hinged, it is a folder. Wife bought me it when she passed her driving test, was pregnant and needed/wanted the car, 29yrs ago ❗

Talking of Triggers broom.
1976'ish Don Farrel cross frame with components spanning four decades. Remember L&M chainsets?
Had it powder coated just prior to this pic being taken and it snapped a month later. 😥
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That's my Tequesta in the OP. I LOVED that bike. Bear in mind I was only 16 or so, it was a lot of cash. I had a Mavic needle bearing headset on that bad boy. Those shocktech forks were a UK brand, my first bouncy forks. And yes, the steerer did pull out of the forks!!!
I carried that bike (32lbs????) up Helvellyn when I was 16 just so I could ride down again. Did it again on my Pitch last year and it seemed a lot harder!!

Happy days....

that Tequesta is cool!

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lol @ uplink

my first bike (although not this one no pic)

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lol @ uplink

LOL! +1

Well done Uplink, but it's not old enough... 😉

PP - loving the old Lava Dome, that was my first proper mtb.

My current 'old ' Kona, '95 Explosif Racelite
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Sold to someone on STW classifieds....

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Me on my old Falcon Pro BMX circa 1984. A right heavy pile of cromo shit but chuckable.

Halcyon days!

+2 lol @ uplink..

And as for rumbledthumps... erm. Holy-crap-o-la! Kids them days either had no sense, or nerves of steel. I'd hate to see the risk assesment for that one.. 😉

*thinks* ...oh I was a kid in them days. We did used to do some stupid stuff..

Hey rumblethumps i call SNAP! must have been something about the Falcon Pro that made you feel like you could jump off/over things/people. Maybe it was the 40lbs weight, or the blue mag wheels, who knows! I loved that bike!

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My last race bike 🙁
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95 cecil walker custom,still got it & tarted it up a few years ago.

@[b]Alexathome[/b]

Cheers. Thats a fantastic pic of you mate. Great expression! And yes, great bikes. I think it was BMX Bandits and watching ET and seeing Elliots Kuwahara that made me get a BMX.

@ [b]no_eyed_dear[/b]

Good old days, just going out there and riding. I used to regularly hit trees and faceplant the road (without a helmet??!!!!) then nip to the shop for a texan bar to numb the pain.

I now worry about my 7 year old boy on his Trek and its 20 times the quality and strength of my old bikes back in the day. We are health and safety mad these days with our kids! It ridiculous!

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1991 Muddyfox Pathfinder still used all the time. Its been a full on mountain bike a winter training bike a tourer a tag-a-long and a shopper.

My Overburys Pie & Ear, 1991. Gurt lush 'e wuz.

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Dunno why I looked so effing miserable!
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Sorry, I've only got pics as far back as 98, first bike that ever fitted me propperly, thanks to leisure lakes getting hold of a 14.5" Zaskar for me. I never did get a picture if my first mtb, an Orange O2.

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My old Fire Mountain a few days before someone made off with it. Got me into biking but I don't think it had ever been more than 20 miles from home!

I had a falcon pro "back in the day" when I raced for Tamworth crusaders.

Oh the memories...

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As rediscovered in my dad's shed last year. I do have some photos of it in its 'prime' (not quite the right word lol) but I'm not sure where they are right now.

that overburys is lovely. where is she now?

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Super Galaxy, still running, but now with RSX stis and nice fresh comfy bar tape. 600, Deore, TA, Campag/saturae wheels. Karrimor Kalahari panniers all round

I think this was 1993. Rock'N'Road (when in Portsmouth) had this bling (for its day!) Principia MacB that they built up and sent to mags for tests.
When it came back from this review in Cycling Weekly, I bought it for the princely ex-demo price of £1000 (in a few installments!).
Light? That bike was light!

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Frame is hanging in my garage now. Oh and the Hope XC hub off the front wheel is still in full operation on the front wheel of my road bike!

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1993 P7

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and a 1998 Explosif

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Still have both 🙂

I had one of these from I guess 1993 until 2004, when mercifully it got pinched. Never saw a bit of offroad in its life! But having it stolen got me into biking so thank you to the cheeky ned who took it 😉

Raleigh Activator (not mine)
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I too had a Falcon Pro, upgraded with red Skyway Tuff IIs, ACS Potts Mod brakes and Renthal bars. I've been trying to trace its whereabouts recently, as a friend has convinced me I need to go BMX racing with him.

Sadly I fear the bike may be landfill, as I think it got sold to some family friends, then given back to my dad once their son grew out of it, then sold again.

A fair drop of GT out there, where did the boy Gary go wrong.

Mine a GT tequesta as well (blue with purple bars, purfik)

"where did the boy Gary go wrong."
Richard Long, the business side of GT, died in 1996. The company then merged with Schwinn and went into decline soon after that.

Skyways Tuff II's now they were great wheels!

Great pics of the Falcon Pro bikes gents. Loving it.

Yo Grant...the Overbury was stolen from my house in summer 92. But was recovered in the autumn of the same year. As I'd already replaced it with a Specialized M2, I sold it on to a fella who lived in Nailsea nr Bristol. I'd love to know it's whereabouts now too. It was custom built for me from Colombus Nivachrom and full Campag.

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1990 Pine Mountain. Still ride it. Terrible geometry compared to now-a-days, but some fond memories of adventures on it.

Not too old but I don't have any photos of the older stuff...

2001 P7

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[b]squin[/b] I had the Eldridge Grade that same year, it did me until '98!
no pics unfortunately but i loved that bike more than any other i've owned.

I had one of these as my first proper MTB
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I then had a gt tequester but mine was black withe cant brakes and a cow horn bars.

My Dad still has his and my mums original muddyfox couriers in the cream colour

Race bike (during a local XC race)
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Training bike (pimped with 'new' '93 graphics and anodised DX)
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[b]Orange Clockwork 1991[/b]
Not mine but very similar (mine had: manitou 2's, tioga revolver cranks then some cook bros bones (?), smoke lites, super narrow x-lite bars, a variety of bar-ends, purple USE post, diacompe 987/ss5) It ended up being pretty light and (in hindsight) pretty damn awful to ride!
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That's what mine looked like before I umm..... modified it 🙂

squin - Loving that Pine Mountain. The rubberised grey paint frame finish was awesome and mega tuff! My first real mtb. Oh! the memories.

Thanks Coleman. now got Trailrakers on for the winter. Can you believe that everything is still original apart from pedals, saddle and now trailrakers? Paint never chipped in all these years and the bike has been well ridden. I only used to wash the frame about once every 6 months and when I did I'd get the scrubbing brush on it.

Slimtubing - The Eldridge Grade was a really nice bike too. My mate had one and like you rode it as his only bike for about 8/9 years. Marin's were crackin bikes back then - still pretty good now-a-days but just have a non fashionable name currently.