Do you have bikes that don't ride but keep?

RD, try messaging Aus

whoooo?

ive got the jones (which does get used!!) and a 1988 cannonade sm1000 at my folks house.

never ridden the ‘dale in over 20 years but still have the plan to do it up and get some use out it. could not possible get rid of it as its was my first proper bike, i bet it feels so weird to ride now. i predict its probably a bit shite now.

Yes, two surplus that I really must find a new home for!

Specialised Tricross Singlecross 56cm, needs a few bits doing to be road worthy, so will sell as is for someone to fix up, at a very good price.

Felt F5C 54cm, complete bike, kept hoping my longstanding lower back injury would let me ride it again. But I think the time has come to be realistic.

We’re meant to actually ride them??? ❓

Nope, if I’m not riding it I see it as a waste of space and a waste of bike, someone else could be out having fun on it. And it I can’t sell it for much then I figure I’m just helping out someone else who can’t afford an expensive bike. I gave away a really good BMX last month because I never ride it anymore. Cost me a lot of money a few years ago, but now someone else is riding it.
too short to stockpile crap that never gets used – give it to someone who’ll actually enjoy it.

Tom KP

A 2010 Cannondale Flash frame and lefty, stripped for parts. Not sure either are worth enough to sell due to cable rub/chain suck damage/unfashionable wheel size.

Never sell this!!

Had 4. Gave one away, sold one, bought blingy one, have 3 all get ridden.

Yes, a 1997 M-Trax 150, cromo with Ti handlebar. It was mint when I bought so spent a while buying nice full period XT (incl B/B), premium cables, and re-shod with lovely Sun B-17 handbuilt rims laced on retro XT hubs. I bought the bike the week my grandfather died and so (great folly) named it after him – even ordered his name in some vinyl lettering (the old Raleigh decals had been removed). It’s a fairly lightweight hybrid in such guise, but tbh I rarely rode it and now it sits looking pretty and sad. Should really sell it to help fund a (used) monster cross on which I just paid some money down. I spent 340 on it and countless hours hand-polishing the crankset from satin to mirror-finish. So, what to do with ‘Walter’?…it would probably fetch what, 75 quid? Also a 1974 Raleigh Twenty Shopper from Gloucester Bike Project to give to a someone, and an 80s 501 Raleigh Sirocco that was given to me by a dear friend. So those are waiting to be refurbed. I’m an old sentimental fool, it seems. Every shed I’ve had has been damp, so it’s a losing battle for space, wits and enough GT85 and Silvo to keep on top of it. Sheer idiocy.

A lovely 531 Ribble, mixture of 105 and 600, bought it to do Triathlon so has aero bars, gets ridden a few times a year. Always feels uncomfortable despite it being perfectly sized. Owes me nothing bought it for £150 15 years ago.
In fact I may ride to work tomorrow on it.

I have a virtually unridden BMX in the garage

I’ve never BMX’d and never intend to – for some reason I thought it’d fit nicely in the boot of my car and I could ride from a distant carpark to the office. Didn’t really fit; bought a foldybike instead

I’ve a P-X carbon pro road frame that I’ve built up, ridden for a bit, dismantled, built up to sell, hung up in the garage “temporarily” ( 🙄 ) and am now gradually taking bits back off it to keep other bikes running

That’s it though – well, apart from the 70s tourer frame (family heirloom, see) and my old zaskar “commuter” that I don’t commute on

I did give away a frame a couple of weeks ago though, so I am trying

Yep…..

1989 Saracen Tufftrax.
1989 Orange Clockwork (Probably be gone soon).
1990 Marin Pine Mountain.
1992 Orange Clockwork.
1993 GT RTS-1.
1994 Orange Clockwork (Defo be gone soon).
2016 Orange RX9, as new 😳

Out of that lot only the Saracen has seen more than a couple of miles under me. Saying that, the plan is to cash in the chips at some point to buy a posh bike.

A couple.

1996 Lee Cooper custom XC. Now built as a rigid slick-shod singlespeed for commuting. Haven’t commuted on it for over a year now.

2001 DMR Trailstar. Can’t bring myself to sell it. Set up on the turbo now but has only been ‘ridden’ 2 or 3 times in the last year.

2010 (I think) Identiti Mr Hyde. Retired it when I got a BFe. Then built up as a singlespeed mud-tyred winter bike but only used once in the last year.

Rat-look pub bike/cruiser built last summer on my ancient Peugeot MTB frame. Not been ridden to the pub yet…

Do have two bikes that get ridden regularly – both Cotics. My BFe has got a mud spike on the back and has seen use over the winter and just got (finally) a Rocket as my main bike.

Did have an Alpine too, but when the Rocket arrived I actually (first time ever) managed to bring myself to sell the bike being replaced.

YoKaiser – Member
I may have one or two ok maybe its nearer 30. Mostly as frames tbf.

Good to see there’s some other normal people on here. 🙂

Late 90’s Ridgeback Cooler King. Its a heap of shit but im a hoarder. Still also have a 2004 GT trail frame kicking about.

I feel like I’m having mid-life crisis.

Selling my rested steeds is like saying goodbye to my happy 20’s 🙁

Oh well gotta move on and get ready for my 40’s 🙂

trailhound101 – Member
I have a 1997 kawasaki ZX6R – it does 20 miles each year to the MOT shop.
I also have a 2012 Triumph Bonnevile SE – it does 100 miles a year.

Curious, what are you looking for, for the Triumph?

I’m curious about the zx6r.. Do tell

Oh, and someone else mentioned Muddy Fox courier.. Interested also!

rOcKeTdOg – Member
RD, try messaging Aus
whoooo?

Aus, its not that hard 😆

I have a virtually unridden BMX in the garage

i’ve still got space in my loft, never had a bmx

I also have a BMX, but its my son’s. He got one of those Rocker mini-‘BMXs shortly after I bought him the Hoffman and the Rocker gets used and the Hoffman hangs in my garage looking brand new.

Also, my Cove Handjob. It’s lovely, but hardly worth anything to sell, so it’s also hung there, unused.

Yup – I have Titus Motolite I can’t bear to part with.

Spooky, I have just been in the garage rummaging, happened upon a 456 frame I bought from someone on here a while back with a bent mech hanger, it spent a few months doing nowt, intended for some project or other, then got single-speeded for a while then disassembled and left in a corner…

I keep saying I need a new commuter as the fixie is losing some of its charm on hills, and there’s offroad route options, bent the hanger straight enough to run 7 or 8 gears, offered up some 700c wheels/tyres, found some cranks, and a couple of rigid forks…

Frankenbike commuter here I come!!!

(There are two more frames, numerous forks, wheels, tyres, brakes, etc, etc and four perfectly good bikes I already ride in there as well)…

Damaged IF Deluxe singlespeed, Roberts Dogs Bolx, did sell it once but it came back to me and an 86 Raleigh Burner

Simon, I’ve gone giddy with nostalgia. What colour is your timberline? I had two bikes I would love again, my old green timberline, and shocking blue tequesta.

Aside from a few bikes that rarely get used (BMX, a few steel road bikes) I’m down to about 6 bikes that I don’t need and very rarely ride. A track bike, and five road and time-trial bikes – all 90s steel. Proper nice looking things in decent nick with period Dura Ace parts. Mainly only half-built.

Basically I have fairly modern mountain bikes to ride and retro but not unridably so road bikes to look at. Less depreciation than if I had all my bike cash tied up in three ludicrously expensive 2015 MTBs.

I’ve got tons of bikes that never get ridden, and a few in bits that obviously never get ridden either. I’d happily get rid of the lot but any time I try to sell nothing does and I lose drive.

Me too – Lynskey Sportive, Thorn Nomad, Roberts Audax, Cotic Soda to name but a few. I need to get around to selling them but never do. I love bikes, have the space and keep thinking ‘one day….’

i have a couple.

Namely my TT bike – which hangs on the wall…. How ever on the odd occasion (1 /2 times a year) it takes my fancy to enter a 10 I’ve still stuck in a 22 or less so i hang on to it as ill get pittance for it – and although i paid pittance for it it would cost more than a pittance to replace it.

My old carbon XC race bike – 20.5lbs , 24 spoke 26 inch wheels , Sids , Head up arse down and bars the width of my hips. Worth pittance and has lots of good memories.

I’m getting rid of my Trigger 29 as the rides I did on that I now do on a Fatbike. That will leave the Fatty Trail, the Jekyll 2 and a Canondale Bad Boy SS with a rigid Lefty. All get used. The Jekyll to nowhere near its limits.

All of mine, 26″,24″ and 20″ trials bikes, CX bike and a work in progress 26″ hardtail, I just can’t bare to part with them on the off chance I’ll fancy a ride one day…

2000 s-works hardtail, I retired it in 2010 but it was never worth selling, it’s now built up with nice kit that’s been moved off my other bikes (10speed XTR, hope wheels, fox 32s) and is ostensibly MrsMomos bike, I think she’s ridden it once. I could probably cash in by selling a lot of the parts and buying her a halfords special, but it owes me nothing and means that I have a bike to lend to non-biking friends.

I keep saying that I’ll use it to commute on, but it just feels so tiny, so end up using my BFe instead.

Also have a 1999 GSXR750 in the garage, I broke the return spring in the gearbox just over 2 years ago, fixed that just after we bought our house, a mate lent me one of his bikes to ride around on for a few months. But the last couple of years have been so busy with house, garden and getting married that I never got round to getting it MOT’d and back on the road. Finally pulled it out at the weekend to find that the brake callipers have all seized and one of the fork legs is weeping, I had planned to get it MOT’d this week, that’s now looking rather unlikely! One day it will be ridden again, or not, who knows.