Tangerine Puch Murray BMX in about 1979 (I think) - I actually raced it a few times! Various lashed up off road bikes after that. Grifters, racers with knobblies and cowhorn bars etc..
First "mountain bike" was a Purple Emmelle Cheetah in early 90s with biopace cranks and new-fangled indexed gears.
You may sneer but I absolutely hammered for years without it breaking. Including riding some mad drops and rock gardens on the coast path. Was still running it as a complete bike up until about 5 years ago and as a bodged singlespeed up until last year - frame is still in garage, covered in bumpy black hammerite!
my first MTB was a £100 universal (1991). it was awful, double chainset, hi-tensile steel. the brake levers were plastic and broke after about a month, but i still rode it.
then i saved and bought a diamond back topanga (1994) - what a great bike! i sold it to my german teacher at college, and convinced her that her tiny son would grow into it... 😆
First "proper" MTB was a 2001 Giant Terrago, still got it and still ride it (occasionally)
1990 raleigh elan road bike, saved up for 6 months for my first road bike at 16 and even though i never ride it now it's still in the garage!!
1st mtb 1998 Marin Indian Fire Trail- Graduation gift to self!! Still have this too!!
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Something very similiar to this but gold with whitewall tyres. This was the mid 70's. My dad rescued it from a skip.
I rode scrambler bikes in the woods as a kid but first 'proper' MTB was a Diamondback Sorrento. I was on cricket tour in Bath one summer and it was pissing with rain so that day's game was off, and in a bid to stay out of the pub as long as possible wandered into a bike shop and fell in love with the look of them.
First real mtb worthy of the name was a rigid chromoly rockhopper that I soon upgraded with RST Mozo pros. I remember one wet day suffering all over the Surrey Hills on that trying to follow a 16 mile MTBR route, but that was really when I was hooked, when a train of riders (shop ride maybe) came hammering past, ducked in through a bush somewhere and down this trail that was barely bar wide. First real singletrack, still ride it now.
I had hand me downs and got laughed at untill I was 11 then got a Peugeot terrifik 18speed, all my mates had 12 speed so I was like the king. I could hardly sit on it as the frame was far too big. I gave it to charity the other year after it sat in my Parents garage for years gathering dust.
First proper mountain bike was a Diamondback Axis ex-team bike from 1992. Was stolen and recovered before I bought it from a police auction for next to nothing. Full XTR and some RS1's on it too. Horrible forks. They were changed to some Mag 21's which were a bit better. Still have it in the loft in bits waiting for the day I can afford to rebuild it. Along with a Raven, Proflex 955 and a Pace Rc200 F1!!!!
Elswick Hopper corrupted into a tracker bike (cow horns, nobblers, slanted saddle) followed by a Condor Cadet made into a fixie (78 and 69 inch) with tubeless sprint wheels...stolen outside the a pub in Manchester, 1978, the night before my last finals paper.
Raleigh Mantis. Soon replaced with a 1996 Rockhopper.
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First "proper" MTB was a Ridgeback 601, possibly the heaviest bike ever made. Got hooked though and went to buy a hardtail at the LBS, unfortunately they saw me coming a mile off. I am 5'10" and they sold me a 21" Alpinestars, I could hardly get on the damn thing. Spent a year falling off and causing GBH to myself before going down the correctly sized FS route 🙄
Aaah, rose tinted specs on.... Mine was a 1986 Saracen Tufftrax in custard yellow.
Mastiles Lane around that time, wellies were derigeur:
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1990 Marin Eldridge Grade, Rigid; Badass grey 'Zolatone' paint job with flouro red forks stem and bars. mixture of lx and Dx, wolber rims which were nigh on impossible to get tyres off, and a gel saddle covered in lycra which worked better as a sponge than a sponge does! Dad sold it 2 years back for 50 quid.
Slimtubing, you've made me do it. [i]That[/i] 1989 Pine Mountain again:
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Pre Zolatone but shared the soggy lycra saddle (since ditched) and is still early XT.
First bike I can remember was a Raleigh Burner, that bike took some abuse, took me a while to get the hang of stopping by using the brakes, just used to aim for a solid object in the park and come to a stop by riding into it (not a lots changed now!), first mountain bike was a 1997 Dawes Edge in a lovely orange, wish I hadn't sold it now...
I seem to remember always wanting to ride my bike(s) off-road, might have had something to do with my dad being into trials motorbikes at the time.
My first 'off-road' bike was a Raliegh Grifter, started off that metallic blue but was soon inexpertly repainted silver & gold. Bright yellow BMX grips as well IIRC. All my mates were riding spanky new super & ultra burners but i had this old, partly broken Grifter & i loved it 🙂
Eventually died when the steerer tube snapped as my mate was pulling a wheely on it....
That Raleigh Apex......that was second bike. Bought from Dougie Mansfield in Mytholmroyd. Mrs Rock insists it was a pink frame, the literature said Rose red! Flex-stem and power grips.
Brilliant.