A Facebook reminder popped up informing me that a picture of an old Enduro was 10 years old, which left me pondering how many bikes or frames I’d gone through. The majority of my swaps were just frames, but even then, I came up with 16 mountain bikes and 3 road/cross bikes in that period.

How does this compare to the rest of you?

2001 Specialized Enduro!
GT Avalanche
Stumpjumper HT frame
Beone Hornet frame
Specialized FSR XC
Carbon Zaskar frame
Ibis Mojo frame
Specialized Pitch
OnOne Scandal frame
Commencal Meta
Orange Five frame
newer style Scandal frame
Specialized Stumpjumper FSR frame
Specialized Stumpjumper HT frame (bought together)
Singular Swift frame
Specialized Enduro

Interesting the times in which I had least money seem to coincide with buying the most frames, maybe it was a coping mechanism!

This morning I would have said two new bikes, three in total.
Niner EMD (Stolen)
Orange ST4 (Broken)
Sanderson Breath (with bits from the Orange)
But I can now say four. 8)
Marin Nail Trail 27.5″ (With NOT ONE old part on)

10 or so pushibikes in last 10 years

43 motorbikes.

5, sold three.

4

2

Still got them and one was secondhand.

Kona Hoss
Blur 4x
Cotic Soul
Intense Tazer
Lapierre Spicy
Specialized Demo 7
Cotic Roadrat
Morewood Makulu
Nicolai Ion 16
Last Fast Forward
Mojo Geometron

In 7 years I’ve had 8 bikes.

Revolution Triad 2.0
On One 456 Summer Season
Chromag Stylus
Mondraker Dune
Voodoo Bizango
On-One Fatty
Pinnacle Arkose
Norco Aurum

Still got the Norco and Arkose but the Norco is going when I get back from the Alps for something I’ll get more use from making it 9 in 7 years.

2006 Enduro Expert
2007 Norco A-Line
2008 Cove Shocker
2011 Lap Spicy Stolen
2010 Lap Spicy
2013 Cove G-Spot
2016 Intense Tracer

All really usable, day to day, all rounders… sort of…

I was sort of hoping to be middling in this. My plan to help justify a new road bike has backfired.

Cannondale chase
Turner Rail
leader 401? (xc bike)
Mountain cycle rumble
Peugeot fixie
Retro carbon Allan xc hack bike
Jbc carbon xc bike
Cannondale Badboy ultimate?
Singular humming bird
Canyon grand canyon Al
Whyte t129
Dolan letape
Felt DD30
Bamboo cyclo x
Charge plug disc

So 11 for me….. Currently only have 2 of them.

Specialized Hardrock
Specialized Stumpjumper FSR S-Works 2006
Orange Five (2013)

Still got the five and hardrock (mainly commuting purposes)

not going there

MTBs:
Mongoose something
Giant STP
Giant Trance x
Specialized Pitch
Specialized Demo 8 ii
Commencal MaxMax
Identiti Krisis SL
Lapierre Spicy 316
Saracen Ariel 162 (Current)
Identiti P66 (Current)
Dartmoor Hornet (Current)

Folding
Philips something (broke my ankle not a fan)
Kansi 3 twenty

Road
Spalding something
Graham Weigh Something
Specialized Allez sport (Current)

wow 16 bikes in 10 years!

One, 2004 Cannondale Jekyll that’s hasn’t cracked and failed.

not going there

Boo!

not going there

+1

I’ve only had five bikes.

I should have more bikes.

6. still got 5, one snapped, got replaced.

Boardman HT Pro
Cotic Soul
Mongoose BMX
Banshee Spitfire
Bird Zero AM

Still got all bar the Soul. Boardman has toddler seat and towing bar for kids bike. BMX used to be used for my short commute but the current journey is a bit far for not sitting down at all!

You people are all shattering my chance of a beautiful carbon road bike.

Last 10 years the following have gone through my hands:
SC Chameleon
SC Heckler
Cotic Soul
On One Inbred
Pashley 24mHz #1
SC Blur 4X
PDC Kingpin (still got the frame)
Orange Five
Orange Alpine160 (still got)
Kona Lava Dome
Orange Clockwork
Brooklyn Machine Works Park Bike
Pashley 24MHz #2
Pashley 24MHz #3
Yeti DJ
Cotic Roadrat #1
Cotic Roadrat #2 (still got)
Verenti Substance
Curtis S1 #1
Curtis S1 #2 (about to go in a box as its been sold)
On One 456 Summer Season

The Curtis S1 going leaves an empty bike allocation so wonder whats next!

I think thats all…

I think this is the list:

GT Aggressor 2
Specialized Pitch Comp
Cove Handjob
Genesis iO
Specialized Allez Comp
Nicolai Heluis CC
Raleight Airlite
Nicolai Helius CC
Chumba HX2
Raleigh Carbon Comp
Kinesis FF29
Boardman CX Team
Genesis Fortitude Race
Genesis Equilibrium
Giant TCR
Giant Anthem X1
KTM Aera Comp
KTM Revelator
KTM Scarp
KTM Fat Rat
KTM Canic CXA
Mongoose R120 BMX Wallace Edition

Crikey

You people are all shattering my chance of a beautiful carbon road bike.

Just get one the same colour as the old one, she’ll never know the difference!

Or have a missus as daft as mine. Got rid of the 456 Summer Season which was dayglo orange for a dark green Chromag. It took her 6 months to notice.

9, of which I still have all of the last 5.

8-ish (does a frame+seatpost+fork swap count as a new bike?), current count is at 4.

Seven, I’ve still got four

Specialized Stumpjumper HT
Specialized Stumpjumper FSR (sold)
Pace RC303 (sold)
Santa Cruz Blur LT (sold)
Santa Cruz Superlight
Turner 5 Spot
Boardman Pro 29

Or have a missus as daft as mine. Got rid of the 456 Summer Season which was dayglo orange for a dark green Chromag. It took her 6 months to notice.

Cheers, I’ll give it a shot. I don’t like my odds though as she was the poster above you.

14.
I still have half of them.
Of course I mean I still have half the number of whole bikes, not 14 halves

Yeti 575
One One Inbred(2nd hand)
Cove Handjob(2nd hand)
Trek 1.7
Specialised Rockhopper
Canyon Aeroad
Brompton

Not sure it would have been so many were it not for the cycle to work scheme.

I started 2008 with an Orange 5 and a Kona Dr Dew. Since that time, I’ve had:

Pace RC305 frame
Cannondale Bad Boy
Cotic Soul frame
Trek 1.1 (road)
Kinesis Decade (road)
Cotic X frame
Cotic Escapade frame
Stooge Mk1 frame
Cotic Soul 275 frame
Kinesis 4S Disc (road) frame
Surly Ogre frame
Surly Straggler frame
Brompton
Transition Scout frame

I’ve usually swapped frames rather than bought / sold bikes, tending to keep 2-3 at a time, so perhaps the turnover isn’t quite as dramatic as it seems!

Heckler
Chameleon frame
DB alpine frame
Decade Virsa frame
Yeti ASR5
EDIT: Bfe
Soul 26 frame
Nukeproof Mega frame
Turner Burner
Soul 275 frame
Canyon Spectral

+

Giant OCR
Tripster

If it went back 15 years it’d be twice as long.

Only started 7 years ago but in that time:

3 MTB

Decathlon Rockrider
Vitus Blitz
Orbea Occam AM (Current Bike)

1 Road Bike

Vitus Decium (Current bike)

jeesus there’s some spenders/tinkerers here.

2008 Orange Five
2015 Orange Five

Hmm, a look at the lists above suggests I am not as bad as I thought 🙂

Stumpjumper FSR
Chumba 29er HT
Roadrat (2008 till present)
Cube Cross Race
Ventana El Capitan
Surly Krampus
Salsa Mukluk
Surly ICT (with full fat and 29+ wheels)
Stumpjumper FSR carbon

Still got the ICT, carbon stumpy, roadrat and cross race – a good mix of bikes and I enjoy them all 🙂

I assume mamadirt is still counting?

06 Specialized Demo 8
08 Specialized SX trail II
05 Orange Hitman
06 GT IT1
09 Intense Slopestyle
?? On One Inbred
13 Trek 1.5
04? GT Pro cruiser 24
13 Trek Madone 5 series w/di2*
14 Santa Cruz 5010c*
14 Santa Cruz Nomad mk3*
13 Santa Cruz Chameleon
15 Specialized fatboy pro*
16 Specialised turbo Levo fsr expert*
17 Specialized Sequoia elite*
17 Pivot Mach 429SL*

*still got

Fancy a properly light carbon 29HT next (pivot les as you’re asking) but adult priorities…

16 😯
I blame Ton this place

Seven, still got five.

MTB
Marin Mt Vision (sold when I got ..)
Cotic Solaris
Singular Puffin fat bike

Road/commuter/cx
Specialized Allez (sold when I got …)
Specialized Roubaix
On-One Pompetamine
Genesis Croix de Fer 10

Still got the Pompy, it’s been sat there for 18 months waiting for me to turn it into a singlespeed.

Last 10 years?

DMR Trailstar
Identiti Mr Hyde
Cotic BFe
Orange Alpine 160 26
Cotic Rocket 27.5