Singlespeed & Fixed Gear - every bike you've ever owned lists....

this is fun...

-various big wheels that i learned to 360 powerslide
-department store Columbia BMX
-Diamond Back BMX
-GT chrome BMX-rode it brakeless for years
-Schwinn sprint road bike. would become my first SS conversion, and eventually totaled in a wreck.
-Redline Monocog SS mtb
-Miyata 310 SS conversion...would become my first fixie.
-Various trash-rescue coaster-brake and 3-spd cruisers
-Cannondale Track
-Bareknuckle, i believe I'mOnCrank owns the frame now maybe
-1987 Atala Road
-Unknown custom Italian Track, no one has been able to identify it.

Green girls bike with banana seat
Blue English-style 3 speed - good bike
Huffy Free Spirit 10 speed
Red & white Nishiki road bike - did 1st century on this bike in 1987
1988 Olmo San Remo
1990 Klein Quantum - Klein sucks
1993 Bianchi EL/OS
1996 Litespeed Appalachian
1998 mystery 'cross bike from Mexico
1998 Gary Fisher MTB
1999 Jamis MTB - converted for 1st single speed
2000 Surly 1x1
2001 Cannondale MTB
2002 Giant TCR
2003 OnOne Pompino
2005 Gunnar Crosshairs

Current Bikes
1999 Lemong Buenos Aires - converted to fixed gear
2003 OnOne Inbred
2005 Surly LHT
2006 IRO Mark V - single speed w/ 650B wheels
2006 Bob Jackson Track

'bout time to get another bike! :D

1986 - BMX coaster brake, deep red
1991 - Magna 10 speed, textured matte grey with green, and purple details
1993 - GT Performer, white with white skyway mags

<Long interlude where I rode my skateboard a lot>

2005 IRO Mark V
2006 1984 Schwinn World, converted to a fg/ss flip flop.
2006 ミステリープロジェクトS-5: Death:Rebirth - details TBA

-pedal powered cast-iron john deer tractor
-red bmx
-depatment store mountain bike
-diamond back mountain bike (stolen)
-gt mountain bike
-70's schwinn collegiate 5-speed
-ghost mountain bike
-ghost dual slalom pro
-unknown track bike (possibly polish)
-soma rush
-giro keirin track

1992? Huffy kid's bike
1994 nother huffy
1995 some other dpt store bike
1996 Schwinn 5-speed from when schwinn was good
1998 Specialized Hard Rock MTB
2003 started riding parent's 1982 Lotus road bike a little
2006 friend gives me a 1992 Cannondale R600
2006 I buy a Felt F80
2006 I buy a 1984 bad ass Ciocc and ride it more than the Felt
2006 buy another bike boom jap crap to make a single speed
2006 given Raleigh frame - build SS and sell it
2006 given Peugeot - probably gonna sell it
Next: selling the Felt, buying some sort of Fuji.
Next: buying track wheelset and throwing it on that cheap jap bike.

i'll play.

-tricycle. duh.
-a few big wheels... including a CHIPS one and a dukes of hazzard one
-20" huffy bmx coaster brake bike - first real bike when i was 7
-20" huffy bmx with a freewheel... i snapped the headtube off dirt jumping it
-26" huffy mountain bike. i rode the crap out if it during jr. high.
then i didn't ride bikes really in highschool. i played lacrosse instead. gross.
-20" redline 340 comp at the start of college. my first nice bike. i was car-less and commuted on it like an idiot for two years. too bad i didn't realize how fast road bikes were.
-some old 26" women's cruiser i welded a curved top tube onto and painted sparkly blue, threw on tiny cranks and 20" wheels and fenders, a banana seat, sissy bar, and big handle bars... (all parts off of a kid's huffy "sea princess") bing! low rider, foo. it rode like crap and sort looked like crap too. hahaha
-schwinn continnental turd that was waaay too small for me and was prompty replaced with...
-70's peugeot u08. the bike that got me really into riding and into the speed that can be had on a road bike. i turned it into my first fixie in 2002. i still have it and ride it and love it.
-iro jamie roy fixie fgg #738 sold it last winter.
-60's jc higgins cruiser. equipped with streamers and basket.
-then i got into mountain biking and pieced together a 16" hardtail with a triple clamp 4" sid (hahahaha) this bike was waaaay too small for me. it was made completely out of multiple friend's donated spare parts. appropriately, i called it the slut.
-then i got my guerciotti sl for 5 dollars from a goodwill auction and restored it and built it up geared. yet another bike that was too small for me. i sold the frame and fork to a friend recently.
-86 bianchi pista. i got it at the 2004 master's nationals for 300 complete. poor me.
-norco "wolverine" geared hardtail. i still have it and is the loaner bike for visiting friends that want to ride trails.
koxx level boss 1100 stock trials bike. my friend gave me this frame after getting a ground up trials frame made. this bike is so rigged and never runs well, so it's sitting in pieces at the moment. i think every time i ride it i break something on it. i'm not too good at trials.
-a friend and i build up a women's schwinn varsity as a chopper. i have it set up with a 26" wheels, banana seat, sissy bar, ding dong bell, big bars... it's fun.
-iro highlander. rigid ss. i loved this bike soo much. i just sold it to a friend due to my acquisition of a 29er.
-douglas cyclocross bike.
-88 de rosa with slx. my absolute favorite bike i own.
-on-one inbred 29"er. it is waiting for my wheels to be built and then waiting for me to ride the piss out of it.

my next bike might be more of a townie track bike or maybe this oooold path racer (i guess) from the early 30's that my friend is holding for me at his shop. i want to build up new 700c wheels for it, attempt to keep the skip tooth drive train, make it rideable again. we'll see.

IN THE PAST:
1- something small with training wheels
2- (1980?) raleigh bmx
3- (1984?) shwinn sierra
4- (1987?) trek 950 singletrack
5,6,7- various (ladies / mixte) 3-speed frankencruisers

STILL OWN:
8- 1989 klein pinnacle - orig. all deore XTII now SS
9- (1978?) shwinn traveler SS (ladies) - (fixed wheelset being built)
10- fixed lugged steel (tasteful) conversion
11- (1988?) fixed steel rigid MTB

WHAT I WANT:
nice geared cx (any material, any era)
tandem

-red tricycle, 12" front wheel, fixed gear
-pedal powered fire truck, also fixed
-1950's coaster brake something or other with training wheels, solid rubber 20" tires and a removable 'boy-bar' that every member of my family learned to ride on before they got their own bike
-20" bmx-er with mag wheels and a banana seat
-terrible chrome frame mountain bike I rode once and gave up on
-not-quite-as-terrible green Raleigh 26" commuter bike
-really terrible no-name, no suspension mountain bike
-crappy full suspension mountain bike from a sporting goods store
-Electra 26" cruiser w/ape hangers, single speed coaster brake
-Specialized Rock Hopper converted into commuter
-Electra 26/24 cruiser, 3 speed coaster
-Surly Steamroller, single speed coaster brake w/drum front
-no-name 1970's 20" U-frame folder, single speed coaster brake
-Nimbus 700c ultimate wheel
-Specialized bmx-er (40% off at the LBS annual scratch and dent sale)

next: 3 stack kids frame coaster brake tall bike if my friend ever gets his welder back from whomever he loaned it to

kent bmx (pedal brake, super small)
murray mtn bike (yesss)
skykomish mtn bike (costco special)
gt timberline fs (later converted to ss for a girlfriend)
gt zaskar (kinda miss it)
bianchi siss (probably should sell it, but then i would miss it)
DeBernardi road bike (the never ending project...anyone selling any 7sp dura ace? stuff)
Iro Angus (stole a lot of parts from the debernardi)

[QUOTE=isotopesope]i'll play.

-a few big wheels... including a CHIPS one and a dukes of hazzard one

almost forgot, I also had a dukes of hazzard big wheel too, complete with the brake that would spin you 180

fixed gear 3 wheeler (plastic)
strawberry shortcake- banana seat
blue SS coaster brake banana seat
(some more i cant recall)
sheety specialized MTB
bertoni road bike- full 600
vivalo track- mixed parts
pinarello road- ultegra/ DA mix
'76 schwinn paramount track- full record pista
Spicer- Out of town Chicago bike- mixed parts
custom track frame built by william mills- mostly campy record parts (still in progress)
Colnago road- full 600, soon to be replaced with chorus or record if i find a million dollars on the street.

16" Kent Ambush - black/gold
Huffy - red/blue/white
random yardsale "BMX" - weighed 2,000 tons
early 80s Diamond Back BMX - chrome/anodized blue
Murray mtn. bike - spray-painted black / died in an epic battle against a drunk driver
Mongoose Supergoose - alum.
Fuji Sagres - $0.00
used Mark V frame + random parts - finally "done" no more spending money on bikes for a while...

My first bike was a killer blue & yellow Schwinn Stingray my folks got at a yardsale for my seventh birthday or something. I still have the facial scars from trying to ride that pup off a curb a few weeks before I should've.

I then procured a Diamond Back Super Viper and got heavy into BMX racing, age eleven, before putting it all on the back burner in favor of many radical years of skateboarding. My brother had a wicked GT Mach One at the same time - she will make a repeat appearance. Be patient.

Somewhere in here I had a Giant Iguana, a Nishiki MTB held together w/ duct tape, a Miyata or some s**t (stolen from my Vancouver front porch while I slept three feet away), a goofy little kids' bike I found on the street (which had like 110 mm cranks and was my 10-mile-a-day "commuter" for six months. stoops.), and a Schwinn Varsity...

At 21 I resurrected the Mach One and fully shredded the streets on that for a couple years before buying a suspiciously hot Peugeot off the streets of Brooklyn for $30. I didn't feel so good about this, but c'mon, someone else would've bought it and I probably ended up putting 25,000 miles on that old thing. It got me into road biking and paid my bills for a year. A few years after that I built a sweet Trek 1100 at the SF Bike Kitchen which made another cumulative trip around the Earth and earned me a pittance as well. Not to mention helping me quit smoking. It was sexy too. Yay Trek 1100!

Now: 1984 Cinelli SC road bike and Bareknuckle track bike. Everything else is gone except for the 1984 GT Mach One which you can have when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.

Tricycle - red, details long forgotten
Training wheel bike? completely forgotten
20" blue Columbia(?) bike, later upgraded with a banana seat and extended forks
Genuine English Raleigh 3-speed with Sturmey Archer gears. Added a (Steel) drop bar later on. Black
'73 Mercier 10 speed - Blue, promptly stolen.
'77 Motobecane Mirage - Silver - My college years ride
'82 Univega Sportour - Converted to FG in 2004
'86 Trek 1000 Road Bike
'89 Panasonic hardtail MTB
'03 Marin Argenta - Road bike

You want to know something that's REALLY messed up? I can't name 5 ex girlfriends but I can name every bike that I've ever owned. Wow.

Schwinn Bananna Seat
Schwinn Sting Ray
Sears BMX
Redline BMX
Raleigh 10 speed
Schwinn MTB (Model = ?)
Cannondale MTB (Model = ?)
Haro Backtrail BMX Cruiser
Standard Tao BMX
GT MTB (the V shaped one)
Trek Carbon Composite roadie
Standard Shaman BMX
Standard STA R Model BMX
80's Trek 1000 fixie conversion
Moser fixie conversion (very sweet)
Hoffman BMX (the Day Smith flatland bike)
Dividual BMX
Trek 1000 SS conversion (aluminum)
Univega fixie conversion
Standard Shaman BMX
Standard STA R model BMX
Cannondale Saeco roadie (full Dura Ace)
Bianchi Pista
Bianchi Pista Concept
Bianchi Pista Concept
Surly Steamroller
Bianchi Pista Concept




Can we list Volkswagen's next?! ... Pleeeeze

Big Wheel (1973-1974)
Schwinn kids bike (1974-1977)
Open Road BMX (19771979)
Mongoose BMX(1979-1981)
SE Ripper BMX (1981)
Hutch Pro BMX (1982)
SE PK Ripper BMX (1983)
Diamond Back BMX (1983)
Red Line Team BMX (1984)
Schwinn road (1982-1985)
Raleigh road (1985-1987)
Schwinn Paramount road (1987-1994)
Mountain Goat MTB (1989-1993)
Romic track (1991-1996)
Bontrager MTB (1993-1995)
Schwinn homegrown MTB (1995-1999) (Now a SS... owned by same friend that has my old schwinn fixie)
Bontrager road (1994-present) (still have, will NEVER sell)
Gt track (1997-2000)
Schwinn World fixed/ ss. (1986-99) (Gave to a friend in TX who rides it every day)
Surly crosscheck (1999-present) (Has been used as MTB, cross, ss, fixed, and road. Still have and ride daily)
Schwinn beach bike (2005-present)

Saving to have a Vanilla cross frame built next year. Just typing that makes me want to touch myself.

Ok, I'm gonna give it a shot:

- big wheel I got from the thrift shop, it was awesome until the front wheel split.
- murray bmx bike - it got all rusted out after a few years in the WI weather.
- blue freestyle bmx bike I traded some toys to a kid for, it had pegs, wheeee - I traded it away for legos and gi joes after I got the:
- old '70s gitane 10 speed with ghetto-fab faded purple rattlecan spray job. all campy, with suicide levers haha - got stolen from my front porch in madison when I was 11, boooo!
- '87 or '88 Gitane Defi - my first bike from a bike shop! Stolen from in front of a museum in Chicago, boooo!
- '91 or '92 mongoose iboc comp - it had the sweet splatter paintjob, and I put farmer johns on it and wrecked the trails in tucson for years - my mom probably donated it when she moved from AZ.
- '92 Fuji funny bike - it had a 650c front wheel, a really cool curved sloping top tube, and a blue and white crackle paint scheme. my dad got really into triathlon and I got his old bikes after he was done with them.
- '91(?) nishiki funny bike - a frankenstien, it was awesome. I want to say it had a 24" front wheel. It was a brutal bike, but it was fast and all my dad's racing friends thought it was cool, so I took it when he offered it.
- '80s Cilo/Vitus bonded aluminum bike. frankensteined all to hell, one shimano lever, one campy, campy front derailer, shimano 600 rear with nukeproof carbon fiber hubs. had this one for about 7 years, the longest of any bike I've had. I gave it back to my dad in 2003 with a full 8speed dura-ace sti group.
- '80 Specialized Allez conversion - good times. sold to a friend
- '93 DW track bike - back to the sloping top tubes. got it from a VP at the company I was working for, total score. I'm gonna fix the rear wheel and ride it to class tonight, it's the fastest bike I've ever owned.
- IRO MarkV - green, 3-speed sturmey-archer, cetma rack. it hauls.
- KHS Aero - the orange one with the sloping top tube. it was fun, but flexed too much when climbing. sold to a friend.
- '99 Kiyo Miyazawa keirin - I could write a love letter to this bike.

Can we list Volkswagen's next?! ... Pleeeeze

1970 beetle
1976 poptop automatic camper, lime green, 2000cc

In my youth
Roadmaster something (stolen when i was 9 i was traumatized)
Specialized Hardrock (way way gone)
Gary Fisher BMX (long gone)

Since my passion for mtn biking and cycling in general kicked in at 17
2003 Trek 6700 (in pieces)
2003 Giant AC1 (sold)
2003 Specialized Big Hit DH (sold)
2004 Santa Cruz Heckler (still have but selling)
1992 Bianchi Steel road bike (my dads old bike but gave back)
2005 Cannondale Chase (my slalom/dj bike i love)
2006 DK 8Pack (Sold)
2005 Giant DH Team (my dh race bike)
2006 Redline 9.2.5 (my road/commuter/street machine)

In chronological order:

Used Schwinn Stingray in metallic orange -- my first bike
Used Vista 5-speed -- with stick shift and banana seat
Used Weber 10speed -- stripped it and painted it matte black with red trim around the lugs.
'82 Trek 613 12spd bike -- first new bike, now fixed-gear
'92 Bridgestone MB-5 -- first mountain bike, converted to ss, and later donated to charity
'96 Bianchi Grizzly -- recently converted to singlespeed
'00 GT ZRX cyclocross
Old Phillips 3spd -- found in dumpster, restored and donated to charity
'05 Bianchi Pista
'05 Bianchi Pista Concept

Some bikes I'd like to own:
SS 29'er mtb
Old English 3spd (of better quality than my dumpster find)

This is pretty cool, there's some major bike P*rn here.

Tried thinking back but i've obviously forgotten a few nams for good reason as they were so bad:

1st bike, can't remember the name but do remember crashing into a fence on it.
2nd bike, Puch Super Invader BMX, had to go to the tip last year as it was unsaveable at over 20yrs old and well abused.
1st mtb - rigid purple thing that was real cheap
2nd mtb - rigid silver thing that was real chaep with huge tubes
3rd mtb - rigid black thing that was cheap but pretty cool sold to a friend who never paid me for it 2yrs ago, bike was pretty old.

All my more recent bikes can be seen here www.skunkcycles.co.uk

Fuasto Coppi Treviso with ultegra/105 groupo (about 7yrs old now) loved it and mainly ridden road ever since just sold frame to a friend.
Look KG451 (still being built)
On-One Geared Inbred, just finished the build
On-One Pompino (Fixed)
Haro X2 bmx
Raliegh Record converted to fixed
Raleigh Quasar I nicked off my dad and converted to a fixed then it got nicked and my insurance replaced it with the Felt.
Felt TK2
Rychtarski Lo-Pro, some polish thing i got off e-bay that looks really cool
Orlowski Lo-Pro, another polish thing off ebay won by mistake as i bid on both not expecting win either, I'm undecided whether to sell it or FIX it to be a bit different.
New Hudson (being built into a fixie)

Schwinn Banana seat

Schwinn 10 speed that could shift while coasting

Panasonic RX-4000 (ran it into a car)

Performance Superbe Pro (bought with car accident insurance money)

Cannondale Road bike (from some Ironman guy our shop sponsored)

Miyata with old Shimano 600

Tommasini Super Prestige (wrecked into a signpost at 35 mph)

Marushi mountain bike with 6 speed Deore XT.

Fat Chance Wicked

Redline 24” cruiser

Trek 930 with Funk Big fork

............Looong break with no bikes when I smoked cigs and ate too much junk food....................

Raleigh M-400 (got me back into riding, thank you! )

Tommasini Prestige (too small)

Marin Mount Vision (I hated full suspension so much that it started me on singlespeed)

Surly 1x1

Phobia Anxiety fixed gear mountain bike (bad name for a fixed gear mtb)

Raleigh Technium townie singlespeed with wicked witch of the west handlebars (still have)

Oschner fixed gear

Tomasso fixed gear

Mountain Cycles Zen (still hated full suspension, why did I build this bike?)

Surly Karate Monkey singlespeed (still have)

Bianchi CUSS singlespeed

Specialized Stumpjumper singlespeed

Indigo Cycles road fixie (still have)

Indigo Cycles cyclocross fixie (still have & my favorite bike ever)

-Schwinn scooter
-Schwinn cruiser
-Schwinn 18-speed mountainbike

...move to city...

-Workingman cruiser
-Raleigh Marathon
-Pinarello Treviso


A pretty nice steady upward movement...what the hell is next?

My Dad was a stingy *******.
My first bike was a wee-lad's fixie. No brakes. No training wheels. Solid rubber tires. Much blood on asphalt.
An "Open Road" steel BMX. It was a tank. It had solid aluminium mags which I cracked (along with some teeth) on a quarter-pipe. Gift to the neighbors.
Mongoose Californian BMX (back when they were decent bikes) - stolen
Mongoose Supergoose Al BMX Cruiser
Trek 560 (wrecked)
SR ProAm frame (made by Suntour) Singlespeed. Dad cured me of any desire to ride fixie.

oh dear god....

red tricycle
black tricycle
blue Pierce Arrow banana seat (girls, hand me down form older sister)
KoKo Sport 10 speed 24" wheels
blue banana seat bike (painted over, found in trash)
Raleigh Chopper (found abandoned, prolly stolen)
black three spd (trash again)
yellow three spd *trsh
Corso giro d;Italia 10 speed (another hand me down)
Aspen 10 spd, 26" wheels Seamed down tube started opening up as i rode home from work one day
Kent 10 spd 26" wheels
Schwinn Varsity 10 spd
Schwinn Columbia 24" whl banana seat *
Schwinn Stingray - coveted since 1969, bought in lawnmower shop 1993, sold unused 1994
peugeot 10 spd hi ten tubing
Saint tropez 10 spd *
St Tropez mtb*
Ross three spd* (eventually frankensteined w/St Tropez mtb frame for ultimate city bike. Stolen in 2 days)
Ross banana seat bike*
Fuji BMX freeestyle
Fuji city bike*
Peugeot city bike*
Fuji 10 spd*
Rapido 3 spd *
5 or 6 Raleigh Sports 3 spds (all *)
Blue girls paperboy cruiser with rear carrier rack, painted over*
Blue three spd, no label*
Foster's ale Mountain bike*
Dunelt 3 spd*
Rollfast 3 spd*
Ross three spd*
Ross 10 spd*
Frejus Track bike*
Rollfast 10 spd*
Columbia 10 spd*
Nishiki 10 spd*
Rudge 3 spd*
Silver BMX cruiser 26" whls*
Specilaized Hard Rock mtb *
Iron Horse MTB*
Bianchi 10 Spd*
Royce Union 10 spd*
Puch mixte frame 10 spd*
Sears (Daimler Puch) 3 spd*
Tommasini racer w/ Columbus SLX
Miyata 110 10 spd*
Columbia Cruiser*
Royal Enfield Balloon tire cruiser* sweet ride! prolly had 66 degree ST and 60" wheelbase!
Raleigh hi-ten 10 spd*
Bianchi boardwalk hybrid - first bike I ever bought - age 27, 1991, sold (too big)
Marin MTB - bought to off road in 1993, now my commuter
KHS Wedgewood - bought used and built up as SS for commute, since sold
Bianchi Track bike, 80s Columbus CroMor, sold, too small for me
Redline BMX racer - bought new in 94 (midlife turnin 30 crisis), sold when I got over it a year later
Cannondale Al racer, late 80s - bought used in 2001, sold a year later - too big
Trek 1986 500 - bought last year on CL....love it and may have to sell need more space and the money:(
2002 Orbea, DA 9 spd my current "nice" bike

Of course I may have forgotten a few

If there's a dumpster, I'll bloody well dive in it:eek:

Can we list Volkswagen's next?! ... Pleeeeze

1981 Scirocco
1985 Jetta
~1988 Jetta GLI (16v)
1994 Jetta GL
1999 Jetta GLX (Vr6)
2000 Golf 4dr (1.8t)
2003 20th GTI (IY)

now I have none.

1968 bug w/ 1971 1600 motor. I swear it gave me a Herbie beep as I drove by it sitting on the lawn with "For Sale" sign in windsheild.....I bought it and it lived up to its lemon yellow color for the next two years. I bummed a lot of rides, spent a lot of dough and wound up junking the poor little critter. But it was fun nonetheless:)

Raleigh Budgie (purple, yellow text)
Raleigh Chopper (red, yellow text)
Dawes Gold Wing, road bike (or was this a Halfords brand?)
Raleigh Massif, mtb (cyan, 1990, got stolen)
Raleigh Massif, mtb (cyan, 1990, replaced thru insurance)
Peugeot, mtb (black, 1992 model, bought new in 1993)
Specialized Allez, race bike (silver, 2006)

Ouff...too many K-Mart Specials to list! So I think I'll just go with the ones that actually meant something to me and those that lasted the longest. Here goes...

1994 Pacific (Marroon) : Gift (can't remember the name) - Bloody thing lasted a week, got chased by a HUGE dog and hit a 2 foot high curb (the bike, not the dog) and totally bent the frame up.

1995 Nishiki Bravo (Marroon) : Gift - Lasted 6 years, my first true love of cycling started with this bike. I think the frame is still in my parent's basement...

2002 Nishiki Bravo (Marroon) : Self-bought - LOVED this one, sadly, a few of the local babboons decided it'd be fun to trample her to pieces...the whole rear triangle and wheel became essentially, a work of mad art... She's now off on a trail somewhere in the sky...

2006 Mercier Galaxy (Metallic French Blue) : Self-bought - My current roadie, and quite possibly one of the nicest bikes I've ever had!

2006 Trek 820 (Copper/grey) : Gift - Heavy, slow, but surprisingly good in bad weather!

2006 Bianchi Bergamo (Bright, happy Orange!!!) : Gift to self... - My new commuter, she'll be arriving tomorrow!

I've just realised that I seem to follow a theme with the colours of all my bikes...


C

peugeot competition
merckx 10th anniversary
merckx seven eleven
casati gold line racing pista
khs aero track
bridgestone keirin
a couple pista concepts
2 guerciotti tracks (one blue one red)
gt track
tommasini pista (sigh)
merckx track (on its way)
debernardi thron
ti merckx

Shwinn Sting Ray with white banana seat
Sears Sting Ray with Tiger striped banana seat
Niko 10 speed
A no name 10 speed mtb
Centurion 12 speed road
Bianchi Vitoria 12 speed road I still have this bike, it's now a 24 speed
Specialized Stump Jumper 21 speed mtb
Trek 9000 21 speed full suspension mtb I still have this bike
Trek 2000 24 speed road
Trek 7000 27 speed mtb I still have this bike
Dean El Diente custom 27 speed road I still have this bike
Giant OCR touring 27 speed road And this one is my latest set-up

1. Red and blue bike with white tyres.
2. Raleigh Cro-Mo Burner BMX (Chrome)
3. Haro Master (Bought second hand and resprayed white by me, later bare steel).
4. Saracen Tufftrax (Yellow).
5. GT Tequesta (Chrome).
6. Unknown roadbike.(Black) (Stolen)
7. Bully BMX (Khaki).
8. Kenevans conversion (in progress. Can't decide what colour).

Too many to list but I will try later.

OK I'M BACK

LEVEL
RAP BLUE
RAP SILVER
MAKINO WHITE
MAKINO WHITE
BRIDGESTONE (ANCHOR)
ATALA (TRACK-TEAM ISSUE)
KIYO
BENOTTO (ITALY)
SOMEC BLUE
SOMEC WHITE
ATALA (ROAD)
PANASONIC RED
PANASONIC BLACK TRACK 2000 - X 3
UNO
GIANNI MOTTA
ALMA PURA - NOW
ALMA PURA - STOLEN 1994
PINRELLO
CIOCC
CINELLI SUPER CORSA (ROAD)
SPECIALIZED STUMP JUMPER MTB
IRON HORSE MTB

WILL LIST MORE LATER.

S/F,
CEYA!

1. Some random GT bmx frame.
2. Huffy 10 speed
3. Specialized stumpjumper circa '92
4. 80's Fuji Sagres (I still ride this bike today)
5. Olmo track
6. Specialized Allez comp

Schwinn Stingray - Blue
Nishiki Olympic - White
Rossin Road - Red
Fisher Paragon - Purple
Colnago Super - World Champion Red
Ventana El Chamuco Hardtail - Silver
Independent Fabrications Deluxe SS - Fade Orange
3Rensho Track - Blue

my 1st was a soma, then i bought another soma so now i have 2 somas.

Yo! Blue Mercier New Brunswick guy!

I pass you every Tuesday and Thursday on my way to my Chaucer class. I'm the guy on a black track bike with red tires and grips. Mondrian-styled ReLoad bag. You're always cruising, and so am I!

some black coaster brake kids bike (learned to ride on it)
blue and white Columbia BMX freestyle
20" Diamondback mtb
chrome Dyno VFR (fell A LOT off this bike)
Diamondback Sorrento (my first mtb, really started the love affair)
ProFlex 656
ProFlex 856 (hand-me-down from my dad, still have it, but it's in pieces)
98' Specialized Stumpjumper Pro
99' Specialized S-Works hardtail frame (replaced damaged Stumpjumper, still my #1 mtb, but no stock parts left on it)
00' Lemond Buenos Aires (recently put a Dura-Ace 10 group on it)
99' Specialized S-Works FSR (hand-me-down from my dad)
Huffy BMX made into chopper (made it 6 years and counting)
found Murray cruiser (parted for chopper and ditched)
old Schwinn Collegate (tall bike project that never happened)
Toys R Us Runt mini bike
Bianchi DISS (old it to my brother :( )
Specialized Langster
Schwinn World Sport fixie conversion (main town ride)
old Univega road bike turned into 700c cruiser (it has pegs)
some old lugged mtb for around town (1x8 road drivetrain, gave it to roommate)

20 bikes in 25 years, 11 single speeds, and I still have the Univega cruiser, Schwinn conversion, Specialized hardtail, Lemond, Langster, chopper, Runt, and the old lugged mtb (sorta)

And, in the spirit of the thread:

-1992-3 Murray something or other. It looked BMX cruiser-ish. My brothers and I set up jumps into the local retention pond when it was dry. Destroyed.
-Generic Mountain bike. grip-shift, 18-speed's or something. It was a silly bike.
-Haro something or other. Never used for it's intended purpose.
-1982-3 Univega Supra Sport. 12-speeds. I loved that bike. It got thrown off the back of my dorm building freshman year. I cold-set the rear-triangle and it's now my girlfriends fixed.
-1976 Raleigh Grand Prix. My first conversion. Ugly as sin. BB creaked. Brake broke.
-2005 Spicer track frame with IRO rear wheel, Ritchey aero front, risers, sugino messenger cranks. It's my "bling on a budget" bike.
-199? Raleigh Police Patrol bike. Surly rigid fork. Not done yet. I'm thinking 3-speed internal for the rear or another IRO fixed.
-Whatever I manage to pick up at T-Town this weekend!!

actual brand name bikes, and not ones that my dad or myself pulled out of the trash and fixed up:

GT Pro Series 1990, raced BMX for 3 years with it
Yosemite Yakota 1994, rigid moutain bike, is that company even around anymore?
Surly Instigator 2002
Schwinn Traveller, rode as a ten speed for a year, then converted to fixed
Fuji Track 2002

there are also the tons of bmx bikes that me and my dad would find, fix up and then paint
two lowriders, one chopped and raked
a cool as hell chopper bicycle from either the late 60's or early 70's that my dad pulled out of a house he was rewiring
lots of other random bikes, we may have been poor, but we were good as hell at taking trash and turning it into something awesome

Green bike
Red huffy
Nother red huffy
Diamondback Viper
PK Ripper
90s Panasonic road bike of some kind
Diamondback MTB (Ascent maybe)
'94 Trek 850
Giant Rincon SS
Schwinn Typhoon
Jamis Earth Cruiser
Murry/Trek tallbike
'60 Hercules three speed
Jamis Eurika
Schwinn Unicycle (does that count)
Peugeot U08
'90 Miyata 714
Leader Bike something or other
90s C'dale SS MTB
'70 Schwinn Stingray Fastback
70s lowrider of unknown origin
'78 Maruishi Roadace 707

Of the last 15 bikes on the list, I still have 14. I have included a couple of bikes that aren't built up yet, but I have 90% of the parts to do it.

I've owned and ridden a ****load of bikes that were purchased or acquired just to sell and in the interest of not crashing the server, I've left them off the list.

Red Tricycle
Little red bike of some sort unknown
Sears stingray (2 of these)
Murray Stingray
Huffy stingray
Schwinn beater stingray
Nice Schwinn stingray
All these stingray stuff were in the pre-bmx bike days and were for the most part converted to bmx use
A couple more murry/huffy/sears stuff found in a field and some nice old guy gave us some from his garage.
Sekine road bike
Lejeune Road bike (first nice one)
Peugeot PX-10
Got out of bikes for a couple years then:
Peugeot dont remember the model
yet another Peugeot of unknown model
Trek 850 mtb
Schwinn Paramount mtb
Another Schwinn Paramount MTB
Centurion touring bike turned into Cross bike
Ibis Alibi mtb
Teledyne Titan (found on consignment in a shop in Seal Beach bought for $150 and since I had always wanted one I got it and it now hangs in my garage)
Paletti SLX road bike
Fuji road bike (this cheap thing rode better than any bike Ive had)
Yet ANOTHER Peugeot (POS frame converted to a fixie)
one of those freaky diamondback 20"wheel road bike thing
Guerciotti road bike
Nicolai mtb
Diamondback BMX 20"
Schwinn prototype (made by Yeti) 24" BMX cruiser
Colnago steel road bike (now my fixie and pretty much the only bike I ride)

I still have quite a few of the bikes (last count I think I have 8 bikes)

Murray kids BMX
Huffy kids MTB
Motiv MTB (the bike that started my lifelong infatuation with bikes)
Gary Fisher Tasajara
Cannondale XR800 cross
Specialized Allez
Gunnar Road Sport
Zebra pink fixie conversion (my first)
Univega fixie conversion
Soma Rush track
Cinelli Olympic track (sold for a price I couldn't refuse)
Kelly road (beauty, I miss her)
Lemond Sarthe road
Curtlo soft tail steel MTB
Specialized S-works cross
Rossin track
Bianchi Campion del Mondo
Hero Indian city bike
Rock Lobster road (currently in build)

I have the last 6 currently

man...i can't remember the models of some of the mountain bikes i've had. i don't know which mercian i have now. maybe if i post pics of it someday, somebody can tell me.

1. murray bmx
My first bike at age 8. Black frame with black top tube pad, stem pad and handle bar pad. One day an older kid with a speedometer on his road bike clocked me at 20 mph. Not sure if that was accurate, but I accept it as fact. Kinda sad....haven't gotten much faster since. :)

2. redline rl20a
Probably put more miles on this thing than any single bike I've owned. I idolized R.L. Osborne...he had the tongue wag down way before Michael Jordan.

3. raleigh mountain bike
Worst bike I've ever owned. Slow as molasses and heavy as h3ll.

4. haro mountain bike
Decent commuter. Wish i woulda held onto it.

5. k2 zed 3.0
I've put thousands of miles on this thing. Currently my bad weather/snow bike. I thought about getting rid of it after I went fixed, but it's been great this winter.

6. 1984 Trek 400 (fixed conversion)
My first fixed gear! Picked this baby up for $65 on craiglist as a geared bike, went single speed and then fixed. It was just too big.

7. Leader 735R (2001 Campy Daytona Group)
First road bike. It is also too big. For some reason it took me having 2 large bikes to figure out I really needed a 50 or 51cm. Still have it but wanna put the components on a smaller steel frame eventually.

8. 1978 Mercian ? (fixed conversion)
Picked it up at veloswap this year and immediately converted it. It's my favorite ride. Can't wait for some decent weather so I can take it out!

edit: added note on each bike

Some girls bike (not just any girls bike, my older sisters girls bike, make of which I've no clue)
Toy's'rus "bmx"
Toy's'rus "bmx"
Schwinn road bike
Raleigh road bike
GT Mach 1
Norco ? mtb
Trek 950
Specialized Stumpjumper
Specialized Hardrock
Trek 9200? (worst FS ever, converted to funnycar speedster)
Bridgestone MB-Zip
Cannondale cad? road
Barracuda Comp
Yokota ? (mtb)
Bianchi road
Breezer Thunder
Breezer Storm
Breezer Lightning
Lemond Alp d'Huez
Trek 9500? 9800?
Devinci ? (road, stolen so quickly I barely knew 'er)
Urbanite fixed
Cannondale cad5

I counted full bikes, like many here it gets stupid if I try to add in frames built up or swapped, or the bikes you get or build then trade or sell having ridden them only a bit, or clown bikes or unicycles.

i prefaced them with the year i got them followed by the year they were if they weren't new

1987 blue schwinn bmx(still at my parent's vacation home)
1992- 3 seperate Huffy Mudslingers all of which were stolen, the last theft i was riding it and my parents decided we should move to a safer neighborhood despite loving that house, led to years of self blame issues
1993- Magna mountain bike(first bike i purchased myself, died in my first car to bike collision in 1999)
1999- Sparkly Orange Caloi one speed beach cruiser(still at my parent's vacation home)
2000- Huffy women's mountain bike eventually abadoned in the basement of a home my girlfriend at the time had rented
2003- a 1984 blue Schwinn Worldsport died in my second car to bike collision
2005- 1970's Crescent Pepita Special, got it for free for helping my uncle move, i also got my first real job that day, sweet ride, tight geometry vitus 979 frame, downtube dent turned into downtube crack one day while riding to work
2006- 1977 Raleigh Grand Prix, 15 dollar garage sale special, came with campy brakes, deraillers, shifters and hubs, this is still my bike, it's a little heavier than it should be but so am i, current set up is sakae fork, forumla hub in the rear laced to sun rim, campy hub laced to "gentleman" rim up front, nitto tt bars, itm goccia stem, rolls saddle, sugino mighty cranks and bb(they also came on the bike), it's not the nicest bike in the world but i love it and ride it everyday,

Blue coaster brake kids bike with tubing bent 180" that is sort of a combined chainstay, seat stay and rear rack. I saw one of these exact frames at a critical mass last year, that was fun.

Fake MX full suspension (!) BMX, with yellow fenders.

Free Spirit 10speed, taken out for 5-10 km road rides up the highway in Grades 4-5. Eventually destroyed by local goons.

Kuwahara MTB: my transition from bike boom to mtbing. What the hell happened to that bike?

Bridgestone MB-2. Still have that bike. It's pretty beat upon, the frame is way too small for me and the front rim is toast but everything else works. Anyone want? It's yours for the price of shipping.

Canadian Tire 60s cruiser: Found at thrift for $12. Taking it on 10-20km road rides got me back into biking after a five year hiatus, and made me immediately want something more serious. Ergo:

Devinci Caribou tourer/ commuter. Found at pawn for $400. Nice Al frame, XT rear derailleur, 105 brifters, Opus CF seatpost, Deore/ Mavic wheels... not bad! Commuting on this bike got me into way better shape, and it saw me through my first century last summer. Reading Sheldon made me want to get a fixed conversion going, so...

Marinoni fixed conversion. Nice Columbus frame w. Campy dropouts, shaved and powdercoated ( :( ) and built up by me at great expense for long distance rides and for looking sexy.

-small blue bike with white grips/chainguard/training wheels. second hand from a kid down the street. single speed. coaster brake. no idea what happened to it.

-small red huffy with black effects. christmas '86. single speed. coaster brake. first thing i did on that bike: run into a telephone pole, broke off the reflector. i have the video. man, i did everything on that bike. stolen in fifth grade. busted.

-black with yellow and green splatterpaint. sixth grade. i think it was a huffy mt. fury? walmart bike with flat bars. 18 speed. got rid of it sometime after high school. who rides bikes? i still remember going down huge hills in the woods with my little sister. how did we not hit stumps or holes?

-blue/silver/black crappy roadmaster from walmart. four or five years ago. i got tired of being flabby and out of shape and told myself i would start riding a bike. i had no idea that walmart was bad. i think i rode it twice and gave it away.

-blue Free Spirit Dynasty 10 speed with positron shifting. early 2006. went back to my DIY roots and stopped by a local bike coop called Krank It Up. the bike was mostly put together. i bought tires and tubes and went home. started riding fairly regularly. got curious and started taking things apart. had no idea what i was doing. found out from sheldon brown that i didn't need all those extra parts, so i took off whatever i could with a screwdriver and a pair of robogrips. it's now just a five speed (rear der only) and i'm stripping it down for parts. i still have it though.

-light blue Schwinn 1984 World (with yellow and white decals). it was my aunt's bike back in her college days. we're about the same height so she gave it to me. all it needed was new tubes and tires. taking it by car to my LBS, the car rack came undone around a sharp corner and the bike swung under my car and i crushed the rear wheel. bummer. i bought a cheap new wheel, a SS freewheel and a new chain and my SS days were alive again. just recently, i got a nicer set of cranks (fsa) and got rid of that original road double. the paint is chipped in places and it's not the best bike in the world, but i love it to death.

[edit:] you know what, screw that. it's a great bike and if you say "beater", i'll beat you.

give me more money and i'll try to add to this list.

[edit:] i forgot that i have a couple other things: 1) a dumpstered huffy santa fe. brown beige and orange. a crappy bike but it could be fun for the whole family. 2) a random no-name black lugged frame.

So, every one here built ramps out of plywood and stacks of 2x4s, right?


plywood and paint cans was my favorite, because for some reason we had an abundance of cans, and i could make a pretty tall ramp, but occasionally i would use concrete blocks or 5gallon buckets. i don't remember ever falling off, bailing, or dying.

Looks like fun. Here goes:

Tiny red Skeppshult
Slightly bigger blue Skeppshult
DBS 3-speed (broke the rear hub)
Crappy DBS MTB (got stolen)
Decent DBS MTB (still sits in parents garage)
NoName roadbike (actually said NoName on the downtube!)
Some BMX along the way
Zeus roadbike (raced on for some years, currently set up SS)
F.Moser M76 roadbike
Master track bike (currently in build)

By the way, Skeppshult is a swedish maker of frying pans and ridiculously heavy steel frames. DBS is a norweigan brand.