Show Us Your Bike…………..;o)

Because it’s lovely and blue.

Because it feels like it’s always got more travel in reserve, climbs ok and descends like a mother. I know the back tyre looks weird; I found out it was punctured after the photo!

Alas, this will turn into a Cotic Soul within the next week. Boys and their toys 🙄

I forgot to say why i like mine. Because it’s got almost no toe overlap even though it’s tiny.

my Bfe

because it’s steel, it’s blue, it’s British and i luv hammering natural trails with it 🙂

tracer, custom paint

awesome full suss, luv bombing the trail centres with it 🙂

Cove STD

it’s a good skills compensator for them trails i shouldnie be on 😆

Rides like a big BMX and is never going to break.

why? cos it’s so much fun! i loved my old kona but it was a wee bit short. also, i couldn’t run a rear disc and tyre clearance meant i couldn’t run anything bigger than 2.2″. this one is so much fun! as soon as i start riding, i don’t wanna turn back – i feel like i could carry on for ever!

Because it was set up perfectly and so much fun until it was stolen

This is EVEN BETTER and is such a joy to ride

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Dunno really, maybe coz it’s orange, maybe coz it’s steel made by a bloke called Mike, maybe coz it’s new – whatever it is I bloody love it!!

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The P7 cus she loves it

The 5 – cus she loves it too!

Ginge – she loves it just as much as the others!

Because its ideal for the riding I do around here and dont need long travel or anything slack

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because its a great bike for big long rides and so much more capable than it seems

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*waves at Andy*

*waves back at fellow Chilterns rider* 😆

Because I won’t let it die.

This is my steed & it puts a big old smile on my face every time I ride it. It’s more bike than I need & can handle but it smooths out the bumps & saves by (crispy) bacon when I get it all wrong.

This is going soon, in fact this week if the new ‘un finally arrives but is a lovely bike to ride and allows me to ride more aggressively than my slack skill level suggests

Because its what I have, lol. Its an old Gary Fisher Marlin although I am unsure of the year. It has had some gheto fixing in the past such as the tape on the sus fork. I also recently installed a new easton handlebar because the past one was starting to rust like mad. This will soon be my winter and commuting bike since I have my eyes on a Lapierre Zesty.

My Ti CX great fun to ride 🙂 But for some strange reason I keep thinking of selling it 😐

Santa Cruz, because it sounds so much more exotic than ‘Biggleswade’ 🙂

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Because it’s shiny.

Because it skids.

Because there is nothing else quite like it, now with a next SL seatpost and a 70mm thompson stem.

Its a family thing……

2x Scott’s, Nicolai Helius,Like a Bike,Bianchi Infinito,Boardman Womans Comp,Ridgeback Honey

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Because it is.
Bike still covered in Enduro 6 dust.

Because I just love fettling…

Because I just love riding….

Because I just love fettling…

+1 : )

http://www.pugsley-on-patrol.org.uk

Gary

Love it and hate it in equal measures.
Love the way it rides and how versatile it is. 😀
Hate the fact that I’ve been to several demo days and tried all the bikes I thought I wanted to replace it with yet I’ve not found anything I’d change it for, so no shiny-shiny for me. 🙁

*I’ve had the gardener put down some weed killer so it’s a lot tidier now, honest.

Yeti 575 – Becuase I have always wanted one, it has not disapointed at all. Best bike I have had and I have had a few…. (S-Works Stumpy Carbon FSR 09, Carbon 456 2011, Trance X0 08, Stumpy Elite FSR 08, Stumpy Comp FSR 07….

brilliant bike now has slx cranks and carbon bars

oh go on here it is now

DH fun bike eats drops and saved my ass several times

keep em coming…………….but 1 question.
where are all the niche mongers

Just because, and because it makes less sense the more you look.

😉

Because it’s fantastic and does [almost] everything.

Because it’s as equally fantastic as it’s mate there ^.

This tho’ … this has now been retired.
It was a crazy bicycle, and used to get me into some real bad situations …

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Sorry not at all niche except the stupid bars

I bought this lightly used a year ago. I’ve had a long term wrist injury and it was genuinley unsure as th wether it would stand up to much off road cyling. I was doing OK on my old hard tail with rubbish 80 mm travel forks but still getting wrist pain on bad days/longer rides.
On this bike with those stupid bars the wrist is pretty much a non issue 🙂

Oh its also the only bike that has truely been the right size for me, lovely long chain stays and top tube

Jones: A blast to ride.

head down, arse up…

head up, arse back…

head shaking, arse vibrating…

and with the rear end ‘fixed’…

I love my Kinesis, handles like a bmx on the trails

New purchase, wanted a retro-ish road bike. Love it because it 12years old and it’s been ridden twice!

I’ve had about a million bikes in the last 5 years (well, at least 20 IIRC)

This I miss the most (super light & super stiff)

This one … not so much

cos they go up and down like proper mtb’s should.

So whats you’re fav so far Ton? And why? 🙂

the ventana’s are close to my heart.

but the green pipedream on the 1st page is simple and lovely.