Your Bikes Through Time

when I see this thread title all I can think of is this:

YouTube- Days Of Our Lives 2004 Opening

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as you were.

• Awesome tubular frame with Ducati 900ss bodywork, stupidly fun and fast as I could tuck in behind the fairing for bombing hills, shredded to death from crashes, wish I still had it :[

  • Townsend Kalahari MTB, 24" wheels, fluoro yellow/orange fade paintjob with all black components, very cool indeed!

  • Townsend (Can't remember the model) MTB, my first grown up bike, 26" wheels, kind of maroon red colour

  • Nirve BMX, weighed an absolute tonne but it was fun and served its purpose, gunmetal grey with black component, rode the hell out of that bike but it was so wrecked by the time I left my last apartment I left it in the carpark, not worth trying to give away but hopefully someone found a use for it

  • Fort 7005 Track, first fixed gear, bought it from a courier here in Dublin, original build was BRG w/ Campagnolo Khamsin wheelset in gold... Then purple metal flake w/ CF fork and same wheelset (occasional disc wheel)... Just went to the powdercoaters this morning for a refinish in RAL 7016 w/ pearlescent sparkle lacquer, Makino NJS fork, new wheelset being built, Velocity B43 x Level front, Deep V x Level rear, Campagnolo + Nitto component

  • Koga Miyata 70's racer, my first roadie, got it about a fortnight ago, starting to like this geared business, still fixed FTW though...

I was just out in stratford and it's very calm tonight, if your around tomorrow pop in and see me at the cycle studio www.thecyclestudio.co.uk i may have a few minutes to discuss fxed gear bicycles or other styles...

You weren't at the cox's yard by any chance?

guys, those are some wonderful collections/ histories. i am impressed many times over & NOW THIS IS PPOST 3 SO I AM NO LONGER SPAM!

glad to be here. cheers.

Love the pic of Ed, cool dude, though i did think CTFU (cheer the fuck up) but then i saw the shorts, looks like they had to be surgically removed, ouch.

1. First was a 16" wheel bike i learnt to ride on
   
2. cheap mtb, was a cheap Y frame i rode the shit out of, think it went to the junk yard
   
3. onza trials bike my granddad annoying took to the junk yard while clearing out some junk, still pissed off about that
   4.apollo bmx, used to be chrome with 4 pegs, layback seat post and whitewalls, this is how it looks 10 years later, needs restoring badly!
   
   

1. 15th b-day present i got a carrera banshee and loved it! regretingly sold to my friend for £90(way to cheap), imagen the left one with gears in the front and cheaper bars, brakes n forks, this is how my friend has it now
   
   

1. cheap Felt bmx i got for £50 and road it everywhere! no picture of that but its a piece of shit, still want to rebuild it though

2. KHE zenith bmx, stolen last year :( this is the last picture of it

1. DMR drone used for dirt jumps n also put a long seat post on it so i could ride over 2 miles without my hands n feet aching from riding a bmx, sold a while ago for a nice profit
   
   

1. SE draft, originally got it to be SS so i could get around faster and easier than using a dmr drone, eventually flipped the wheel to fixed and been hooked ever since, sold a while ago to fund a upgrade, i miss it
   
   

1. Guerciotti conversion, worked my ass off helping to build my grandparents conservatory, got quite a bit from that, then wasted £180 of it on this, it was in shit conditions, later to be rebuilt
   
   

1. 24" wheel cruiser, was to small so i sold it, very handy when i brok my fingers though, i was still able to ride!
   
   

1. GT chucker, used as a dirt jump/XC bike, also stolen with the KHE zenith bmx
   
   

1. Fuji classic track, saved months for this! i loved it, also sold and as usual i regret it
   
   

1. Peugeot conversion, built with spair parts and a cheap frame, i was randomly offered £180 for it and sold it
   
   

1. used the money to buy this Orbit low pro, waiting to be converted
   
   

1. Dawes conversion, had some great fun in the snow with this thing
   
   

1. Frankenstein! my trusty MTB, cheap as chips and reliable
   
   

1. Raleigh top twenty, love using this for shopping trips
   
   

1. Peugeot pure gold, really proud of this, built all by my self from the frame up, can do some serious mileage now
   
   

1. last but not least, the Guerciotti that doesnt seem to die after all the shit i put it through, used most days for the past 5 months
   
   

i think that's all of them!

1) bright yellow 16" kids bike
2) gt bmx 2000
3)mongoose bmx grey 08
4)kink gap bmx 09
5)colony edvador bmx '10
6) custom uk bike co build
7) charge plug '10
8) subrosa fixed gear 2011
9) cube ltd team mountain bike - current
10)cannondale caad10- current

Fun bump!

I had this shitter
http://www.lfgss.com/picture.php?albumid=1323&pictureid=9540

Then this shitter
http://www.lfgss.com/picture.php?albumid=1323&pictureid=8997

And this shitter (still have it)
http://www.lfgss.com/picture.php?albumid=1323&pictureid=10462

Then this shitter
http://www.lfgss.com/picture.php?albumid=1323&pictureid=11407

And this shitter (also still have it)
http://www.lfgss.com/picture.php?albumid=1323&pictureid=11751

Peugeot Levis BMX - still hanging out in my parents' garage
Raleigh Lizard - Too big, I never grew into it
Carrera Fury - served for years, commuterfied now - Current
Giant Yukon FS - awaiting stripping for parts - Current
Raleigh Amazon - Freecycle shitter but survived glasgow winter
Dawes Ultra - first foray into singlespeed
Team Issue prototype mtb - Carbon stays but ugly grey
DMR trailstar - sweet steel frame - Current
Specialized Allez - too large but payment for a favour - Current
Holdsworth Monsoon - '50s fixed conversion - Current
Peugeot Premier - beater - Current

Got my eye on another steel MTB...

1: yellow mtb from mikes bikes
2: red apollo dual suspension mtb (cheapo halfords rubbish)
3: green specialized hybrid (2nd hand and masses of miles)
4: black 5spd sit up (found in a bush)
5: grey random mtb (discovered in a forest)
6: orange cruiser (loved it, sooo beautiful, too big and had to sell on ebay)
7: home built dmr mtb (still have this beaut)
8: pegeout racer (hardly ridden and given away)
9: pinnacle folding bike (speedy and stolen from me)
10: cannondale touring beast (converted to ss, then got stolen)
11: kalkoff shopper/folder (somehow tt'd down dual carriageways)
12: red folding bike (12" wheels, rode 300 miles then sold for a fiver)
13: decathlon riverside (beautiful name, covered a bike lacking period then donated to bikefix)
14: se lager red (served for six months, first fixie, ditched on dd when chain snapped :(
15: pashley roadster sovereign (rode six months, given to bro, then stole out his garden)
16: cooper sebring (commuter machine, wheels stolen replaced with more pimp pinkness)
17: old raleigh roadie (from house clearance, converted to track bike for hh re opening)
18: bickerton (current folder, devon c2c in a day on it, amazing machine)
19: specialized sirrus elite (new road build finished yesterday, still have to index the gears properly)
20: marin kentfield (currently in bits, to give polo a pop)

loving this thread, has brought back lots of good memories of rides, adventures and general high jinxes, i believe my list is comprehensive but there will always be more......ah i dream

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.

Burner rip off thing.

Black and white checked heavy as fook BMX. (Spokey Dokeys).

No name 'racer' in blue with gold decals. (card on rear stays to make rrrrrr noise).

White 'racer' on which I briefly did the whole upturned drops thing (hangs head).

Green and purple Townsednd 'Mt Tobin' from Madgetts's Cycles in Norfolk. Loved it for years!

Haro mountain bike. (crap).

Viscount Road bike. Knackered and badly maintained and undervalued... Wish I'd kept it.

Genesis Day 05 Road bike.

1984 Pinarello Asolo. My very much loved road bike. Got it from the forum's own Pistanator! Current.

Jeunet Captivant city bike. Big old lump but bit of a charmer. Never got on with it.

Raleigh Esquire SS. (first self build). 700c wheels where 26" should be, cheap components, B17 saddle, old saddle bag. Smooth as butter! Current.

There are more in the fog of my mind but I'll be damned if I can recall them all.

hand-me-down chopper style
raleigh mustang
Diamondback Topanga
Kona Koa*
Mums old Dawes roadbike
Charge Plug*
BMC Streetfire*
Raleigh Wayfarer*

*still own