I'm a tart

[Boab]

These are the bikes I can remember owning.

Puch (Mini-Sprint)
Lazer Custom (2nd hand)
Falcon
Scott (Waimea Team Issue)
Specialized (Hard Rock, 3rd hand)
Raleigh (3rd hand)
Calibre (Dune)
NS Bikes (RAG+, custom build)

I only own one bike, which is the last on that list. I will get another fat bike at some point though...

[SeannyD]

Practically a virgin in this,
Kona
Peugeot
Cannondale
Genesis
Bianchi*
Cotic*
*still have.
Would love more, but hard to justify A new bike next year to replace Bianchi is the plan at the moment.

[ton]

carlton coursair
townsend tour
dawes galaxy
challange mtb
muddy fox courier
muddy fox explorer
specialized rockhopper
dawes super galaxy
dave russell fixie
fisher hookooheekoo
fisher tassaara
peaugeot triathlon
bontrager privateer (pre trek)
rock lobster 853
raleigh max
fisher paragon
fisher full sus (cant remember the name).
brodie holeshot
dmr trailstar
fisher 29er. big sur ?
on one inbred 29
on one inbred ss
on one scandal
singular swift
ventana el capitan
nicolai argon
nicolai full sus fr
chumba hx1
surly k monkey x 2
surly ogre x 2
surly lht x 2
surly disc trucker x 3
jones plus
surly ecr x 2
specialized enduro
santa cruz heckler
haro mary x 2
santa cruz chameleon x 2
kona clydesdale thing x 2
on one 456 x 2
on one summer season
ragley mm bop
ragley steel thing
orange sub zero
orange aluminium thing
revolution tourer
genesis tour de fer
cube 29r x 3
cube nu road gravel
trek x caliber
orbit mtb tandem

i will add more as i remember them.

1 x kalkhoff e bike
1 x haibike e bike
fisher fat possum
diamond back axis
diamond back apex
diamond back topanga
marin quake

[Jurassic pusher]

Thread over!!

[Cyclepeasant]

Down south we use the expression "a ton of.".. To describe a large quantity.

I now know where it originates from!

Has he had a sugar load of bikes!

[ssnowman]

carlton coursair
townsend tour
dawes galaxy
challange mtb
muddy fox courier
muddy fox explorer
specialized rockhopper
dawes super galaxy
dave russell fixie
fisher hookooheekoo
fisher tassaara
peaugeot triathlon
bontrager privateer (pre trek)
rock lobster 853
raleigh max
fisher paragon
fisher full sus (cant remember the name).
brodie holeshot
dmr trailstar
fisher 29er. big sur ?
on one inbred 29
on one inbred ss
on one scandal
singular swift
ventana el capitan
nicolai argon
nicolai full sus fr
chumba hx1
surly k monkey x 2
surly ogre x 2
surly lht x 2
surly disc trucker x 3
jones plus
surly ecr x 2
specialized enduro
santa cruz heckler
haro mary x 2
santa cruz chameleon x 2
kona clydesdale thing x 2
on one 456 x 2
on one summer season
ragley mm bop
ragley steel thing
orange sub zero
orange aluminium thing
revolution tourer
genesis tour de fer
cube 29r x 3
cube nu road gravel
trek x caliber
orbit mtb tandem

i will add more as i remember them.

1 x kalkhoff e bike
1 x haibike e bike
fisher fat possum
diamond back axis
diamond back apex
diamond back topanga
marin quake

There are more?

[ton]

and a cannondale T200 tourer when we had lockdown back in 2000? foot and mouth. it snapped after a month or so.
swapped for a specialized sirrius pro, which also snapped.

there may be more.

[FLV]

there may be more.

Id be similar if i listed models too, cant recall all of them. At least 5 konas, 3 scotts, 4 santa cruzs etc etc

[SeannyD]

You definitely win the thread Ton

[TheBrownDog]

Tony was always going to outshine us on this. Some incredible bikes in that list. The Rock Lobster 853 in particular. When I did my bike wrench course, I built a set of wheels for one and had a lend of it for a few weeks. Such a great bike.

Anyhoo, I goohoogled another of Tony's list - Kona Clydesdale Thing - and got this and I don't think my life will be complete until I put one together, with a big wooden crate on the front, and take it down the Waitrose on Saturdays. Someone tell me what fork is needed to make this a reality.

[BigdummySteve]

Someone tell me what fork is needed to make this a reality.

It’s known as a Fork That!

[BigdummySteve]

Actually it’s from your neck of the woods and made by Crust bikes.



https://www.crustbikes.com/product-cate ... nts/forks/

[ton]

the kona clydesdale thing was a kona hoss and a hoss deluxe. nice bikes too.

[redefined_cycles]

Marin Palisades Trail (1st bike 2000ish) raw alu

Marin Palisades Trail black disc

GT Avalanche

Kinesis Maxlight (in blue. Was lovely. Too stiff for comfort)

GT Zasker retro (too big so sold on... was lovely ride)

GT Zasker retro (in correct size but must've been a fake as never felt the same).

SC Superlight (what a bike... had eyed it up 5 years previously in MBR and when I won it in same colour off fleabay I was over moon).

Cannondale f800 (Furio was its other name... I called it Gunther... one of very few alu frames that I'd found comfy)

MuddyFox Retro (in steel and for the first year I always thought it was an Orange Clockwork until some retrobiker pointed me right... but didnt quite know which frame it actually was until Ifti spotted it... he bought it and lived happily ever after)

Boardman Team (as I was between mtbs a few years ago).

Independent Fabrication Steel Deluxe (Stu suggested not to get rid... he might've been right.. Never ridden anything quite like it).

Condor road bike (some sort of racer frameset with 1 inch headtube and confirmed as theirs by Condor. 631 Reynolds. My first Rd Bike... Inconsolable it was called).

Canyon Ultimate CF SL (my 2nd road bike and first step into carbon plasticky things... was lovely. Called Earnie).

Stan (Sonder Transmitter in green... my daily smile inducer)

Fedaia by Bertoletti who's named his bikes Legend. Slightly arrognat sounding name but it is Columbus steel so you coukd let him off!! (Currently being built and my 1 of 2... Also called Frieda).

Turner fiveSpot (never built as didn't wanna become a Junkie...) Specialized Enduro... (again, never built and judt passed throigh my hands and left me some decent headsets and other gear like superlight DT wheels). Apologies to any bikes/frames I forgot about... they know know who they are. Gone but never forgotten (kindof)...

Good thread

[redefined_cycles]

carlton coursair
townsend tour
dawes galaxy
challange mtb
muddy fox courier
muddy fox explorer
specialized rockhopper
dawes super galaxy
dave russell fixie
fisher hookooheekoo
fisher tassaara
peaugeot triathlon
bontrager privateer (pre trek)
rock lobster 853
raleigh max
fisher paragon
fisher full sus (cant remember the name).
brodie holeshot
dmr trailstar
fisher 29er. big sur ?
on one inbred 29
on one inbred ss
on one scandal
singular swift
ventana el capitan
nicolai argon
nicolai full sus fr
chumba hx1
surly k monkey x 2
surly ogre x 2
surly lht x 2
surly disc trucker x 3
jones plus
surly ecr x 2
specialized enduro
santa cruz heckler
haro mary x 2
santa cruz chameleon x 2
kona clydesdale thing x 2
on one 456 x 2
on one summer season
ragley mm bop
ragley steel thing
orange sub zero
orange aluminium thing
revolution tourer
genesis tour de fer
cube 29r x 3
cube nu road gravel
trek x caliber
orbit mtb tandem

i will add more as i remember them.

1 x kalkhoff e bike
1 x haibike e bike
fisher fat possum
diamond back axis
diamond back apex
diamond back topanga
marin quake

There are more?

[boxelder]

Various hand-me-downs
Raleigh roadie (scrapped)
Amaco Trailfinder MTB - 1987 (Dad's strictly)
Spesh Rockhopper (crashed n broken)
Marin Bear Valley (stolen )
Orange Clockwork (crashed n broken)
Orange C16 (sold)
Fisher ExCaliber (now mate's pub bike) Added RS Judy elastomer forks
Kona Kapu (road bike)
Kona Explosif (853) Added Pace forks, Hope C2 disc and USE shock post (snapped)
Kona Explosif (Tue Temper) replacement frame
Dawes tandem (wedding gift/purchase - still have it, and the wife...)
Spesh Stumpjumper (earliest Fox shocks/forks) first FS (sold frame)
Spesh Stumpjumper (new frame) (sold)
Spesh Roubaix roadie (sold)
Kona The King (sold)
Sanderson Life (853) (sold)
On One Ti CX (CX bike, built from SH frame buy) (sold)
On One Scandal (29er) now a SS
Santa Cruz Tallboy v1 bought SH, (snapped and sold)
Cotic Solaris v1 (still have it built as rigid winter bike)
Shand Stooshie (keeper)
Cotic Solaris MAX v1 - 29er and B+ wheels (still have it)
Kinesis Tripster ATR (keeper)
Salsa Spearfish carbon MTB

If I had to choose one based on the experiences I had and memories I have, it would be the first Kona Explosif. Bought as a frame and built/upgraded over time. Took me on my first Alps trips, Tour de MB, Polaris challenges, Kona marathons, Grand Raid Cristalp etc. Loved it, but it snapped at seat tube junction as the shock post shim was too short