Bikes you regret selling

Post a picture and why you regret selling...

I enjoy buying parts and building bikes as much as I do riding them, so they are regularly for sale or I'm looking for a fresh project. This Gazelle was my favourite, fairly basic spec but I instantly clicked with it. Classic frame but modern parts where it mattered.

Colnago nuovo Mexico .....
Loved riding this bike.... Sold it to get another Master ,which I love ....but still wish I had the Mexico
One day I'll have another ... I hope

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40s path, possibly JRJ, f&f bought from @furious_tiles. Beacause it was light, comfortable, handled really well and looked dreamy.

If that frame for me I'd have never sold it.
You did a lovely job of restoring and it and building it up.
I've gotta compound your regret by saying you looked great on it, it suited you and you it.

Where did it end up?

Good idea for a thread!

Always regretted selling my ALAN Super Record. Was my first "proper" road bike and I loved riding it. I bought it off @Orko42 in Summer 2012. Eventually it had to go to make way for my Colnago Nuovo Mexico (sorry @MRI). Lovely old DA groupset, awesome black anodised rims, great condition. Oh well.

I believe it went out to South Africa so chances of getting back are slim!

I know, it was a cracker. In particular, the laminated lugging (i.e. homemade not cast), a beautiful track fork that actually handled a brake really well, and gorgeously slim 'pencil' seatstays. And it fitted me well (unusual with me tyrannosaurus arm/torso ratio).

A nice georgie fella called @White_Flower bought it from me. I did try to ask to buy it back a while ago, but he didn't reply. Not seen him on the forum for ages.

Sold due to poverty and a knee injury meant I wasn't getting much use out of it. Had big plans to build something new once I got my bonus from work but as I've just found out i'm being made redundant that plan has gone out of the window. I still miss this bike every time we get sunny weather.

@high&over-DK . Ahh do you have my old Mexico ? if so id love to see a pic , no how you feel about the Alan

My Genesis Equilibrium 853, not so much for the build, but just the frame n forks. All the parts got flogged on here, the frameset on evil bay. Never rode it as much as I should have, knowing a little bit more about setting up my bikes now, I think we could have had many happy journeys together. Chap who bought it, from Bath, had plans to ride it from Norway to Portugal.

Wah wheels are they?

404 FC's destickered.

slightly differen but basically the same thread already exists... https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/174446/?offset=200#comment12102671

@MRI no not yours. This is mine. Bought it off here too, I hope I never have to sell it!

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Beautiful , looks my size too ,thanks for the pic

was to big for me...
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Was skint, and it was always a little too big for me I guess. Even so, I'm sure it was faster than anything I've had since!

this looks epic

Ed!

Wasn't anything particularly special but one of the best bikes I've ridden.

I've gotta compound your regret by saying you looked great on it, it suited you and you it.

Riders that bikes regret losing thread >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

My first ever track frame. A relatively rare Dave Yates number that was way too big in the TT region. Still regret selling mind even though it trashed my back..

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Don't have a photo but my regret was a custom built track frame by Alec Bird which I had built in 1980. Alec Bird was very old school and worked out of shed at the back of the Holdsworth shop in Penge. Reynolds 531/Columbus mix, chrome forks and dropouts. Unfortunately, I never got to race it as I got a place at a university far from any track soon after. I kept the frame for 15 years in the hope I'd race again but at a time I was busy with work and young family, I sold it to a young cyclist eager to ride the track. I have had other custom frame builds since but none can compare with the first.