What's Your Bike History?

[g7jhp]

What bikes have you owned through your life?

Here are mine (pics are from the web, not the actual bikes).

There was something before the striker but couldn't say what it was and didn't have a camera phone back then!

Raleigh Strika (Mk2) - Green

Raleigh Grifter (Mk2) - Silver


Ammaco Team Spirit (1983)


Marin Muirwoods (1992)


Specialized Roubaix Elite Compact (2012)


Whyte 901 (2016)

Edited by g7jhp on Wednesday 26th July 17:31

[gazza285]

Had,

Budgie
Strika
Grifter
A selection of self built 20" trials bikes
Gitane
Viscount Aero
Al Carter MTB
Claud Butler hybrid
Genesis Volant 20
Paul Milner Cyclocross
Kinesis TT
BSA Prima
GT full susser
On-One Inbred 26" single speed
Gary Fisher Rig 29" single speed

Still have,

Monty T16
Diamond Back Ascent EX
Raleigh Competition
Planet X Kaffenback
Cornelo AX
Vitus 979 MkI
Vitus 979 MkII
On-One Inbred 29er
Cannondale Trail single speed 29er
Cube Reaction GTC
Kinesis Evo 2 Cyclocross
Kinesis Evo 5 Cyclocross
Kinesis Pro 6 Cyclocross
Genesis Day One Cyclocross

Plus four more for the wife and youngest. There is no room in my garage.

[anonymous-user]

Similar start to the above, used to have a bike at home at one at the grandparents, so sometimes had two

Raleigh Budgie
Raleigh Strika (second hand, a bit tatty)
Raleigh Grifter (in blue)
Pro Lite BMX (looking back the rainbow colours were a bit.. errrr..well Google it you will see what I mean)!
Raleigh Equip racer, sold when I got my MTB.
Raleigh Memphis Mountain bike (got it as an xmas present in 1988 when I was 13 and still ride it occasionally now) it has huge nostalgic value to me, so I would never sell it
Boardman Comp 2012 MTB (current Mountain Bike).

Now thinking of a bike for the two miles to and from work, not sure whether to got for a cheap road bike around the £200-£250 mark or an even cheaper £130 Halfords "Bike Shaped Object" Hybrid that doesn't matter if it gets damaged, or rained on. My bank account is strongly telling me the latter

[AlmostUseful]

I don't think PH has enough bandwidth but I'll give it a go chronologically.

Apollo Kalamunda in 1992/3ish
Giant Boulder in 1996/7
Unbranded Alloy, custom build 1999
Coyote DS 1999-2000
On-One Gimp 2000
Scott Octane 2001
Kona Stab Deelux 2002
Haro DM24 2002
Santa Cruz Super 8 2003
Kona DUDU 2003-4
Univega RAM9 DH -2004
Orange Patriot 2004
Specialized FSR Elite 2004-5
Norco A-Line 2005
GT I-Drive Ruckus 2005-6

Break from riding

Trek Fuel something 2008
Cannondale Chase 2009
Commencal Meta 5.5 2009
Scott Nitrous 2009
Cannondale Prophet 2010
DMR Trailstar 2010
Specialized enduro (2005 model) 2011
Specialized enduro ('09 model) 2011
Specialized enduro ('10 model x2) 2012
Orange Five 2013
Cube Fritz 2013
Orange Five 2014
Specialized Enduro 2011 model 2014
Intense M3 2014
Commencal Meta 2014
Specialized Camber 2014
Orange Five 2014
Specialized Stumpy Evo 2014
Specialized Stumpy Evo 29er 2014

Short break from riding

Nukeproof Mega 2016
Kona operator 2016
Specialized enduro 2016
Cube Stereo 29er 2016
On-one Inbred 2016
DMR Rhythm 2016
Transition Bandit 29er 2017
Nukeproof Mega 275 2017
Specialized Enduro 29er 2017 (current, and a keeper!)

Probably missed a few to be fair, there have been quite a lot...

[Herman Toothrot]

Un-identifiable red thing with white tyres
Raleigh Striker
Ammaco mongoose
Dawes Wildcat
Giant Exage equipt road bike - did Cardiff town centre crits & Porthcawl circa 1989 & lots of 10 mile time trials
Raleigh Moonshine - did a couple,of XC races at Pontypool ~ 1991
Rudy Project / Iron Horse - built frame up - did 2 downhill races at what is now bike park Wales ~ 1992
Raleigh Apex
Specialized Rock Hopper - built frame up
No brand anodised gold box section dirt jump bike - built frame up
Kona U'Hu
Kona Stab - Did a couple of Dragon DH's and student champs about 1997
Ribble Audax Campag Zenon
On One Inbred
Ribble Audax Campag Veloce
Commencal Supreme FR - DH raced at Aston Hill 2016
On One 456Ti - built frame up
Planet X ProCarbon Ultegra - 2015 did some 10mile time trials
Vitus Rapide 275
Commencal Meta AM V4
NS Snabb T - built frame up - DH raced at Aston Hill 2017
Ragley Mmmbop - built frame up
On One Inbred slot drop out hub Gear 29er - built frame up
Brand X HT01 - built frame up
Ribble Sportive Race 105

Edited by Herman Toothrot on Saturday 22 July 13:10

[andySC]

Raleigh Boxer
Raleigh Burner (bog standard version)
Falcon Team Replica?(gas pipe tubes, super cheap 10spd racing bike)
Raleigh Eclipse (Reynolds 501, £200 in 1988)
Raleigh Elix (Reynolds 531, £350 in 89)
Marin Bear Valley.
A few Raleigh Dyna Tec road bikes.
Eddy Merckx Corsa Extra (gorgeous thing, Campag Record)
Kona Cindercone
.....a few years off the bike (97-2007)
Focus Cayo 105 (killed it)
Scott Addict (killed it)
Giant Anthem (worn out)
Raleigh Team Bike (1985, Reynolds 753)
Scott Plasma TT.
Scott Scale.
Scott Foil (flogged it)
Condor Super Acciaio (modern steel race bike, SRAM Red, fantastic thing)
Cannondale Super X
Enigma Etape (winter bike)
Canyon Nerve CF (sold..)
Canyon Grand Canyon SLX 9.9
Cannondale SuperSix Evo (flogged it)
Cannondale SuperSix Evo HM Team.

Edited by andySC on Saturday 22 July 11:26

[scherzkeks]

Starting at age 7

Huffy BMX
Dyno Compe
GT Pro Performer
Giant TCR1
Bianchi Veloce
Cannondale M800
Raleigh Supercourse
Eddy Merckx Corsa Extra
Eddy Merckx Leader
Colnago Super, 1972
Colnago Super, 1984
Colnago CT2
Colnago Extreme-C
Rose Count Solo

[Craikeybaby]

A few crappy BSOs as a kid.

2014
Vitus Nucleus hardtail

2017
Orange Four

[joshleb]

Scott Comp Racing xc bike that I'd use for everything when I was a scamp. Buckled that frame after nose diving and flat landing a jump.
Trek Bruiser 3 FS. Transferred the parts to this. Didn't last long as I liked landing to flat off walls.
GT Chucker - used for djs, pretty cheap and cheerful.
Kona Stuff - replaced the GT after forks seized and started falling apart. Used for everything from DJs to DH to everything inbetween. No XC though!
Identiti Dr Jekyll - Swapped and upgraded the parts over onto this frame, really was my baby,

Then I bought a Commencal Mini DH/Supreme 6 frame and an NS Suburban frame and got enough parts to upgrade from my Dr Jekyll to these two bikes.
Commencal Mini DH with RS Totems
NS Suburban with RS Argyle.

GT XTC - acquired at uni whilst recovering from knee surgery. Got stolen.
Specailized Demo 8 - upgraded frame from Commencal to do proper DH with.

Bought a Lapierre Zesty 514 for trail/ enduro duties.

I still have the Specialized, NS and Lapierre.
Need to bring the Lapierre and NS to London so I can use them! They're just left hanging up back at the family home.

[donfisher]

Budgie - RIP
Something or two somethings. – No idea
BMX – not sure what kind. – No idea
Dura Astra, Astra Dura – terrible MTB with a road chainset, couldn’t wheelie it. Wanted a Raleigh Massif or Mirage like everyone else. - RIP
Kirk Revolution 200GS – Nicked
Claud Butler something or other - Nicked
Some old 5speed racer for a very small commute for a summer job. – No idea
First car

15year break

Kirk Revolution 200GS - RIP
Cannondale CAAD9 – RIP
Whyte Dorset – Still being used daily
Kirk Revolution Deore – awaiting use as a small trip/pub bike.
Marin Lombard – ready to be used daily, It's going to replace the Whyte.

[PomBstard]

Nothing quite as extensive or exciting as previous posters, but...

1978-83'ish Raleigh Strika - silver, followed by a Grifter or similar - can't remember exactly

1983'ish, Elswick something I think - first road bike, all of 5 speeds, but rode 1000's of miles on it until I got...

1986 Peugeot Premiere 10-sp in metallic white. Put a few thousand miles on that too, and learned how to wheelie the length of our road on it. Got garaged around 1989, and my dad crashed it a year later.

Extended break for girls, beer and cars. Then house-buying and marriage.

1998 GT Tempest - bright orange, still have the frame ready for rebuilding, and the Marzocchi Flylight Airs
2004 Giant XTC2 - which I broke
2006 Giant XTC Zero - still have, converted to fully rigid and running 1.75" slicks
2006 Yeti 575 - awesome bike, broke the frame and negotiated...
2012 Yeti ASR5 - still ride - bit of a Triggers Broom - just the frame and rear shock are original
2016 Norco Search C105

[C0ffin D0dger]

Not as many bikes as most of you lot by the looks of it

I'm guessing we didn't have loads of money when we were kids as up until I was doing my cycling proficiency at primary school (aged 9-10?) we'd always had second hand bikes. I remember having a Raleigh Chipper for a while (small version of the Chopper without gears) a various others including some sort of upright bike with 3 speed hub gears which seemed massive to me when I first got it. It was probably this that I had when starting my cycling proficiency to which the instructor had issues with due to several things needing tightening up, adjusting etc., I went home crying about this which must have pissed of my Dad as shortly after I was the proud owner of a brand new Peugeot racer with 10 gears (2x5)! So starting there:

Peugeot Racer
Raleigh Record Sprint (my Dad's but I used to borrow it quite a bit).
Dawes Mountain Bike (no suspension, steel framed, alloy wheels, 3x6 gears(?) with indexing!).
Marin Mount Vision (2000) (full suspension X country MTB, 3x9 gears, V brakes, very light) - still got this, need to fix it.
Cube Nature Pro (2014) (hybrid (700c wheels), 3x10 gears, disc brakes) - current bike.

[AlasdairMc]

Raleigh Pippin
Halfords BMX
Shogun Trailbreaker - my first MTB, 24" wheels
Diamond Back Sorrento - stolen
Schwinn Moab 4
No name alloy framed MTB
Raleigh road bike, which I wish I'd kept
2006 Specialized Rockhopper
2004 Specialized Enduro
Genesis Altitude 10
Cube X Race Pro
Salsa El Mariachi - rigid
Van Nicholas Mistral*
Another Salsa El Mariachi, now with a suspension fork
Rocky Mountain Blizzard fat bike
Stooge
Ti Stooge*
Another Stooge, as a singlespeed*
Tern Verge X10
Brompton*
Jones Spaceframe Ti*

• - Still own these

[DoubleSix]

- 5 Speed Raleigh racer (not sure what)
- Raleigh MTB
- Marin Muirwoods
- Kona Hahanna
- Cannondale Delta V
- Trek OCLV 9900 Pro Issue (worked Saturdays through my teens to get my dream bike - stolen!)

18 year break

- Trek Fuel Ex 8

[Agent XXX]

Raleigh Budgie

Raleigh Chopper Silver Jubilee Edition

Raleigh Pacer

Some Peugeot MTB thing

Then a BIIIIIIIG gap to

Merida Big Nine

Merida Ride 100

[bobbo89]

GT Aggresor
GT I-Drive
Scott High Octane
On-One Growler
NS bh
RB Dragster
Solid Mission 9
Iron Horse Sunday
On-One 456
Orange 5
Nukeproof Mega
Some weird proto On-One 456
Ghost Sl AMR 7(current bike)

Pretty much all of those were custom built by myself and changed a lot over time

[Equilibrium25]

1977 Raleigh Budgie
1980 Raleigh Grifter
1983 Some refurbed drop-handlebar thing in red
1986 Raleigh Equipe

Big break

2011 Giant Escape 1 (hybrid)
2015 Genesis Equilibrium SS
2017 Genesis Equilibrium Disc 30

The nameless refurbed thing will still be my mileage record holder by a factor of many times, I am sure.

[Rich_W]

Excluding the first bike I had which I have no idea what it was. Save for Burgundy, hard solid rubber tyres (no tubes), fixie too. Something like this, but no plastic ste festooned.



I remember my best friend had a red Shwinn with big squishy tyres and CHROME mudguards. Much nicer. But then my Dad had an old Talbot Horizon and his Dad had an Uno Turbo. There was definitely no doubt we were on less money than others in the street. And it transferred into every aspect of your life, as it does.



Followed up by a "Yes BMX" (bought iirc from a local motocross shop of all places. Must ask my Dad why)




First mtb was a Ridgeback 602GS 1991ish



Had it for 3 years, spent most of my earnings on it. SPDs, bar ends, Flite seat, White Onza octopus tyre. XT bits, 7-8 speed conversiion Then it was stolen from outside the shop I did my paper round from

Replaced by a Rocky Mountain Fusion 94



Raced that, again spent all my money on it. Upgraded the groupset to XT bits. Bent the forks from doing jumps, took off the big ring and went into Trials for a while. Stopped riding once I got a car, my Dad took it to the dump probably 10 years later. I remember that cable guide on the stem being crap! Learnt a lot about how to fix an repair bikes from it though

Dyno Compe 94



Again with the money! CD crank, peregrine wheels, mountain bike brake levers. Xposure Pegs. Camped at Backyard Jam with my mates. Got mugged for it a year or so later. And a broken nose and fractured eye socket for my trouble.

The bike was woefully underinsured so when I got the £250 back, I bought another



TBH, I never really got back into it. Not massively surprising given how I'd lost my last one. As a teen, it really affected me, more than I thought at the time, I became a lot more shy generally and risk aware the whole time, lost touch with a lot of my friends cause I wasn't riding often with them (this is all pre Mobile of course) Got chucked in probably 2002ish

Then until recently I had a GT Zaskar



Just used it to ride to the shops and pootle about on, never raced it, never went on the rides I used to up Surrey Hills. Recently was used as a commuter, with road tyres on. Seat tube finally fractured around the triple triangle, so frame is toast (it had a good run though!) and tbh the chainset is well knackered, brakes are worn out (2nd set in 6 years) so it'll be going to a local charity recyclers in due course.

I do have a TT bike, but I haven't ridden that in over a year and I suspect the internal cable stops are broken/fractured since it's pot luck if I can get the indexing right, and I do have a clue with that but I think there's something else at fault.


Not sure what happens next. I need to replace the commuter, but modern MTB don't have gearing suitable, so maybe we're looking at Hybrid or Cyclocross or even just a normal road bike.

I'm not sure whether to buy a frame module to rebuild the TT though. Maybe a BMC TimeMachine?

Edited by Rich_W on Wednesday 26th July 21:50

[nickfrog]

Spot the theme(s):

MX Elite race BMX (self built)
Sunn Vertik 2
Sunn Exact Coloumbus (self built)
Commencal Supernormal 2008 (self built)
Commencal Supernormal 2012 (self built)
Commencal META HT 2017 (self built)

[Zippee]

A bit of a gap between my early 20s through to my late 30s and I can’t fully remember the years as sometime I changed bikes within the same year but;

89ish – Purple Raleigh Mirage – my first new MTB – 500LX group IIRC
1990 – White Kona LavaDome – Deore LX group – my favourite old school bike
1990 – GT Zaskar (U-brake model)
1992 – Trek OCLV carbon – went through 3 as they kept snapping)
1993 – Kona Hei Hei titanium – loved it but it was a creaky old beast)
1994 – Geoff Roberts custom build
1995 – GT Psychlone (GTs handbuilt to order frameset – best riding bike by a country mile)
1995 – Cannondale R100 road bike
1996 – GT Zaskar LE
1999 – Specialised FSR Elite
2011 – Specialised Allex Elite road bike (still own)
2015 – Giant XTC comp carbon MTB (still own)
2017 – A 1998 Pace RC200 F8 (my piece of retro heaven)