What bikes do you want to own?

people get too hung up on weight anyway and forget that you can have as much fun on a heavy bike as you can on a light one.
I'd bet that almost everyone on here who owned a mountain bike back in the eighties had so much fun on it despite most of them being fully rigid with pretty crappy gears and heavy rims and tyres.
I have nothing but good memories from riding my first couple of mountain bikes...it was only when things became over complicated and they tried to make riding off road feel as comfortable as riding on it that i started to lose a bit of faith in the bike manufacturers.

when I was a kids, I didn't lush for big downhill rigs of the 90's, in fact I lush for one of those;

Santa Cruz Chameleon.

Added to my list (without the brooks)

I'd love to have a steel Tommasini.

Costume sold separately.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3430/3279250917_e8fe19b594.jpg

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http://velospace.org/files/yama1.jpg

http://www.pedalroom.com/p/534_1.jpg

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http://www.colnago.com/contents/collection/55/2.jpg

http://www.speedbicycles.ch/280/speed_001.jpg

http://www.speedbicycles.ch/334/bianchi.jpg

thats beefy

May contain traces of win

don't know about bike, but i know what wheels i wanted to own, fckpig

This is the best thread for pron at the moment imo cause bike porn gets clogged up with loads of shit most of the time, here are some nice beautiful (and yes thats including the pugsley) bikes

i'm surprised at some of the mass produced mediocrity lusted after in this thread.
reminds me of the city boys walking into evans and wanting that hideous 5k cannondale hanging on the wall because it's the most expensive.

why would you want a taiwanese built santa-cruz when you could have a custom de-kerf, dean. moots, baum, etc etc.
as for pinarello/de-rosa nice bikes with a lot of marketing money behind them. why settle for the mass produced mainstream when you could have a parlee, look, cyfac, zullo, baum, masi, serotta, vanilla, pegoretti etc.

Niner One9 because I don't have a niner yet

Koga Kimera with full Theo Bos kit for playing at the velodrome

and a pair of Lightweights for my Look

I would like my year 2000 Marin Bearvalley built up like I have the hawk hill with some magura rim brakes, kona p2 forks, ultra wide bars and the yellow/orange paintjob, all the parts that weren't bars/forks/seatpost would be silver and anodized red (especially on the rim breaks).

Other than that a alloy colnago.

i'm surprised at some of the mass produced mediocrity lusted after in this thread.
reminds me of the city boys walking into evans and wanting that hideous 5k cannondale hanging on the wall because it's the most expensive.

why would you want a taiwanese built santa-cruz when you could have a custom de-kerf, dean. moots, baum, etc etc.
as for pinarello/de-rosa nice bikes with a lot of marketing money behind them. why settle for the mass produced mainstream when you could have a parlee, look, cyfac, zullo, baum, masi, serotta, vanilla, pegoretti etc.

Lucky I'm a city boy. Mediocrity ftw!

I would like a Serotta but custom builds don't do it for me. You lose it/break it and it'll take forever to replace. There's no bike for life. Buy a Colnago, crash it, buy next year's.

I do like Wayne's ti Seven. I'd have one of them or a Baum for some Aussie goodness.

For proper hang-on-wall shizzle that I'd never ride.. a Llewellyn.. http://www.llewellynbikes.com/thegallery/index.php

But what's the point? I treat 'em all like shit so bike porn doesn't work for me.

Niner One9 because I don't have a niner yet

Slack chain.

people get too hung up on weight anyway and forget that you can have as much fun on a heavy bike as you can on a light one.
I'd bet that almost everyone on here who owned a mountain bike back in the eighties had so much fun on it despite most of them being fully rigid with pretty crappy gears and heavy rims and tyres.
I have nothing but good memories from riding my first couple of mountain bikes...it was only when things became over complicated and they tried to make riding off road feel as comfortable as riding on it that i started to lose a bit of faith in the bike manufacturers.

Kinda the same with bmx, a lot of stupid lightweight shit that shouldn't be made lightweight on a bmx, some of it is good though, i'm all for progression, my first proper bmx was a DirtMaster Jump that I ended up customising with loads of different parts, that thing weighed over 30lbs and I had a flippin great time on it :)
All that said though, my next bmx was a stripped pegless/brakeless thing around 23lbs (and this was back in 2002 before the advent of silly lightweight stuff in bmx), and I think I had more fun on that as it was almost effortless to throw around.

...although very happy with the Brooklyn, I'd love to have a crack at building up one of those Cinelli Mash frames.

I like the idea of the lo-pro(ish) toptube but with 2x700c wheels.

Seen one or two on here, but not really been into any of the builds I've seen yet.

Lucky I'm a city boy. Mediocrity ftw!

I would like a Serotta but custom builds don't do it for me. You lose it/break it and it'll take forever to replace. There's no bike for life. Buy a Colnago, crash it, buy next year's.

I do like Wayne's ti Seven. I'd have one of them or a Baum for some Aussie goodness.

For proper hang-on-wall shizzle that I'd never ride.. a Llewellyn.. http://www.llewellynbikes.com/thegallery/index.php

But what's the point? I treat 'em all like shit so bike porn doesn't work for me.

:D

Thanks hippy, you have made my day.

people get too hung up on weight anyway and forget that you can have as much fun on a heavy bike as you can on a light one.
I'd bet that almost everyone on here who owned a mountain bike back in the eighties had so much fun on it despite most of them being fully rigid with pretty crappy gears and heavy rims and tyres.
I have nothing but good memories from riding my first couple of mountain bikes...it was only when things became over complicated and they tried to make riding off road feel as comfortable as riding on it that i started to lose a bit of faith in the bike manufacturers.

I am pretty much the same when it comes to bike weight. I now buy quality, it it happens to be lighter great if not I just gotta pedal a bit harder.

But back on topic, my ideal bike collection would look something like this:

My trick fixed (which I already have)

A kind of Rawed/ratbike style 24 inch street mtb (like the one above but with all black or raw parts, and a lower axle to crown height on the forks), which I am in the process of building.

A 26 inch hardtail, for trails/general fooling around in the forest, something along these lines:

Plus a less heavy duty fixed-gear thats easier to ride over longer distances, thats pretty much it :)

Wait until you see my 24... Coming together nicely.

I was already jealous when you told me:

A: That it was a porn star frame, I used to lust after those as a kid, and...

B: What you paid for it, lucky bastard!

Oh yes.