The Bike You Wish You Still Had

No pics but my old P7 circa 2004. I loved it, it might not be just the bike but the memories that went with it but it was a bike I loved and miss it dearly. Would love Orange to produce a 29er steel version type thing but can’t see it happening. Also my old Dawes One Track from circa 94. A truly wonderful lilac beast upgraded to full DX with thumbies, Pace Forks and Middleburn c/set. Sadly stolen and missed everyday since.

I do like a steel hardtail 🙂

I wasn’t finished with my DMR singletrack when I bent it round a tree – I loved that bike. I wouldn’t want it back now but I had to search a lot after that for a hardtail I liked as much. But things have moved on…

The bike I think I’ll always want back is a Yeti ASR5. It was 95% the perfect bike and I sold it to fix the 5% but lost 20 in the process. So much fun, so able on everything. I want another.

Not that old but I’ve a hankering for an mmmbop again. There was something about that bike that just gave me the confidence to ride stuff I’d normally baulk at.

Several but this one Maverick Ml8

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Litespeed Kitsuma

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Also miss my old size large foxy

Would love to have tried it with a modern 35mm stem

It was the fastest trail bike I’ve had but just a bit too long with a 50mm stem.

My Cotic Soul Mk3 in orange…especially now they’re not making any more. 🙁

One of the last of the original shape Santa Cruz Blurs. Turned out “Do what you **** want!” didn’t actually mean that.

“Choose me or that **** bike” did mean exactly what it said.

I miss that bike.

would love to get my 2002 cannondale F800 (matt black with lefty fork) back.

sold it in a moment of stupidity,and have regretted it ever since.

i did the longest ride i,ve ever done on it (205 miles).

just a lovely bike 🙁

not my pic/bike

My Cube ltd pro , really wish that one was still with me

I miss my matt gold GT BMX that was stolen outside my flat (3 floors up and chained to the bannister). 😥

This, all sorts of this….

Not my picture but I had an identical frame to this one. I had XTR all over it with the orginal Fox forks and Crossmax SL wheels and RFcranks. Absolutely loved this bike (I actually think it rode better than the VPP frames of today). I would always get special treatment in London bike shops, too as the mechanics always fought to work on it. Gutted when it was stolen from my flat. 😥

Me riding it near Les Arcs…

Pics by hungrymonkey of this forum IIRC.

I put a Pace DH stem and some risers on this and it was the best bike ever.

Pace RC200f8

Racing at Beastway

And this one..
odd that they are from the same era… and British weirdly.

Patriot B&W, on Flickr

My Cotic soda. I never got to ride it much, but when I did I loved every moment on it.

Miss my Dave Yates Diabolo. Fillet brazed 735 tubing. It was lovely 🙁

1993 Kona Cindercone with silver to green fade paint!
I will buy another one day…

Miss me Kona Explosif of 89.

This one for me … sold it in a moment of weight weenie madness … shame!

Intense 5.5 for me too. Stolen nearly two years ago. I’d just about got over it when I read a Shaun Palmer interview recently where he said it used to be his go-to bike.

(Not my pic)

I loved that bike, 1989/1990 Rockhopper Comp.

I’m just looking at a vintage rockhopper on the NZ version of ebay cos I’m after something to go exploring on while I’m out here..

Recently serviced, good working order at £42.50 and no bids yet.. I may have to give the fella a call this eve

The chain looks a bit sketchy though ey..
Whatwesayin’? Is this my new bike?

I miss being young and fit, basically.

my Orange crush, mmm lovely

This beaut weighed a tonne, and made sure I was almost always last on the BMX track near my house when I was riding against my friends, but man was she popular when we were doing our log-jumping competitions on the front street!

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With this thread, I am starting to realise how many things I wish I had never got rid of. 🙁

SaxonRider – I know what you mean!

Thanks to everyone for sharing, has been an awesome trip down memory lane.

I may have gone out and bought another BMX off the back of this – not the one I had as a youth (yoof?!) but the first one I could find – http://www.gumtree.com/p/bicycles/bmx-stunt-bike-/1104374411 – that one to be exact.

Have only taken it for a sneaky ride around the block and already has put a big grin on my face. I may take it off road at the weekend. Well once I have told the other half why I have a new bike….

Still wish I had my one of these. I managed to wangle one out of Raleigh as the shop I worked in had a race team. I believe they were not available to the public, only the Raleigh team. Mine had a curved top tube. It did attract some curiosity from the Raleight team @ the malvern Hills Classic one year as they thought I was a new team member 😳

mt – Member
Miss me Kona Explosif of 89.

Yes, I had my only decent race results on mine, back in the early nineties.
Luckily, I still have it……

Hold out for some longer bar ends and a higher stem yunki.

I wish I still had this, 89 specialized stumpjumper

I loved that bike, 1989/1990 Rockhopper Comp.

Bizarrely I have an ’89 Rockhopper frame in the loft. 19.5″ in grey, same triple butted tubing as the Comp and basic Stumpie of that year.

Raleigh Boxer XL …not my pic but have fond memories of it .

Ah, there it was, Leigh Hill, Porlock, some time ago. On One Mary bars, Schwalbe Big Apple 2.35s and a leather Fizik Gobi K:ium wingflex.
Went like sh*t off a shovel, climbed like a deranged monkey and hurt my fillings downhill.

Sold my Yeti ASR-5 and Cotic Soul last year.

Thought I wanted more travel and a slacker head angle for enduro, so got a Pivot Mach 5.7 instead.

Big mistake. Turns out I’m not an enduro rider at all.

I miss those bikes every day.

Loving the boxer memories ^^. I had a Tomahawk. The largest kid in our year had a Chipper. Incongruous.

A 16″ wheel GT BMX with a back-pedal rear brake, early 90s vintage, that my neighbour brought over from Canada.

It was simple, light, indestructible (didn’t matter if the wheels buckled!) and I could bunny-hop it about two feet aged 11. Got through a rear tyre every month though…

Sold it to my friend for a fiver when I got into skateboarding 🙁

Was told I needed Thought I wanted more travel and a slacker head angle for enduro… Turns out I’m not an enduro rider at all ‘Enduro‘ is just another marketing-lead exercise to convince most normal trail riders they need to buy new bikes

FTFY… 😉

(As a fellow Yeti ASR5c rider – I can confirm this bike would have to be prised from my cold, dying hands).

I loved my Demo 9, but I think the Big Hit that I had before it was the best DH bike that I had. The PUSH tuned Van RC transformed that bike.

I also wish that I hadn’t sold my Slackline at the start of the year; the Switchback is amazing but I’d like to have been able to hang onto the Slackline just because it was ace fun. The orange bits looked brill with the grey paint too.

My old Tomahawk, Grifter, Aero Pro Burner and Haro Sport – purely for nostalgic reasons as i don’t think i could ride any of them these days without breaking myself.

Hard to believe this was 20 years ago (Haro Sport)…