Your Bikes Through Time

1. Red Trike with solid rubber wheels and back plate to carry friends - Happy days :-)
   
2. Old Blue lugged frame with franken brake lever my brother made - Skidder bike, killed tires near weekly (Smashed up)
   
3. Cousins old step through 3 speed shopper with rod-pull brakes - My most painful crash with Legs either side of a gatepost. (Sold on)
   
4. Raleigh Grifter XL - Wish i'd gone for the Mag Burner but fell for gears :-( (Killed)
   
5. Raleigh Maverick 15 speed MTB - The first semi serious bike (Killed as it should have been)
   
6. Kona Cindercone '90 with XT upgrades - My favourite bike to date (Stolen)
   
7. Custom build '92 Stumpjumper with Pace RC35's and mostly XT bits - Never as good as I thought it would be. (Bits died and frame passed on to a friend.)
   
   

9 years with no bike

1. Sirrus Elite '09 - Wrong bike for me. (Split. F&F given to a kid for a Karma bonus. Other bits to my bro and a few bits still to sell on.)
   
2. 'OLGA' Charge Plug '10 with upgrades - Current ride. (Soon to be sold)
   
3. DMR Trailstar build now in progress...
   
   

The theft of the Cindercone really pissed me off. 2 days before starting Uni. I'd just given it a full service with new cables, new chain and new pads. I'd even waxed the frame! I had a set of Mavic Paris Dakar hubs and MA40 rims waiting to be laced sat in a box next to it. Came home from my leaving do from work to find the garage window open and both mine and my sisters bikes gone along with the other bits. Mad rush to get an insurance quote that weekend.