Regrets…

@Breadcrumb – I miss my Langster as well. I had the Monaco limited edition and it was beautiful. But when I moved back to Bristol from Hertfordshire I decided there were too many hills and I wouldn’t use it.

gosh I miss that bike, I used to treat it like a gravel bike/XC bike and thrash it around all the dirt tracks in Herts back before gravel bikes were a thing (sold in about 2013).

I also regretted selling my Charge Blender years ago, but I bought one last year and built it back up so I’m happy again.

To summarise then, everybody who’s ever had a Cotic and sold it regrets it.

I’ve only ever reluctantly sold a Cotic to be replaced with another (Soul 26 > 27.5 Gen 4 > 27.5 Gen5, so no ragrets yet.

@ALex I loved the Switchback I had, too. Wrapped the front end around a tree sadly and they’d stopped maing them because, well, people kept breaking them.

To summarise then, everybody who’s ever had a Cotic and sold it regrets it.

I’m lucky in that I’ve never sold a bike then regretted it later, they have always been moved on for a reason.  I did come very close to selling my Rocket late last year though.  I’ve hardly used it in the last 12 months and with my fitness completely disappearing in the last 18 months and a bout of depression and anxiety I couldn’t ever see me using it again properly so had it cleaned and prepped ready for photos to be taken.  But when it came to taking the pictures I just couldn’t do it so it got wheeled back inside and I sent the shock and fork off for a service instead.  It’s still sat there waiting for me to put it back together but I now know that it’s not going anywhere unless I replace it.

Not selling but I still regret not getting a Commencal Acid when they were cheap at the tail end of the fixie craze but didn’t want/need another bike. Would be perfect for my commute now though, still trawl ebay every few of weeks hoping to find one.

Truthfully, I don’t miss any of the FS bikes I have sold.

The last was the bike I had always wanted, an Orange Five back in 2018.

It came out for the odd trip to Bike Park Wales so I just hired a FS the last few times I’ve been.

In that time I’ve not once considered selling my Niner SIR.9. & for that I am thankful. hell will freeze over before I sell it. I cant imagine ever parting with my fat bike either, its just such a grin inducing behemoth.

I regret selling my Sugar One. Got persuaded to do L2B this year and it would have been ideal for that.
Still, gives me an excuse to get another bike!

I regret selling my Sugar One

I built one for the ex-wife back in the day, then my son used it a few times.. Its still hanging in my garage – Monitou forks, STX-RC (oh yes!) groupset, blue Hope ti hubs, Mavic rims (handbuilt by Rock N Road Cycles). Have loaned it to a few lady-friends, but I can’t see it ever getting used again now. Not sure what to do with the squelchy (that’s the shock) old beauty.

Bike regrets? Genuinely no FSer I regret selling as I always changed onto something better. Only bike I regret selling is (and true to STW cliche it seems) my early Cotic Soul: 2004/5ish, matt black with olive wrap decal and the head ‘badge’ still a grey-scale sticker. Sold it to fund a Kona Explosif to fulfil a childhood desire, which turned out to be crap. Didn’t realise at the time just how good that Soul was. I’m now on Cotic #7 (BFe Max) and #8 (Cascade).

Honestly not a one. There’s been a couple where I took a step back but I’ve always ended up going fowards, the bikes I have today are the best bikes I’ve ever had and if they weren’t I’d replace them without a moment’s thought.

I guess if I’d kept my original Soul then I’d have not had the constant temptation to buy another old Soul… I had one when it was new and cool, I’ve had 2 since plus a 26er bfe and a Soda 🙂 And all avoidable if I’d just kept the first one so I remember “hey, this was great when I first got it but now it isn’t”

(see also: my rubbish bmx, I never rode it but if I’d kept it I wouldn’t have bought the trials bike or the other trials bike, it’d be fulfilling that space of “stupid little bike I never ride”)

Scott Voltage FR, I’ve had two and should have known not to sell the second! Nobody makes a bike like that any more – shortish reach/wheelbase and chainstays, but 170mm each end and decently slack head angle. Made for a really fun DH/park/jumps bike that isn’t too sluggish, wallowy or barge like but still really confidence inspiring. Would love something similar but I don’t think these types of bikes exist anymore, especially not 26″.

Regrets are my current Top Fuel. Only saving grace is I still have my old rig so that’s now getting used far more.

I’ve had a few. But, then again, too few to mention.

Keep up Frank…

Surely I’m the only one qualified to make that joke?

I think Claude Francois would disagree…

Looking back at previous bikes. Unfortunately I didn’t get to regret selling my original KHS Montana Comp (93) as it was stolen in its later life commuter form. I do regret leaving it unlocked in the communal area of the flat.

@Alex I’ve just sold my Switchback after 20 years. It was a great bike at the time, but now it felt short, high & steep.

@jimmy I did that to my first frame as well. Had a rigid fork on the brand new frame while I waited for a Vanilla 125. Hit a rock at speed & it crumpled. Punctured the front, but rode it out.

I’d sell my bloody Cotic X now. In fact I would have sold it within weeks of buying it in Jan 2011. Bloody gas pipe.

I do regret selling my Genesis IO with rigid forks.

I sold my mountain bike the other day, I’m not sure if I regret it yet or not.

Built it last summer in the CRC sale (Vitus Sommet 29) and rode it off road once. Yes once… and that was august.

popped it on marketplace for what was seemingly market value and had little interest for a month but a local guy offered me alright money for it and collected within 2 hours. He even said he didn’t want to rob me, such is the value of Vitus right now!
he wasn’t robbing me though, riding it once in 9 months, other than the odd trip out to town with my son was a pathetic life for that bike so on that basis I don’t regret it. I hope he enjoys it.

Ridden my new cruiser every weekend since I got it, wonder if I regret going so cheap on that – should have bought a jump bike like @joebristol did seeing as I’m on it so often!

@kiwijohn – ah maybe best I never kept it then. I remember it feeling slack compared to my other bike at the time!

@jimmy – good effort 🙂 Saw a few like that. I think DMR had such a reputation for burliness (trailstar/sidekick etc) that riders assumed the switchback was the same. I had a trailstar, someone ran over the top tube at chicksands and put a dent in it. Fixed it with a sticker and carried on chucking it off the ladders there.

Wish I hadn’t sold my Pipedream 631 Sirius in Ti silver….

Also wish my Lynskey full suss project wasn’t stolen, or my Zaskar LE with xtr….. The regret there is I heard a noise outside, the night they were nicked and I was too darn lazy to get up at 3am to go check. *sad fwace*

I think DMR had such a reputation for burliness (trailstar/sidekick etc) that riders assumed the switchback was the same

That’s pretty much the conversation I had with them at the time. This was a slow speed collision with a tree which I wouldn’t expect to crumple a frame but there we are!

Kona Hoss.

Awful Dirt Jumper fork. Weighed a tonne.

Dreadful power spline BB

Maxxis Ignitor tyres. Nothing special.

Fundamentally, got the wrong size.

Kona said 6’1” = 20 inch.

Was a gate.

My 1988 Chas Roberts White Spider in metallic pink.  God I loved that bike – beautifully made Columbus SLX tubing with fillet braising – It had an under the chain stay u-brake and elegant curved rigid forks – but a 6-speed 126mm rear end meant to went out of fashion once 135mm 7 speed came in and I sold it…. it handled beautifully and still dream of it now.

I bought my perfect bike for the type of riding i do, which for the purposes of this comment i’ll call “all mountain” because im old. Its a Cotic Jeht.

BUT.. since getting it the club i’m in seems to becoming more and more enduro / uplift focused. Now the Jeht copes with all this admirably but i cant help thinking i’m missing 20mm more travel at either end.

But as i also know the Jeht is so sorted geo wise I’m also very aware that a longer travel thing i.e. Trek Slash or similar may actually feel worse and like a limp dog whenever i take it for big days out in the Peak / Lakes.

N+1 is the obvious answer but that requires ££££ i don’t have.

is it Santa Cruz Chameleon hardtail ?

Maybe your full-suspension bike isn’t everything you cracked it up to be for the riding you’re currently doing. Perhaps a hardtail like your old Highball would be perfect.