[Closed] THE Bike you most regret selling?

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.

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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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/94993565@N00/3724143633/ ]Santa Cruz Heckler[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/94993565@N00/ ]BURNSYBHOY[/url], on Flickr[/img]

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!

my schwinn 4 banger from 12 years back, great in its time and my first full suss and disk brakes, no doubt shocking now, but boy I love my first rip around the red bull At old world CyB. ooh when I was young(ish)

Dirt brown Kona Chute with legendary Marzocchi Z1 Wedge fork. Sold it to a mate so that I could still have "visitation rights" ..... it got stolen a couple of months later 🙁

Hora's been strangely quiet on this thread... 8)

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Well, frame anyway.

Hora's been strangely quiet on this thread...

Well all the frames people have mentioned, he probably sold them

The Chameleon frame I pictured above I bought off him. He's a public service, innit? 😀

Buell cyclone M2 - that was turned into S1 spec.
And with way better suspension ( and rubbishy hard race forks)

GT pro performer, yellow with skyway Tuff 2 wheels. Sold it to buy a commodore Amiga A500..... how wrong is that!

My Orange O2 hardtail. I sold it to a new member of the bike club, not having met him, but wanting to encourage him into the 'club family', I sold him the frame for a bargain price. He then had it stripped, painted black and turned it into a commuter. The epic adventures I had on that bike, the blood I spilt riding it, only for it to end it's days as a commuter.I've never sold a bike since. When they're retired they go up on the wall of my garage. Haven't heard from the guy either,(I seem to recall he was banned from here for sectarian comments), and I can't say I miss him. 🙁

Just put my Orange Strange five on eBay, don't know if I'm doing the right thing.

Honestly, this one:

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I built it up on a whim cos I fancied a cruiser, but I picked the wrong size frame on ebay- it was too small for me, and too big for my missus. Absolutely gutted...