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#1 · (Edited)
Every bike I’ve owned, funny how I can remember these better than I can my ex-girlfriends…

1. Schwinn Banana seat coaster brake (my first singlespeed!)
2. Schwinn 10 speed that could shift while coasting
3. Panasonic RX-4000 (car ran into me)
4. Performance Superbe Pro (bought with car accident insurance money)
5. Cannondale Road bike (bought from some Ironman guy our shop sponsored)
6. Miyata with old Shimano 600
7. Tommasini Super Prestige (wrecked into a signpost at 35 mph)
8. Marushi mountain bike with 6 speed Deore XT.
9. Fat Chance Wicked
10. Redline 24” cruiser
11. Trek 930 with Funk Big fork

............Long break with no bikes when I smoked cigs and ate too much junk food....................

12. Raleigh M-400 (got me back into riding, thank you! )
13. Tommasini Prestige (too small)
14. Marin Mount Vision (I hated full suspension so much that it started me on singlespeed, converted the Raleigh M-400)
15. Surly 1x1
16. Phobia Anxiety fixed gear mountain bike (bad name for a fixed gear mtb)
17. Raleigh Technium townie singlespeed with wicked witch of the west handlebars(still have)
18. Oschner fixed gear road bike
19. Tomasso fixed gear road bike
20. Mountain Cycles Zen (still hated full suspension, why did I build this bike?)
21. Surly Karate Monkey 29er singlespeed (still have)
22. Bianchi CUSS singlespeed
23. Specialized Stumpjumper singlespeed
24. Indigo Cycles road fixie (still have)
25. Indigo Cycles 29er singlespeed (still have)
26. Matt Chester Indie Rock Cross Bike (still have)
 
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#26 ·
1No name w/training wheels
2Schwinn stingray
BMX-
1Rampar
2Mongoose supergoose
3Redline proline
4hutch 24"
5Race Inc
6diamondback silver streak
- Freestyle-
1mongoose
2haro sport
3haro master
4 3 hutch trickstars
5cw
6revcore
-mountainbikes-
1jamis
2giant cadex
3haro
4gary fisher
5specialized m-2
6specialized m-4
7giant xtc
8redline monocog 29er
- road bikes-
1specialized allez
2diamondback podium
I have slowed down on my bike buying it used to be about two a year then I took a long break from bikes but I came back.I am 40 with two kids so I have to take it easy with the bike buying or i'll get something I don't want from my wife. Thank god for e-bay..
 
#28 · (Edited)
Good topic

1972 and on:

little red tricycle. I first lived in San Francisco near GG park, near the panhandle. I was 3. My mom used to let me ride around the sidewalk on the front stoop of the apartment. She would turn her back, and the first thing I would do is go ride it around the block. That would of course totally freak her out.

I have a sister who is 9 years older than I am. I got her purple girls sting ray as a hand-me-down. I rode that for a while.

I had a blue Raleigh Rampart BMXer, complete with yellow tuff wheels.

Then a chrome redline, that got ripped off.

Then a blue redline 102b.

Then I got into freestyle. I got a Haro Freestyler. That was sweet. best bike yet. I got a drum brake from the local junk store and built it up with an araya gold ano rim, and ran it with those old Shimano motorcycle brake levers. Can you say crazy brake power wtih no modulation? I sure could. Complete it with CW bars and Oakley 3 grips.

I then got a Schwinn Sierra, my first mountain bike, off a guy at school. It had a busted front brake boss, so I bought a Fisher fork back when they were still locally owned in San Anselmo (where I grew up). I rode that for a while, and it got ripped off.

I have another sister who is 2 years older than me. After my Sierra was ripped off, she got a Mongoose chrome mountain bike, and soon after went to Germany on foreign exchange for a year. It was my size, so naturally I rode that bike for the year. That was a rad bike, but I did so many drops I bent the fork out. I bent it back with a long piece of pipe and kept on riding it. She rode it for a couple years when she went to Cal, but it was stolen.

Raleigh USA Grand Prix road bike. Fun, broke my hand when a chain exploded on me and went OTB... good times. It now sits bolted to my trainer after I converted it to a fixie, since I'm too much of a wuss to ride it in the street.

Then I got out of biking for a bunch of years.

Then I got back in. I got a Giant Yukon in 2000. The frame is still in my basement. Great bike, but it rattled my teeth out.

I caught the bug and went crazy.

I got a K2 Razorback from some guy in Canada. Loved it, but it was too small for me.

Aosty set me up with some parts and an old '90 Trek 9500 bonded alu frame. I made it a low-rent singlespeed. I painted it neutral 50% grey. Love it.

I also built up a used Giant TCR road bike with Dura Ace 8 speed.

The Razorback really needed replacement, so I got a used '03 Stumpjumper FSR-XC frame. Love it.

Missing the sheer crazy speed and lightweight of a hardtail, I built up the Yukon as a light bike. I found it was also a tad small, and rode really harshly, so I found a used Supergo Access frame, and built that up. Its now my race hardtail.

So currently in the stable:

'03 stumpy
Access hardtail
Giant TCR roadie
Trek 9500 rigid SS
Raleigh USA Grand Prix, built as a fixie.

My wife's bikes:

Giant Boulder with slicks for street
Specialized Stumpjumper S-Works hardtail... currently getting painted.
 
#29 · (Edited)
1. Schwinn Stingray
2. Schwinn Sting
3. Schwinn Predator
4. GT Pro 20 inch
5. Hutch Pro 20 inch (chrome)
6. Hutch Pro 20 inch* (white)
7. Hutch Pro 24 inch*
8. CW Lighting
9. CW Pro 24 inch
10. GHB Pro 24 inch
11. Torker Pro 20 inch
12. Profile Pro 24 inch
13. GT Timberline
14. GT Avalance LE*
15. Canondale R600
16. Specialized FSR Pro
17. Giant TCR2
18. Specialized Epic Pro
19. Free Agent 20 inch
20. Mosh Pro 24 inch
21. Specialized S-Works Hardtail
22. Specialized Roabaix
23. Bianchi Pista (Fixie)
24. Bianchi Pista Concept 2005 (Fixie)
25. Giant TCR Team*
26. Pro Concept 24inch
27. Specialized S-Works Epic*
28. Bianchi Pista Concept 2006 (Fixie)*
29. Jamis Dakar
30. Trek Commuter/Townie

Italics: Still Have
* All time favorite

Future Bikes:
Vanilla http://www.vanillabicycles.com/, Pinarello http://www.pinarello.com/eng/index_eng.php, maybe the new Scott Full Susser that is at Eurobike 2006 http://www.velonews.com/tech/report/articles/10790.0.html.
 
#30 ·
I may of missed a few...

1989 Bridgestone MB-1
1990 Bridgestone MB-1
1991 Bridgestone MB-1
Bianchi cross(now fixed)
Bianchi Ibex
Bianchi Pista

Cannondale Chase 2
Cannondale Darwin (yes I did ride one)
Cannondale F4000sl
Cannondale Gemini 800
Cannondale Jekyll 900SL
Cannondale Judge 1
Cannondale Prophet 2 MX
Cannondale Prophet 4000
Cannondale Prophet 4Cross
Cannondale Synapse Carbon

Eddie Mercxx road
edge cycles Icarus full suspension

Ellsworth Chaos
Ellsworth Epiphany
Ellsworth Flight
Ellsworth ID
Ellsworth Moment
Ellsworth Rogue
Ellsworth Specialist
Ellsworth Truth (the crappy one)
Ellsworth witness (sweet)

Fisher Cake 2 DLX
Fisher Fat Possum XO
Fisher King Fisher 2
Fisher Procaliber
Fisher Rig
Giant ATX Team XC
Giant XcX DS1
GT I-drive
Ibis Bow-ti
Ibis Mojo
Ibis Ripley

Ironhorse 7.7
Ironhorse MKIII
Ironhorse Yakuza

Lemond zurich road

Litespeed Bella
Litespeed Ghisallo
Litespeed Mount Diablo
Litespeed Niota Ti
Litespeed Pisgah

Marin (Something crappy)
Merlin Newsboy
Merlin Works 4.0 (wow)
Merlin XLM 6/4
Nishiki Manitoba
Redline MX-2 BMX

Santa Cruz Blur (old one)
Santa Cruz Blur 4X
Santa Cruz Blur LT
Santa Cruz Blur XC
Santa Cruz Heckler
Santa Cruz Jackal
Santa Cruz Nomad
Santa Cruz Tazman

schwinn 1960 cruiser
Schwinn Aluminium MTB,
Schwinn something MTB
Schwinn Tourney ATB

SE Racing PK Ripper Looptail,

specialized hardrock
Specialized P.1 (still have)
Specialized Rockhopper Comp FS
Specialized Stumphumper 120

Titus quasimoto
Titus racer x
Titus supermoto
Titus titanium 29" racer x exogrid

Trek Fuel EX 9.5
Trek Jack 1
Trek Police Bike FS (bar ends and a rear rack)
Trek Remedy 66
Trek session 77
Trek Y

Yeti ASR Full Carbon
Yeti 575
Yeti 303
Yeti DH9
Yeti ARC Ti
Yeti ARC
 
#32 ·
Tricycle (of course)
Some non-descript little red bike I learned "two wheeling" on.
Several Schwinns of unknown makes.
Some odd department store bike 5 sp. with "butterfly" handlebars and top-tube "Hurst" style shifter.
Schwinn Stingray "Orange Crate"
Sears "Freespirit" 10-sp.
Schwinn Varsity 10 sp.
Redline BMX
Mongoose BMX
Haro Freestyle BMX
Murray 24" BMX styled 5 sp. POS
Cannondale Hardtail MTB model unknown
Gary Fisher Wahoo
Raleigh MT600
Giant Warp 1
Giant AC 1
Giant NRS 1
Giant TCR 1 Alloy roadie
Giant TCR Composite 0 roadie
Look 585 roadie
Titus MotoLite
Yeti 575
Bianchi W.U.S.S.
 
#33 ·
Mine

1) Some old Huffy BMX bike
2) Murray Mountain Bike (stolen)
3) 1998 Trek 820
4) Cannondale Road Bike
5) Older Steel HT converted to SS, can't remember the make
6) 2000 Kona Stinky (broke it)
7) 2000 Kona Kaboom (stolen)
8) 2004 Karpiel Apocalypse (sold it, miss that one too)
9) 2005 Kona Sutra
10) 2006 Kona Smoke with Xtracycle
11) 2004 Banshee Scream with Monster T (sold it)
12) 2003 Foes Mono with Boxxer (current ride)

I still have the Sutra, the Smoke and the Foes. Everything else was either stolen, broken, or sold. It was cool to go back and remember, thanks!

Cheers

KavuRider
 
#34 ·
88 Rockhopper Comp (my 66 year old dad crashed it and bent the frame)
89 Rockhopper Comp
91 Paramount Series 70 (wish I still had it)
96 (or 97) Bontrager Titanium (wish I still had it)
01 Rocky Mountain Instinct
04 SC Blur
05 Turner Flux (still have it)
05 Trek Liquid 55 (still have it)
 
#35 ·
Schwinn Pixie
Schwinn Stingray
Another Schwinn Stingray
Vista Esquire
Raleigh Super Course
Nishiki Olympic
Dumpster bikes 1, 2, and 3 (College)
Schwinn Corvette
Another Schwinn Corvette
Raleigh Competition GS
Another Schwinn Corvette
Specialized Rockhopper
Windsor something
Trek 760
Jamis Dakota
Specialized Stumpjumper
Still yet another Schwinn Corvette
Huffy tandem
Schwinn Collegiate
Schwinn Breeze
Fisher Sugar 2
Specialized Allez
Surly 1x1
Voodoo Dambala
Burley Duet
 
#36 ·
This is fun. Thought I would have had more bikes than this, but guess not. Here's my list:
  • Target bought bike with fenders with Banana Seat (later took off the fenders, replaced banana seat, and put nobbies on to be a "BMX" bike)
  • Team Murry BMX freewheel
  • PK Ripper BMX
  • 92 Specialized Rockhopper
  • 95 Specialized Rockhopper Comp
  • ------------- Big Break spent getting fat-----------------------
  • 05 Trek 4300
  • 05 Specialized FSRxc
  • 07 Cannondale Rush 4
 
#39 ·
Kona Cinder Cone
Kona Kula
Kona Dawg
Kona Jake the Snake
K2 Razorback
Titus Loco-Moto
Titus Racer-X
Intense Tracer
Ionic hardtail
Cannondale Jeckyll
Cannondale F1000
Trek 8000
Specialized FSR
Yeti 575
Yeti ASR
Oh wait you said OWNED not STOLE
 
#40 · (Edited)
Start to now:
16" Murray bmx looking thing, my first bike,
20" pacific mountain bike
Inferno something or other, brakeless walmart BMX death trap
18" Kent BMX bike, semi converted to a chopper with some rigid 26" forks and a 20" front wheel
Monark Silver King-vintage beach cruiser
random huffy POS mountain bike
Mosh Brass 2 Star
Volume Deathwish (this frame with the components I'm running in my mosh currently)
Next will be whatever mountain bike I end up with.

Have a Hutch Pro-Raider resto project and a Redline RL440 rider project in the wings.
 
#42 ·
More than enough

Starting around '93:

93 Rockhopper Comp
Slingshot Mtn - Periwinkle Purple
Specialized FSR - Craptastic
Fat Chance Wicked Lite
Pinarello Cyclocross
Orbit 531 Steel Roadie
Canondale Killer V w/headshock
Litespeed Obed
Brew 180 Proof w/cabon AMP (flexy flyer)
Eddie Merckx Coursa 01 roadie (campy chorus)
Titus DrupU Roadie (inherited campy chorus)
Santa Cruz Blur (original model)
Surly Karate Monkey
Surly Cross Check
Niner SIR9

and for my lovely wife:

Scott steel hardtail (garage fatality)
Voodoo Wanga (with carbon FSX fork)
Specialized Allez Roadie (cheap)
Iron Horse Azure Comp

Still have the ones in blue.
I think that's it. Seems like there should be a few more in there. And yeah, I miss the Fat Chance the most.

Plum
 
#43 · (Edited)
Ok....here goes....since '94:

ME:
'94 Giant Iguana
'96 GT Avalanche LE
'97 GT Zaskar LE
'98 GT Xizang
'98 GT STS 1500DS
'99 GT STS 1000DS
'01 Santa Cruz Bullit
'02 Santa Cruz Chameleon
'03 Santa Cruz Bullit
'03 Giant TCR2(roadie)
'04 Santa Cruz Chameleon
'03 Azonic DS-1
'04 Gary Fisher Sugar 293
'04 Felt F60(roadie)(Current)
'05 Santa Cruz Chameleon(Current)
'04 Santa Cruz Heckler
'06 Santa Cruz Bullit(current)
'05 Surly 1x1
'07 Redline Monocog 29er
'05 Specialized Langster(roadie)
'05 NYC Bikes Crossbike


Since '96(wife):

'96 Schwinn Moab 3
'95 Klein Mantra
'99 Specialized Enduro Expert
'01 Santa Cruz Bullit
'01 Santa Cruz Bullit
'03 Santa Cruz Bullit
'04 Santa Cruz Heckler
'04 Giant OCR 1(roadie)
'04 Felt F60(roadie)(Current)
'04 Redline Monocog
'05 Surly 1x1
'05 Santa Cruz Julianna HT(current)
'06 Santa Cruz Blur LT(current)
 
#44 ·
1. Mongoose Menace (Can't remember what I had before that, but this was the bmx bike I rode for years as a kid)
2. Magna something-or-other-pos (12th bday present)
3. Diamondback Outlook (another pos)
4. 2000 Gary Fisher Marlin (xmas gift when I was 16, my first real mountain bike)
5. 2001 Specialized Enduro Expert Hardtail (my first custom bike, built it up part by part)
6. 2003 Giant AC (still my current all mountain bike)
7. 2005 Cannondale Chase (still around too)
8. 2006 Specialized Demo 8 (7 months old, my first dh bike. Her name's Sophia, she's my favorite)
9. 2006 Scott Speedster S60 (1st roadie, my most recent purchase)

I'm a relatively new rider, I've only been riding for about 6 years. I thought I had a pretty long list compared to the some of the guys I ride with, but according to these ridiculous lists that you guys have............:nono:
 
#46 · (Edited)
Get comfortable.

I am officially a bike whore so there are many;) This list starts at 28 years old but I can't remember the earlier ones.
1) Gary Fisher Montare(too big)
2)Fisher Mt. Tam Polished(sweetest HT ever)
3)Fisher Joshua (total pile bent within a year)
4)Mc Mahon BUFF (total pile Broke 3 times in year and a half then he folded so I lost the $$$)
5)Cdale hardtail (bought too small)
6) Foes Weasel ( sweet rig way ahead of it's time but broke the swing arm)
7)Foes Fly ( too much travel too heavy but pedals well and I still have it:D )
8) Ellsworth Truth (not enough travel only had it 6 months)
9) GT I drive ( after seeing all my freinds brake thears I sold it)
10)Cannondale Jeckyle (got a 1/2 off deal and it was a good bike but I wanted more)
11)Intense Uzzi DH ( fun but heavy and flexy just to tide me over until My 5 Spot arrived)
12) SM Bullit)still waiting for the 5 Spot so I tried the Bullit but too many single pivot quirks and it was too small but it's still sitting around in a box somewhere)
13 5SPOT YEAH (best I've ever owned; 3 years and no problems:D :D :D
14)Cannondale 1fg (I fell for the SS hype but I picked it up frame and headshock for $250 new with a dented down tube. I still own it and it's a great training tool but it aint fun:confused:
15)Turner Route 66 ( plush, heavy with the same geometry as my Spot but it feels very different.
15 Somewhere in there was a KHS cruiser with a 7 speed hub that was cool but outweighed my DH bike.
I'm so happy with my 5 Spot that I'm not looking for any bikes right now but a short travel bike would be nice to try and I have a line on a Burner but I don't think I'd ride it much.
 
#47 ·
hmmmm lets see if i can remember them from at least the time i really got into cycling

1) huffy somethingerother
2) Sears somethingerother
3) Huffy Stone Mountain
4) Picific Conquest (wish i still had it)
5) GT Timberline FS (still have)
6) GT I-drive XCR 4000 (still have)
7) Schwinn Sidewinder (bigest mistake i ever baught)
8) Kona Muni-mula (now a single speed)
9) GT i-drive xcr 4000 (still have )
10) Kona Stuff (still have)
11) Bike E recumbant (still have)
12) Giant Sedona (still have)
13) schwinn tour sport (still have)
 
#48 ·
big wheel
supercycle bmx
kuhara bmx's (3 or 4)
rocky mountain fusion
rocky mountian equipe
marin team issue
kona HOT
Voodoo nzumbi SS
santa cruz bullit
jericho leadfoot ss
santa cruz heckler
jericho payback ss
norco team 853
intense 5.5
cannondale R800
Kona Jake the Snake cross
Ridley Damocles
BBC Pilly cruiser
 
#49 ·
I am trying to add to my small collection. I offered My night vision Monocular for someones old beater mountain bike with front susp. I figure some outdoorsman's greed will get the better of him. Well I hope. LOL.
 
#50 ·
Okay, I'll play...

Lost in the mists of time are the childhood bikes, although I can remember the 20" bananna-seater with the sissy bar. I know I really lusted after the Raleigh Chopper with the gearshift on the top tube, though. If you've ever watched first-run Pink Panther cartoons on Saturday morning, you know the one:



Fast-forward to the modern(?) era:
1985 Raleigh 10-speed tourer (traded)
1986 Trek 12-speed road bike (stolen)
1983-ish Specialized Stumpjumper (Looking back, that's the best bike I ever had - bought from a college buddy for $20 & ended up throwing it away in 1988)
1988 Nishiki Alien (destroyed in flood of '94)
1989 Vitus 979 with chi-chi Campy gruppo (destroyed in flood of '94)

...insert 11 years of sedentary suburban malaise here...

2004 Motobecane Fantom Comp (Sold it to one of my present-day riding buddies)
2005 Specialized Roubaix (Current road rig)
2006 Gary Fisher XCal (Current dirt rig)

What's next? Dunno, but I'm hearing the tandem road bike calling...
 
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