We should have a swap shop style thread

One my beik iz Sarcin.

My most ‘exclusive’ is my little Rossin road bike I spose.

I only own bikes that MBUK, MBR, What Mountainbike recomend as i’m unable to know what i want without someone telling me.

Well the bike wasn’t that exclusive as it was a Yeti 575 but the the hub is very exclusive as I made it 😉

Is true? You make yourself?

How you is make? Is beautiful…

WANT IT.

Did you make it when you were in Mecca

Looks like a Hope XC with custom graphics, cool if you did make it though.

’95 Kona Cindercone (singlespeed)
Thorn Raven Enduro with Rohloff Speedhub (not that unusual I know)
Singular Peregrine with Alfine and lots of shiny bits.
And a full-sus singlespeed belt-drive Kona (niche-tastic)

Ya dorks it’s a Goldtec Pro Comp and I machine them! I am the programmer/operator at BETD Goldtec and so I make lots and lots of bits for your bike gents – it’s like being a kid in a sweet shop 😀

2004 Turner Rail. Supposedly very rare, only 10 in this country I think I was told? Never seen another one out and about.

Carrera Kraken, which is about as common as you can get I suppose.

And a Fly Pantera 2004. Reasonably rare.

My bike collection is so exclusive that even the Tollah has never even heared of them never mind seen them. 🙄

Ritchey road bike. Never seen another.

Shand mtb too, pretty rare and very AWESOME

Ooh ooh and a Fisher Prometheus.

Am surprised there is so little old/rare stuff on this thread.

Nicolai Ion-st in raw,With red bearing covers and shock links.I would think that it is one of only a few Ions in the UK and probably the only one in this colour scheme.

Titus Eleven
Dekerf Solitaire S/S
Paganini Columbus road bike with Campy Cobalt
March Racing Developments Pro BMX

Merlin Cyrene – never seen another on the road
Airnimal Rhino – ditto, my first mountain bike – a 20er
Dawes Toucan tandem – rare and yellow (and heavy)
Poyner track bike – never seen or heard of another
Kona Unit 29er – my real mountain bike

I’d know all of mine a mile off, apart from road bike which is stock apart from tyres, (wider) bars and saddle.

Miley Cyrus makes bikes??

Some truly great bikes on here.

Of all the frames i have owned, the only one i have never seen being ridden by anyone else in the same year/colour is my old ’01 specialized hardrock. As i recall they made it in about five colours/component specs that year and mine was particularly poor value for money, so i suppose no one else was gullible enough to shell out the extra for the metallic black ‘pro’ model. 😆

Cannondale 900sx hardtail, spesh s-works fsr and trek oclv 5900. I’m basically mondeoman!

2retro4u
Marin County, Cali

Repack Rider clearly has THE most exclusive bike – do you still ride it?

Currently on loan to the Mountain Bike Hall of Fame. I ride my 1983 Ritchey Annapurna. Here is it with the guy who made it.

Seven Sola SL ti made to measure.
Specialized Tarmac S-Works road bike
Unique Cyclo-cross bike (steel frame made to measure)
On-One 853 SS
On-One 456

I want those hubs.

In anodized blue, with matching seatclamp, headset and brake hoses.

Titanium Pompino – only one built?
20″ wheel On-One with suspension f & r – (Tyrell?)
EPX carbon fibre monocoque (Speedster) with Rohloff
Belt drive prototype from the inventor of the Strida
Dahon Hammerhead
Dahon Groove

Assume we’re talking about stuff from manufacturers as opposed to customs/specials, otherwise I could go on all night 🙂
(eg 2 wheel drive bike, folding recumbent penny farthing, etc – my attic is bulging with daft ideas)

Ambition – a titanium Dursley Pedersen.

No matter how much you all spaff over how old, or how rare, or how unique they are ultimately they are all just a bunch of tubes that are bikes. And bikes ain’t that spectacular. They are just bikes.

Custom nicolai helius am,
custom nicolai ufo st
ibis tranny
evil doc

“this is my bike, there are many like it, but this one is mine…”

Feeling pretty unique since no one has mentioned any of mine yet..

Orange P7 SS
Kona JTS
Swobo Del norte
Peugeot Performance 2000 (with dura ace kit)

Skull Skates Cruiser – Prototype frame No.000001 of 4
Federal Division 24″ BMX frame stripped and clear coated by me and built with King headset, RF Turbines blah blah…
Chromag Stylus (a bit more normal…)

Ibis mojo: Pretty common now
Pastey Howler Ti: Hardly any around, only seen one on here. Mainly because they sent the prototype to be tested and it got slated for a load of manufacturing errors. Sorted for the production run, but I think it killed the brand off.
Spesh Demo 8: Pretty rare version, ’05 in ex demo white, most of the batch that was bound for the UK snapped, so rare over here but common in the states I guess.
Spesh P2: Strangley not seen many of these about.
Kona Fire Mountain: Loads of them around, but not many with 700c disk wheels and drops.

coogan – Member

No matter how much you all spaff over how old, or how rare, or how unique they are ultimately they are all just a bunch of tubes that are bikes. And bikes ain’t that spectacular. They are just bikes.

Indeed, and if they were spectacular, there would be more of them around, then no one would think they were that special.

People like rare stuff thou, just look at how much that varse sold for last week!

Turner 5 spot
Superlight
Fisher ferrous
Spesh singlecross
Condor Fratello

Are all I have running at the moment.

Superlight (common as muck, but still only seen one other on the trails…? Maybe I don’t ride at trail centres enough)

Commencal Flame Ti (I know theres one or two knocking about on here, but never seen any on the trails)

Mojo’s, Santa Cruz, turners are all common if you look in the right place. I saw 4 turners yesterday not invoking the one I have!

Black Sheep Stelleon. Only one like it in the world. But custom bikes probably dont really count.

Repack rider is pretty well unbeatable in terms of exclusivity though.

456 with avid.. slx and revs… and a pannier rack

In my street I am Don Nicheista and people remove their hats and lower their eyes in deference when I pass..

On STW I am tesco value sliced white loaf

Nothing terribly rare but not very common either :-

853 Prince Albert
Maverick ML8
Trek DH Pro from 1998 – can’t see there being many of those left and even if there are they will be kept well out of sight 😯

Here’s a pic to get you all drooling

Indy Fab steel Deluxe (custom but then they’re all custom and there are quite a few on here)

Orange Apline 160 (common as muck)

1960s Dawes – run as a fixie commuter (rare)

A Nicolai Helius CC, becoming more common. Still never seen another one while riding.
A Cove Handjob, plenty of them about.
A Charge Plug Freestyler, but with different forks.
A Genesis iO, only seen one other whilst out but I bet there’s more.
A Raleigh Airlite Race, never seen another one one the road since I got it, but I doubt they’re rare in the slightest

PJM1974 – just contact us at BETD and let us know what you want doing. Easily done matey ok, even with some custom etching too.

Repack rider’s collection is easily the most exclusive and coolest on here and he’s by far the coolest rider.

It is Charlie Kelly FFS!

Anyway mine.

Exclusive(ish)
Moots Rigormootis – I’d never seen another until I moved here!
Spot Brand Singlespeed – One of their first.
Principia Road Bike – Summer racer. Unique, built it up myself.

Common as muck
Marin Mill Valley – It was a present, honest guv!
Focus Cayo – At those prices silly not to.
Willier Escape – Winter trainer.

Titus HCR Ti hardtail – only 2 in the UK as far as I know.
Yeti ASR – common as…
Salsa Ala Carte Ti – well our team has 4…
Salsa Ala Carte Steel – soon to be common-ish I hope as it’s an awesome frame.
Salsa Selma – probably a small number in the UK
Salsa Mamasita – ditto
Specialized S-Works Tarmac SL3 – only one in the UK in nude carbon/red/orange I think
Giant Bowery – common as…..