How many and what bikes?

[gairym]

So.....following on from Ton's declaration of owning a 'crap load' of bikes on the 'Bike lust' thread it got me thinking about all the bikes I've owned.

I then put together a list and thought it might make for interesting (read: sad and pathetic) reading to see who's owned what, when and why etc...

So come on, let's see your bicycle history list.....

[gairym]

To kick things off, here's mine:

1. Giant 'ATX 760'
2. Marin 'Quake 5'
3. Marin 'Rift Zone'
4. Marin 'Mount Vision' (stolen)
5. Marin 'Mount Vision'
6. Kona 'Lavadome' (stolen)
7. On-one 'Inbred'
8. On-one 'Inbred SS'
9. On-one 'Inbred 853'
10. Kona 'Explosif'
11. Cotic 'Soul'
12. Planet X 'Kaffenback'
13. Surly 'Karate Monkey'
14. Cotic 'Solaris mk1'
15. Planet X ' Super Pro Carbon SL'
16. Salsa 'Mukuk'
17.Santa Cruz 'Blur LT'
18. Travers 'Bat Fastard'
19. Dave Marsh 'unknown late 80s road bike'
20. On-one 'Lurcher'
21. Singular 'Rooster'
22. Cotic 'Escapade'
23. Cotic 'Solaris mk2'


I've ridden a whole plethora more via various tests and reviews but to be honest I'm a little surprised by how low my total is!

Edit: just realised that doesn't include bmx's (of which there have been many). Or the numerous Raleigh 'Choppers' I restored and sold for a while. Or the 5-6 bikes I owned as a child. Or the three retro road bikes currently in the garage that I got cheap and haven't decided what to do with yet - doh!

[ton]

i am now up to 63.

i need to had a full fat to my list Gairy.

[gairym]

[techno]

1. kirk revolution (stolen)
2. Generic alu hardtail (with xtr & mk1 pace RC35s)
3. Orange X1 (shock popped, replaced by alu bar!)
4. Identity jump bike (stolen)
5. Diamondback Mojito (stolen)
6. Genesis Longitude
7. Specialized rockhopper (current hack/commuter)

Bikes 2-4 did a bit of everything, including off road touring with panniers to the odd DH race :)
Anyone had more bikes stolen?

[PaulE]

Eek - started doing this list and it's kinda big!

Mountain bikes:
Raleigh Mustang
Saracen limited edition
2 X Kona cinder cones
2 X Merlin jump bikes
2 X DMR trailstars
2 X muddy fox duel team
Duncon cock
GT something or other (the one better than a tequesta)
Diamond back zetec pro
Dialled love/hate
Sunn radical plus
Schwinn straight 8
Kona coiler
Kona howler
Iron horse 5" trail bike
Vario kaktus
University DH
NS society
Orange crush
On-one inbred 29er
On-one fatty trail
Forme Ripley 1

Road/cx bikes
Saracen ventoux
Cinelli steel something or other
Claude butler steel from the 70s
Omega radius
Planet X kaffenback
Planet X pompetamine

BMXs
Mongoose rogue
Mongoose old school thing
Specialized Vegas
Macneil freimuth
Kona big Mama
Khe street bike
Khe root 20.75
Onza 20" trials bike

I think that's it - 40 so far but I've probably missed a couple.

Quite a few have had more than one build, but that's the frames...

[restlessshawn]

Not a big list at all considering this covers aged 16-48, ones in bold I still have

Road
Claud Butler Dalesman
Genric columbus aelle tubed thing, never worked out what it was
Tifosi CK3*
Mercian Olympique

CX
Kona Jake
On One Pompino
Voodoo Limba*
Ritchey Swiss Cross Disc

MTB
Saracen Tufftrax
Handsome Dog 7005
GT Timberline*
On One Inbred 853
Kona Dawg
Evil Sovereign


*still have the frames in the loft

[Jurassic]

Mine.
Mountainbikes
Ridgeback 603 SIS (1988)
Kona Explosif
Kona Kilauea*
Proflex 853
K2 Proflex 4000
Scott G-Zero FX 1
Craftworks FRM 125
Specialized Big Hit
Whyte 46
On One Fatty*
Pinnacle Ramin 1*
Smokestone Henderson*

Road
Raleigh 501
Ribble 753
Coyote Superlite
Vitus 979 (small frame, used as TT bike)
Boardman CX Team*

I had a couple of lapses from cycling and switches from mountainbiker to roadie and back which account for the lack of continuity between bikes.
* Still in my possession.

[voodoo_simon]

Shogun
GT Tequesta
Trek 8900
Giant Anthem
Voodoo Hoodoo
Voodoo Wanga
Voodoo scandium thingy
Giant Anthem
Saracen Ariel
Trek 8500
Salsa El Mariachi
Salsa Mukluk

Trek roady
Giant Defy
Specialized Langster
Genesis Equalibrium
Scott Plasma
Pinarello Only the Brave

Edit Work in a bike shop, so lost count of how many bikes I’ve tested

Double edit Fargo frame set yet to be built...

[Laurensdad]

Yikes!
Raleigh Memphis c1988
Kong Cindercone 1989
Orange Prestige
Giant Cadex
Alpinestars Almega XT
Specialized Stumpjumper (steel ht)
Team Marin
Cannondale F1000
Trek Y
Cannondale Jekyll
Dialled Bikes Pa
Giant Trance
Cotic Soul
Genesis IO
Charge Duster
Ritchey P29
Stevens Fluent xt
Charge Cooker
Salsa Ala Carte
Genesis Caribou
Genesis Tarn
Trek Farley

Scared myself!!

[AlasdairMc]

Ok, oldest to newest, covering 2006 to present as that was when I got into cycling as an adult

Specialized Rockhopper Disc (remember when discs were an option and not standard spec?!?)
Specialized Enduro Expert
Genesis Altitude 10
Cube X Race Pro
Van Nicholas Mistral*
Salsa El Mariachi - rigid, latterly SS
Salsa El Mariachi 2 - geared and with a Reba
Rocky Mountain Blizzard
Stooge
Stooge Ti 29+*
Salsa Warbird*
Tern Verge (the very light one with SRAM x9 gearing)
Brompton M6L*
Stooge (another mk1 steel, built SS)
Jones Spaceframe Ti*
Charge Plus SS Grinduro
Kinetics custom (not built for me) 853 fatbike*

17 in 12 years, currently have 6.

[Jurassic]

Specialized Rockhopper Disc (remember when discs were an option and not standard spec?!?)
.

I think quite a few on here remember when V brakes weren't standard spec!

[FLV]

Let's try to remember

Diamond back Topanga
Marin ?
Gt avalanche
Trek 5000
Khs thing?
Pro flex thing
Pace
Cannondale super v
Trek Y
Kona pahoehoe
Kona king kikapu
Scott endorfin
Gt zaskar
Specialized stumpjumper
Kona lava dome
Kona explosif
Scott full sus can't recall the name
On one inbred
On one scandium thing
Merlin (the shop)
Kona unit
Dmr trailstar
Dmr (a different one)
Rocky mountain etsx
On one again
Litespeed obed
Santa Cruz heckler
Knolly endorphin
Nicolai
Dave Roberts steel road
Planet x pro
Kona raijin
Santa Cruz superlight
Salsa el mariachi
Surly krampus
Stanton slakline
Surly straggler
Surly cross check
Sabbath Sunday (or somethnng)
Scott cr1
Salsa warbird
Cube attain
Carver gnarvester
Scott scale
Santa Cruz highball

These are the ones that spring to mind.
There's definitely more
And they're definitely in the wrong order ish

[Nevis]

Wow, some of you have a serious habit!

OK, from the beginning...

Child bikes
Raleigh Olympus 5 sp with flat bar conversion
Rudi Altig* piece of poor show from the newspaper.
Holdsworth parts build
Viscount Aerospace Pro

What I really wanted was the Raleigh Team replica with "shot in" rear stays. Maybe one day! http://veterancycleclublibrary.org.uk/n ... brary).pdf page 3


Adult bikes
Saracen Kili Pro
Raleigh Dyna-tech SPU bonded frame
Norco Fluid
Dawes Discovery
Trek 1500 SLR
Specialized Pitch Pro
Specialized Langster
Cannondale Trail SL2 29
Giant Defy Advanced 1
Pinnacle Ramin 4

[whitestone]

Not a lot really. Current crop in bold.

Road
Something indeterminate!
Handbuilt frame (by Bruce Everett in Kendal) in Reynolds 531.
Specialized Allez
Specialized Roubaix SL2
On-One Pompetamine, originally an Alfine hub but now single speed.
Genesis Croix de Fer 10, this is my commuter.

MTB
Scott FSR-2
Orange Evo-2
Marin Mt Vision
Cotic Solaris
Singular Puffin fatbike.

Frames
Salsa Spearfish (in the process of being built up)

[Kumquat]

Hard rock
Rockhopper comp
Bromwich
Super sierra
Elevated chain stay thing
Beast of the east
Muirwoods
Dynatech ti
RSP ti
Kilauea
Rock hopper
Peace
Altitude
Rooster
Rock hopper comp
Bear valley we

Caad3 road
Carlton
Honky
Plug

[Jurassic pusher]

.....the list so far, since 1981 when I worked on a farm all summer and saved up to buy a :
Raleigh Medale (fitted a speedo that looked like it came from a mid `70 Ford Capri)
Trek 370 sport (road)*
British Eagle Mantara (Mtb)*
Land Rover ..really .. visalia (home made gravel bike)*
Quintana roo caliente (tri bike)
Lynskey T230 (tri bike)*
Singular swift (ss mtb)*
Jones plus*
Singular swift (Rohloff)*
* = still got.
Pretty poor show really compared with most responses!

[Jurassic]

Pretty poor show really compared with most responses!

Or you chose your bikes really well?

[Asposium]

Rayleigh Chopper
A BMX (don’t recall the make or model)
Rayleigh Maverick
Rayleigh Pursuit
Saracen Tufftrax *
Specialized Stumpjumper HT * +
Specialized Stumperjumper FSR *
Specialized Sirrus Pro * +
Litespeed Teramo * +
Specialized Sequoia Elite * +
Specialized Sequoia Pro * +
Litespeed T5g *

* still own
+ still in active use

If anyone says I have a bike problem I will refer them to this thread.

[Scattamah]

From go to whoa...

Dunlop Dart - first bike, aged 3. Parents ran over in it after I left it on the driveway. Didn't ride so well after that.
Unknown brand dragster with banana seat and 3 speed transmission. Rode it to death. First long distance trips.
Unknown brand (might have been Malvern Star) BMX with Tuff2's. Rode it to death.
More expensive but forgotten branded (maybe a Haro?) BMX. Stolen :(
Cheap unknown brand 10 speed. Rode it to death.
More expensive 10 speed - no branding - Reynolds 531 frame on Velocity Aeroheads and Shimmy 105 + Biopace. Rode it hard and didn't kill it!
Cadex CFM3. Still own it after 20 years and 30,000+Kms.
Trek Superfly AL elite 2013. Love my Lois.

Greetz

S.

[GregMay]

Oh dear, normally I think it best not to think about these things. But this is as close as I can remember. I'm not going to think about bikes I've test ridden or had on test for long durations.

Various kids bikes and teen bikes. Starting with "actual bikes" around 1999, so 19 years worth. Bold I still own.

Mountain Bikes:
Specialized Hardrock
Specialized Rock Hopper
Specialized Rock Hopper FSR
Specialized Stumpjumper (HT)
Specialized Stumpjumper FSR
Club Roost XC4
On-One Jackflash
On-One Inbred (26)
On-One ScandAl
On-One Inbred (again)
24/7 jump bike of some sort
Rocky Mountain RM7
Rocky Mountain RM9
Rocky Mountain Switch
Rocky Mountain Element (I still miss this bike)
Kinesis HT of some sort
Giant XTC Alu
Giant XTC carbon * 2
Giant Anthem
Kingdom Tech-9
Scott Scale
Scott Spark
Santa Cruz Bullit
Salsa Fargo
Salsa Ti Fargo
Salsa El Marachii
Salsa Spearfish * 3 (Pre and post split pivot)
Salsa Spearfish Carbon
Salsa Cutthroat

Skinny Wheel'd bikes:
Lapiere road bike of some form
Fuji Track
Dolan Kilo
Dolan DF3
Quintana Roo TT bike of some sort
Cervelo P2
Genesis Day-One
Colnago steel frame of some sort
Mango Point AR
Planet X road bike of some sort

Cross Bikes:
Alan CX bike of some sort
Flanders CX bike of some sort
Planet X Uncle John Cross
Specialized Crux
Giant CX bike
Cotic Escapade

Trials Bikes:
Planet X Zebidi
Onza T-Bird
Inspired Flow

Oddly, I've never owned a Trek, Canondale or Kona bike, ridden quite a few for work though.

[bearlymoving]

There were more than I realised!

• Raleigh Boxer (like a Grifter, but smaller)
• Raleigh Burner BMX, modified with Tuff 2 wheels and Tange racing forks (an absolute belter of a bike)
• Puch 10 speed steel road bike (gas pipe tubing and chromed steel rims)
• Raleigh "Triathlon" road bike (http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/viewto ... 7&t=256439)
• Harry Hall 531 frame (to replace Triathlon frame)
• Brompton M6LX
• Brompton SP (a factory frame, modified to take a Rohloff, V brakes and front suspension)
• 1990s Dawes Galaxy
• Carlton Corsair
• Raleigh Roadster with rod and stirrup brakes (from the 1950s)
• 1970s Dawes Galaxy, converted to a hub gear and flat bars (great commuter)
• Thorn Nomad X Series (a tank in bike form)
• Bob Jackson End 2 End (Reynolds 631)
• Brompton S6, Black Edition
• Singular Swift
• Singular Gryphon
• Surly Straggler

I think I'm done buying bikes for a while. I'm currently downsizing, to spend more time riding and less time with a spanner/soapy sponge in hand...

[psling]

Mmmm, let's see how good my memory is. * = still have.

Very first adult size bike was a Hercules (rod brakes, I kid you not!)

Various Elswick/Raleigh/Peugeot roadbikes through the 70s/80s
On One Il Pompino ss
Litespeed Ultimate
Kona King Kapu*
Dean Torreys cx*

Peugeot ATB (first mountain bike, end of 80s)
Haro team hardtail
Litespeed Hardtail (Caratti import demo, 1" steerer)
Trek Fuel (first generation, ali frame, carbon rear triangle)
Maverick ML7
Dean Colonel ss*
Orange P7*
Independent Fabrication deluxe*
Trek 69er ss*
Kona Unit

Dawes mtb tandem

There were others that I can't recall at the moment but, all in all, over 40+ years of adult cycling that's doesn't look that many compared to some! I actually can't really remember my childhood bikes, no Chopper or anything like that.

[PaulB2]

I showed my wife this thread to show that that I'm an amateur, I don't have too many bikes and I really don't spend that much on my hobby:

Peugeot Tour 10 (stolen)
Marin Bobcat Trail (left in Marin coincidentally)
Lemond Nevada City
Norco LRT2 (stolen)
Konnect BSO
Giant Anthem
Giant Escape

[JoseMcTavish]

I still have over half of this list - no bike less than 8 years old!

Raleigh Tomahawk
Raleigh Super Tuff Burner
Townsend Equaliser
Raleigh Firefly
Scott Expert Racing
On-One Inbred
Generic unbranded steel MTB frame built into a commuting singlespeed
Kona Fire Mountain '98
Van Nicholas Amazon
On-One Pompino
Trek Fuel EX 9.9