How few bikes have you had in the past 20 years?

since 1990 i ve had from new

a ’90 dx clockwork orange, 150mm 0 degrees rise stem, fitted spd and rockshocks as they were released bought from stif when it was still a lock up in a back street selling boards..rode NEMBA 90 and 91 on it
a ’02 spesh enduro from that shop in bury over iceland
a ’12 five pro all the trimmings from shop by the walls in York

still got them all rarely ride but putting some f20’s on the 5 for summer.

Not sure if I had my Rockhopper 20 years ago, I might have just bought my Rocklobster frame.

Going from 1994 ’cause I know I had my Rockhopper then:
9
1994 Rockhopper (complete bike)
1995 RockLobster (frame only)
1998 Orange X2 (frame only)
2001 Stumpjumper FSR comp (complete bike, insurance payout)
2009 Stumpjumper FSR elite (2nd hand frame only)
2011 SC Heckler (2nd hand frame only)
2011 RockLobster (frame only)
2013 Cotic Soul (2nd hand frame only)
2014 Banshee Rune (frame only)

My ’94 Rockhopper (and a 1988 Giant Sierra) are the only complete bikes I’ve ever bought.

Started off with a few Emmelle bikes but my first MTB of note was…
Trek 920. I cracked the frame so they gave me a…
Trek 930. I cracked this frame too so they gave me a…
Trek 6800. This is still in use by my dad as his MTB. it’s not a bad bike but I’d always craved a steel Orange bike and so bought a…
Orange P7. 2007 vintage, this was and still is my only MTB. Next came the draw of the road, my first bike of this kind being a…
Orbea Aqua. I liked it a lot but cracked it so was given another…
Orbea Aqua. Which I still have, still love and currently use as my summer commuter/winter Sunday bike. I needed something practical though so bought a…
Kona MinUte. I now do all my shopping and most of my pootling on this, so much so that it was a big driver in selling my car. Next up I fancied a road bike so got a…
Planet-X Kaffenback. My most versatile bike but dull as dish water, mainly used as a winter commuter now but soon to be moved to CX duties. Next I fancied a fast roadbike so bought a…
Sensa Guilia. And it really is fast, I adore guys bike, it’s bloody awesome.

So 9 then, 6 of which are still in use. That’s not too bad that.

5 (1988 – to now…)

Cannondale SM1000 (the teenage, cherry popping, xc racing years)
Cannondale M1000 (the art school, inactive and beer belly years)
Stumpjumper Carbon Expert (the getting my shite back together years)
Kona Unit (the single speed experiment)
Jones Ti Spaceframe (the destination)

Probably not few enough as it took two mugs of strong coffee to remember (including pub bikes and curios)

Carlton Criterium (custom build) 😀
Dawes Tracker (a) 😀
Specialized Rockhopper (custom) 😀
1936 Police bike 😀
M-trax 1500
Kona Cinder Cone (custom) 😀
Diamondback V-Link 1.0 😀
Rocky Mountain Thin Air
Rocky Mountain Vertex (build) 😀
Giant XTC Team NRS (build)
Sunn Roader
Universal Folder
Daewoo Shuttle 😯
Raleigh X1 🙁
Club Roost XC4
Pashley PDQ 😯
Dawes Tracker (b) 😯
Dawes Galaxy Tour
Cannondale F500 (a) 😀
Cannondale F900SL
Marin B-17 (AXC)
Dahon Mu P8
Raleigh Apex
Kona Ute 😀
Batavus Personal Bike 😀
Gary Fisher Big Sur 😀
Kinesis Maxlight 😀
M-Trax 150 (custom)
Kona Lava Dome
Saracen Rufftrax
Raleigh Stowaway
Raleigh Twenty
Genesis Core 20
Cannondale F500 (b) 😀
Dahon Speed D7
British Eagle Touristique 531ST (under evaluation)

As indicated – have been happy with many, some surprisingly so. Some not so much.

– and a Charge Mixer (Alfine), nearly forgot. We didnt get along at all – imo looked great and business-like for the commute – but 30lb weight with a brick-weight rear hub that loved potholes like an anchor loves the ocean floor? Bah. I wanted to like it, I really did.

Spesh Rockhopper Comp
Hoffman Condor
Raleigh Torrus Ti
Klein Pulse
Hoffman Taj
Trek VRX 300
Dragonfly DFX
Santa Cruz Chameleon
Trek Fuel
Norco Team XC
Santa Cruz Blur
Kona Cindercone cut and shut SS
Ridgeback Classic Hack Commuter
Turner 5 Spot HL
Gary Fisher Rig
Bontrager Warthog
Genesis IO SS
Gary Fisher 29er HiFi PRO
Gary Fisher Roscoe
Gary Fisher Superfly SS
Cannondale Badboy
Gary Fisher Rumblefish
Bontrager B29 Cruiser
Genesis Day One SS Disc
Kona Honzo
BSD Trailorpark
Genesis Fortitude
Salsa Horsethief SP
BSD Forever
Zealous Division
Genesis High Latitude SS

Think that’s it.
Still got quite a few of them

How long have you got… ?

That was over two years ago so obviously things have changed a bit!

Sold the Solaris and the Rocket
Bough and sold a Nukeproof Mega AM

and bought and still have
PYGA 29-oneten
Bird Aeris

I’m done now tho. So I keep telling myself…

10 by my count (11 in total for my 22yrs of mtb-ing). That includes 2 sub-£100 rat bikes that I had for commuting and which were subsequently stolen. 7 have been nice mtbs, and one cheapie SSCX, and I currently still own 4 of them.

2 or 3 for me (as a main mountain bike, At least 6 commuters)
1990 Saracen Ltd edition bought new
2002 A 1997 spesh ground control
The spesh is a bit triggers broom in that every part has been replaced including a ‘new’ stumpjumper frame so I’ll concede that it is a 3rd bike.

I am thinking about a new one but with upgrades and tweaks I’ve got it riding just how I like.

6. One was stolen but I’ve still got the rest, although 2 are basically just tired frames with a few bits on.

Last one was bought in 2013, and it’ll probably be a few more years before there’s another new one.

GT Outpost, GT Vertigo, KHE Catweasle, DK General Lee, Giant Boulder Alu, Diamond Back something-or-other, GT Chucker, Diamond Back Overdrive, Sunn Tzar (Al frame), DMR Exalt, 1994 GT Performer, 1998 GT Performer, Kona Stinky and now Sunn Tzar (CrMo frame) + Commencal Absolut CrMo + GT Pro Series XL + DK General Lee 24 + GT Fueler.

Dunno really. 18-ish? Ish. Only four decent MTBs though and those were built from parts apart from the ally frame Tzar.

Raleigh Kellogg’s pro tour
Giant peloton
Kastle mtb
Proflex 857
Trek hard tail
Marin mt vision
Marin team dh
Another Marin team dh
Atomic ds1
Planet X jack flash
Trek BMX
Giant BMX
Santa Cruz bullit
Santa crux super 8
Cants Cruz chameleon
Giant team dh
Kinesis xc hard tail
Santa Cruz heckler
Trek hard tail
Intense Uzi vpx
Trek madone carbon
Another Kinesis xc hard tail
Trek EX8
Look fixie
Trek remedy
Ragley td1
Bsa 1938 butchers bike
Viking 531 road bike from the 1970s
Genesis day one 853 disc singlespeed
Genesis volant
Genesis zero
Saracen Kili 12x
Saracen BMX
Genesis volare (coming soon)

Most of us have something that could realistically be called “a Problem”, don’t we?

😀

Sunn Cross
DDG Axis
Kona Smoke
Pipedream Sirius (still got frame)
Cannondale Prophet
Planet X Kaffenbak (still got)
Cotic Bfe (still got frame)
Surly Big Dummy (just built)
Genesis Grapil (just built)

Surly Big Dummy (just built)

PICTURES PLEASE!!!! That’s allowed its own thread. 🙂

one.

a 1996 cindercone – 1999 cindercone – 2002 cove handjob – 2005 inbred 456 – 2007 cotic soul – 2013 cotic soul.

all been the same bike. just different iterations thereof.

From 2005:

1. Rocky Mountain ETSX
2. Santa Cruz Chameleon
3. Orange P7 SS
4. Airborne Lucky Strike SS (r3)
5. Ibis Mojo (r1)
6. Cove Hummer (r2)
7. Cotic Soda (r6)
8. Ti456 (r7)
9. Independent Fabrication (r8)
10. Klein Attitude
11. Genesis Aether
12. Litespeed Sienna (r11)
13. On-one Ti 29er
14. Salsa Mamsita 29er
15. Kona Band Wagon
16. Genesis Croix De Fer
17. Singular Pegasus 29er (r14)
18. On One Pompetamine 11
19. Genesis Day One Alfine 11 (r18)
20. Singular Pegasus 29er V2 (r17)
21. Singular Pegasus 29er V2 Singlespeed (r13)
22. On One Pickenflick (r16)
23. Klein Attitude (another)
24. Niner RLT9 (r19)

Damn, that’s a lot of time money and effort…

since 1997:

Scott Boulder – nicked
used GT zaskar – still got frame. Will become commuter this summer
[used Cove Stiffee frame – still got it, mate uses it]
[SC Bullitt frame – still got, never ride]
Airborne Carpe Diem (cx) frame – winter/wet road bike
[Giant Trance – still got frame in garage]
Planet-X pro carbon frame – sold
[On-One Scandal 26er frame – still here, now unused]
[Planet-X pro carbon frame – bigger than the last one. Bit too big 😳 🙄 still here]
Giant Trance-X frame – summer mtb
used Foldy bike – ss, brand unkown – still used
Salsa Mukluk frame – winter SS 29er (no fat wheels, yet)
Scott Foil frame – summer road bike

(and a BMX in the garage somewhere – virtually never ridden (was my failed attempt not to buy a folding bike))

In the last 20?

GT Zaskar LE
Gazelle World Trophy CX
Klein Pulse Pro
Cove Stiffee 69er
Genesis Io SS
Genesis Fortitude SS

Quite a modest 13 for me (MTBs only), Cannondale was a hand me down from my Dad when I was 12 which got me into riding, didn’t really get into mountain biking properly until I got the Stumpjumper

1994 Cannondale M500
1999 Stumpjumper hardtail
2001 Trek 9.8
2001 S-Works FSR
2005 Titus Racer-X
2006 S-Works carbon hardtail
2007 S-Works Epic
2007 Trek Fuel Ex 9.5
2008 S-Works Epic
2009 S-Works Epic
2010 Top Fuel 9.9
2011 Top Fuel 9.9
2014 Superfly 9.8

Reckon I win an award for the least variety 😳

5 S-Works
5 carbon Treks
3 assorted ‘other’!

Carrera B52 (stolen)
Proflex Animal
Specialized Stumpjumper Hardtail (Stolen)
Foes FXC
Edit; Forgot one…Pastey Howler.
Cove Hummer
Nicolai Helius
O-O Inbred SS
Santa Cruz Chameleon
PP Shan
Cotic Bfe
Yeti ARS5C

Not as bad as a lot of you…

Muddy fox rock and roll
Haro something
Merlin hardtail
On one inbred 18″
On one inbred 20″
on one 456 18″
Orange evo 4
Norco fluid
specialized FSR
Airborne liberator
Specialized enduro 2006
specialized pitch 2009
Specialized enduro 2009
Specialized pitch 2010
Specialized stumpjumper 2010
Specialized stumpjumper 2011
Specialized pitch 2011
Specialized stumpjumper 2012
Lapierre zesty 2011
Turner five spot 2009
cotic bfe2012
Turner 5 spot 2010
Carerra subway
Boardman Hybrid
Voodoo bizango 2014
Giant Trance 2015
Genesis Equilibrium 20
Orange 5 29 2014

Erm 28 …thats more than I thought !!

EDIT 29 … I forgot the Giant NRS

I’ve only been riding 10 years, well I rode a bit in the 90s but I had a long break.

2005 GT I-Drive Halfords special, it was actually a late 90’s frame wrapped in low end kit. cost £600, spent as much again making it decent – sold it for £150 12 months later.

2006 Enduro Expert – probably the best bike I ever owned, rode it every week for 5 years, cost me £2000, by the time I was done it had had a new fork and shock under warrant, new wheels, new crank, new bars, several seats and drive trains, and a set of chain stays.

2007 Norco A-line, a tank of a bike, weighed more than the moon and I crashed it A LOT, but great fun to ride.

2008 Cove Shocker custom build, went a bit mad speccing it, cost me £5k in the end, brilliant, amazing bike, but I released I hated racing (and still do) so it mostly sat in my living room looking nice – except the odd uplift day or week in the Alps – I actually boxed it up for 2 years after an accident in 2009, pulled it out again in 2011, rode it at Afan (lord knows why) crashed, bashed up my ribs and spent a few weeks in pain – flew to Canada and rode it for a week in Whistler – a sort of homecoming for it. Had the best time, saw my mates on lighter 6″ bikes going just a quick – realised I was never going to be a proper downhiller anymore after the accident, also released it was pretty much new even though it was 3 years old now because I never rode it – sold to a chap in Greece – really, really miss it now, especially since BPW opened 30 mins from my house.

2011 Spicy 516 – sold the Enduro and the Shocker to buy it. Have to say, not a great bike – very fast out of the box thanks to the insanely light wheels (for that type of bike) but the open bath damper on the forks was appalling – very inconsistent, the tubeless set-up didn’t work and the tyres were terrible (non black chilli contis) so you had a bike that was incredibly fast to accelerate, with no grip and a fork that sometimes worked and sometimes didn’t – coupled with the brilliant, but insanely sharp Formula brakes made it a bit of a wild ride. I refused to believe it was anything but perfect though and blamed myself, in the end some scrote nicked it.

2010 Spicy 316, bought with what little money I had from a Roadie who bought it on a whim, rode it once, crashed it and sold it. It only had a single mark on it right on the part of the chain stay where it bends, it looked on the photos like a dent, I’m sure he thought it was a dent, but it wasn’t it was just a little mark in the wrong place. It rode better than the newer 516 if anything, but the fork was equally as bad until I worked out the previous guy had turned the rebound so many times past the stop it had snapped the shaft meaning it was like a logo stick – easy £5 fix. Rode that till last summer.

2013 Cove G-Spot, missing the Shocker and always wanting one made be buy a suspiciously cheap G-Spot frame online, it’s been repainted cheap and nastily over the original paint, it’s got a little dent in the chainstay but it’s wonderful – like a mini-shocker, it’s pretty heavy but it climbs okay, it’s more at home on faster trails, it’s a bit too slow to spin up on the slower stuff and it can be a bit frustrating, but given a bit of gravity and space it’s a proper hooligan bike. Going to try to lighter tyres soon to try to speed it up a bit.

So, 10 years and if you discount the foray into DH bikes, 4 bikes – my ‘cheap first bike’ which I think most people have and ditch for a better one soon after and one that got nicked.

i can remember at least 16 of them… 😯

Are we talking MTBs?

last 20 years, that’s since 1995.
Discards 1985 Rockhopper
1988 Stumpjumper – then
1998 Stumpjumper M2 (still have)
another 1998 M2 (currently road trying hack bike) (second hand, thanks donald) – still have
1995 Kona Kilaeua (converted dropouts to SS) — (second hand – thanks dRjOn) still have

4.

NEED TO UPDATE MY SPREADSHEET, MUST BE AROUND 50

Edit Damn CL, 56 since 1987 I think

Forgot about a ratty old muddy fox used for commuting and a Cotic Solaris.

1. ’00 Trek 2300 road bike (still got)
2. ’05 Trek 6500 hardtail mtb (still got)
3. ’98? Specialized Crossroads tour/CX bike (still got)

All in regular use.

4. Only really been riding 10 years though.

Specialised Rockhopper
Giant Reign
BFe
Covert

Still have the 1st, 3rd and 4th. Frame from Reign I must sell, the wheels will go onto the PAC frame I have and forks are on the Covert.

95: Univega Alpina 5.3
98: Cheap aluminium frame thing I built up
99: DMR Trailster
08: Pitch Pro
11: Kona Kula
12: Langster
13: Kona Unit
14: 456 EVO II

CX/gravel/road bike is on the cards next.

1994 – 2005:
GT Timberline
GT Zaskar
GT LTS
GT STS
2005 – 2011:
Turner 5 Spot
2011 – Now
Transition Covert (2010)
On one Inbred 456
On one C456
Nukeproof Mega tr
Transition Covert (2014)
Dialled Alpine

More than I thought!

i had a Trailstar, missed that off my list, had a Sidekick as well 😆

Let’s not go there! Less than mamadirt though. 😀

98: Specialized Rockhopper
06: Specialized Stumpjumper FSR Expert
07: Orange Five Pro
11: Brodie Ti Holeshot
12: Yeti ASR5C & Cotic Solaris

New 29er FS will be next…and maybe a second-hand CX/Road bike for pootling/commute.

That I actually used quite a bit?

1989 Saracen Tufftrax.
1990 Orange Clockwork.
1999 GT XCR 4000.
2005 Orange Evo 4.
2006/7 Orange 5 Pro Hope.
2009 Orange 5 AM.

Currently:

2007 Orange Clockwork.
2014 Orange 5 29.

I’ve had a nasty retrobike habit for a fair few years but to be honest I have not ridden many of them much except the 1993 Orange Clockwork and 1993 Orange Vitamin T I used to have.

Other retro that have passed through include Orange Prestige x2, Orange Aluminium Elite x3, Orange Clockwork/C16 x5, Marin Eldridge, Bear Valley, Pine Mountain (all 1990/1), Diamond Back Ascent EX + Apex, Saracen Tufftrax x3, Kili Racer, Eiger, Orange Aluminium ‘O’ x2, Raleigh Dynatech, various GT, Ridgeback, Univega……

Currently have a 1990 Marin Pine Mountain, 1989 Saracen Tufftrax, 1992 Orange Elite and 1989 Orange Clockwork in various states of disrepair.

5

one nicked, still got the other 4

Got back into pedal bikes in 2007 but still had my trusty Haro Sport that i got in 1992 so don’t know if that counts?

Since ’07 i’ve had…
’07 Marin Wildcat Trail (still in shed – donated to my eldest)
’07 Commencal Supreme 6.3 (sold last year)
’09 DMR Drone (sold last week)
’11 456 Summer Season
’11 Stumpy Evo

17. 😳

12/13

Specialized Rockhopper (complete)
Scott Yecora (complete)
DMR Trailstar Mk2 (built)
DMR Trailstar Mk3 (built)
GT Avalanche (SS pub bike – built)
Kona Stinky (built)
Commencal Mini-DH (built)
Commencal Supernormal (complete)
Trainsition Bottlerocket (built)
Santa Cruz Nomad (complete s/h)
Cotic Bfe (built)
Santa Cruz Blur Ltc (built)
(Stanton Switchback in the pipeline)