If you had to pick [b]one bike[/b] you regret selling [b]the most[/b] what would it be and why?
I'll get us started
Mine would be an Intense Socum I owned that had a one off paint job of digital camo. Totally irreplaceable one off bike that got people talking wherever it went. Should be cracked and hanging on my garage wall with my Klein Attitude now rather than in someone else's hands 🙁
I sold it to pay for the tuition fees when I went back to uni to do a teacher training PGCE qulification.
I made it as Head of Maths this week so arguably owe some of my career to this in some ways.
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Paul
Santa Cruz Chameleon frame I bought in 2005.
One ride on it in the Peak made me hate it. I should have given it another chance because I loved it before that.
2004 sworks enduro with the remote brain shock
Had one sold it. Got another sold it.
Just loved the way it rode when the shock worked but so unreliable
Mk1 sovereign.
This thread would be better with more pictures 🙂
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orangeboy if your intrested i'm selling my 04 sworks frame off cheap as ive just bought a 29er and need to make space
05/06 Giant Reign-the original one with the forged basket for the rear shock.
Didn't realise how good that bike was until it'd gone to raise the cash for something else 🙁
Planet X Zebedi trials bike.
Was absolutely perfect for me and the kind of riding I did. Middleburn cranks, magura rear, old skool Hope C2 front. Brilliant bike.
Sold it as I wasn't really riding it much, then every year or so I get the urge to build up a trails bike
This one...
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& the one I'm riding here...
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A 247 Montesa.
Or do they not count?
a 653 terry dolan kitted out with 105 and tubs.
sold to fund a replacement mtb after my marin got nicked, probably the biggest regret of my life, for several reasons:
1 the mtb i replaced it with was crap
2 i got less than a third of the original value
3 i will never have another like it, modern frames have to pass cen and dont feel the same.
They count, are they old school trials bikes esselgruntfuttock?
'For the piss poor money you get back I regret selling all of my old bikes!
@mattbibbings, if your wrists don't thank you for it your nuts certainly will! 😕
2006 Chameleon. Great bike painted in a colour called rootbeer. It was like riding an overgrown BMX bike, so much fun.
[i]They count, are they old school trials bikes esselgruntfuttock?[/i]
Oh God yes. I had the blue Bulto in about 1995-6, but just mucking about on it. The Mont I was riding club trials with in 1980-82 maybe. Rode trials for about 15 years from 1977ish.
I've got a 2003 enduro sx in need of tlc oh and another bike might result in me being single again lol
But thanks anyway
Je ne regrette rien!
However, the bikes that have been stolen - those I miss 🙁
The superlight i bought off you chilled.
Raced it for a year then sold it to fund my nz tour
My meridas never quite filled the gap that superlight left. Light but equally abusable.
cannondale rush carbon I sold about a year ago
yeti cx bike I sold about 2 years ago
Nice, I started off riding 26" mtb trials at about 13 before I got into DH and then eventually all mountain/xc. Always fancied a go on a trials bike with an engine.
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Had all my least smeggy results on that bike.
Lol. Is that the one I sold you Terry?
EDIT: Just realised you'd posted before the pictures. Really glad that got some "proper" use.
Honestly, none at all. I missed my Soul when I was struggling to replace it, mind, but I've finally found something that can match it so the hole's filled. Everything else was either enjoyed to the full then replaced for good reasons, or not worth keeping, and my current bikes are the best bikes I've ever had.
Well. I suppose- I'd love to get my old scotia bmx back from when I was 12. I didn't like it then, because I was a kid and it was a full adult's race bike.
Litespeed Kitsuma........ 😥
Specialized Singlecross. My perfect commuter bike. Sold it when my workplace changed..... and six weeks later, I moved back 🙄
I have regretted almost all of the bikes I have sold, I have started hoarding instead, but loft space is not infinite, decisions decisions...
Old kitted out rigid (project 2s) GT Zaskar
Bad move selling that one.
Anyone who sells an early chameleon should punch themselves a bit in the bottom. Best and most fun bike ever on earth ever. Ever.
The bike I regret selling the most was my Number 1, first off the line, too large, pompino. I had more fun on that bike than anything ever, and it cost me two hundred quid. Why did I sell it? Absolutely no idea. The day it was gone I wished I hadn't. It's still out there I believe. Looking quite nice.
After that, my Specialised Enduro which I had to sell to get money because I'd been made redundant. I loved that bike, awesome!
chilled76 - Member
If you had to pick one bike you regret selling the most what would it be and why?I'll get us started
Mine would be an Intense Socum I owned that had a one off paint job of digital camo
Intense Socom? I can't see anything.... 😉
My lovely rawed Giant Reign. Nowt wrong with it, just got itchy feet. Miss it now.
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1986 Raleigh Road Ace. First 'decent' road bike I owned. I traded it in for a Tandem for very little money and would still prefer it even as just an ornament rather than the paltry £££'s I got for it 🙁
I haven't sold a bike since.
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My Kona Hei Hei. I had to sell it to part fund my Hummer (which I love), but it's the one I still pine for on a regular basis, to the extent I have a saved search on eBay!
Chilled76 - I remember your socom from southerndownhill, lovely bike with a cool and unique paint job.
My regret would have to be my 07 sx trail as that's was my most fun big ish bike, probably rose tinted looking back now but I loved it at the time and only sold to fund a trail bike. Have ended up with a specialized again as my bigger bike - a 2011 enduro expert that I've put a coil shock and 170 Lyriks on, love this one too and have no plans to sell at all.
Why I sold my old 'proper' Bontrager Race Lite I'll never know. Stupid, stupid, stupid.
Cinder Cone Ltd Ed (94 or 95 I think), pic stolen from another thread, but like this one instead of lurid rust-orange one.
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That or the Clockwork which was like this one (which might even be mine as it seems to have ended up in Chippenham and I was just outside Bath when I sold it):
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Kona King Kikapu 2002. Short travel rocket ship,but needed a few quid spending on it.
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One of two Mt Cycles San Andreas I was lucky enough to own, the Orange Five I replaced it with would ride 80% of the lines of the S.A. for about 80% of the weight.
(Still miss it and wish I'd kept it but it paid for Xmas when I got made redundant and I'd got the five and a 4-5-6 and a 24-7 Dark Angel in the garage so something had to give.......)
I have never sold a bike .
Hopefully not my 575 that's my only bike at the mo but we have £320 a week to pay in childminder/nursery fees and we're skint as it is so really struggling to find an alternative at the mo..
Apart from that- my 04 enduro s works.
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My Mojo - sold to my mate Dom, who'd been pestering me for ages until I relented and let him have it. Nothing has equalled the solidity of that bike when it hit big hard stuff.
My Sid Standard racing bike. Sold it when I was 17 to get my first car.
As motorbike count as well.
My Honda NS250R. At the time I just wanted a bigger bike. Looking back I realise now how rare they are. I have never seen another one, before or since.
Doh
The one bike that I would love to still own would be my ’93 spec olive green Stumpjumper. I bought one of the first batch that arrived in the UK in October 1992 and I was more excited than a little kid at Christmas. I couldn’t quite stretch to the ‘Future Shock’ version that came with Specialized's own suspension fork so I rode it rigid for about 6 months then splashed out on a pair of Pace RC35’s. I don’t have any pics of the actual bike but it was pretty much identical to this….
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My kona fire mountain SS. I bought it as frame and forks for £25 stripped removed some extraneous bosses and repainted in white with grey forks. It was my first SS back when it wasn't a big thing and a guy from here came to look at it to see what the big deal was lol. It rode lovely and it was my first introduction to niche the first thing that said you know what don't stick with the status quo and build bikes you want to ride.
Oh the original Kona explosif frame a guy sold me with the stuck seatpost in it for £25 which i promptly fixed and sold for £150 on ebay
It has to be the Clockwork Orange with 'gold' rockshox in the early 90's really regret selling it
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I wish I'd never sold this (it was pre digital cameras so I don't have a picture of my actual bike).
As for bicycles, I didn't know it was possible to sell them. I can't, anyway.
My first full suss was a Whyte 46, I did'nt keep it very long as compared to the Stumpjumper it replaced it felt heavy and slow, I wish i had given it more of a chance than I did.
Anyone who sells an early chameleon should punch themselves a bit in the bottom. Best and most fun bike ever on earth ever. Ever.
You say that but I had one of the very first mk1 Chameleons in the UK with [b]the[/b] first set of 5" Z1 BAMs to reach a UK customer. It was one of the best bikes I thought I'd ever ridden and was absolutely devastated when it was stolen. But last year I bought another as a do-er-upper. Rode it a few times and it just felt rubbish.
Nothing as special as some of the above but I really regret selling my drop bar singlespeed RoadRat. It was an absolute hoot and probably one of the most versatile bikes I've owned.
Funds were used to buy my Karate Monkey which I love equally bit wish I'd had the money to keep both of them.
My old Blur 4x, loved riding but sooooo bored with changing bearings axles etc, also a 95ish kona cindercone
Funk Durango, sold the frame for 300 quid to put towards my ti ibis mojo, wish I could have kept it but needed the cash to fund the next purchase.
sigh.
Really regret selling my Langster. Even with its flexy wheels and ugly pedals/stem it was awesome
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Also wish I'd never sold my old Federal Division BMX as I'd probably be way better at riding my current bmx if I'd stuck with that.
Original 1988 Kona Cinder Cone.
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Only kept it for a year because I started working at a bike shop who didn't sell Kona and I was (foolishly) tempted into an amazing deal on an Alpinestars.
I regretted selling it for a couple of years after until the shop became a Kona dealer so I could get a tradeprice-15% '90 Explosif, yay! (although unfortunately that was a Suntour year, so I bought another Gold Explosif a year or so later)
Still regret selling my Kona Stinky Six. Sold to buy a Dialled Alpine which was a shade too small. That got sold to buy a Specialized which just reinforced how me and Spesh don't get on and got sold. There is now a large Kona shaped hole in my life.
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Not the best picture and the fork / stem combo was in a state of flux but by hell I loved that bike.
It used to be my Mk1 Cannondale Raven, but I bought another a few years ago and apart from the looks, it was just a bike. It didn't offer anything over the bikes I own.
I do regret selling my Bonty. Nice handling and ride, sold for a dialled love/hate for easier ss set up.
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Mine would be my 2007 Chameleon...it's just did everything. RS Pike 454 Airs, King headset, X9 mech and shifters, Hone cranks, Saint brakes Pro II hubs. Great bike.
Or, my Demo 9. Awesome but couldn't justify it when I moved further south.
Yamaha SR500, paid the electric bill years ago when I was really skint. Just so much fun and GF at the time sold it for next to nothing..s**t happens I suppose.
You can sell bicycles?????
Orange Vitamin T. The original model, not the T2. Undescructable, light, repsonsive.
Never rode a Ti bike like it and I've been trying ever since to ride anything as good.
Bah.
Really miss my old 5 Spot, convinced myself I needed something more mordern and longer travel.
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On reflection I should of kept it - think I will be moving back down from 160mm in the travel stakes
tops 5 - what did you replace it with?
No pictures but the one I most regret selling was my Cotic Soul to pay for a Santa Cruz Superlight that I wrecked in a crash about 6 months later. Tried a few hardtails since and never found something quite as much fun as the Soul. So I just bought another one that is waiting to get built up as soon as health permits.
I sold this frame (Fly Luna 20.4)
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and bought a longer one under the false assumption that i would prefer it. Big mistake, this was the nicest BMX i have ever ridden. The new frame (Sputnic Skyline 20.75)
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put me right off riding as it was too low to ride. I don't ride BMX enough to consider buying a new one, so it sits in the garage gathering dust. Not MTB but hey ho.
My Kona JTS and the Heckler.
+ 1 for the whyte 46. Had one for three years awesome bike for the time, especially fitted with the alpine link.
Lots of Konas in this thread.
Mine would be my beetle-green Kona Muni Mula.
Where did she end up, I wonder?
I know i'm really going to regret flogging my 2010 spesh langster, but i've just got to own that Mojo HD by any means necessary 🙂
anyone interested?
The Curtis SuperX in Mango Yellow that Daveyboywonder sold me 🙂
AlexSimon - I one of those buried at the bottom of my shed, it's my "I'm gonna get round to a full period build retro bike 1day" bike. Be nice if it turned out like that one!
My biggest regret was my Pace RC100 - have an RC200 built up with a mish mash of parts now but just doesn't feel as special as the 1st did though.
Orange 224 & Gt pro series cruiser.
2005 On-one 26" pearl white inbred rigid single speed with sliding dropouts.
That bike rode thousands of miles and never let me down but I hadn't ridden it in 6 months and sold last year.
I still regret getting rid of my Whyte PRST-4 (don't laugh), I still rate it as the quickest XC bike I've ever had.
Marin B17, 1997ish - had it from new. Gave it away to my LBS to pass on to someone who would ride it rather than keeping it in the garage like me. Would love to get it back, even just for one ride
Anyone who sells an early chameleon should punch themselves a bit in the bottom. Best and most fun bike ever on earth ever. Ever.
Agreed. I had a V1 Chameleon in black with orange Z1s, Kujo tyres, dinky Azonic stem and big bars, 1x gears and a DMR device. It was a great XC/jump bike. Took a long time to find another bike as much fun as that one. The frame is still in the garage with a crack in the HT/DT.
I regret (only slightly) giving away a Kona Lava Dome frame to a friend who turned into a brilliant SS with new dropouts and paint. But not really, he made damn good use of that frame.
1991 Kona Lava Dome. Purple with black P2 rigid forks. My first proper mountain bike. Lots of great memories discovering new trails locally and epic day rides through the Cairngorms. I bought a very tidy later version with a blue frame and gold P2's but I'd love another purple beastie.
Most regret selling my 97 Zaskar. Properly specced. Cook bros cranks. Xtr mechs and cassette. Spin trispoke wheels. Pace rc36 etc.. especially because the fat chance I bought with the money really hurt my back too ride.
Very closely followed by my c456. Though the sting is gone from that by my ti456.
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Always regret splitting this bike and selling it. Don't know if I'll ever have the money to build something similar. I have a young family now.
Mountain Cycle San Andreas with awful elastomer shocks, cable disks and Pulstar hubs.
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Definitely my old Chameleon
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Thought I needed something a little less hooligan after a full days riding it at Long Mynd. Ever since, I've got on fantastic descents and thought 'the Chameleon would have been ****ing great down here!'. Just the best do-it-all bike ever! I want another one now!