Just wondering...and I mean a production bike, not a custom one, owned and ridden at the time, not bought as a mid life crisis retro project 😉
Stumpjumper Epic here I think, the 1990 one - with canti mounts on the back, I expect that to be well beaten.
Orange 5 and a Carbon 456 what do i win?
I actually do own both 😳
last place so far 😀
Always fancied a Fisher CR7, American Bicycle or a Cunningham
2006 GT IT1, they made 200. Ferrari made 399 Enzos
Sold it to flange on here 6 months ago, but I suspect he's not seen it yet!
There's a different one on eBay now...
Kobe....? IIRC there were only 30 meds and 20larges. I ended up with Mike's...
proper LOL at that reply 😀
not rare no doubt but a 2008 s works carbon frame.
S-works FSR. The JMC one.
I loved that bike, my student overdraft didn't
89 Kona Cindercone with the splattered paint job and rear U brake.
The Rainbow Pig.
Actually a 1998 (probably) Norco Bomber in bright orange. Horst Link suspension, Risse Racing shock and a design that meant the seatstay cup split after a couple of 1000miles. They gave me a new one for free, but the shock blew & was irreparable.
Bought 2nd hand from a shop in Whistler before everyone had heard of the place, 1999.
I think the bike was the only one which made it to the UK, it was before Norco had an importer here.
I have a Dave hinde pro, people look at the bike but have no idea it cost so much!!
I'm sure they're not rare but I've never seen another RC200 out on the trails. I had a Merlin XLM for a couple of years, I was told by the importer there was less than 20 in the country - not sure how true that is though.
Got a Tranny now, again I've never seen another one out on the trails.
1998 Chuck CRFS - not many made, few sold in the UK (prob less than 10)
2004 Turner Rail - not many made (100), lots seem to be in the UK though.
Proflex with Girvin forks worth any points?
Bontrager Race OR and Ellsworth Flight - I haven't seen many of either about but I don't know whether that means that they're rare or just old...
By the very nature that I don't ride it, and all the rest have snapped. I present my meta 5.5.2
Ther e were plenty of Proflexes and Rc200s back in "the day".
Only me and my mate had Principia Mac Bs though...
I've got an original geared Ti Inbred which I've owned from new - I believe there where only 52 geared and 52 singlespeed frames made. Not sure how many are still on the trails.
My dark side salsa primero. Salsa couldn't sell them all as no-one wanted to pay £1600 for a steel road frame! Luckily that meant you could buy them rebranded for a fraction of the cost!
DeKerf singlespeed
IF Deluxe
Pace RC200 in red ano with the team graphics, full team build
Airborne Ti Hag singlespeed
....and I regret selling every last one of them!
I had a de kerf years back some pikey sod nicked it 🙁
When I was a kid we lived up the road from a guy called Jack Taylor who made frames with his brothers, including lots of weird tandem-shaped objects. My dad knew him fairly well
Still got a frame (road/tourer) that was originally my dad's - I crashed it properly when I was 20 and they rebuilt it for me so "only" really about 25 yrs old. My mate's been SSing it to work lately after it had collected dust in my garage for ages (I am slightly worried it'll fold & kill him)
Not [i]that[/i] rare, but I doubt there's all that many still around and being ridden
I've got a Wheeler 3900ZX and I've not seen another one in the UK.
Had it for 10 years and it's still going strong.
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The frame is still in my garage.
I loved it.
Scaredypants, are you a smoggie? My grandad knew the Taylor brothers.
Pastey Howler Ti - never saw another.
KONA King Kahuna titanium, brought second hand by me and then sold on to someone in Ireland.
One of the last RSP ti frames built for the factory team. It was a tad too small for me but still regret selling it 🙁
A 2007 Clockwork Orange reissue, 101 of 200. So not that rare but very nice!
Got a haro freestyler ltd edition... Only 200 made...signed by the man himself. Looking at it in my living room ..
Riksbar winning so far, and kevolution in last place, purely on coolness grounds 😀
the-muffin-man - MemberI've got an original geared Ti Inbred which I've owned from new - I believe there where only 52 geared and 52 singlespeed frames made. Not sure how many are still on the trails.
Wow, only 52 geared, that was a small run for such 'I so wanted one' bike.
Used to have a geared and SS, 853 inbred, both of which were ltd to a run 100 of each, neither of which were signed by Brant, which I think makes them rarer still 😉
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yes, riksbar - Stockton 'til I went away to uni
(nice bike BTW !!)
One of the Taylor brothers gave me my 1st condensed milk sandwich at their workshop. Luckily for us all, that is merely a sandwich containing condensed milk 😆
Does my very pre WW2 Dawes count? Suspect that there are not a huge amount of my Rogers trike with diff left either.
Used to have a geared and SS, 853 inbred, both of which were ltd to a run 100 of each, neither of which were signed by Brant, which I think makes them rarer still
I used to have a pink signed one - the signature came of after its first clean though!!
2006 S-works Stumpy FSR
Still going strong and may favouritist bike ever!
A very early 100mm travel Titus Racer-X in 2005. Great bike. Then it broke!
On One Growler, no idea how many are out there. I did not get on with it at all, felt totally wrong for me!
I have a Dave hinde pro, people look at the bike but have no [s]idea it cost so much!![/s]clue why anyone'd spend so much on an ordinary, alloy framed MTB
A long time ago I owned the one that was pictured in his mag ads. With AMP Research forks.
Ibis bowTi. Still have it.
1930's Raleigh sport
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Pace RC300
Klein Adroit pro
2012 9:zero:7 Fatbike.
Got a Bontrager Race, probably not that rare, also got a Lemond Croix de Fer, which on the basis that the model i have was never imported has to be fairly uncommon.
Stars and Bars Kona Hot
Clark Kent Chromag
DeKerf UK Ltd Edition
Owned the Hot twice and only did about 10-15 miles on it 🙄
Mine must have been either a Pace RC200, Specialized S Works steel or Merlin XLM.
The S Works steel was a lovely bike.
I guess my Ritchey P20. I know of a couple more, but certainly not that common.
Scaredy, I wanted a Jack Taylor too. I went to their works where I was about 16, & still get narked that my dad wouldn't buy me a 2nd hand tourer of theirs, with 15 gears, 3 x 5. He saus that no-one needed that many gears.....
I'm also ex-Stockton. Thank god.
Santa Cruz Jackal BMX, not to be confused with the dirt jump frame of the same name, this was way earlier.
It was like a scaled down Chameleon frame and they only made 75 of them in 20" and 75 in 24", I've got the 20" which is still used occasionally.
Ken rodgers trike , moulton , rudge three speed , royal enfield revelation
Gary Fisher Marlin in 1998.
It was the only XXL Marlin imported to the UK - niche!
Raleigh bomber....and my much loved litespeed Pisgah
Titus Switchblade - my main ride.
1994 KHS Montana Comp. I didn't ever see many others at races and a quick google image search has returned precisely four results like mine. It's lack of popularity may have been due in part to the fact that sprinting out of the saddle flexed the frame so much, it ghost shifted both ends at the same time.
This one
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I've got a Pronghorn XC-SW Carbon and a Pronghorn PR6 Trail. Don't think there are many of either of them about.
Raliegh dyna-tech ti circa 1992. My brother in law used to race it back in the early 90's, it was actually his second as he snapped the first, then I had it for a few years. Gave it him back about 4 years ago but it needed a fair bit of work, he chucked it in skip!!
If I had it now i'd restore it to it's former glory, oh well.
Proto Ragley TD-1 - one of two
Chromag Sakura
The second Ti456 ever sold!
Kona A.
Not especially rare, but you don't see many.
Very rare in its current build with a belt-drive though...
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Klein Adroit Pro
OK, an Orange Clockwork's not a rare bike, but I had one in silver. Not seen another like it.
Also still got a Proflex 853 with a Noleen NR4 shock and Pace RC36 forks. In bits now though since the shock blew up and couldn't be repaired 🙁
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Salsa el santo -100mm full sus. Would have been great with an angleset
Dave Yates original Diablo -1991 with bespoke paint
i rode 5 miles home on my 1983 raleigh bomber yesterday !!
very sedate, like riding miss daisy !
hmmm
a dave lloyd
spooky metalhead
sinister splinter
prototype Scandal 29er
a big blue jones
all fairly bog standard really
An Indonesian Cycle rickshaw.
Pretty much certain it's the only one in the country....
Don't think I ever bumped into anyone on another Ventana when I had my El-Ciclon.
Never met anyone in a Niner come to think of it.
Mr big st-10 -
Sandman gobi
Omega ( mark reilly built) easton scandium roadie
Ventana full bounce tandem. I know there are a couple more out there in the uk but not with S&S couplings so you can pack the whole thing into 2 flight cases that fit the 62 inch rule to qualify as standard luggage. It's ace!
SWD 6 Gun
Keewee Cromo eight
Fat Chance Yo Eddy
Non production descendence custom cromo full suss
Magura test bike, very nice it was too, but not as nice as my HL 5spot so I sold it
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I had a Kuwahara Rhino 3 BMX, which I raced in the early to mid eighties. I sold it only about 5 years ago to a collector in Anchorage Alaska.
1991 Monster Fat Chance , in pepto pink
I've got an original geared Ti Inbred which I've owned from new - I believe there where only 52 geared and 52 singlespeed frames made. Not sure how many are still on the trails.
Well I've got one of the singlespeed ones, and it's still on the trails. How about a Hetchins Nulli Secundus? Only 50 of them made back in '53/54.
I owned a Specialized S-Works Team Edition M2 hardtail frame, with Carbon Fibre S-Works Judy's, exactly the same frame and forks ridden by Jason McRoy in DIRT.
Was reliably informed that only about 20 of the frames and forks made it to the UK, and all ended up in sponsored riders hands. Obviously, I bought it second hand (from lookmanohands off this forum), but then owned it for the next 5 or 6 years. Was a great bike, I only got rid of in the end (to my best mate who had it a few years thereafter) cos I [i]needed[/i] disc brakes...
Oh, and I very briefly owned a Spot Brand DJ frame, bought off Salsaboy of this here forum again. Only rode it a couple of times, before selling the frame on...
LimboJimbo - Member1994 KHS Montana Comp. I didn't ever see many others at races and a quick google image search has returned precisely four results like mine.
I had one of those - with Pace RC36's. Still have the 36's, but the rest died a while ago.
Salsa Selma - don't think many others would have endured the 8 months wait :o)
Used to.have an ex team animal orange Mr.o.that was pretty special, totally different to the production bike
Think I have the only Curtis with paragon sliders
1999 Red ano RC200.
1997 Yeti Kokopelli (hardtail, not the newer full-sus). US built Yeti, but only sold in Europe.
2004? Global ti softail. Only seen one other, and that not in the flesh.
Mantis pro floater by richard cunningham,my first real full susser..
1986 Rockhopper - all mountain bikes were rare then, it was common to ride over the downs all day without seeing another bike. I expect more Rockhopper's are sold in a year now, maybe even a month, than all the mountain bikes put together in 86.