My Vielo. Living in the Purbeck I rarely use much else nowadays. What an amazing bike. Road race bike on the road and 80’s mountain bike off road. Road raced it, jumped on mtb trails, its great!
My Wreckoning, best bike I´ve ever owned and the main reason they see a lot less of me at the local pub. Started with the bare frame and built it up. Almost done…
Like my old 575, this is just an amazing “do everything” bike. Love it.
Not a great pic, but a bike that makes me as happy as my own, because dezbjr loves riding it out with his old man. To see the boy ahead of me, flying over jumps is as good as life gets.
Transition Scout. Had it a while now and it’s done me proud. Few ardrocks and plenty of lakes riding. Think it’s coming up to the time to change though, just to inject a bit of excitement. Built this earlier this year and as a result I’m enjoying road riding a lot more. I find myself planning road rides all the time. Full monty:
I can’t argue it’s a ‘nice’ bike, but it’s mine, I love it and it gets me to looks of nice places. The only weeks I can think it hasn’t been in use this year were the 2 weeks all inc. family holiday.
patiently waiting for delivery, then I can take my own picture of it 🙂
Will be my first ebike, having recently sold my FS Anthem. Some health issues have led me to this, and the test rides on a whole bundle of them have been a revelation – wish I’d switched years ago !
I try not to ruin nice pictures by putting bikes in them, but this one is OK… [url=https://flic.kr/p/2hs1p2z]The Fast one[/url] by tom.howard.562, on Flickr
2013 Trek Madone, in Deia, Majorca. Amazing bike on amazing roads, like riding on glass.
Back to dull locations now…
[url=https://flic.kr/p/2hs1ak1]The Gravel one[/url] by tom.howard.562, on Flickr
2017 Specialized Sequoia.
Gravel bike but used mainly for commuting, just ditched the boat anchor OEM wheels for tubeless WTB KOM on Hope hubs, rides much nicer now!
[url=https://flic.kr/p/2hrXtFH]The Leccy one[/url] by tom.howard.562, on Flickr
2016 Specialized Turbo Levo Expert
Bought after a demo day, was properly unfit at the time, and this got me fit enough to get back into normal bikes. Changed the wheels from 650b plus to 29ers, with 2.5 tyres.
[url=https://flic.kr/p/25iqo2c]FatboySlim[/url] by tom.howard.562, on Flickr
2017 Salsa Mukluk Carbon
For when i fancy something a bit more involved to ride. full sussers are ace, but sometimes a bit dull. this solves that. Then, when I fancy a laugh, I put a bit more air in the tyres, and it looks like this… [url=https://flic.kr/p/25iqnEa]FatboySlim[/url] by tom.howard.562, on Flickr
[url=https://flic.kr/p/2ezHUxw]The Race one[/url] by tom.howard.562, on Flickr
2017 Pivot Mach 429SL
Bought as I got into XC and marathon racing, but turns out its a pretty capable long distance trail bike too, and properly rapid.
[url=https://flic.kr/p/2gsvBef]The Gearbox one[/url] by tom.howard.562, on Flickr
2018 Deviate Guide.
Had a demo after reading about it in this parish. Descends like nothing else I’ve ridden. Stops pretty well too 😉
[url=https://flic.kr/p/2h3z35y]The Perfect one[/url] by tom.howard.562, on Flickr
2014 Santa Cruz 5010c
Test rode it and in less than a mile declared it perfect. Nothing else I’ve ridden since has made me want to replace it, so I’ve kept it and just upgraded as tech has improved around it. I’ll be buried with this bike.
This one. For those that know the Italian location 🙂
The brand I said I would never own one of again. Technically speaking, i dont own it, but details…
It was really good in the first place, then I got the chance to try something different with some gutted suspension & it’s gone up another level since.
Yeah, it will probably crack, and the distributor will be as useless as usual, as will Yeti, but it’s so good, I came home from Italy and promptly sold my big bike.
I can’t decide which one I like the most out of these two.
First one now also has a Storia shock and coil conversion on the front. [url=https://flic.kr/p/HM8RW9]Geometron[/url] by multispeedstu, on Flickr
[url=https://flic.kr/p/29UCFmt]G13 Built Up.[/url] by multispeedstu, on Flickr
2016 carbon camber with lots of nice upgrades. Had it 3 years from 2nd hand. More bike than I’ll ever need. It’s kind of a stumpy camber hybrid as it has 140 up front.
And my signal ti which I’ve only had a few months. Finally got it set up sweet though the rev fork could be better. It’s seriously fast and stable.
My 2016 Trance 2. Nothing flash, exotic or niche, but a great bike that does everything I want it to do.
Bought this bike new in August 2016 and had a few upgrades made as part of the deal:
Changes from spec (in brackets):
Brakes: XT M8000 (Deore)
Shifters: XT M780 (Deore)
FD: XT M786 (Deore)
Bars: PRO FRS 780mm (Giant Connect 690mm)
Tyres: Nobby Nic Evolution Trail Star 2.35 front, Nobby Nic Evolution Pace Star 2.25 rear (Nobby Nic Performance 2.25 f & r)
Within a few months the wheels were changed for a pair of Stan’s Arch MK3 on Hope Pro4 hubs. They made a big difference to the ride. Wider rims allowed me to run lower pressures and the wheels are stiffer than the original Giant ones.
I also converted the rear from 135mm qr to 12 x 142.
That’s how it stayed for a year or so, until I bought a second hand Bird Zero hardtail frame to build up and decided to take the opportunity to swap some parts over and convert the Trance to 1 x 11. Now running an SLX M7000 chainset with 32T chainring, SL-M8000 shifter (iSpec II), XT M8000 rear mech and an XT 11-42 cassette.
Whilst looking for forks for the Zero I came across a set of ex-display Rockshox Yari 150mm and it wasn’t a hard decision to buy those for the Trance and put the Fox forks on the HT.
I have recently bought an XT chain set for the Trance and the SLX kit will be going on to the Zero to convert from 2×10 to 1×11.