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My Cotic Soul Mk3 in orange...especially now they're not making any more. 🙁
One of the last of the original shape Santa Cruz Blurs. Turned out "Do what you ****ing want!" didn't actually mean that.
"Choose me or that ****ing bike" did mean exactly what it said.
I miss that bike.
would love to get my 2002 cannondale F800 (matt black with lefty fork) back.
sold it in a moment of stupidity,and have regretted it ever since.
i did the longest ride i,ve ever done on it (205 miles).
just a lovely bike 🙁
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My Cube ltd pro , really wish that one was still with me
I miss my matt gold GT BMX that was stolen outside my flat (3 floors up and chained to the bannister). 😥
This, all sorts of this....
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Not my picture but I had an identical frame to this one. I had XTR all over it with the orginal Fox forks and Crossmax SL wheels and RFcranks. Absolutely loved this bike (I actually think it rode better than the VPP frames of today). I would always get special treatment in London bike shops, too as the mechanics always fought to work on it. Gutted when it was stolen from my flat. 😥
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Me riding it near Les Arcs...
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Pics by hungrymonkey of this forum IIRC.
I put a Pace DH stem and some risers on this and it was the best bike ever.
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And this one..
odd that they are from the same era... and British weirdly.
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My Cotic soda. I never got to ride it much, but when I did I loved every moment on it.
Miss my Dave Yates Diabolo. Fillet brazed 735 tubing. It was lovely 🙁
1993 Kona Cindercone with silver to green fade paint!
I will buy another one day...
Miss me Kona Explosif of 89.
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This one for me ... sold it in a moment of weight weenie madness ... shame!
Intense 5.5 for me too. Stolen nearly two years ago. I'd just about got over it when I read a Shaun Palmer interview recently where he said it used to be his go-to bike.
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I loved that bike, 1989/1990 Rockhopper Comp.
I'm just looking at a vintage rockhopper on the NZ version of ebay cos I'm after something to go exploring on while I'm out here..
Recently serviced, good working order at £42.50 and no bids yet.. I may have to give the fella a call this eve
The chain looks a bit sketchy though ey..
Whatwesayin'? Is this my new bike?
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my Orange crush, mmm lovely
This beaut weighed a tonne, and made sure I was almost always last on the BMX track near my house when I was riding against my friends, but man was she popular when we were doing our log-jumping competitions on the front street!
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With this thread, I am starting to realise how many things I wish I had never got rid of. 🙁
SaxonRider - I know what you mean!
Thanks to everyone for sharing, has been an awesome trip down memory lane.
I may have gone out and bought another BMX off the back of this - not the one I had as a youth (yoof?!) but the first one I could find - http://www.gumtree.com/p/bicycles/bmx-stunt-bike-/1104374411 - that one to be exact.
Have only taken it for a sneaky ride around the block and already has put a big grin on my face. I may take it off road at the weekend. Well once I have told the other half why I have a new bike....
Still wish I had my one of these. I managed to wangle one out of Raleigh as the shop I worked in had a race team. I believe they were not available to the public, only the Raleigh team. Mine had a curved top tube. It did attract some curiosity from the Raleight team @ the malvern Hills Classic one year as they thought I was a new team member 😳
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Miss me Kona Explosif of 89.
Yes, I had my only decent race results on mine, back in the early nineties.
Luckily, I still have it......
Hold out for some longer bar ends and a higher stem yunki.
I wish I still had this, 89 specialized stumpjumper
I loved that bike, 1989/1990 Rockhopper Comp.
Bizarrely I have an '89 Rockhopper frame in the loft. 19.5" in grey, same triple butted tubing as the Comp and basic Stumpie of that year.
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Ah, there it was, Leigh Hill, Porlock, some time ago. On One Mary bars, Schwalbe Big Apple 2.35s and a leather Fizik Gobi K:ium wingflex.
Went like sh*t off a shovel, climbed like a deranged monkey and hurt my fillings downhill.
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Sold my Yeti ASR-5 and Cotic Soul last year.
Thought I wanted more travel and a slacker head angle for enduro, so got a Pivot Mach 5.7 instead.
Big mistake. Turns out I'm not an enduro rider at all.
I miss those bikes every day.
Loving the boxer memories ^^. I had a Tomahawk. The largest kid in our year had a Chipper. Incongruous.
A 16" wheel GT BMX with a back-pedal rear brake, early 90s vintage, that my neighbour brought over from Canada.
It was simple, light, indestructible (didn't matter if the wheels buckled!) and I could bunny-hop it about two feet aged 11. Got through a rear tyre every month though...
Sold it to my friend for a fiver when I got into skateboarding 🙁
Was told I needed [s]Thought I wanted[/s] more travel and a slacker head angle for enduro... Turns out [s]I'm not an enduro rider at all[/s] '[i]Enduro[/i]' is just another marketing-lead exercise to convince most normal trail riders they need to buy new bikes
FTFY... 😉
(As a fellow Yeti ASR5c rider - I can confirm this bike would have to be prised from my cold, dying hands).
I loved my Demo 9, but I think the Big Hit that I had before it was the best DH bike that I had. The PUSH tuned Van RC transformed that bike.
I also wish that I hadn't sold my Slackline at the start of the year; the Switchback is amazing but I'd like to have been able to hang onto the Slackline just because it was ace fun. The orange bits looked brill with the grey paint too.
My old Tomahawk, Grifter, Aero Pro Burner and Haro Sport - purely for nostalgic reasons as i don't think i could ride any of them these days without breaking myself.
Hard to believe this was 20 years ago (Haro Sport)...
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Hard to believe this was 20 years ago (Haro Sport)...
I had a Haro Invert. Always wanted a Master...
The bike I regret selling the most is my Ragley TD:1. It was brilliant. Went everywhere. Did everything. I loved it. Although I'd done more miles on it that probably every other bike I've owned combined I went through a period of not riding at all and in a momentary lapse I sold it. It regretted it from the moment I agreed to the sale. As the guy (someone from on here if I remember rightly) drove away with it I could have cried.
My Orange P7, if I had known Orange wouldn't make anymore I would of kept it.
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c1978 - I wish I still had this, not so much for the riding, but just to show we were thinking of MTBs in Britain even if we didn't know they existed then.
The bike is a "Hercules" with DIY extended and strengthened forks to give more ground clearance, can't remember where the handlebars came from, brakes are rod type for the wider rims (from an old delivery bike because they had bigger tyres) modified to work with cable levers. In the day I could wheelie the whole length of the street although a gang of us used to spend most of our time in an old quarry mixing it with the older boys on their 50cc or 125cc trail bikes. My mates all had highly modified bikes too, I was always envious of the one with two drivetrains (a chain on the left side with chainring and sprocket driving the rear wheel as well as usual position on the right side) - wish I had a picture of that too.
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