How similar/different are your bikes?

Swarf Contour steel FS bike. 115mm travel/150mm fork. Looks and rides lovely.

Ragley BigWig set up SS. Love it for local loops and winter slop. Have just got a set of gears to take on/off, so it can double as a trail bike if needed, or possibly a bike-packing bike for sturdier off road bivvy rides.

On One Pickenflick CX/gravel bike, with a second set of wheels for very occasional road duties.

Covers most bases for me.

Parlee Altum Disc road bike, and a Mason Bokeh gravel bike (700c wheels). Those two bikes cover I reckon 99% of the riding from my door here in the Hertfordshire commuter belt, and with a second kid about to arrive I’m not going to be going too much further for a little bit.

Grey Nukeproof reactor.

Red planet X pro carbon Evo.

Silver planet X London road.

Wish I’d kept my yellow cotic Solaris….

All different.

Transition Sentinel (160/150]
Whyte e150 (with 160mm Smashpot)
130mm 650+ Alu hardtail
100mm 29er Custom steel hardtail
Carbon gravel bike
Used and abused full mudguard steel road bike.

Swapped out a 130mm trail bike for the Sentinel earlier this year and kind of missing it. Not the bike as such as it was a bit small, but the role it fulfilled. Sentinel is a great bike in the right terrain, but loooooong and a bit heavy. Bought it as I was riding bigger stuff on the ebike but wanted a lighter non ebike for the same stuff. Thing is, I’m ending up planning rides to justify the bike and driving more to get to rides. Last issue of the mag has got me looking at the Flare Max. Problem is, that’s pretty capable and I worry it would overlap the Sentinel too much. I know, poor me and my first world problems.

On one pickenflick gravel

Cotic solarismax (run mainly singlespeed, sometimes geared)

Transition Sentinel

Trek Rail eeb

So all quite different. The closest two in terms of intent are the transition and the trek. It’s just that the trek has a motor.

Did have a road bike until recently, but it was mainly used for commuting, which I now don’t do due to WFH mostly.
Gravel bike with road wheels on is fine.

I’ve got two that are similar in that they both look like shitting dogs (Pronghorn carbon XC machine and Pronghorn 160/150mm trail bike, both in horrendously unfashionable 26″ flavour) but they ride completely different. Still maintained and still used, but very much back up bikes.

Did have a lovely mk1 Banshee Prime in the blue/red colours which was my go-to but that’s cracked around the top tube/seat tube brace weld. Warranty is taking an age so in the meantime I’ve ordered a Canfield Tilt frame in raw aluminium to build up with the Banshee parts. Still waiting on delivery for that…

So started off tall and steep, now heading into to long and slack

Mine seem to be quite different

I’m trying to decide which of the big bikes to keep, so right now they’re pretty similiar- a Cotic Rocketmax, and a Remedy 29. The Cotic’s a bitter harder hitting, the Remedy a bit more playful but they both do the exact same job. I love the Remedy more but the Cotic’s better

And, just to make some difference, a fatbike.

Tom Howards collection is making me feel better about myself 🙂

Most slack 180/170/63.5

Most appropriate 140/130/66

Most fun for 2 hour blasts 140/0/65

Most confused 🙂

So some overlap. I could ride the Giga all the time especially with some lighter wheels. Really I bought it for trips away/big days out and it was superb in Basque but it’s pretty good everywhere else as well.

But I love the Revel here in the FoD, it’s mostly perfect. And everyone has to have a big wheeled/big tyred hardtail. The digger I should use loads more for local riding, but I don’t really enjoy riding on my own so it gets the least use.

If Revel had the Rail (160mm rear) as a 29 when I bought the Giga, I might have got away with one ‘big’ bike. Still for a man who once had THREE Ibis FS at the same time, I feel I’ve made progress 🙂

After riding various Spesh FS’ for years, I fancied a change and ended up with these:

Whyte 901 HT – bright green
Cannondale CAAD8 road bike – bright blue
Whyte Friston gravel bike – bright orange

I love them all equally and can’t choose between them. Sure, the Friston is the most versatile but my favourite is always the one I’m riding.

Mulling over getting a 29er but don’t have the time to look into it or ride it properly.

All very different:

Transition Sentinel – 160f/150r travel with Lyriks / codes / coil spring rear etc. 63.6 degree head angle and reasonably long chainstays etc. 34lbs ish and 29er.

Marino hardtail – 140mm Pikes / codes / lighter weight build / skinny frame tubes / 65.5 degree head angle and short chain stays – 425mm. 30lbs ish and 650b

Cannondale Caad12 195 disc – 18lbs ish and obviously quite twitchy as has crit style geometry

Haro 124 bmx – hi tensile frame, crap brakes and wants to kill me whenever I ride it – looks cool though 👌

I like to think mine all have a purpose and are very different.
Very fast and capable, light rig. If be worried about taking this to the Alps though. Transition Spur. Bought for epic long distance stuff, but keep taking it to my local

My hardcore hardtail. Can do anything really. Used in enduros, Alps (am there now), and sub 10hr sdw rides. Forks are super plush and important, smashpot converted ultimates. Orange p7

My bigger rig. Great bike. Could be used anywhere, but I’d rather not peddle it all day on xc. Used in Alps, DH and enduro. Easiest to ride in the wet. Ripmo AF

Two black 29er Oranges, one Shiney and aluminium, 1 Matt and carbon.