I was between this and a Claud Butler Vantage mountain bike.

Raleigh banana

I had a Scott America , I think it was called ? A huge tubed alloy hard tail which got sold for a Proflex 955 which I fell in love with on the cover on MTBR , I think !

one of these…..not my pic tho.

No stick shift on that chopper ?

That chopper is about 7 yrs old max!

Bought a 1993 spec Stumpy in September 1992…..exactly like this one

Alright, not that chopper. But one like it. With stick shift (not literally)

Keep meaning to scan some old photos, I had one of these….

Only seems like yesterday I was saving my paper round money to fund it.

Marin Bear Valley – loved that bike.

Yamaha DT175. I swapped it for my godfathers XBR500 a couple of years later. I’ve recently learned its sat unridden in his shed ever since…. I think it might need to be resurrected

My first “proper” MTB, a British Eagle ZFX Two, Reynolds 531 frame, Tange big forks, finished in a lovely British Racing green.

I was onboard a 21″ Raleigh Lizard (my early teens).

Bought by my parents as I would “grow into it”.

20 years on I’d still not be tall enough for it.

Marin bear valley. Way too big for me if I recall. Progressed on to a cannondale m400 after that.

A db ascent for me too a blue one with spatter paint

Great thread! Dawes Rough Trade. Bought to go touring in the Middle East. Lusted after Saracen, Kona and Cannondale.

A red 10sp Peugeot “racer” (kept that one at uni) and a Ridgeback Rapide 14sp road bike (didn’t keep that one at uni).

edit: the Peugeot was eventually half-inched from the uni bike sheds, while the Rapide is in my store room 20yrs later, and still ridable.

A Raleigh Sabre

Like this

I sold it to a neighbour, I’m now hoping he still has it as I’d like to buy it back.

A Raleigh Burner and my first trials iron – Yamaha TY 80. Classic

I was racing a Chorus equiped Gios Evo
Also had a Diamant Pro road bike.
Wasn’t into MTB back then, but the missus and me had Raleigh something or others….steel burgundy things?

Another with a DB Ascent – in blue. Then a DB Apex in natural finish, killer looks with Smoke+Dart skinwalls 😆 Fond memories…. Both nicked by thieving scumbags during Hungarian winter – I couldn’t get into the garage because of the ice, how on earth did they???
Now I’ve come over all nostalgic……..

From 1987 a Dawes from the Freemans catalogue seconds shop in Peterborough. 25″ frame (!), biopace, 7 speed rapidfire etc etc

Then in 1993 pne of the first Orange P7s made:

And then in 1998 a Kona Explosif

20 years ago? When pink lycra was made cool by Schmoo’s cycles?

Ahhhhhh, my eyes………..

I was on one of these. think this was taken at the kielder classic 92

I had one of these. Loved it to bits. Raced NEMBA XC and DH as a (fat) youth.

I now ride a Nomad but would love another razz on that Orange. Got nicked from the shed. B@$tards.

(not my pic BTW, borrowed from Retrobike)

Firstly a borrowed Clockwork and P7 prototype, while sailing with Orange sails from Lester.
Then bought a Pink and Smoke Emmelle something or other.
Followed by a ‘proper’ bike – an Al Carter Sacremento…

Off to get the scanner fired up, I remember where there are some pictures…

This and I still have it and commute on it:

Marin Palisades Trail
like this but with purple bits instead of green, brake booster and Onza bar ends

Working on the taxis, saving up for a mountain bike! Ended up with this Diamondback Apex and have looked after it – kept it nice and original as possible, even after thousands of miles. It’s done Helvellyn, Afan, commuting, touring etc. etc… Here’s a recent pic.
My old bike

I’d just taken delivery of a Fisher Prometheus, via a shop I’d worked for in the US, £600 F+F on special – more than I’d spent on any bike!

I then rode the Colorado trail on it.

i was riding a Gazelle, a 211/2 in frame– with gooseneck stem and mtb long seatpost– ace bike, campag record , 531 frame..

Sracen Eiger Competition in the same lovely lavender hue as Chakaping’s Kili Flyer pictured a few pages back. It got nicked and was replaced with a shiny GT Karakoram in ‘Tequila sunrise’ paint. I loved that bike (still have it, albeit in pieces now and with a much-regretted respray).

15 spd MBK, can’t recall the model, but it had a U brake behind the BB, which was designed by an evil genius to pick up mud, I can’t recall how many muddy bits I carried that through then tried to clear the cack out with a stick.

Changed it at the end of the year for a Raleigh Dyna tech, it was my only bike for quite a few years and I still ride it now and again for old time’s sake – well I still ride the frame, crank arms and front mech, all the other bits have been replaced over the years.

a Raleigh.. but what I really wanted was a Marin

they were like a years wages though 😕

I had a Saracen Tufftrax and the missus has a black and green Palisades Trail just like the in the pic above – still got it too:-)

This…

IMAG0510 by pten2106, on Flickr

Although it was british racing green, with a stem even longer than the one in the pic.
Its still in use today, as my brothers runaround. When he gets rid it will be mine again. Christ knows why… 🙂