Bikes you want (or wanted) but never got round to buying?

CaptainFlashheart – Member

*Droooooool*

Flashy, I nearly bought one of those when I got my Quake, many years ago. Test rode it and everything.

Are you sure? It’s not grey. 😕

😉

I rode them a lot, BITD. Loaners from Scott Towers. Just wish I could have persuaded them to leave one with me, especially in that exact spec.

Really wanted but pockets weren’t deep enough. Those tubes just looked really massive in the early 90s.

Klein Mantra, they looked ace, Orange UFO, My LBS had one in the window for ages..dammit….when I was young always wanted a Grifter, ended up with a Chopper..(no sniggering..)

And I really want one of these!

As an 80s kid, I longed for this bad boy:

Momentarily felt good that i own two of the bikes on the thread, then realised that them must be both out of date timed-out models 🙁

CaptainFlashheart – Member
Are you sure? It’s not grey.

No, but the Marin was. 😉

Night burner

Chrome Burner –

when I grew up though I wanted one of these

Both of mine are very old school,

Alpinestars Al-Mega XT

And one of those Whyte PRST-1 thingys with the BMW-esque front ends on it.

I suspect I would be disappointed by both.

Always wanted a T1 Barcode bmx, or an S&M Dirtbike. MTB wise I’ve always loved Bottlerockets. Got a Scott Voltage which seems close enough without the stupid price tag 🙂

A particularly nice example of a Barcode 😀

Whyte 19 Carbon (or a Whyte 20 C).

I always wanted one of these:

But ended up getting this instead (will get an M1 one day just to hang on the wall!):

In fact, just looking at Google Images for Tomac 204 Magnums has made me want another as well! That was a flippin bonkers bike. Weighed a tonne but brilliant!

Schwinn straight 8.

Bimota SB6, one day maybe 😉

Salsa Juan Solo.
Reissued shiny silver zaskar.
Yeti arc x, or indeed that sc cross bike (?crux?)
as above/page before, trek 69er singlespeed in rootbeer with duc32’s
Foes xct5

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mate had one of those recently…. bought from a thrift shop in Munich for about 60€… sold for 300+

PRST-1
Orange 5 or Five
Couldn’t justify (too tight) the expense.

Wanted this

Got this

it’s all been downhill since then

Loads….

1998 Spesh FSR Extreme (lime green thing with Judy XL’s)
Cannondale Super V Freeride (I had an SV500, but the freeride was so much cooler)
1997 Kona Lava Dome
Any of the high end Cannondale hardtails from ’97
Santa Cruz Bullitt
2005 Kona Stab (I know they wetent great but that paint job was ace)
Specialzed FSR DH like Palmer had

Sure there’s many more too!

How much do Burners go for?

I always wanted:
GT Dhi
Specialized Demo 9
Spooky Metal Head
Intense Tazer
Orange 222

Another I always wanted was the Standard Trail Boss, back when I spent all weekend at the jump trails on my XC Trek MTB 😆

^That’s well nice. BMXes always look so much better than MTBs!

…………….yet.

Toxicsoks you really are converted aren’t you? 🙂

Me, I’ve always hankered after a 5 spot.

Yeti Ultimate

or a Trimble……

Remember looking at these longingly in Dales bike shop.
No idea if they are any good but they looked so good…

Orange P7. They just look so right, though they seem to do nothing spectacularly well.

Specialized Epic (2005/2006 ish). AGain, just based on looks.

Of course, both have now been superseded on account of the wheels being too small.

soma_rich

I had one of those 😉

Dales in Glasgow had an absolutely gorgeous Klein when I was a kid – deep metallic red, with matching tyres. I lusted after it, kept going to see it – it got dustier and dustier and moved further back in the shop, then one day it was gone…

A mate had a San Andreas when I was about 15 and I wanted one as well, but just couldn’t justify it since I really only rode XC

I wanted a Rocky Mountain ETS-X for years, when I got round to buying a new-new bike (as opposed to just a frame and build) I ended up with a Trek Fuel EX ’cause I didn’t want to spend the same money on the lowest-spec ETS.

Then D45yth from these parts put up a fame and fork at a price I liked, so now I own one. And it’s flamey-patterned. And I loves it. 🙂

I wanted one of these so much. Obviously in the eye of the beholder but I think it’s the best geared bike I’ve ever seen.

One day.

Transition tr250. One day, when I can afford it :-O

I came very close to buying one of these before I got my meta… I’d still have one in a shot if I won the lottery, for my Leno like bike stable. Many afternoons spent staring at the pictures.

Kryton57 – Member
Toxicsoks you really are converted aren’t you?

Me, I’ve always hankered after a 5 spot.

Not so much a conversion, more of a lean-to, tbh.
:¬/

MTB-wise I always fancied one o’these.