I think I have had 11 or 12. I have always had a new bike every 3 years.

My fav bike I think were a 96 Kona Lavadome and my lightweight 2009 Stumpy HT.

I currently have 3, with 1 bike in, then 1 bike out.

Well, that puts things into perspective. Will be showing this thread to my Louise with a ‘see, I’m not that bad!’

Dawes ascent
Kona blast
Kona kula
Orange evo6
Pipedream toredo
Orange p7
Cotic soul
Bird zero TR

Too many to remember fully but the most notable ones. * Was a frame-only purchases.

Peugeot Equipe – The first bike I ever bought myself at 13 years old.
Emmelle Cougar – Rode that till the frame broke
Kona Cindercone – The splattered paint job and silly U brake
Raleigh Criterium
Orange Clockwork
Surly 1×1 *
Cove Handjob *
GT Zasker LE *
Peugeot 753 Chorus – That some bastard nicked, I loved that bike.
GT LTS * Bushings squeaked like ****
Cannondale Super V *
Santa Cruz Bullit * Frame cracked at the head tube.
Specialized Big Hit *
Specialized M5 Sworks Stumpjumper
Trek Session * The frame was that heavy we joked it was made out of Nibbler’s shit
Cannondale MX
Concorde road frame *
Cannondale Gemini DH *
Specialized Demo 7 *
Cannondale SuperSix
Specialized Diverge DSW
Trek Procaliber 6 – Current bike
Specialized Roubaix – Current Bike
Specialized FSR Stumpjumper – Current bike

First MTB was in 85/86 ish.
Diamondback Ascent
Raleigh Technium
Malcom Smith CroMega
Alpinestars Almega
Klien Pinnacle
Santacruz Hecker(pre Superlight)
Santacruz Chameleon
Santacruz Bullit
Cove Stifee
Santacruz Heckler (new shape)
Santacruz Blur
Onone Inbred ss
Onone Ti Inbred ss
Kona A
Onone Pompino
Salsa LasCruses
Garry Fisher Rig
Salsa El Mariachi
Surly Karate Monkey
Blacksheep Custom Ti 29ers x 3 (don’t even ask why)
Santacruz Nomad
Jones Spaceframe Ti
Singular Gryphon
Banshe Paradox
Orbit Tandem
Salsa Mukluk
Fatback (can’t remember the model name)
Canfield Yelli Screamy x 2
2Souls Quarterhorse
Jones Spaceframe Steel
Santacruz Tallboy LTC
Onone Fatty
Santacruz Hightower Carbon
Geometron G16
Last Fastfoward
Geometron G13
Specialized Kenevo (first gen)
Marino Custom Hardtail
Specialized Kenevo (gen 2)
Geometron G1.

A couple of those might not be in the correct order but it’s pretty close from looking at my Flickr feed.

I feel very under-new-to-me-biked.

90s Orange P7 (stainless steel with orange decals with STX RC, this is the one I regret selling as although I grew out of it it was a lovely bike)
2005 Orange P7 (black)
Cannondale Bad Boy
Whyte Suffolk (stolen)
Whyte G150
Parlee Altum Disc (current)
Mason Bokeh (current)

A lot.

I’m a serial bike changer (throbber? ;-))

some bikes I like, some bikes I don’t. sometimes I want something different, and couldn’t never manage more than 2 bikes at one time.

so far, from the first proper MTB in 1992, I’ve owned 56 MTB’s. only 5 of those were pre 2000.

more scarily, from 2000 I’ve owned 55 different bikes, including road bikes. no one really ant to read that list.

I’d like to say I’ve not got another one on the way, but……

In no particular order:-

Dawes Tracker
Marin Bear Valley
Bianchi racer
Peugeot 2000
Thorn audax
Thorn Rohloff MTB
Thorn nomad
On-one inbred
On-one ti456*
On-one Kaffenback
On-one Scandal
On-one Pompino
Van Nicholas Amazon
Lynskey CX
Kinesis CX
Ridley X-Bow
Rose CX
Cannondale Super X himod cx
Cannondale Super X disc
Storck Scenario
Canondale Supersix
Cannondale Hi-mod Supersix
Cannondale Hi-mod Synapse x 3
Cannondale Synapse Hi-mod disc x 2 Disc
Canyon Inflite
Specialized Crux
Open Wi’de
Tarmac SL6
Scott Scale
Mason Bokeh
Mason Definition
Focus Mares CX – x 3
Specialized Chisel
Cannondale Taurine
Exocet TT
Dalkia TT
Airbourne Zepplin

Phew – that’s like therapy and number wasn’t as high as I thought it would be – still have some of them – some great choices, some mistakes, some keepers for sentimental reasons (cause they were and are brilliant) – thought I was sorted but there’s always something catches my eye – like, would sell the Wi.De for a new Crux…..ah, it never ends 🙂

And don’t start a ‘how many wheels’ thread – that’s enough therapy for a while

Raleigh Birdy
Raleigh Even More Extreme
16″ GT BMX with back pedal brake (wish I’d kept this one)
GT Outpost
Kona Lava Dome (nicked)
Kona Roast (stupid buy)
Orange Evo2
Mongoose Supergoose frame (wish I’d kept that one in the attic)
On-One Pompino
Schwinn Hydramatic
Raleigh Night Burner bought for £5 and sold for the same, oops
Specialized E5 (? – weird one without a model name) road bike
Focus Variado road
Boardman Comp Road
Orange P7 – gift form housemate moving back to Germany, way too big for me
Cannondale Six13
Raleigh Equipe
Trek Madone 5.2
Raleigh somethingorother I found outside the engineering department
Horrible weird fillet brazed road thing from Retrobike I bought on a whim
Orange Sub 3 – bob city
Giant XTC hardtail, the cheap one – bought when I lived in Japan and absolutely ragged for a year
Marin somethingorother alu hardtail – nicked
Kona Hahanna – snapped
Fixie Inc Peacemaker
Scott megalightweight carbon road bike, can’t remember which (not a Scale)
Cotic Soul
Genesis 853 hardtail
Raleigh Max commuter
Sunn cromo hardtail with custom green flames paintjob from eBay
Peugeot Aztec commuter
Cove Hummer ti (my first ti frame, really wanted to be more impressed than I was)
Chinarello Dogsh*t (fiancee still riding this one)
Pinnacle Arkose
Dialled Bikes Prince Albert
On-One 456
Chinese carbon thing, horrible
Neil Pryde Bura SL
Haro Blackout BMX
KHS Montana Comp – for sale!
GT Pro Series 1999 BMX (in progress)
On One Pompino (again)

I’ve probably forgotten another 5-10, not to mention frames I got but never got round to building up.

Since the early 2000’s, I had about 13. Currently, I own only three, which is less than half of all bikes in our garage.

solorider, that is an impressive list. They must have cost a small fortune. If only the kids didn’t eat so much and grow out of their clothes so quickly (and a more understanding internal accounts manager) I’d have had a similar list 😜

Raleigh apple or something similar
Shonky blue thing
Raleigh commando
Other shonky blue thing
Giant hurricane
Raleigh peak
Marin Eldridge grade

Around this time various BMXes. Lets call it 4

Kinesis maxlight
Saracen zen
Orange patriot
Turner 5 spot
Pipedream Sirius
Unicycle
Cannondale prophet
Dmr (bought on a whim sold and never built up)
Pinnacle arkose
One one pompetamine
Kink the whip bmx
Transition smuggler
Cotic solaris
Grey cx thing after the arkose got nicked
Planet x pickenflick
Trek domane road bike
Trek rail
Transition sentinel
Cotic solarismax

30!

I’ve had to edit this 3 times I keep thinking of ones I’ve missed off

When I was a kid..
Chopper, Grifter, Grifter XL, Mongoose Blue Max BMX

Youth
Some Green Townsend ATB thing that got nicked after 2 weeks.
A 2nd hand Saracen HT with XT parts but didn’t appreciate the quality!

Then a bit of a break from riding for a few years playing football/having a family etc

Grown up
Trek 4900
Trek Rumblefish
Trek Roscoe
Orange Clockwork
Trek Remedy (4 of them!)
Orange Crush
Santa Cruz Nomad

Looking back, there’s a few quid spent/wasted!

@lovewookie – maybe we should get some “Serial Bike Swapping Throbber” T-shirts printed.

I must be a bike marketing person’s nightmare…
In 50 years of road riding I’ve only owned 7 road bikes – still have 4 of them.
In 30 years of mountain-biking I’ve owned exactly one MTB.
All of them are/were a bit like Trigger’s broom though, the frames endure but everything else gets swapped out regularly.

Hmm..

Kids bikes and then

Extra Burner
Raliegh Maveric
Some kind of Halfords MTB type thing
GT Timberline
GT Zaskar
GT LTS
GT STS
Transition Covert
Kona Alu HT
Marin Palisades trail
Another Transition Covert
On One 456
On One 456c
On One Fatty
Dialled Alpine
Transition Patrol
Another Transition Patrol
Stanton Switchback
YT Tues
Another YT Tues
Voodoo Limba
Ribble HT725
Cotic Flaremax

Looking back I am pretty brand loyal!

Kona Hahhana
Kona Muni Mula
GT Palomar*
Kona Stab
Kona STinky
Kona Bear
Commencal Normal*
Kona lava dome*
Kona Lava dome
Kona Lava Dome
Felt Brink*
Kona Cowan*
Kona Unit*
Kona Bear
Kona Dawg
Kona Process
Kona Process*
Kona Dew *
Kona Dew *

* = still own

Mtb:
Trek 7000
Cove Handjob*
Cotic Soul*

Road:
Raleigh Winner
Raleigh Elan
Vitali*
Quintana Roo TT
Giant TCR – that lasted about 5 mins as I realised I bought the wrong size (XL not M/L) – badly worded advert
Neil Pryde Zephyr*

*= still own

@lovewookie – maybe we should get some “Serial Bike Swapping Throbber” T-shirts printed.

haha. maybe.

as everyone else is posting their lists…..in some order, but not much order..
(Pro star BMX, Redline 500a BMX, Slingshot BMX)
sunn roader
santa cruz roadster
merida 500 road bike
specialized crossroad
on one pompino
Peugeot Ranger
Peugeot Lazer 15
Cannondale SM600
Orange E3
Orange E4
Orange P7
Cannondale CAAD4/fatty SL(1999)
Gary fisher Ziggurat
marin east peak
sunn urge UN
airborne lucky strike
cannondale F3000SL
Cotic soul
Orange Sub 5
Trek fuel EX7
Raleigh HT
rocky mountain blizzard
dekerf elysium
cannondale F1000
kona kilauea
on one inbred
on one inbred 853
on one lurcher
gary fisher mt tam
cannondale prophet
cannondale prophet 2
cannondale scalpel
cannondale scalpel 29
cannondale rush
gary fisher kaitai 29
gary fisher x-cal 29
transition smuggler
gary fisher superfly carbon 29
gary fisher procaliber OCLV
Gary Fisher Mt Tam
trek superfly
trek 9.8
giant NRS
on one scandal 29
on one scandal 2020
kona lava dome
Kona blast
cannondale CAAD3
cannondale rush
yeti kokopelli
Sobato carbon 29
NS eccentric cromo
kona king kahuna carbon 29
another pinnacle ramin
whyte T129
cannondale F600
Marin palisades trail
diamond back mojito
pinacle ramin
Pace RC200
Pace RC129
Trek Rumblefish
cotic Solaris
Carbonda FM936
Cube SLT

29 soon to be 30…. I think

* = still have

Borrowed 16” wheels ballon tyres thing
Vindec Hi Riser

Peugeot Anaconda
Peugeot Magnum Lx
93 Marin Eldridge Grade – did mad amount of miles on this on and off road
94 Marin Pine Mountain
92 GT Karokaram
94 Marin Bear Valley SE
Dawes Audax – crashed into a back of a car at speed in the rain
98 Spesh S-Works M2
99 Marin Mount Vision
Argos 531 racer -stolen
Argos 531 racer
GT something
02 Spesh S-Wotks M4 – sold to a friend who still has it
*05 Time Vx – used a lot for 17 years now in the loft
93 Marin Eldridge Grade – retro pub bike
94 Spesh Stumpy – ditto
95 Marin Pine Mountain – ditto
*08 Genesis Flyer Ss still have
*HRG Ferris – in the loft to restore
Enigma Etape
Kinesis GF Disc – snapped down tube
*2019 Orange Clockwork Evo
*Enigma Etape Disc #2
*Colnago C64

Not that many, not counting assorted bikes growing up I get nine but four have been Trigger’s broom.

89 Marin Bear Valley – stored
96 Marin Pine Mountain – stollen
02 Dave Hinde – didn’t really like it, over build to
03 Inbred – rode into the ground and over build to
07 Inbred – rode into the ground and over build to
11 Soul – stored needs new forks
09 Roadrat – stored needs new wheels
16 Giant Defy
19 Sonder Cortex

Currently thinking of a Cotic Cascade and either a frame transplant for the Defy or Cortex at some point of the next year or so.

Think I’ve had about 20 proper bikes, 7 or 8 road bikes, 3 or 4 cx and then 7 or 8 MTBs. That’s from when i started riding properly in 83 or 84. I’ve still got half of them, either as complete bikes, or frame and fork.

Guy i know through work must have had over a hundred though, he’s still got something like 8 or 10 of his old team bikes in storage in the UK and Belgium somewhere and a lock up here with another dozen or so. Plus all the paraphernalia that goes along with them!
Though i don’t think many of the bikes he gets these days count, only has them for a few weeks/couple of months, then has to send them back.

Proud to say I’ve never sold a bike, maintain them carefully, and ride them for as many miles as possible until dead.

Why on Earth are you “proud” of this? Do you think all the bikes that the rest if us discarded went to the skip?

To me posting up the longest list of MTBs owned just marks you out as a throbber who either a) can’t buy right or b) never actually bonds with a bike properly.

“Throbber” – Interesting. Remind me – what was the thread title?

I got back into MTBing properly in 2005. There were so many things to experience, different frame materials, wheel size, suspension types, singlespeeds, etc. By experimenting, I found what was fun/right/nice/etc. I can now make a more informed decision. If you haven’t had that experience, how can you possibly judge? How many people marry the first girl they meet? How many people meet the right girl/boy on the first try? How do you know what’s right without experience?

How many people marry the first girl they meet? How many people meet the right girl/boy on the first try?

There’s playing the field and there’s being a slag.

I would definitely have been the latter in my heyday.

😀

Proud to say I’ve never sold a bike, maintain them carefully, and ride them for as many miles as possible until dead.

I don’t think I’d like to try riding my Diamondback Ascent from 1985 on the trails I’m now riding.
Things move on stuff changes. Some people go with that others stand still.

Growing up, would be taken to a second hand bike shop each year to get the next size up then my first new bike …

A gleaming red Raleigh chopper
Raleigh arena road bike bought with paper round money but stolen
Holdsworth lugless framed road bike, grew up next to their shop
First MTB, Specialized Rockhopper in 92. Loved this bike which has always pushed me towards Specialized
Marin Pine Mountain 96 ( now living in Arizona ), MTB scene massive
Ventana el habernero 98, first full suspension
Specialized Epic, 04, 2nd version, back in Uk,
Santacruz superlight 07, loved that bike but sold it in a panic as the market for 26 inch wheeled bikes plummeted and still regret it
Orbea aqua, 09, first road bike as children were wining my time
Whyte 901, never clicked with this bike
Genesis Equilibrium frame, boring but smooth
Specialized roubaix frame
Genesis fortitude
Giant Anthem 29er
Specialized Tarmac Sl5 comp disc

Still got the last 3 but very tempted by new Specialized Crux Comp.
This is like a therapy session

Proud to say I’ve never sold a bike, maintain them carefully, and ride them for as many miles as possible until dead.

Mine are maintained immaculately (ex shop and team mechanic). I don’t sell mine because 80% of the second hand bike buying public are a bunch of tyre kicking throbbers who want 15 quids change from a tenner.

(i usually give them away or strip and reuse parts, store frames etc etc)

Gods, this has made me think back…

Had an:
Dawes Ascent
Emmelle Cortina
Giant Box 1
One I cannot remember the brand of, but which was a really nice 7005 frame
Merlin Malt2
Merlin MaltR
Spec Stumpy FSR

I was shamed into selling the Box 1, the Dawes was stolen, as was the One That Cannot Be Remembered. The Emmelle was given to a friend that needed a bike (but was also stolen at one point, but came back).

I still have the three last ones and cannot think of a reason to sell them.

I started riding bikes again in about 2008, since then, I think I’ve had the following (roughly in order):

Giant Yukon
Genesis Core 30
Cotic Soul MK2
Genesis iO
Dialled Holeshot
OnOne Scandal MK2
Genesis Fortitude Race
Cotic Soul MK3
Land Rover flat bar road bike
Kinesis CX
Marin Bobcat – retro
Pinnacle Arkrose
Trek X-Caliber
Cotic Solaris MK2
Lapierre Zesty
Cotic Soul Gen 4
Genesis CDA
OnOne Scandal MK3

Currently have:

Cotic Flare Gen 1
Merlin Malt-G1X
Marin Bear Valley retro

21!

Hi-fives @tomhoward, @ton, @lovewookie, @sillyoldman . . . heck, hi-fives all round!

Yup, still here (lurking now and then) and still addicted – lost count – I’m not proud lol

Only started riding again in April 2018, prior to this I had an MTB in my late teens, think it was a Claud butler Cape wrath. Then a Felt Dispatch SS/fixed gear around 2008 ish.

Proper bikes since 2018:

Virus Escape
On one Space Chicken
YT Jeffsy
Nordest Lacrau
Giant Defy (Zwift bike)

Rookie numbers, I know!

Some of you lot make me look tame in comparison !! 🙂

From the age of 12:

1, mongoose supergoose
2, raleigh burner
3, another supergoose
4, muddy fox rock and roll (First mtb)
5, dawes road bike
6, raleigh yukon
7, dawes Mtb
8, raleigh team banana road bike
9, diamond back topanga
10, merlin malt 1
11, merlin something
12, specialized stumpjumper HT
13, airborne liberator
13, Spesh stumpy FSR
14, Spesh stumpy FSR
15, on one inbred
16, on one inbred
17, on one inbred 456
18, spesh stumpy ht
19, norco fluid
20, spesh pitch
21, spesh enduro
22, spesh pitch
23, spesh pitch
24, spesh enduro
25, spesh pitch (Liked these a lot !!)
26, turner 5 spot
27, spesh stumpy
28, spesh stumpy
29, turner 5 spot
30, cotic bfe
31, norco range
32, boardman hybrid
33, another boardman hybrid
34, orange 5 29
35, giant trance
36, genesis equilibrium
37, another trance
38, lapieere zesty
39, voodoo bizange
40, on one parkwood
41, cube cross race
43, giant defy
44, whyte 529
45, transition sentinel
46, spesh stumpy 29er
47, on one codiene
48, spesh stumpy
49, salsa horsethief
50, whyte s150
51, cube attain 58
52, cube attain 60
53, giant defy
54, cotic bfe max
55, santa cruz hightotwer
56, orbea rallon
57, whyte e150
58, orbea wild
59, spesh levo expert
60, spesh levo comp

Erm they may be some I have missed !

I may have a problem lol

EDIT:61: spesh sirrus.

EDIT AGAIN: 62: Marin full susser

Too late to edit but:

63, Gt Tequesta
64, Haro Escape
65, my dads old road bike
66, Giant NRS

Good going Renton, I thought I’d have the better of you but you might just shade me.

I haven’t added mine up for a few years now – and I’m probably not going to do it again.

1. Raleigh Strika
2. Raleigh Grifter
3. Raleigh Bomber
4. Ridgeback 601
5. Cannondale SM1000
6. Cannondale M1000
7. Specialized Stumpjumper Epic
8. Jones Spaceframe
9. Kona Unit
10. Stooge Dirtbomb

Once beyond kids bikes, which are mainly lost to my memory, 25. Not going to list all the standard MTBs and road bikes. Highlights are,

Rod brake post office bike.

Short wheelbase, bannana yellow recumbent

Conversion axle tricycle

Unicycle.

Brompton.

Edit, come to think of it, that was my collection at one point, along with a hartdail MTB. Much more staid now.

Here we go:
1 – 2002 GT Zaskar made in USA, got it second hand from my father
2 – Singular Swift MK1
3 – Surly Ogre
4 – Surly Pugsley
5 – Velo Orange Camargue
6 – Surly LHT
7 – Surly Ogre
8 – Singular Rooster
9 – Surly Krampus MK2
10 – Pipedream Moxie MK1
11 – Bird AM9 V1
12 – Specialized Stumpjumper Evo
13 – Bird AM9 V3
14 – Fuji Jari
15 – Cotic SolarisMax

Here’s mine, only mildly obsessed with Kona’s;

Raleigh Boxer
Raleigh Lizard – with all the neon green accessories 🙂
Specialized Stump Jumper
Kona AA
Kona Cinder Cone
Kona Cinder Cone
Kona Ho-Chi-Min (limited edition version of the Roast)
Kona Scrap
Kona Coiler
Kona Coilair – the crazy flexing 1st Gen MagicLink version – was terrible
Kona Dawg Deluxe (Scandium)
Kona Dawg Deluxe (Scandium)
Kona Dr Good
Charge Plug Zero
Kona Abra Cadabra – the very good Scandium framed air MagicLink variety
Kona Process 134 Carbon

Well.. I just tallied up all my bikes since 2007.. 59 bikes. I think I’ve forgotten some. There’s also been a few models that I’ve bought a few different times. I still own 2 and about to purchase #60.

1 . Kona Cowan
2 . Cove Sanchez
3 . Mongoose BMX
4 . Charge Blender (#1)
5 . Charge Duster
6 . Marin North Trail
7 . Revell 300
8 . Trek 5500
9 . Commencal Meta 4x
10 . Charge Blender Ti
11 . Charge Iron
12 . Giant Trance 2 (#1)
13 . On-one 456 SS
14 . Charge Blender (#2)
15 . Specialized Enduro
16 . GT Sanction 10
17 . Giant Trance 3 (#2)
18 . Kona Unit
19 . Descendence Vox (custom built frame)
20 . Chumba HX2 (#1)
21 . Charge Blender (#3)
22 . Kingdom Foia V2
23 . Canfield Yelli Screamy
24 . DMR Trailstar
25 . GT Moto
26 . Kona Explosif 650b
27 . Rocky Mounain Oxygen
28 . On-One Fatty
29 . Kingdom Brigante
30 . Stooge mk1
31 . Orange Five 650b
32 . Diamondback Mojito
33 . Whyte T129 SCR Works (#1)
34 . Chumba HX2 (#2)
35 . Zelous Division Mk2
36 . Trek Superfly 9
37 . Giant BSO Commuter
38 . Stooge Mk2
39 . Whyte T129 SCR S (#2)
40 . Pinnacle Arkos 3
41 . Whyte T130 RS (#1)
42 . Ragley Marley
43 . Whyte 529
44 . Whyte T129 S (#3)
45 . Cotic Roadrat (#1)
46 . Cotic SolarisMax LS
47 . Stooge Mk4
48 . Whyte S150 C RS
49 . Whyte S150 S
50 . Cotic RocketMax
51 . Whyte T130 RS (#2)
52 . Current: On-One Scandal
53 . Raleigh BSO commuter
54 . Bird Aeris9 Al
55 . Cotic Roadrat (#2)
56 . Whyte Portobello V3
57 . Hoffman BMX
58 . Mafia BMX
59 . Current: Stooge Dirtbomb
60 . Incoming: Whyte S120 RS

This thread is quite astonishing.