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Past and present bikes

1970's Raleigh Tomohawk whilst at primary school

1984 Some kind of Puch road bike whilst at secondary school

1989 Blue and Yellow Ridgeback with a Deore Groupset, stolen from my workplace in Richmond.

1991 Scott mtb i bought in a shop on Venice beach and shipped back to the UK

1992 a Titan Half Trac in bought from an ad in MountainBike Action

1992 Trek 8000, my main courier bike for 2 yrs .

1993 Klein Pinnacle, black with green flames bought from Darren in Covent Garden Cycles, stolen from my workplace in Camden in '94.

1997 Specialized M2 from an ad in Mountain Bike Action

1999 Spooky Bandwagon,bough from Dirt&Dreams, reluctantly sold in 2014

2002 Yeti Arc bought from Dirt&Dreams, still in my possession .

2012 Olmo Giro, sold

2013 Eddy Merckx Professional (1985)

2014 Eddy Merckx Team SC Domo Farm Frites livery ( 2001)

2015 Yeti Arc X, renovated from an eBay bought sandblasted frame

1x Kuwahara Pacer (1991) R
5x Klein Attitude (1992, 1993 MD, 1993, 1994, 1996)
1x Klein Quantum Pro (1994)
1x Colnago Master Olympic (1996)
1x Cannondale CAAD6 (2002) R
2x Cannondale Cyclocross Disc (2004), R
1x Nirve Cannibal (2005)
2x Serotta Ottrott (2004, 2005)
2x Moots PsychloX (2005, 200
1x Cannondale RZ 120 (2013)
1x Cannondale SuperX Disc (2015)
Total: 18

Erm, not spotted this thread before but I suppose it'd be rude not to join in Are ya' ready? . . .

1991:
Dawes Zed
1992:
Diamondback Camarillo
1994:
Polished alloy Merlin Cycles frame
1996:
Kona Cinder Cone
1997:
Trek Y3
1998:
Cheap white boys road bike
Raleigh Grifter
1999:
Kona Muni Mula
Curtis Pro BMX
Diamondback Viper X BMX
DK General Lee BMX
2000-2002:
Federal Nation BMX (raw)
Y2K Kona Roast x 2 (warranty)
DMR Sidekick (blue)
2002 Kona Scab
2003:
Red DMR Sidekick
GT Zaskar Race
DK Fury BMX
GT Mach One race BMX
Kona Mama BMX
Mutiny Raven BMX
Hutch Expert BMX
Dirt Bros Shortbus BMX
White One Flamin’ Speed
DMR Rhythm
Schwinn Stingray cruiser
Kona Kilauea
Orange O2
Dirt Bros Patriot BMX
2004:
Cove Handjob (red)
Kona Roast 2004
Orange C16R
2005:
Kona Scab 2001
Planet X Hammerhead
24Seven Dark Angel
Balfa Minuteman
Kona Scab 2003
Santa Cruz Chameleon
Kona Scrap (green)
Kona Stinky 2004
Kona Chute 2002
2006:
Kona Stinky 2-4
Haro Backtrail BMX
Orange Sub Zero
Mutiny Punisher BMX
Orange Hitman (blue)
On-One Inbred sliding dropout
Santa Cruz Heckler (black)
Flow Moe
Fit baby blue BMX
Kona Scrap (grey)
Kona Stinky Primo 2004
Orange Clockwork
Orange Airo
Kona Cowan (orange)
Kona Cowan DS (blue)
On-One Inbred track ends
2007:
Kona Cowan DS (yellow)
Diamondback BMX (petrol blue)
Eastern Shovelhead BMX
Federal Fraction BMX
Kink Launch BMX
2008:
Dirt Bros Trail R Park BMX
Spooky Bandwagon (black)
2009:
Cove Stiffee (red)
Kona Coiler
S&M Sabbath BMX
Foes Predator
British Eagle Exs
Raleigh Chopper
Intense Tazer VP (orange)
DK BMX (orange)
S&M Dirt Bike (orange)
S&M Dirt Bike NG
Santa Cruz Bullit
Intense Tazer VP FRO
2010:
Subrosa Pandora DTT BMX
Fit Logic BMX
Intense Slopestyle
Cheapo Apollo f/s
Intense Moto Pro Cruiser (white)
Intense Tazer FS (red)
Cove Sanchez
Fit (black) BMX
Federal Nation BMX (red)
Intense Tazer HT
Mountain Cycle Battery
Intense Tazer VP (raw)
Commencal Absolut SX 2010
2011:
Cotic BFe
Subrosa Salvador BMX
Kona Dudu
Santa Cruz Heckler (red)
Intense Tazer VP (orange) – revisited
Intense Uzzi VP
GT Aggressor
GT Timberline
Alpinestars T24
Intense Moto Pro Cruiser (red)
On-One 456
Cove Handjob (orange)
Dialled Bikes Holeshot
Commencal Absolut SX x 2 (2010 and 2011 - warranty)
Kona Five-O 2008
2012:
FBM Guillotine BMX
Intense Tazer FS
Kona Stinky TL
2011 Orange Blood
1992 Specialized Hardrock
2009 Kona Shonky
2012 WethePeople Arcade BMX
1993 Kona Hahanna
1998 Kona Explosif
2012 On-One 456 Evo
2007 DMR Transition 24
2009 Cove Foreplay MX
2012 Cove Sanchez
2013:
2012 Cult CC00 BMX
WethePeople Nova BMX
Cove Hooker MX Ltd Ed
1967 Schwinn Speedster
Kona Operator
Cove STD
1995 Specialized Hardrock Ultra
1998 GT Timberline
1995 Kona Kilauea
2008 DMR Transition 26
2013 Sunday Primer BMX
2014:
2013 FBM Autopilot (AKA Jet Generate)
2013 Commencal Premier HD4
2014 Whyte 802 650b
Cove Stiffee (pixie blue) 650b / 26
1999 Kona Lava Dome
Atomlab Pimp2
2013 Commencal El Camino 2
Transition Trans Am
2012 Kona Cinder Cone
Pinnacle Dolomite One road bike
2009 DK Reaction BMX
1992 Diamondback Apex resto
2014 Whyte 604 650b
2015 GT Bump 24
Transition TOP
2009 DMR Transition 24
2003 Kona Stinky
Spooky Bandwagon (red)
2015:
Cove Stiffee (white)
FBM Ignition BMX
Kona Stinky Six
1995 Dyno VFR BMX
2014 Subrosa Altus BMX
2014 Cannondale Trail 2 29
1990 Kona Lava Dome
1968 Schwinn Fastback
2015 Genesis Col du Glandon
1992 Alpinestars Al Mega T26
Transition Bottlerocket
DMR Transition 26
2008 Dirt Bros Trail R Park BMX (revisited)
2016:
On-One Baby Fatty
2015 Kona Shred
1992 GT Talera
1999 Kona Muni Mula (in progress)

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The orange Tazer and Dirt Bros BMX have both found their way back to me after being sold. Currently still have the lovely singlespeed Hooker, the Bottlerocket for DH, Dirt Bros BMX and the current project - the Muni Mula. Watch . . . this . . . space

Raleigh Chipper (orange) rode it to death.
Raleigh Arena (ice Blue) 5 speed.
Raleigh Grifter/BMX (hand painted black, red parts, single speed) Homemade
Raleigh Shopper (red) stripped to the bone, excellent wheelie bike.
Puch Prima (red) 12 speed.
Raleigh Record SE possibly (black) 10 speed race cogs.
Peugeot MTB thing
Claud Butler Hybrid type bike (silver)
Marin B17 MTB
Cube SL Pro Hybrid
Lots of Raleigh BMXs, old shoppers/RSWs and a German Chopper
Raleigh Record Sprint

right then...

Falcon freestlyer
Raleigh mustang
Raleigh hotfoot
Raleigh activator 2
Saracen protrax 95
Kona Kilauea 96 best bike ever
Marin B17
Saracen Xcess
Saracen STINKY rip off
Marin wolf ridge with boxxers
Kona stinky
Cube Stereo 160
KONA KILAUEA 97!!!

Mayflower - Kids Bike 1969-1972 (totalled by my younger brother)
Raleigh Chico - 1972-1977 (Stolen)
Royal Enfield Club - 1977 - 1986 - got my car licence. Frame broke and ended up at the tip.
Raleigh Mustang - 1988 (missed cycling, bought from Littlewoods club book. Bought first issue of MBUK traded it in for the Timberline)
GT Timberline - 1989 (first proper mountain bike, joined Bristol Offroad Mountain Bike Club - was stolen when I moved to Bournemouth)
Proflex 453 - 1994 - 1997 (Stolen from Garden shed)
Proflex Reptile - 1997 (still have the frame in my garage. Began Riding with Dorset Roughriders.)
Santa Cruz Heckler X - 1999 (being rebuilt)
Merlin Hard tail 1999 (the online bike shop not a proper Merlin! Used cheap 2nd hand Marzocchi Z4 forks and bits from the Reptile - Stolen in 200
Ringmaster Unicycle - 1999 (still got and will learn to ride it one day!)
Stopped Riding in 2000 due to the Foot and Mouth keeping us off the trails.
Santa Cruz Blur LT - 2012 (still got)
Specialized Camber Comp 29er - 2014 (still got. Re-joined Dorset Roughriders.)
Cannondale Synapse 5 road Bike 2015 (in shed ridden it twice - hate it!)
Brompton - 2015 (still got and ride regularly - great fun)
Raleigh Chopper - 2015 (impulse buy of a 1974 original, sold it on after nearly killing myself as brakes just useless!)
Raleigh Chopper - 2015 (another impulse buy - a reissue - still in the shed!)
Reid Zeus Fat Bike - 2015 (my winter mud ride and the only one in the country)
Scott E-Genius 910 - 2016 (my current main ride as health issues mean I need the boost to keep up with folk)
2016 Retro bike purchases
Yeti Arc - 1994 (too small for me and not in good nick, will fettle for my sister in law)
Mountain Cycles San Andreas - not sure of year and needs a bit of work
Proflex 856 - 1996 and virtually mint, original tyres and brake pads and has owners manual and letter saying it was a magazine competition prize.
Proflex 857 - 1997 needs shock work so bought some replacements from Noleen.
Proflex 856 - 1996 got too many modern bits will break and combine with next 2
Proflex XPS - Year not known but got a dent and crease in frame so will break and combine with other 2
Proflex 856 - 1996 again too many modern parts but will break with other 2 above
X-Lite Titanium Pro - not sure of year but beautiful build by someone on here just brilliant
Orange Clockwork - 1994 - nearly got all the bits I needed to bring it back to original (need a period fork)
Orange Patriot - 1999 - Frame only which has been sprayed beautifully as a theme item, going to build it up as a modern 11 speed.
Orange Patriot - 2002 - full bike which I will strip and get the frame done as another theme bike, think Orange County Choppers style paint job/colour coordinated parts.

When current projects finished and I've sold a load of bits to replenish the bike fund will be looking for a Pace and a GT Zaskar and further Titaniums and a K2 5500!

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Here's my rather pathetic list compared to those above!! racking my brain....

1992 ish - Al Carter Sidewinder. My first mountain bike. IIRC, it ran 200GS although my proudest moment was replacing the front mech with an XT one. Should have kept that at least!! I think it just died and being young (and stupid) I cut the frame up and made stuff from the tubes...

1993 - Al Carter Black Panther. I bent the forks so I replaced them with a set of Orange Aluminium O forks bought from 2XS in West Wittering. Unfortunately stolen from a friends garage.

1994 - insurance money from above theft paid for half of a '93 Kona Explosif, bought second hand from Butler Cycles in Portsmouth. It had Pace RC35's and I blame this for my Pace obsession in the years since. Sold to a mate as I wanted a full suspension and recently trying to track it down for repatriation!!

1996 - Club Roost (who?!!) full susser. Possibly a DH8 looking on Google but cannot be sure. Broke the swing arm off and under warranty received a different model without the shock linkage. Broke that and they gave me a hard tail!! Had the god awful ZZYZX forks on all three but part ex'd them in for something (anything!!) else. Bought a set of limited edition Eddie Irvine RC36's to go on this. The most beautiful forks ever, I wish I had kept them....

1997 - Pace RC200 F1, RC35 AB's. Bought second hand from Rock 'n' Road, Portsmouth. Full XT and had this for years before selling it on here after the seat tube cracked.

1998 - Bought an RC200 F8 frame in red from Rock 'n' Road in Portsmouth. Paid a small fortune building from scratch with full XT, Hope discs and initially ran the EI RC36's but the disc conversion kit didn't really work so sold them on and bought a set of RC36 ProClass II's to run Hope C2's. Briefly ran RC31's but sold them on and went back to the RC36 PCII's. Still have this frame/bike but very recently found two terminal cracks so soon to be a wall hangar....Maybe i'll fix her one day.

1999 - Klein Attitude Dolomite. Came with Bullseye hubs and a cook Bros crank but randomly sold this and put XTR on it...Finally had my dream bike but it wasn't to last. Stolen from a pub, really shouldn't take expensive bikes out when drinking...

2004 - Convinced a friend to buy an RC300 (in red, natch) that I had seen in a shop and then convinced him to sell it to me!! Converted to single speed with RC31's and Hope Mono Mini's. A great bike and I loved it but had an attack of financial remorse (had too many bikes!! - although compared to the above posts clearly not!!) and sold her on here. I really should have kept this one too.

2006 ish - bought another Klein Attitude Dolomite but just F and F. Built this up as a Weight Weenie special and managed to get her down to 14.9 lb!! Unusable though so sold on after the fun of the build had subsided.

2013 - acquired an old Peugeot road bike from a colleague at work. Converted to single speed and repainted in white Team colours. Classic retro styling and one to keep as it only cost a couple of hundred to build but stolen..

2015 - Giant Propel Advanced Pro 2 road bike with Ultegra for easier rides to work (and preserving my ageing aluminium mountain bike). Lovely bike and it's surprising how nice a brand new bike feels compared to the old stuff!!

2016 - 1993 Kona Explosif soon to be picked up. Not my old one but the same model and with Pace forks of course!!

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The Bear":2d1n7s2z said:

Here's my rather pathetic list compared to those above!! racking my brain....

1992 ish - Al Carter Sidewinder. My first mountain bike. IIRC, it ran 200GS although my proudest moment was replacing the front mech with an XT one. Should have kept that at least!! I think it just died and being young (and stupid) I cut the frame up and made stuff from the tubes...

1993 - Al Carter Black Panther. I bent the forks so I replaced them with a set of Orange Aluminium O forks bought from 2XS in West Wittering. Unfortunately stolen from a friends garage.

1994 - insurance money from above theft paid for half of a '93 Kona Explosif, bought second hand from Butler Cycles in Portsmouth. It had Pace RC35's and I blame this for my Pace obsession in the years since. Sold to a mate as I wanted a full suspension and recently trying to track it down for repatriation!!

1996 - Club Roost (who?!!) full susser. Possibly a DH8 looking on Google but cannot be sure. Broke the swing arm off and under warranty received a different model without the shock linkage. Broke that and they gave me a hard tail!! Had the god awful ZZYZX forks on all three but part ex'd them in for something (anything!!) else. Bought a set of limited edition Eddie Irvine RC36's to go on this. The most beautiful forks ever, I wish I had kept them....

1997 - Pace RC200 F1, RC35 AB's. Bought second hand from Rock 'n' Road, Portsmouth. Full XT and had this for years before selling it on here after the seat tube cracked.

1998 - Bought an RC200 F8 frame in red from Rock 'n' Road in Portsmouth. Paid a small fortune building from scratch with full XT, Hope discs and initially ran the EI RC36's but the disc conversion kit didn't really work so sold them on and bought a set of RC36 ProClass II's to run Hope C2's. Briefly ran RC31's but sold them on and went back to the RC36 PCII's. Still have this frame/bike but very recently found two terminal cracks so soon to be a wall hangar....Maybe i'll fix her one day.

1999 - Klein Attitude Dolomite. Came with Bullseye hubs and a cook Bros crank but randomly sold this and put XTR on it...Finally had my dream bike but it wasn't to last. Stolen from a pub, really shouldn't take expensive bikes out when drinking...

2004 - Convinced a friend to buy an RC300 (in red, natch) that I had seen in a shop and then convinced him to sell it to me!! Converted to single speed with RC31's and Hope Mono Mini's. A great bike and I loved it but had an attack of financial remorse (had too many bikes!! - although compared to the above posts clearly not!!) and sold her on here. I really should have kept this one too.

2006 ish - bought another Klein Attitude Dolomite but just F and F. Built this up as a Weight Weenie special and managed to get her down to 14.9 lb!! Unusable though so sold on after the fun of the build had subsided.

2013 - acquired an old Peugeot road bike from a colleague at work. Converted to single speed and repainted in white Team colours. Classic retro styling and one to keep as it only cost a couple of hundred to build but stolen..

2015 - Giant Propel Advanced Pro 2 road bike with Ultegra for easier rides to work (and preserving my ageing aluminium mountain bike). Lovely bike and it's surprising how nice a brand new bike feels compared to the old stuff!!

2016 - 1993 Kona Explosif soon to be picked up. Not my old one but the same model and with Pace forks of course!!

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Mmmm comprehensive !!!

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70's trike - wore the wheels out.
70's gaspipe clunker of some sort.
Early 80's Dawes Lightning.
Mid 80's Raleigh Burner.
1986 Carlton Carrera - from new and still own it.
Late 80's cheap MTB called 'free spirit' i think..
1996 Kona Lava Dome - from new and still own it.
1999 Kona Hei Hei - still own it.
1995 Kona Cinder Cone - still own it.
1993 Marin Pine Mountain - still own it.
Now thinking to buy a fancy new carbon road bike but i have a problem spending a lot of money on a flimsy thing with little intrinsic value after owning proper bikes which last a lifetime.

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70's Raleigh
80's Viscount Tulsa Road Bike
1989 Saracen Tufftrax (sold to my sister and she sold on to fund a Marin)
1993 Cannondale M700
1997 Marin Mount Vision (bought off a mate in 1999)
2001 Marin Mount Vision (bought off a mate in 2010)
1995 Pace RC200 F5 (bought in 2015)