Your Bikes Through Time

A while ago Alexis at OCW asked me to describe all the bikes I'd built or owned.

having just completed a v. frustrating project, it got me thinking about all the bikes I've had (there's more than this- but no pictures).
this is my two years of bikes (technically 3 as the dawes was a geared bike for a bit at uni- after my mtb- which I'd had since 15 and built up over the years- got nicked):

http://www.flickr.com/photos/25628148@N07/sets/72157614119063289/detail/

So lets see yours!

I like navel-gazing + grants for studying cancer.

I did this following a question at work about how many bikes I'd actually owned. Here's the list of bikes I've bought with my own money;

Trek 2100
Pinarello Stelvio
Custom made Columbus tubing winter bike
Pinarello Paris
Battaglin winter bike
De Rosa Titanio
Condor light tourer
Casati Geo
De Rosa Corum
Pinarello Sestriere
De Rosa Merak
Colnago C40
De Rosa Giro d'Italia
Casati Laser
Casati Marte
Colnago SL
Colnago Master Piu
Eddy Merckx track frame
Bianchi Pista
Casati Chronox track frame
Moser AX Leader
Gios cyclo cross frame

I've a new frame on order too.

My name is Andy, I'm addicted to bikes. :-)

Here's some photos to keep Henry happy;

http://www.flickr.com/photos/72903027@N00/

erm,
orange clockwork 90
pace rc100 91
the twatster 07
some english thing 07
and loads of bmx's before

apollo y frame
diamondback bmx
various other bmxs baracaudas,gts,raleighs
various mtbs including a couple of raleigh full rigid
another apollo full suspension bike
bowery 2008
volume cutter f+f

photos you fuckers, photos.

but nice lists, guys

i just watched american pie.
tara reid, my jesus god!

Viscount Colorado GT (10 speed)
Viscount Aerospace 600 EX
Raleigh Gran Sport

bit of a gap....

Cannondale Batty Boy
Kona Paddy Wagon
Kona Unit
Dolan Kadet (DOA)
Witcomb custom (MIA/DOA)
CONdor Pista
Spesh Hardrock
Pinarello Surprise

Velosolex St Tropez
Windsor Pro
Benotto 3000
Panasonic Track
Roberts Track
Serotta Criterium
Ciocc Mockba 80

...nothing new for years...

Roberts Road
Kingsway Pista
Dave Russell Road & Track
Peracinni Pista

Becoming an addict again!

Merckx Professional Road
Stratton Conversion
Ti Raleigh Pista
3Rensho Katana Pista
Cinelli SuperCorsa Road
Corrado Pista
Dolan Track Tandem
Ciocc San Cristobal Pista

Some Apollo MTB
Mercurio road bike (worst road bike ever made, but it's awesome, mostly because of the downtube shifters)
My beloved Langster

Still got them all, may replace the MTB at some point but aside from that i'm pretty content with my little collection.

Where's Fiddy's list? I reckon that'll loooooooooonnnnnnnnnggggggg! :-)

photos you fuckers, photos.

Some photos added.

surely you could get a 700c on the back of that bianchi henry?

Velosolex
Windsor Pro
Benotto 3000
Panasonic Track
Roberts Track
Serotta Criterium
Ciocc Mockba 80

...nothing new for years...

Roberts Road
Kingsway Pista
Dave Russell Road & Track
Peracinni Pista

Becoming an addict again!

Some nice frames there Dwayne. Having seen the Peracinni last night though I think you have the best of the lot now. It's stunning.

surely you could get a 700c on the back of that bianchi henry?

no its stupidly got a v low brake bridge.
who thought 650s were a good idea?

@ andy- thanks!

How low?! File the brake bridge/700x19c/mental clearances ftw!!

My first proper bike (as in not kids bmx) was some yellow MTB which my mom bought me at the age of 8. I loved that thing to bits (considering it wasnt cheap either) and rode it everywhere.

My second bike at the age of 12 was an (unheard of) AUTHOR solution MTB. After about a year of riding I gathered all my birthday/pocket money and with the equivalent of about £200 by todays average monthly salary bought myself a super cool hydraulics fork. This was back in Estonia, so all these high ends products were much more rare and expensive than they would have been in England.

Two years later I moved to England and soon after received this bike as a present from my half-brother who traveled away back home and couldn't take the bike with him. Im sure you've all seen these pieces of shit, halfords used to sell em?

While already owning two bikes I soon busted even more money on a Ridgeback. It kept on getting punctures like crazy for no reason though (see picture) and one point i just didnt bother fixing them. Sadly after only 3 months it got stolen from my garage.

At this point I only had two crappy MTB ridden to bits and hardly anything worked.... My gears were so fucked and clogged up that only the front derailler worked and yet still i tried not to use it too much. This is the point where I got into SS. I sat down on a friday afternoon in my garage and took aaaaalll the shit off those two bikes, everything to cables and pedals. Just chose the best bits and started building up one bike. It took me until Sunday evening almost non-stop of recutting and refitting but I had a single speed MTB with a chain stretched between the smallest ring at the front and the smallest cog at the back. This was the point when I also saw the first fixed gear riders, and noticed them with short bars. I cut mine to about 25cm, they were tiny, in fact the bike was such a mess i never took a picture of it.

Anyway, once i got tired of fixing that one every day and realised it really wasnt reliable i bought this. A dawes shadow.

Then I got bored of gears, stripped it and made it into a SS
Soon after I fixed it as well.

My second fixer was this

And now that all those bikes have been ridden to their death im smashing around on this.

I know my bike history isnt exactly porn, but I was into MTB for a real long time before i had a chance to afford a racing bike.

haha nice one t-bag

do you still have the animation of that bike tynan?

do you still have the animation of that bike tynan?

Animation ?

where it goes all flashy and stuff

maybe that was just me.....

What's happening with your low profile T?

In chronological order, this is stuff I've bought with my own money, starting with my savings from my milk and paper rounds and working in a bike shop:

Emmelle Leopard mild steel 10-sp MTB, c.1986
Saracen Tufftrax (nicked)
Saracen Tufftrax (nicked)
Saracen Tufftrax
Prophete mild steel road bike (sold to edscoble on here)
Alpinestars Almega XT
Kona Explosif (nicked)
Kona Cinder Cone (nicked)
Marin Bolinas Ridge (left with ex-fiancee)
Dawes Warwick
1965 Ron Cooper-built Gillott 531 (now fixed)
Giant XTC SE
DeKerf SS MTB (bought off Scott on here)
Chinese Unicycle from Lidl
Raleigh Delta - 80s 531 shitter (now fixed)
Sinclair A-bike
Kona something (borrowed off my brother, then nicked)
Specialized Langster (nicked by my brother in return)
Scott S20 (sold to ElDiablo on here)
Claud Butler Panache 531 light tourer (bought off an 80 year-old dude)

Bianchi Pista

An aborted conversion

Biggest mistake ever. Please laugh loudly.

The final incarnation of the pista, which was then sold to gizmond

The cranks off of the geoffrey butler, responsible for this:

The low profile, now sold to harry.major

Final incarnation of the worst/best bike ever, now sold to vinylvillain

Current set up of the holdsworth probably, pending respray

and finally...

Oh how I love posting this picture :)

And here's one of my face, again.