Following on from the "How long have you been MTBings" thread I thought that I would entertain/shock myself with a list of all the MTB's that have passed thro' my mitts over the years.
So, starting with my first in 1986:
Specialized Rockhopper - yellow, huge frame, chainstay mounted 'U' brake
Kona Cindercone - always wanted the Explosif
Nishiki Alien - stupidly short wheelbase
Marin Mount Vision Pro - beautiful bike, wish I still had it.
Proflex 885 - great in its day.
Cannondale Raven - stupid bike.
Orange Sub 5 - iconic.
Then the Santa Cruz obsession started:
Santa Cruz Blur - Great once I'd got shot of the Progression Suspension(?) rear shock.
Santa Cruz Nomad mk1.
Santa Cruz Blur LT - in Root Beer. Lovely.
Cove Hummer Ti - the one bike I wish I'd kept.
Santa Cruz Heckler - very capable bike.
Santa Cruz Nomad Carbon mk1 - Visual work of art (at the time).
Santa Cruz Tallboy - Lacking in travel.
Santa Cruz Tallboy LT - Great UK trail bike.
Evil Wreckoning - bought cheap and sold for a profit.
Santa Cruz Hightower - still got.
Speacialized Levo SL - Best bike ever!
So, average of 2 bikes per year over my lackluster 36 year MTB history. Some were kept for quite a while, others were the victim of frame swap outs and certainly most were not out and out whole bike purchases.
Lets see what you've got in your back-catalogue.
Secondhand Carrera Vulcan off ebay to get me started
Secondhand Specialized Rockhopper
New Trance X29er in 2013 that I've not used since 2015....but that's about to change!
I'm too lazy to remember specific bikes. Here's some brands I remember, multiples of most of them:
Specialized
Giant
Trek
Kona
K2
Cannondale
GT
Bridgestone
Tomac
Peugeot
Gary Fisher
Marin
Starting back in '86
Raleigh Mustang
Specialized Hardrock
Specialized Stumpjumper
Alpinestars Cro Mega DX
Raleigh Blueridge
Specialized Rockhopper
---long period of darkness and inactivity, coming back to life in 2014----
Boardman Comp 26
Cotic Soul mk3 26
Specialized Stumpjumper (retro)
Giant Trance
Specialized Stumpjumper M2 (retro)
Saracen Tufftrax (retro)
Cotic SolarisMax
Cotic Flaremax
Bontrager Privateer (retro) x 2
(I like steel bikes)
Not many.. some borrowed bikes, then
Principia Mac B
Cannondale CAAD(something)
Rocky Mountain Instinct 1999
Rocky Mountain ETSX70 2003
Yeti 575 2009
Added Yeti Big Top (still got)
newer frame Yeti 575
Rocky Mountain Instinct 2015 (current bike, still got)
Would be awesome if this was a complete database:
https://www.bikepedia.com/Quickbike/BikeSpecs.aspx?item=89210
Raleigh Pioneer
Scott Impulse
Merlin Malt 2
Guess RB1
Ribble Audax
Cotic Soul
Santa Cruz Blur
Another Ribble Audax
Specialized Roubaix
Kona Dew
Pinnacle Arkrose 4
Condor Fratello Disc
Moda Forte
Pinnacle Arkrose D3
Scott Addict
And a Laverack Jack on order.
That's 14 bikes in the last 17 years 🤯
In adult life
GT Outpost
Kona Lava Dome
Rock Lobster 853
Felt roadbike something or other
Giant Defy
Orange Five
Spesh Diverge
Isaac Kelvin
Still have 5 of them!!
I'm still leading with an average of 2 bikes per year. There has to be someone with a worse habit out there. Come on!!
Handsomedog..... Cheap taiwan alu 2001ish
Merlin hardtail 2003
Cannondale super v 2005
Back to handsomesog ss 2006
Voodoo wanga ss 2007
Commencal meta 4 2009
Turner 5 spot 2010
Turner burner current for last 5 years
Not that many for me:
KHS Montana summit 1994
Marin alpine trail 2006
2010 ish a 456 summer season
Prince Albert classic 2012- still in the family
2014 a Santa Cruz blur 4x still in the shed
2017 slot dropout 26 inbred. Built up rigid single speed then eventually donated to a good cause in feb 2020
2018 pinnacle ramin 5 frame donated by a riding acquaintance. Was built up then replaced then back to life as a monster cross thing.
Dec 2019 calibre sentry.
April 2020 last fast forward
So one bike only for 12 years, now 5 bikes in the shed (not counting the road bike), three get ridden regularly, and a new bike or frame every 6-12 months...seems to be progressing nicely...
Fewer than I thought, actually:
GT something or other (still have the frame)
Spooky Metalhead (wish I'd kept)
Specialized Big Hit
Orange Patriot
Kona Honky Tonk (deffo wish I'd kept)
Intense 6.6 (still have)
Cotic Roadrat
Cotic Soul (26") (still have)
Giant Escaper 23” clunker...
Giant Escaper 19”
Orange Aluminium O teeth rattler, 2ndhand. Developed crack in top tube. Orange replaced with new for 100£, i then sold on at a profit...
Trek 330 (in root beer, nice). Sold it a mate who kept it for 20 years...
Cannondale M2000 (think I sold to the lecht rocks as a commuter?)
Kona Explosif (with vee brake braze on and BRG respray). Loved this bike. It got nicked 😔
ProFlex XP8 (which I upgraded with noleen coil shocks). Noleen rear snapped so it got punted on.
Klein Attitude Race (in gold glitter). Sold it a mate who still rides it, still on original tyres, 15-20 years later.
Santa Cruz Heckler (w/ 5th Element shock) sold on, as took a mtb hiatus (went climbing instead)
Cove Handjob (tin can). Traded in for...
Cotic Soul (late Mk1 I think) black, my very first Cotic. Went through multiple guises, bit of a triggers broom really. Gave it the Loon.
Titus Moto-Lite (too steep, it got punted on)
Chumba vf2 (Air shock was awful, lacked rebound adjustment, coil replacement improved it but was still too steep, got punted on to fund...).
Cotic Soda (we didn’t get on I’m afraid, it also got punted on...).
Cotic Solaris (mk1 in orange) rode it three times then sold it to a mate to get...
Cotic Solaris (mk1 in green, the same as orange, only green 🤪). Hill bike, lives in shed.
Cotic Rocket (mk1, first one out of Cotic). I didn’t need a FS but I got LBS to get a demo in (so the shop guy could demo it really). We both bought one... turns out slack is what I was looking for... took another hiatus (punted on and used as deposit for litre motorcycle)
Stanton Sherpa (NewGen B+). Now lives in the loft.
Cotic SolarisMAX (mk1 B+, bikepacker mule, first batch out of Cotic, made their news page as it was a 2x off-piste Custom custom build...). Now lives in loft (next the Sherpa...)
Cotic SolarisMAX (mk2 longshot) sold it to get the SodaMAX but bought it back when the mate I sold it too also bought a SodaMAX. Now B+ bikepacker mule.
Cotic SodaMAX
Cotic FlareMAX (gen 2)
I think that’s the lot...
Sorry, I can't compete with that list. Mine:
Saracen Raw (hangs head in shame)
Marin East Peak
Apollo something-or-other (£40 in Halfords clearance - from commuting to Aston Hill Red run)
Rockhopper
Giant Yukon FX3 (kids were young; I needed a cheapo FS for quick blats round the woods)
Vitus Nucleus 260
Vitus Escarpe
Vitus Nucleus 275 VR
Ragley Big Al
Claud Butler Cape Wrath
Specialised FSR
Gary Fisher x-Caliber
Marin something or other hard tail
Orange Patriot
Orange Patriot
Orange Five Pro
Santa Cruz 5010 v2
Trek Stache 5
Santa Cruz Hightower CC v1 (still got the frame)
Whyte g170s v2 (still got)
Cotic Solaris Max (still got)
Kona Remote 160 (still got)
Cotic Jeht (still got)
Worse habit? I rode the same bikes for ages but seem to have bought 4 last year 😳
89/90 a Stumpjumper on a year long loan to me by Specialized for an event.
Then nothing until:
2014 a Cannondale Trigger2 with left and 29" wheel. Bit of a change.
2015 On One Fatty
2015 Cannondale Jekyll Carbon 2
2015 Cannondale Trail 29er rigid with EBB for SS
2017 On One Fatty trail soon sold to by another On One Fatty
I’m still leading with an average of 2 bikes per year. There has to be someone with a worse habit out there. Come on!!
Posted 30 minutes ago
Not sure how you're getting that figure. 18 bikes over 36 years is 2 years per bike last time I looked.
I’m still leading with an average of 2 bikes per year.
You may wish to revisit your calculations there...
Oh, I forgot a Giant Defy - too late to edit. 15 bikes in 17 years. No idea why MrsMC gets upset with me.....
2005 - Rocky Mountain ETSX
2006 - Orange P7
2006 - Airborne Carpe Diem
2007 - Kona A
2007 - Ibis Mojo
2007 - Santa Cruz Chameleon
2008 - Cove Hummer
2008 - Cotic Soda
2008 - Klein Attitude (still have it)
2009 - On One ti456
2009 - Independent Fabrications Steel Deluxe
2009 - Salsa Mamasita
2010 - Genesis Flyer
2010 - On One Ti29er
2010 - Kona Bandwagon (still have it)
2011 - Litespeed
2011 - Singular Pegasus V1
2012 - Ibis Mojo SLR
2012 - On One Pometamine
2012 - Singular Pegasus V2
2013 - Singular Pegasus V2
2013 - Genesis Croix De Fer 725
2013 - Genesis Day One Alfine 11
2014 - On One Pickenflick
2014 - Klein Attitude
2014 - Singular Puffin
2015 - Niner RLT9
2015 - Ibis Mojo HDR
2016 - Trek Stache
2016 - Yeti Sb95C (sill have this)
2016 - Kinesis Tripster ATR
2017 - Stooge Mk1
2017 - Litespeed Cohutta
2018 - Trek Stache Carbon (still have this)
2018 - Litespeed T5G (still have this)
2019 - Open Upper (still have this)
2020 - Niner Air 9 Carbon (still have this)
2020 - Carbonda CFR696 (still have this)
39 bikes in 15 years...I didn't include early BSO and MTBs which weren't, but there are 2 Road bikes and 9 Gravel bikes.
Oh, I forgot a Giant Defy
I think you’ll find that’s a road bike (and doesn’t count 🤪)
HTH.
So, Metalheart has taken the lead with a history of 22 bikes ,but over an unknown period of time so we don't know the bike per year rate. We need the missing info Metalheart.
What is becoming obvious, although hardly surprising, is the level brand loyalty. For me, it took a significant leap of faith to move away from Santa Cruz to try Specialized, but in doing so I have seen how different bikes can be so, well, different. Always thought that VPP was the bees knees of suspension design, but I am very much liking the feel of the Specialized setup.
Enough with the pondering, on with the mental calcs of how much we have all supported the UK economy over the years!
So, Metalheart has taken the lead with a history of 22 bikes
Daffy beats me (and over a shorter period). Mine starts circa autumn ‘89.
There are also 4 roadies and 2 CX/gravel bikes in there too...
Raleigh Mustang
Muddyfox Courier comp
Kona Lavadome 1994
Some weird Orbit MTB alu/ti bonded frame thing
Gary fisher Joshua
Specialized enduro comp 2004
Specialized Enduro expert 2005
Giant Anthem 2012
Then the kids came along and bikes got crazy expensive!
Youse have too many bikes! 😆
mid 80s, black and gold bmx, think it said harrier on it.
1990ish white raliegh maurauder.
2000ish, started using my brothers peugeot mtb, still rigid early 90s style, but lighter and with brakes that kinda work.
2007 gt avalanche expert - suspension is invented, as are disc brakes!
2011 genesis core 40
2018 - converted genesis to a bafang ebike
2019 - pinnacle arkose r2.
Looks like I'll be due something new round about 2025/26 ish 😆 I think full suss might get invented around that time. 😆
OK, short list but here goes.
1992 Raleigh Montana (disappeared in Faslane around 1998)
2000 Specialized Rockhopper (blue and white with Judy 63mm travel forks)
2005 Specialized Stumpjumper (gorgeous beautiful creature)
2013 Specialized Camber (to replace the above 2 which were stolen)
2014 Pinnacle Arkose 3 (currently running 2 wheelsets for road and not road)
Doh!!!!
Daffy - have you seen a counselor?
Apologies for my failed calcs (I won't tell you that I work with figures all day long).
ebikegum
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Daffy – have you seen a counselor?
How would I possibly have the time with all this bike swapping to do?
????-2000 Raleigh (model unknown as it was painted over)
2000-2003 GT Zaskar (still have it and it'll be a hack bike once I can source some cheap wheels)
2004-2005 Commencal Supernormal (borrowed)
2005-2016 Dialled Bikes Prince Albert (OG)
2016-2019 Transition Bandit 27.5
2019-???? Stanton Switch9er FS
Also had a Surly 1x1 for commuting in there but it was never used as a MTB.
Maybe not in exact chronological order, but there or thereabouts
Carrera Mission. First 26” MTB, mid-late 90’s, upgraded everything, starting with lime green clubroost comp 2 bars.
02 Azonic DS Evo, first bike (frame) bought with my own earned money. Rode everything on it, at 6”1, with a 14” frame...
99 Kona Stinky. First full suss. Stolen ☹️
04 Apollo vortice. Cheap Halfords (I worked there) BMX. Hilarious fun. Broke a lot.
BSO with Corona beer branding. Cheap transport while finishing uni.
05 Specialized Demo 8. Did my best riding on this, culminating in a whistler trip. Lent the bike to a mate, never saw it again as was stolen 😭
08 Specialized SX trail2. Never really liked it, DH weight with XC geo. Sold on pretty quick. https://flic.kr/p/2kpHnMC
05/06 GT iT1. High pivot gearbox DH bike (a sign of things to come?). 50lb tank, brilliant fun. https://flic.kr/p/2kpDytc
03? Orange hitman. Bought to compliment the big GT. ended up selling both to combine into... https://flic.kr/p/2kpH4ZP
09 Intense Slopestyle. Ever changing work in progress. Was 3x9 with a boxxer at one point. https://flic.kr/p/2kpDyt2
On-one inbred SS. Cheap drunken SH purchase turned into bling commuter. https://flic.kr/p/2kpH4Rs
GT 24” pro cruiser. Lusted after all through uni, bought (off here) years later. Rode once, sold it. Never meet your heroes. https://flic.kr/p/2kpH4G4
13 Trek 1.5 road bike. Went to a demo event, loved the speed of road bikes, bought this as an entry to try. https://flic.kr/p/2kpDyrP
13 Trek Madone 5.2. Liked road biking, upgraded everything, Di2, Dura ace everything. Still got. https://flic.kr/p/2kpHnRa
14 Santa Cruz 5010 v1 carbon. Went on a demo event, tried one, declared it perfect and everyone else should just stop trying. I’ll be buried with this bike. https://flic.kr/p/2kpH5nh
14 Santa Cruz Nomad v3. Bought blind on the strength of the 5010, not disappointed. https://flic.kr/p/2kpH4SV
13 Santa Cruz Chameleon. Last of the 26” ones. Went to pick up some (free) stickers. Ensuing custom build came to a couple of grand... https://flic.kr/p/2kpH5ie
14 Specialized fatboy. Bought on a whim, proper laugh. Never rode this one in the snow... https://flic.kr/p/2kpDfrR
16 Specialized turbo levo. Went to a demo event, unaware of its existence. Tried to buy one there and then (had to wait 3 months for it to finally come into stock). Still got, now running 29”. https://flic.kr/p/2kpHDMQ
17 Specialized Sequoia. Brilliant commuter and fun in the woods, still got. https://flic.kr/p/2kpHDEv
17 Salsa mukluk carbon. Bought lose weight of the fatboy. Mission accomplished. Also used with 29” wheels Still got. https://flic.kr/p/2kpHDvx
18 Deviate Guide. Bought whilst feeling sorry for myself in hospital. Tally converted to HPP bikes now, hence... https://flic.kr/p/2kpH5nN
20 Deviate Highlander. Like the guide, but a better trail bike. Changing colour soon, watch this space. https://flic.kr/p/2kpHnLL
*Awaits Mamadirts contribution, might be a while 😉
Wait for Ton’s contribution!
Wait for Ton’s contribution!
This. It's not even a competition.
Lost interest since people started listing non-MTBs.
Since 92
An emmelle mtb shaped object
a Marin
A Raleigh ti
genesis IOID
'dale tandem
Salsa Beargrease
I gave away the Emmelle, the Marin was stolen and the genesis was its replacement which I then gave to a pal. I still have the Raleigh, the fattie and the tandem
Not to good with the dates, however started in '91 with MTBs, before that racers with Cowhorn handlebars and reversed drops as well as a Raleigh Chopper and Tomahawk.
Trek 830 Antelope - yellow, black splatters
Saracen frame built up with parts, first bike build.
Marin Pine Mountain 95
Another Trek 930? 97
GT Aggressor 00/01
Airborne Lancaster, Ti everything. 01/03
Inbred 853 - originally black, then red, prob my fav bike of all, broke it😭
Santa Cruz Superlight, first and only full sus.10/11
Cotic Bfe in 853 of course!
Salsa a la Carte - green frame
Salsa el Mariachi - blue frame, start of zee 29er bikes.
Cotic Escapade - flirtation with road/ gravel, not for me Ronnie.
Salsa el Mariachi - General Lee Red current and only bike, fully rigid single speed at mo.
Out of that lot only 3 have been bought as full bikes, two Treks and the Marin, the rest built up from frames from the bay or here. Next step I think is to get on a frame building course to build me own bike.
Raleigh Tundra
Genesis Core20
Specialised Rockhopper SL
Trek Fuel EX8
Orange Crush
Orange Five
Trek Cobia
Orange Five29 (Still got)
Bird Zero AM
On One DeeDar
Orange Crush29 (Current winter tool)
Sorry DezB I'm just listing the bikes I have actually owned since 1975, to me its all just riding a bike?
Rudge tourer 1960’s
Coventry Eagle 20” bits of bike cow horns etc 1970’s
No Name 22” road bike 1975
Benotto SL 23” road bike 1977
Dan Shotton custom built 653 road/TT bike 1978
Specialized Stumpjumper 1984
Peugeot 531 SL road bike
Saracen traverse hydrotech comp 1991
Marin Pine Mountain 1990
Cougar 653 Road bike 1994
Marin Mt Vision 2000
Trek Liquid 30 2003
On One 456 Steel 2005
Kona Cindercone SS 1998
Mongoose Tecali Comp 2003
Generic Alloy HT 2005
Planet X SL road bike 2006
Planet X Proto Scandal 2006
Kona Kikapu Deluxe 2006
Moda Stretto 2009
Genesis Croix De Fer 2009
On One 456 Ti 2009
Trek Remedy 9 2010
Ragley MmmBop 2010
Giant Seek 0 2010
On One 456C 2011
Titus Rockstar 29er 2014
On One Dirty Disco 2014
Cannondale 29er Trail 2015
On One Fatty Trail 2015
On One Scandal 29er 2020
I might have missed a few, but its been a long day!
A sliver BMX, no idea what it was.
Raleigh styler mag
Raleigh racer
Townsend something ATB
Townsend warlord
Raleigh Dyna-tech
GT Avalanche
Orange 5
On one Inbred 29
On one Inbred 26
BTwin 520 SE (I think) road bike
Planet X London Road - still got and probably most used bike
Ragley Blue Pig - still got frame
Commencal Meta Am
Cotic Solaris mk 2 - my current and only MTB.
Planet X pro carbon evo - still got
Starting about 93/94 with what I consider my first proper MTB-:
British Eagle ZFX Two
Univega Alpina 5.3 (still have the frame and forks)
Cheap unbranded aluminium frame
DMR Trailstar
<Big gap of about 7 years>
Specialized Pitch Pro
Kona Kula
On One 456 Evo2
Kona Unit
Whyte T-129
Calibre Dune
New bike on order.
Sorry DezB I’m just listing the bikes I have actually owned since 1975, to me its all just riding a bike?
Well, seeing as you asked, no. It’s a thread about MTBs.. see: Following on from the “How long have you been MTBings” thread I thought that I would entertain/shock myself with a list of all the MTB’s that have passed thro’ my mitts over the years
I know, I know, I’m just grumpy cos of all the covid shit, but I can still read.
Raleigh Mustang (1992)
Emmelle something or other (1993, stolen)
Al Carter Sacramento (1996, ex-hire and knackered)
Orange C16r (1997)
Orange Sub5 (2002)
Niner EMD (2008, stolen)
Orange ST4 (2009, snapped)
Sanderson Breath (2012)
Marin Nail Trail 7 (2017)
Just to make you slightly less grumpy DezB, here is the list with just mountain bikes 🙂
Specialized Stumpjumper 1984
Saracen traverse hydrotech comp 1991
Marin Pine Mountain 1990
Marin Mt Vision 2000
Trek Liquid 30 2003
On One 456 Steel 2005
Kona Cindercone SS 1998
Mongoose Tecali Comp 2003
Generic Alloy HT 2005
Planet X Proto Scandal 2006
Kona Kikapu Deluxe 2006
On One 456 Ti 2009
Trek Remedy 9 2010
Ragley MmmBop 2010
On One 456C 2011
Titus Rockstar 29er 2014
Cannondale 29er Trail 2015
On One Fatty Trail 2015
On One Scandal 29er 2020
Avanti Ridge Rider
Cannondale 3.0 series
Nishiki Alien (the first one, not ACX)
Fisher CR7
Scott Boulder
GT Zaskar
bit of a gap to..
P-X Jumping Jack Flash
Cannondale F900SX, stolen
SC Bullitt, stolen
Cannondale F2000SX
SC Chameleon
Specialized Stumpjumper FSR
On-One Ti456
Cotic BFe
Specialized Enduro
Ibis Mojo
Ibis Mojo HD
Singular Rooster
Bird Aeris 145
looking back,the first 5 mtb's I had were in NZ- 4 out of those 5 were stolen, with the CR7 being stolen/recovered/stolen again. I must have been easy pickings in my youth.
