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My Litespeed Firenze. Many miles on this..
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let me preface this with I am not a planet X fan and would not recommend them to any one.
But I love my Inbred and its the only one that I never contemplate selling I buy new stuff but keep coming back to the old Inbred.
Never sell? I've not sold any of them 🙂 They either get dismantled and recycled (pun intended) into new bikes, they emigrate to new homes (my 25 year old Hard Rock lives at the in-law's in Spain), they get nicked or they sit in the shed gathering dust with the other bikes. That aside, I've never had a bike that I loved so much I could never contemplate getting rid of. There's always a better bike around the corner...
Probably my Dawes Toucan kiddyback tandem. By the time the nieces and nephews have outgrown it, the grandchildren might be riding it! It survived the great cull of 2007#, after which I became a lot less sentimental about bikes!
#Seven stolen in one go. I miss my Merlin Cyrene 🙁
After my last selling experience, i'm never selling another one.
Just strip and store.
And donate to any needy causes if the opportunity arises.
I would say I am unlikely to sell either of my Spesh Camber or my Pivot 429 not so much on the grounds they are great bikes but on the grounds they have both done taken me safely through BC Bike Race and will therefore one day sit proudly on the wall of the garage looking a little battle scarred but still loved if dusty.
99 Caldera owned since December 1998.
Currently a frame only:
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97 Kona Lava DomeMe too. But I think mine must be a 98 if yours is a 97... I'm not sure now!! Bought it from Keswick Mountain Bikes. Love it, had some great times on it and it saw me through some bad times. How can people sell their bikes?
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Yeah, that's a '98 ^^
My Planet X Jack Flash - it's worth jack to anyone but myself. Ironically, it's a jump bike, but I'm rubbish (and always have been) at jump. I DID smash out Cannock's Monkey trail on it a while ago, me on a 26" wheeled, 14" framed, 15 y/o jump bike faster up all of the climbs than my friends on £3k+'s worth of full susser, and barely slower on the descents. It also still has my 15 y/o Tioga DH Fat66 tyres fitted!
My old (ish) CAAD4 road bike.
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Now with a carbon/gel SLR flow saddle.
It's 12 years old now, but having ridden newer carbon bikes there just isn't the level of improvement you'd expect there to have been, it just does what's expected of it.
Like the second post though, my trailstar is sadly missed, and my original 456 was a blast but had too much overlap with the Pitch, which I miss, but not in an irreplaceable way, it was always just a tool, albeit a very good one.
I'll keep riding this until I can't replace swingarms any more. Then it'll go on the wall.
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My other half's first hardtail, unless I can get a quick buyer and sneak it out the loft.
This one-
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Steel 2011 Sunn Tzar. There's nowt wrong with it so there's no reason to buy anything else. The frame'll be hung on a wall if/when it dies.
Probably my Genesis Croix de Fer. Not because it's particularly special or has sentimental value, just that its so great and utilitarian that there's no point. Race bikes and mountain bikes will all come and go as technology / budgets progress, but I can't see a situation where I'd ever need to exchange that.
There are some great stories in here, but others that I'm very unconvinced about. A Nomad? Prove me wrong in 5 years time.
Love of trailstar is strong. Mines is in the skip head tube parted company.
I don't want to and I never thought I would, but my 97 Zaskar owned from new and ridden and raced with so much affection may have to go.
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The cash will be used to finish building up a bike for my lad so it's bitter sweet.
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1994 ibis ti mojo - my mistress, my lover, my friend, my counsellor, my alcohol.
1994 ibis ti mojo - my mistress, my lover, my friend, my counsellor, my alcohol......
my word thats a long stem 😯 😆
1994 ibis ti mojo - my mistress, my lover, my friend, my counsellor, my alcohol.
My god that's a long stem.
Edit, beaten by 12 seconds.
Stanton Slackline.
The frame was a gift from the Mrs. Could't care less that it's a 26'er and out of date.
My god that's a long stem.
perfect for a balanced ride, its built in 1994 and its geometry works perfectly with the matching ti stem and ti forks. Trust me, she's been my mistress longer than any of the other women in my life. 🙂
Jones spaceframe. others would be difficult to let go, but the jones could only go, it if was replaced bu another pimpier Jeff.
Both my Bontragers, one MTB, one Road, never ever selling either of them, both still get ridden.
I doubt I'll ever sell my BTR either, mostly because it was built as a one of custom jobbie specifically to suit my weird proportions and riding, it was a bit of a personal project and will probably stay with me for as long as I can keep it going.
ti_pin_man - that's a beut.
My god that's a long stem.
perfect for a balanced ride, its built in 1994 and its geometry works perfectly with the matching ti stem and ti forks. Trust me, she's been my mistress longer than any of the other women in my life.
I'm only jesting - I've a 94 Clark Kent that has a 140mm ti stem and bars - noodley is the best way to describe it 😆
spooky, I also have a 94/95 Clark Kent that actually has a ti Clark Kent stem fitted and its a lovely stem.
Ah, mine is a steel frame.
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My steel spaceframe is the closest I've come to a bike i would never sell, however i may be getting rid of it to fund a new bike i have in mind, so i guess no bike is immune from getting the chop from my collection.
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perfect for a balanced ride, its built in 1994 and its geometry works perfectly with the matching ti stem and ti forks. Trust me, she's been my mistress longer than any of the other women in my life.
Joe your not doing my guilt any good when I ended your night ride at the Marin Trail when I forgot to do up the lock-ring on your Royce BB.
Go on show them your Ibis Bow Ti 🙂
This one - original Ti Inbred...
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Think I'll keep hold of my Keewee ChromoEight for a bit longer - it's not really worth anything but it's only a set of bars, a seat and pedals away from being Morzinable again. This is what it looked like before it got robbed of a few bits for my "Enduro" build.
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The frrame and fork aren't really worth anything but the frame has some sentimental value and the forks have a new stantion - it's hardly worth getting rid of considering the small amount of space it takes up on the wall.
Hmmm what would it be like with a narrow/wide ring, a clutch mech, an angleset, some offset bushes and a set of Flow EXs . . . . . . ? ? ? ? ?. 😆
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Umm, I've only sold a few, so it seems most are being kept. Can't imagine I'd ever sell my: Brian Rouke I built up in 78-79, Stumpy mk2 1987- now a touring bike and my everyday road bike, Merlin Fatti - my special bike, Cotic Soul - my third so feel I ought to hang on to this one, Blur 4x - just a full on lark. There are a few others... : | So I suppose some could go... Maybe....
Not had a full sus I've totally gelled with yet but hardtails maybe. I still have the frame from my 2004 marin wildcat trail which will probably get rebuilt at some point if I can find some old style pikes in half decent condiiton. Ahead of its time that bike plus my first proper mountain bike. Plus it has very cool tribal graphics.
All mine leave, but I've had a steel hardtail in one form or another continuously for 19 years.
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The bikes are not for sale. All eleven of them.
I manage to fit eight neatly stacked in a small alcove at the end of my bedroom, two on the landing and the pub bike outside. So space is not an issue.
Individually they're probably worth a few hundred quid, so not really worth selling. And I still enjoy riding them. I just keep amassing them...
My Rohloff'ed half fat with 29er front optioned titanium Jones 3d space frame.
I couldn't get what I belive it would be worth anyway
My old 2004 Rock lobster 853 re-sprayed my favourite shade of grey. Not that special but rode beautifully. Not worth owt as I dented/bent the chainstay, but may pay to have it fixed sometime.
As with lots of these bikes, it's about the sentimental value more than monetary.
Come to think of it I have a rock libster 853 from that era....keep thinking of building it up as a cross style bike with flared drops...ermm
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I think I've sold two bikes in my whole life, it's quite hard to sell snapped, cracked, bent or dented frames. Still have my cracked Bullit and snapped RFX frames with a vague idea that I might get them welded up one day..
Joe your not doing my guilt any good when I ended your night ride at the Marin Trail when I forgot to do up the lock-ring on your Royce BB.Go on show them your Ibis Bow Ti
I'd forgotten that nightmare!! ha. that's just biking life but the BB is still in there and going strong.
I nearly posted up the BowTi but if somebody put a gun to my head they could have it and I'd keep the ti mojo. its been through more adventures with me.
my triggers broom (1996 cindercone - 1998 cindercone - 2000 Handjob - 2003 Soul - 2012 Soul).
it's still the same bike though, yeah?