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

green machine
montgomery wards banana seat bike
schwinn stringray converted to Tuff wheel bmx racer RAD!!
panda pro am bmx
redline bmx
gt bmx
JMC Black Shadow w/full camy BMX group SO RAD! (mom was trying to buy my love)

GT 24 inch cruiser bmx
Cannondale super V900 with carbon swing arm.
redline proline 24 inch bmx
stretch beach cruiser
SE o.m. flyer
trek conversion fixed
Pog track too small sold
bridgestone keinen LOVE!
schwinn colligate or something converted to fixed for sh!ts and giggles
GT pulse.

old schwinn of some sort- kid
generic mtb/hybrid sam's club bike- late teen
gt avalanche- early adult
raleigh grand prix- dude
concord pacer rs- nowish
next???

-child seat on the back of my Mom's Apollo Mk1
-Red Tricycle
-blue 16" wheeler with white banana seat
-Red Raleigh Roadrunner? .. it had a top tube that could be lowered to make it a girls bike
-1988? Yellow BRC Voyager. First MTB in the neighbourhood. 12 speed, triangle bar stem combo
- 1992 marble Grey Nishiki - DX components, Suntour fork? .. upgraded heavily through the 90s.. until eventually I was using it for trials and broke the rear triangle
- 1999 Basic Bicycle Company BMX. Hot custom freestyle rig from a Vancouver builder, had a Nankai freecoaster, too small for me.
- 2001 K2 rake BMX, 21" top tube, 14mm axles, upgraded as I learned street.
- 2004 Macneil Deuce Deuce, built up will all odyssey components
- My mom's apollo, first just fixed up 10 speed, then single speed, then fixed. Too small for me.
-Bianchi conversion, which I still commute on every day
- 2007 Seshin Liger BMX, mostly Odyssey parts from the Macneil
-currently building a hillclimb chopper out of the K2 Rake front triangle, see alt bike forum

these lists are fun.
THeres a few more bikes in there that I purchased and built for specific people, but they were never 'mine'.

-various kids bikes w/ training wheels and such
-a red late 80's schwinn
-yellow bmx with mags
-2002 motobecane 300 (worst bike ever)
-2004 gary fisher big'n
-late 80's bridgestone 100 (fixed)
-1994 Trek 400 (geared then fixed)
-1987 schwinn le-tour
-2007 surly cross-check

plus 8-10 dumpstered projects rebuilt for gifts or commuters that got stolen....

I'll assume disassembled/unridden bikes still count because there aren't a lot of good bikes to find in WV and I haven't been collecting for a long time (but you could never have this thread in the classic and vintage forum).

-red trikey that I rarely used
-awesome black and yellow plastic bigwheel - used to spend hours sliding around the driveway or basement on this....completely wore through the wheel
-chrome Murray bmx - training wheels bike
-orange and black Huffy bmx - big deal because it had a hand break
-24-inch Diamond Back - black w/ different colored, subtle metalic blobs....heavy
-gold/black 'BMX' brand - 'worked on' to death after about three weeks (but my first restoration project?)
-~1996 Cannondale F500 - low end components but love it, yellow and black like the bigwheel....still the bike I grab most often
-1987 Centurion Ironman - the pink and yellow version; my 'ride long distances, on the road, quickly' machine.
-1984 Peugeot PSVN10, fixed - love the fit and ride, but the bike has issues that make me constantly debate thoroughly restoring and replacing; definitely the second most ridden, moving towards first
-1978 (or so) Peugeot UO-8 Mixte - white/black and in pieces at the moment - got to replace some worn out French parts on the other Pug; good shape, but not marketable in my neck of the woods
-1973(?) Raleigh Super Course - junkyard find....no fork, but couldn't pass up a free 531 framed bike
-1958 Turnier - German-made(?) cruiser, another junkyard freebie. I can't find information about anything but the rear hub

Purple Schwinn sting ray with banana seat.
Sears sting ray.
Niko 10 speed.
No name cheapie mountain bike.
Centurion road 12 speed.
Bianchi road 12 speed.
Specialized Stump Jumper 7 speed.
Trek 9000 first full suspension mtb 21 speed.
Trek 2000 road 16 speed.
Trek 7000 hartail mtb 27 speed.
Dean El Diente ti road custom sized 27 speed.
Giant OCR Touring customized 27 speed.

1. Big wheel (I called it Waterloo)
2. BMX made in Taiwan
3. Yellow department store 15 speed (worst bike ever)
4. Raleigh Discovery 18speed
6. Red Spyder BMX
5. Little pink rainbow girls bike (I painted black)
7. CCM MTB (stolen)
8. Specialized Hardrock (stolen)
9. CCM Green cruiser (SS sold)
10. Blue Raleigh 26" (SS sold)
11. Fusia Norco Bigfoot (SS sold)
12. Black Norco Road bike (SS)
13. Specialized Rockhopper (stolen and reclaimed!)
14. Schwin Moab3 (SS sold)
15. Some Japanese named MTB (gave it to my mom)
16. Steve Bauer Chinook (SS sold)
17. Planet X Ghost (sold)
18. Univega Hybrid
19. Raleigh Vector (SS)
20. Bianchi 86' Fixed conversion

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Sears FS200 BMX
Giant Yukon
Giant AXT 890
94' GT Team LTS w/ full XTR down hill setup
GT Fueler BMX
SE Flovel Flyer BMX
95' Specialized S-Works hardtail Shawn Palmer style slalom/jump setup
96' Spooky Meatelhead street/trail/jump
Fuji track
Romoni track
Waterford track
Bianchi cross
Kona Stinky Primo full dh
cooming soon- Yeti 4x with full XTR/Fox setup

All of my bikes, in the order in which I acquired them and what happened to them.

Red tricycle (dissappeared from my reality some time around 1966 or 1967)
Red scooter (disappeared from my reality some time around 1968)
Green schwinn stingray (stolen from the bike racks at Thomas Jefferson Elementary School.)
Purple ten speed. (stolen from in front of Raleys in Sacramento)
Black ten speed (Stolen from my back yard)
Silver ten speed (abandoned at Travis AFB behind Building 850 which has since been torn down)
Red schwinn continental (Sold to a perpetually drunk Iranian UCD student for $50)
Another red schwinn (abandoned on the UC Davis quad in 1989)
Early eighties Mongoose MTB (sold to roommate along with next bike for $200)
1989 Specialized Allez (Sold to roommate, along with previous bike for $200)
1990 Marin Bear Valley (Traded to Craigslist seller for Surly Crosscheck)
1997 Cannondale F500 (sold back to the original owner who had traded it to me for a referigerator)
2004 Trek 1000c (Traded to Craigslist seller for Surly Crosscheck)
1985 Giant Perigee, converted to fixed gear, painted by first graders. (Presently dismantled, hanging in my garage.
Surly Crosscheck (parked four feet from where I am typing right now)
Early eighties Medici Gran Tursimo frame built up with parts from 1985 Giant. Upgraded most parts, now they awaiting re-installation on 1985 Giant. (Presently hanging in my garage, enjoying it's day off).

1 - Huffy girls beach crusier (9 years old)
2 - Schiwnn boys beach cruiser (hit by a car, totaled)
3 - brothers Dyno (i rode it more then he did)
4 - bike that i stole that in turn got stolen
5 - GT mountain bike (?model?) - STOLEN
6 - GT performer
7 - Specialized Rock Hopper - STOLEN
8 - Trek 6700 - sold
9 - Trek liquid 30 - still own
10 - 84 Pinarello (converted to fixie main ride)
11 - Raleigh Record (sold)
12 - Gromada (ride occasionally)
13 - Torker CX (uni)

- mongrel bmx bike my family and neighbors pieced together for me. I think it had handlebars from a dirt bike (motorcycle) and had foam duct taped around the tubes instead of pads. i dont know what eventually happened to it.
- redline bmx bike. this was my main bike for years. eventially a kid across the street stole it and then moved away, but it was nearly unrideable by that point.
- sekai bmx frame I built up into a complete bike. a neighbor kid borrowed it for a while and then cracked the frame
- specialized rock hopper, my first geared bike. rode this one quite a bit. ironically it was mostly around the city. stolen years later when my roomate left it in front of the house
- raleigh hybrid, 2003 or so model. this was my "get back into biking" bike that I hardly ever rode. sold to a friend
- unknown piece of **** mountain bike that was way too small for me, broken shifters, bad brakes, and a piece of metal jutting out of the seat ready to castrate you. i got it free from a relative for burning man, and believe it or not, someone stole it there.
- raleigh super course ten speed circa 1970 vintage. this bike had been passed around a few people. I got it for free and found out it had a campy c-record hub on the front. the rest was stock or unremarkable. converted it to single speed.
- univega custom ten, fixed gear conversion I built up from just a frame.

still own the last two.

1. El cheapo folder. About like a Raleigh 20
2. Kid's BMX
3. Cheapo MTB with the junky old Shimano thumb shifters-sold it
4. First bike I bought myself: Giant MTB with the horrid Megarange thingy in the back. Fully rigid. Got stolen.
5. Another fully rigid taiwan-made MTB. Pretty decent ride with Deore. First bike I built. It's getting really lonely in a corner because of:
6. My self-built fixed conversion. See sig.

1. blue tricycle
2. repco 16" bmx
3-4. a couple of crappy bmx bikes
5. mongoose freestyle bike (forget, it was yellow)
6-7. a couple of crap K Mart mtb
8. Giant OCR3
9. Shogun Ninja
10. GT avalanche (now fixie)
11. Crap steel SS convo (not vintage, just really crap hi-ten steel)
12. BMC SL01 (not fixie but hot)
13. a pile of various parts missing a 16t track cog, lockring, rear 28h hub, headset and frame (gonna be a nice road/track bike)

This is too much fun and thought provoking, so here goes:

-About five or six big wheels (the last of which ended up floating three towns down the river before my Pop snagged it out for me--Yes, they do in fact float!)
-Raleigh Choppers of various persuasions (one I recall clearly was an aztec gold colored road rocket!)
-Several cobbled together versions of Stingrays including a home-made chopper that my Pop fitted with double extension forks and the neighborhood kids went completely gaga over.
-A 1980 Coast to Coast hardware store bike that I believe was a Huffy with a thickly padded flat banana style seat. I rode this bike till the cogs were little nubbins (this was my first rebuild project)
-My first ten speed, a new AMF "Scorcher" (can you feel the heat?!) bought on special for %50 off at Target for $50...the frame must have been made of lead but this was the first bike that I ventured far from home on so I have to give it some credit.
Funny story about this one: I hated it so much that I began to abuse it and go off road (seriously off road) until it was in pretty sad condition. When my parents took it to the LBS for a tune up out of mercy, the quote was $100 and they were furious. The LBS advised the best thing was to just trade it and buy a new Raleigh (I loved this plan) but instead, my folks decided to teach me a lesson and fix the bike. They did. I have treated every bike since with TLC.
Two years later.....
-My first semi-nice bike purchase was a fiasco beginning with a Raleigh Wyoming in deep blue-green (returned a week later for...
-1984 Raleigh Technium (redefined the flexy BB--like a frame made from Spaghetti) sold shortly thereafter
-1986 Schwinn Prelude: World domination was within my grasp when I was on this beauty! Still have it, currently on Ebay as I write this.
-1991 Giant ATX-760 in Black Chrome full Deore LX with the ubercool Farmer John rear / Cousin front tire combo. Fits me like a good pair of blue jeans. Still have this baby, may sell it soon.
-2005 Gary Fisher Tassajara Disc: mostly stock with specialized bar overendz and an indie saddle.
-2006 Felt F65 (my new magic carpet) with Campy Veloce Skeletons, and a serfas cosmos

1.big wheel
2.mongoose
3. kia ten speed
4.maruishi conversion (sold)
5. 50 cm iro (sold)
6. 53 cm iro (sold)
7. debernardi track (sold)
8. raliegh rush hour (sold)
9. soma rush
10. watanabe track
12. lemond sarthe

1.big wheel
2.mongoose
3. kia ten speed
4.maruishi conversion (sold)
5. 50 cm iro (sold)
6. 53 cm iro (sold)
7. debernardi track (sold)
8. raliegh rush hour (sold)
9. soma rush
10. watanabe track
12. lemond sarthe

Where is the mysterious number 11?

First bike I remember had training wheels. I learned to ride w/out them because I broke them off in a week. Over the years as a kid it was mostly hardware store quality mt bikes(thus, broke soon after).
in 2005 i took up cycling again, mostly to make the commute to work a lot faster.
I picked up an 80's Peugeot px10. I paid $115 for it and probably put well over $500 into just to keep it riding. (ended up just stripping it and giving the frame away)
Bianchi Premio(sold, too small)
Singlespeed coaster converion on a old Raleigh frame(seat tube broke off the BB housing)
Fixed gear conversion, old Centurion frame(currently made into a polo bike/back up bike)
Cecil Walker Track frame(amazing bike. my fav frame I've had, but it was a little small, so I traded it to my friend that had been trying to buy it off me for a while)
Davidson Trackster (what I am currently riding as my street bike)

Where is the mysterious number 11?

it's a secret. even to me.

some generic toys r us bike
mongoos bmx
GT performer
Trek 800
Specialized stump jumper
Scott team racing
Ibis szasbo
Cannondale r1000
Ellsworth sub 22
Ibis alabi
Colnago master olympic
De Rosa giro d'talia
Ellsworth truth
Moser leader
Ellsworth SS
Fat chance yo eddy
Quatro Assi team 2000
Kelly deluxe

since were in the fixed forum I decided to list my track bikes seperate...
Gitan
De bernardi
Cramerotti
Bianchi
Torelli
Pinarello
Cannondale
Basso (if anyone has one in 55cm I will buy it right now, god I regret selling that...)
Level
Bridgestone
Colin Cape

the bikes I currently own and ride are:
Quatro Assi
Kelly deluxe
Fat Chance yo eddy
(looking for a track frame in 55cm to go with my dura ace group)
pm me if you have something nice

- Tricycle and little pedals tractor
- Generic 20 inches bike when I was a kid
- Hawk 6 BMX
- Legnano road 1965 or so (my 1st racing bike)
- Legnano track 1969 i think (my 1st track bike)
- Del-Valle Custom made track frame Columbus SP I was 14 y/o (sold)
- Del-Valle Custom made track frame Columbus SP I was 16 y/o (Sold)
- Miyata Dura Ace Road bike cant remember the model and I never seen one here in the US ever.
- Colnago Master Road... sold it after 6 months, I coulndt find myself in it, sad isnt?
- Forgot to mention my ISHIWATA shimano 600.... awesome riding.
- Del-Valle Custom road bike, Columbus SL. Still have it, needs new paint job, last time riden after 10 years was sept 2006 and still fits like a glove, Campy super record group in it. 12 speeds :D
- Del-Valle Custom Track bike, Tange champion1 I think it was, columbus microfusion lugs and crownfork handmade, sold it.
- Pinarello track, cant remember the model also... nice s...t! sold it!
- Del-valle custom Aerodinamic track bike AKA funny bike, Reynolds aero tubing, lug less and stuff... I miss this one so much. Perfect for KM TT. Sold it to somebody in argentina, who knows where the bike is right now.
-Retired for more than 10 years.
- Ridley Compact, campagnolo record group. Mavic gp4 wheelset.
- Tesch track bike... built for speed!!!....

I had an ET bike when I was 6
A bunch of random bikes when I was BMXing
Peugeot back in 92-93 when I was 15
No bikes for quite some time, because I just used my skateboard or took the bus.
Then a Trek 1000 from 2003-2005
Trek 7300 (Still have)
Pake (Still have)
Looking at getting a Bianchi Steel Road Bike

1971 - rusty 'ol handmedown trike
1973 - Yellow Huffy Bananaseat
1978 - Huffy 'Ten speed'
1982 - Peugot something-or-another '12 speed'
1984 - Jamis Beach Cruiser. Stolen 3 times. Never recovered after the 3rd time in 88.
1988 - Raleigh Technium. Fixed it in 1988 and has been my primary ride until 2006.
1998 - Trek 2100 (ye old carbon model). Was dedicated racebike. Fixed in 2006, sending the technium into retirement.

Only had one bike at a time/havent coasted since 1988 (excluding racing)

1) Some old school vintage bike my mom bought for 20$ when I was five years old
2) Sears BMX when I was about 10-----loved it.
3) Talisman mountain bike I bought with money from my paper route---it is a Canadian company, junky
4) Kona Hahanna I bought when the Talisman got stolen----good bike for the money
5) Fell in love with a GT Karokaram and traded the Kona plus cash for it---still have it
6) Marinoni road bike with full Dura Ace---purchased from a messed-up co-worker of mine, I had no use for it and only bought it out of sympathy---it is long gone, sold for $400, I had no idea of it's value then
7) Miele Una LS---bought used for $80, I wanted to see if I would like commuting on a road bike; loved it
8) Gardin road bike---very nice bike with full 105 but too small for me; the parts went onto the Miele
9) Ciocc road bike---wicked bike, abandoned on a post and stripped of everything, it lay rusting for months until I got up the balls to take a blow torch to the lock; still have it and it now has the 105 on it
10) Colnago Sport road bike---purchased with making a fixie out of it in mind, I still have the frame, pics are in my sig
11) Miyata 912 road bike---top of the line Miyata with full Shimano 600 group came my way, I only bought it for the groupo; nice though, pink/pearl colour and it was damned fast
12) Concorde road bike---picked it up for a great price and rode it as a commuter; loved it but sold it after a year as I had no room for it
13) Specialized Roubaix Elite Triple---I decided it was time for a really nice bike and I bought this bike for a great price; Al/carbon fibre frame with full Ultegra, it is an awesome, awesome bike
14) GT GTB track bike---I liked riding fixed enough to get a true track frame and this one came to me at a great price; pics are in my sig
15) Razesa road bike---beautiful Spanish road bike made of Columbus SLX tubing with a full 600 groupo, this bike is very fast and tight
16) Bianchi Trofeo road bike---purchased cheaply on CL just because it was a good deal; I decided to make it into a hybrid and I gave it to my friend for his birthday
17) Bianchi road bike---bought to be my winter beater fixed ride, so far it is nice but the frame is really sluggish compared to my other bikes, I may sell it in the spring

I currently still own the Ciocc, Razesa, Roubaix, GT Karokaram, GT GTB and the Bianchi plus the Colnago Sport frame----I have way too many bikes.

1.BMX bike i dont remember what type

2.1969 Motobecane Mirage road bike (bent rear triangle, frame and fork still in my storage room)

3.1982 Nishiki road bike painted like tiger, converted later... frame in my storage room (****ed up the dropouts, still works, but is silly sometimes...)

4.1962 Raphael Geminiani Track (wrecked fork, replaced w/columbus fork. my main work bike, but i wish it wasnt)

5.1995 Trek 800 mtn bike, converted to 7speed winter bike, then to single speed winter work bike... (might be a 26in touring project one day, but in storage room for now)

6.1970's Romani conversion work bike(campy dropouts etc, beautiful) (bent head tube)

7.1970s Schwin le Tour coversion work bike (sucked)

8.1980s Bianchi Conversion (built back as road bike, all shimano 600 then sold to fix the geminiani... i miss it)

9.2003 Redline conquest, yellow, all black 105 (cept shifters and f-d, they need to be upgraded...)

10.1990s Cannondale road frame, currently building up as 8 spd STI work bike

11.1970s/80s? Daccordi columbus octagonal tubing road bike, sitting at shop hopefully waiting for me still (full ergo campy gruppo sitting in a box waiting for it here)

*not mine really... but are in my work room or storage room
12.1990s specialized allez road bike im building for my sister, full suntour

13. Kogswell commuter/track bike thing im building for/with my girlfriend

*future???
--theres a bob jackson touring bike at a shop here ive had my eye on
--i want to build an iro rob roy work bike to retire the geminiani
--a good mtn bike
--high end road bike
--another cross bike for racing
--cargo bike. yea

that was a little overboard, but this is fun... and actually im pretty sure i left out a few bikes in there.

1. Red tricycle - Fell apart whilst riding it when I was five
2. 1974 Red banana seat bike - The bike I learned to ride on. Still rusting in our old Boston apartment
3. 1978 Brown/gold Motobecane Mirage - My reward for making the honor roll in high school ,fake leather bartape - sold.
4. 1986 Peugeot Triathlon - Super Vitus frame, 105, cost $500.00 in 1987 from Harris Cyclery, my first nice road bike , commuted for four years from Newton to Boston on it - sold way too cheaply.
5. 1989 Fisher AL-1 Blue - First mountain bike, toured 14 days on it from Boston to Delaware, ovalized headtube, replaced under warranty, then sold to a friend who is still riding it.
6. 1990 SuperGo Access MTB White splatter paint, Binda straps, it was god-awful heavy, sold to a friend who raced it one season then sold to his brother.
7. 1992 Bridgestone MB-2 Purple - Raced and ridden 3 three years before fatal ovalized headtube. Best bike I have ever owned. I still miss it. Sent back to the factory?
8. 1993 Bridgestone MB-1 Pearl - Replacement frame for the MB-2. Ovalized headtube.
9. 1993 Bridgestone MB-1 Pearl - Replacement frame for the ovalized MB-1. Crashed it a week after getting it back. Headtube bent back but I still used it to ride around town. Hanging in my garage.
10. 1990 Ben Davidson White - Bought at Veloswap with a Ti Ibis stem. Pimped out with Mavic cranks, Brooks B17 Ti, Phil Wood wheelset, Carradice bag. Stolen from atop my car. Burn in hell bike thief. I still have the front wheel.
11. 1995 Klein Fervor Blue - Bought as frameset to replace the MB-1. Last year before the Trek buyout. My current MTB but it's no MB-2.
12. 1993 Bridgestone XO-1 Pumpkin orange - Bought used as frame/fork in 1995. It was too small but I kept it until last year anyways. Sold.
13. 1986 Bridgestone RADAC Silver - Bought at a local swap for $150.00 in 1997. Wasn't crazy about the ride so swapped it with fellow BOB for his wife's Paramount. Yes, I got the better deal but he was cool with it.
14. 1984 Schwinn Paramount Green/Purple chameleon - Received as whole bike in exchange for the RADAC but I never got comfortable with it. Sold the frame last year.
15. 1984 Bridgestone RB-1 Blue - Bought in 1997 on eBay for $200.00. Solid riding bike even though it was too big for me. Loaned to a friend for a year and it got him into cycling. Sold it last year to someone who was going to turn it into a fixed ride.

In addition to the Klein I still own these:

16. 1994 Bridgestone RB-1/7 Red - Bought last year to replace my old RB-1. Hanging in the garage waiting for a rebuild.
17. 1989 Bridgestone MB-3 Red - Bought last year for my wife so she could try off-road riding. Currently my winter studded singlespeed ride until the spring when I will rebuild for her.
18. 2006 Surly Crosscheck Green - Bought last year as frame/fork. My first new bike in over ten years. Currently built up as my do-everything bike with rack, fenders, Carradice. My first cross bike.
19. 198? Panasonic DX4000 Red - Bought complete for $60.00 last year. Converted to fixed-gear commuter. I ride this the most right now.
20. Schwinn Frontier yellow - Junker frame I got for $10.00 (and I still paid too much). Repainted with one can of yellow Rustoleum. A 1x7 townie used to pull the kid trailer and get groceries. My wife's favorite bike.
21. 2000? Bike E AT Recumbent - Got this (used) for my wife after she complained about riding the 'normal' bikes. Not sure if we will keep this but it is fun for short flat rides. Like a chopper.
22. 197? Centurion Super Elite white - Bought as a frame/fork to replace my MB-1 townie. Currently a singlespeed foul-weather commuter with a basket, fenders, rear rack/trunk, sprung Brooks.
23. Coming up, the special-edition BF IRO. It will be the first track frame for me.

mid 60's - Huffy or something of that sort bought at Sears? for about $30
late 60's - Schwinn Apple Krate, bought in WVA from a combination cycle/mower shop - wish I had kept this one. I think it cost around $95 new.
1972 - Gitane Interclub, my first 10 speed (as in 2 by 5) @ $175 from Mel Pinto in Falls Church, VA. Had a head on at night with another 10 speed that resulted in a broken face and a bent fork, taco'ed wheel. Repaired it and kept this one through college and after, finally sold it to my brother in the early 80's.
1986 - Centurion Dave Scott Ironman 600 SIS equipped 12 speed bought in AL new for about $525. Just recently parted with this one.

Purchases the last few years as I'm spiraling into insanity:
2 (two) 1989 Dave Scott Ironman - one Master, one Expert, bought cheap, refurbished and sold.
a 1995 Mongoose IBOC - bought cheap as a frame, refurbished, my first aluminum frame, my first carbon fork, my first with integrated brakes/shifters, recently sold.
a 1984 Raleigh Technium 440, beater that my daughter rode more than I, recently sold.

And these I still own:
a 1984 Trek 760. Bought as a frame with some components. Have restored to mostly OE (Suntour Superbe). People wonder about me as it has (as original) pink cables and bar tape.
a 1974? Gitane Tour de France. Bought as a frame, stripped the paint, and did my first real respray (gun, no rattle-can). Also made my own decals. Mostly 1970 Campy Nouvo Record components.
a 1986? Bertoni Corsamondiale. Originally came with Shimano 600 but I liked the Columbus SL frame so much after my first test ride that I stripped the Shimano for use on another frame. Now it sports a Campy Record/ Chorus 8 speed group.
2002 Casati Challenge bought (slightly) used in '04. Deda Aluminum frame/carbon fork/Campy Chorus 10 speed bike that instantly added 1+ mph to my average speed over my usual routes.
90's? DART Tri-Techno. Columbus steel frame. Just completed building this one up. My first attempt with aero bars. I feel the need to crash.
my current project - c. 1980 mystery French frame of DB Reynolds 531 that I am converting to single speed - pimped (as many gold road components as I can find/afford) If I like it then my next project will be a fixed, so the insanity is terminal.

-generic bmx from Roses (like a crappier K-Mart in eastern NC)
-huffy white heat
-another huffy with those shocks that had the spring in the middle
-mongoose villain
-mongoose hooligan
-mongoose hilltopper (my friends dad owned a shop that carried mongoose...pre buyout of course)
-ross beach cruiser with a sweet surfboard hanger
-gary fisher tarpin
-busted lotus road bike
-old fuji road that got converted
-mark V

-huffy front suspension bicycle
-some form of a rockhopper mountan bike or something from toys are us
-my moms old road bike, not sure what it was
-78 ross 10spd
-fuji track
-kona nunu converted to SS
-guerciotti track bike

- little red tricycle
- first bicycle, styled to look like a motorcycle - solid tires
- generic BMX bike - yellow and blue theme with pads
- mom's 3-speed
- dept. store quality "10-speed"
- LBS quality low-end "12-speed"

[short break]

- GT Karakoram (first bike I purchased myself)
- Mongoose Comp SX (pre-Pacific)

[long break]

- Seven Sola 29er
- Quintana Roo Borrego
- Kona Jake the Snake
- Cannondale Bad Boy (custom build)
- Salsa Las Cruces
- Cannondale Capo

Still have the last seven, although four of them will be sold by spring. If I stick with the fixed thing I'll rebuild the Capo with new wheels and drivetrain. I'll also be adding a Surly Big Dummy as soon as they're available.

Lately, I've been "sampling" a lot of different bikes, determining what my likes and dislikes are. Once I get the styles and dimensions nailed down I'll likely pare it down to about three bikes - at least one an all-out custom frame. Something like Vanilla is really calling me... I should probably go get on the list now. Maybe I'll know what when my name comes up in two years ;)

started with the red & white tricycle
then a fixed yellow bike with plain rubber wheels (12" wheels)
a blue ccm 16"
a ccm bmx, black and orange
arashi explosiv, rigid xc bike
peugeot nature, entry level xc bike
miele ua150, rough xc/jump bike
24toyIII, jump/street
planet-x tibo, trial (still have it)
dobermann molosse, street/jump (still have it)
specialized langster, (should have it soon :) )

unknown hand-me-down child bike
Schwinn Corvette
Schwinn Continental
Schwinn LeTour
Schwinn Super LeTour
Jamis Gentry
Cannondale H300 - currently a single-speed
Novara Big Buzz - current
Rans Tailwind - current
KHS Tandemania Comp - current

White and orange, small wheels, late 50’s
Balloon tired, too-big hand-me-down coaster brake single
Stingray 5-speed
Schwinn Collegiate, metallic brown late 60’s
Peugeot U08 10 speed 70’s
Univega hybrid 80’s
Cannondale F500 90’s
Schwinn Le Tour
Giant beater
Dahon 5 speed beater
Bilenky S&S coupled hardtail 29er, currently a single-speed
Bilenky S&S coupled Cross
Swift Folder single speed

Murry:white with black splatter and bright orange lettering
Huffy: 21speed mountain bike.
Mongoose Villian
Haro Supra
Federal Division
Kink Fiend
DK Legacy
Fly Estampida
Fly Pantera
Giant OCR 3
KHS Aero
Pake
Schwinn Le Tour Beater

-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.




to add:

-black BCA fixed gear. bought from a guy here in town for $80 three days ago. 170 sakae cranks, shimano hubs laced to sun rims. 40x12. bullhorns. front brake. my first fixed gear. i'm enjoying it.

-white with "blue webbing" (read: splatterpaint) 1991 cannondale SH400. "hybrid" taken from a trash pile down the street. needs new tubes, but other than that, it's a complete bike with all the original equipment, except for the rear wheel, with the addition of a cateye computer. AL frame, chromo fork, paint chipping all over. wierd thru-the-stem centerpull canti brakes. free and sheels are still in decent shape.

not in any real order
-huffy toy bike with removable top tube.
-diamondback bmx.
-POS sekei mtb.
-trek7000
-some other trek
-khs john howard turbo
-trek 900
-bianchi nuovo racing
-giant 980c
-bianchi martini racing edition
-redline monocog
-trek 6000
-early 90's miyata
-miyata 912
-crosscheck
-fuji track
-fetish sac
-pista concept
-schwinn cruiser
-some POS for polo(univega?)
-various other POSes for silly projects.

Murray "Black Cat"
Redline MxII
GT Pro Performer
Hutch Trickstar
Haro Master
Dyno
Numerous other Freestyle Frames
Cannondale "Beast of the East"
Mongoose Supergoose
Gunnar Rockhound
Shogun Tange steel Conversion
Schwinn Le Tour
Schwinn Mag Scrambler
Norco MTB

tricycle
knight rider big wheel (pulling 360 skids on this was ****ing sick)
huffy w/ training wheels
huffy nitro piece of garbage... died when i rode it at the bmx track and tacoed the wheel and broke off the dropout
... the skateboarding years ...
nishiki olympic 12
same nishiki olympic 12 converted
khs aero track (current steez)

some weird learner bike. I didn't ride it because I'd rather be on my skateboard and walk around.
fast forward a few years..
some crappy huffy 20" bike
schwinn bmx something
dyno vfr
hoffman taj (totally chrome, 1" threadless)
schwinn superstock (for racing)
schwinn hydramatic
standard shaman
2-hip stout boy
infinity alter ego
some schwinn road bike I converted
fuji road frame I converted, then wrecked
another schwinn conversion
mercier kilo
fly mosca

Hmm... Let's skip the unknown bikes I had as a kid (maybe 4 or 5 bikes) and go right into what I can remember:

-Robinson Missile BMX (wish I hadn't sold this amazing bike)
-custom built Hoffman Condor BMX
-Surly Cross-Check in a flat-bar setup
-Specialized Langster Pro

I guess I'll try this. I never rode BMX as I was a big nerd as a child and have only very recently gotten into mountain biking. Thus, aside from a few forgettable kids bikes, the list starts a mere few years ago:

Specialized Rock Hopper (sister's bike, now back in her possession)
Beater Nishiki found sans chain on campus (added chain, changed to SS since it wouldn't shift)
Bianchi road (built up as fixed, but the dropout broke and it's awaiting a repair)
Mercier Kilo TT (the same frame in signature)
Trek 5200 (sold on eBay to fund Waterford)
Mongoose "goofer" (similar to the Little 500 bikes, but for a local collegiate race)
Raleigh Technium (first a fixed, now a road bike consisting of cast off parts and which I never ride)
Basso TT (in signature)
Mercian Super Vigorelli (currently disassembled, awaiting a new fork)
Wateford Adventure Cycle (touring/cross beauty...no pictures online until I get a new wheelset)
Surly Karate Monkey (dinglespeed 29er, which promises to be an insanely wonderful ride)

cool thread.
schwinn 24" cruiser, first new bike.
American Flyer 10 speed. Took it to all four borders.
Raleigh 10 speed. Took it everywhere.
Specialized hardrock. Took me everywhere.
Specialized Globe 3 speed.
Vitus 979.
Gary Fisher X-Caliber, steel.
Schwinn single speed racer frame.
Centurian fixie flipflop.
Bridgestone RB1.
Haiwatha 24" cruiser, no frills.
Trek 700 cross.
Mostly I miss the Flyer, such a view it gave me.

Mattel varoom bike w/ battery operated noise maker in gas tank
Huffy stingray ripoff
Huffy 3 speed stingray ripoff
Schwinn Colligate Sport
Raliegh Super Course
Bottecchia Professional All campag Super Rcord...Niiiiice (Beeeene)
Assenmacher 531 sl tubing w/ afforementioned SR
Centurion Prestige
Le Mond Coors light Team Replica
Breezer Venturi
Soma Rush
DIRT: Ross high tech Mt. Hood
Schwinn High Sierra w/ stubbie brazed in fork and custom stem
Stumpjumper comp
Ritchey Ultra
Pro Flex 757
Kona Blast
Santa Cruz Blur

little 16" yellow bmx bike
crap huffy mtb
schwinn preadator
schwinn pro stock 2
hoffman taj (1" threadless)
kink fiend
mutiny something i dont remember
fbm night train
fit aitken s2i
converted custom road frame fixed gear
late 70s/early 80s fuji track..

probably some more bmx bikes in there, and proabaly another little kid bike... i know ive forgotten some

Well, I had the little BMX that I learned on with training wheels.

Then I got the black and neon green Huffy 10 speed that every baby of the 80's owned at some point.

Years later, I got into BMXing with my Schinn Predator Pro.

Stopped riding for about 6 or 7 years, until I got into fixed. Then I got a Schwinn Varsity and converted it.

After that, A Univega Viva Sport, which I converted, then got hit by a car on. Replaced it with another Viva Sport.

My latest ride is a Bianchi Pista.

Off the top of my head...

16" huffy
20" murray
Spalding cross bike
Scott Mohaka
60's Peugeot
1983 Peugeot
1971 Schwinn Collegiate Touring
1966 Schwinn Continental
1987 Schwinn Stingray
198? Schwinn Super Sport #1 (fixed)
198? Schwinn Super Sport #2 (fixed)
197? Schwinn Varsity
Pat (tallbike)
pat v2.0 (tallbike)
Foghorn-Longhorn (homemade chopper)
Al Frankenstein (homemade chopper)
Gazzhell (homemade chopper)
Bruce (homemade chopper)
197? Chaparrelle
198? Miyata
198? Open Road (fixed)
198? Schwinn World (fixed)
198? Pinnacle miniature road bike (20" wheels)
198? Bianchi (fixed)
2 Sears 3-speed cruisers
2 Free Spirit 3-speed cruisers
196? Columbia Thunderbird

26 years old ... 29 bikes so far :)

+ a big pile of scrap huffys and murrays that I use to build choppers.

damn, you guys have had a lot of bikes.

-198? trek mountain bike, It was bright orange. I rode this thing for a long time, then started skateboarding to get around.
-some schwinn mountainbike, probably from mid to early nineties. I got this thing about two years ago, for painting a bike coop a sign. I hadn't ridden a bike in years. This bike was kind of a turd, but it got me really into riding bikes. I let my roommate ride it after I built my fixed, and it got jacked when he left it in front of someones house.
-1981 schwinn varsity singlespeed, bought for $30 bucks at the aforementioned bike coop. This bike was/is nuts. The person who converted it hooked up the brakes to the stem shifters. I rode this turdbucket for almost a year while I built my fixed gear up. It almost killed me a few times.
-Volkscycle road conversion- the first bike I built up and maintained myself. so much fun. I'll probably be riding it for a long time.

learned on a 12" ? with solid tires
1980 Schwinn Tornado - Still have the plastic number plates that hung under the top tube
generic 16" bmx - stolen off a car in Chicago
1987 Schwinn Sierra - Still have it and ride it, converted to touring commuter
1993 Trek 850 - Broke frame at derailleur hanger
1993 Giant Cadex ALM-1 - Stilll have it and ride it

love this thread
huffy neon green bmx with trispoke purple plastic rims and eightball valve caps(in parents basement)
schwinn Mtb (chillin in parents basement, future ssmtb?)
marin hybrid (stolen)
yellow schwinn supersport road bike(2nd fixie now fenderedracked commuter)ride regularly
blue huffy roadbike(1st fixie circa2004,currently in reserve gathering rust in parents backyard)
blue Surly pacer road bike(shim105 fast bike)ride regularly
red06 fuji track(heavily upgraded pretty bike framefork only original parts)ride regularly

i did it before... and it came up on a google search today which made me think of it.. heres that list
..

tricycle (got run over by a car)
light blue schwinn 1 speed with training wheels
schwinn stingray 1 speed (later bmx-ified and painted all gold)
schwinn stingray 5 speed
huffy blue thunder (with grip shifter)
s.e. racing mini-ripper (my race bike.. my dad chromed it at some point.. i still have it)
panda 26 inch cruiser
fuji 16 inch that i put big bars and a tall seatpost on
fuji touring bike..jr sized (just spotted this one in the back of my parents garage..)
specialized allez (ya know.. american flyers style..)
specialized stumpjumper
bridgestone mtn bike
novarra mtn frame designed by ibis, singlespeed with road tires and bull horns.. (bought this out of the window of a shop in seattle in maybe '94... i was over messengering with gears that kept falling apart in the rain)
gt bmx bike
marin quake mtn bike
klein aura road bike
redline 24inch cruiser (2 of them)
schwinn madison
iro mark v
hoffman bmx
ciocc designer 84 that was a little too big
ciocc track bike
cannondale track
kanai road bike
ciocc designer 84 road bike
pista concept on its way


a concept huh... interesting

gonna hit the boards with it?

did ya get from ben?

i just picked up a nos/1985 bianchi pista - so now i've been entertaining selling my fuji pro track (road geometry sucks) and building up a concept. make it a celeste family affair as it were. please let me know what ya think after the build. especially if /after ya toss her up against the banks.

Ah hell, here goes. I'm sure I'll miss some.

Pre-highschool :
Huffy BMX, "black lightning". Broke the fork, which I found out about when I went to do a wheelie and the fork dropped out of the head tube.

Weird-ass Ross MTB with 20" wheels, cantilever brakes, and ten speeds. Stolen from my parents' basement.

Sekai "Rockhound" MTB, full-on cheapo beater. Got it through some weird family deal, took it on a bike trip at summer camp. I'm not sure what the hell happened to that one, it's long gone.

Highschool (I got a job at a shop freshman year, so things got interesting) :
Fuji Roubaix. First race bike, low gears for my uscf junior knees. Sold it eventually.

Ugly brown Italvega - went through a number of permutations, eventually it died while riding down stairs.

Bridgestone MB-1 : '88 or so frame, before bridgestone left the slack geometry behind. Built up with the all-important shop employee discount. Campy BMX cranks, pedals, and hubs. Cut-down Bontrager MA40 rims, silly red/green/gold spoke nipples. Big ol' salsa stem, WTB dirt drops, campy barcons, and fly-ass Mafac levers. Stolen from school within two weeks of build completion.

My dad somehow got his homeowner's insurance to cover it, which subsidized a Wicked Fat Chance. EAI didn't want to sell me any more campy BMX parts, so it got full mavic wheels (those nice old paris-roubaix hubs), cook bros cranks, suntour XC pro pedals. Also got the dirt drops, but with those freaky suntour command shifters. Eventually got converted to flat bars and then sold when I needed money in college.

My Pogliugly : It had been a perfectly nice Pogliaghi frame until some racerboy had crashed it. John Slawta welded a sleeve over the crease in the top tube, and while he was at it he pulled the downtube braze-ons and front derailleur braze-on, added slotted cable stops on top of the top tube, and added canti bosses. I loved that bike, rode it everywhere, and eventually it broke right at the end of the collar over the crease. I left the frame hanging up in the old shop and moved the parts over to..

KHS Team Race frame. Built out of some fairly nice tubing, lugged, and with a hideous paint job - head tube and seat tube were kind of a metallicy purple, rest of the bike was this hideous powdery pink. I covered as much of it as I could with zo bag and velo-city stickers, but the ugliness shown through. Sold it, saw the front wheel not too long ago on someone else's bike.

Nishiki conversion : erik zo brought some fixed hubs back from japan, so I snagged one to build up the urban death bike. Crappy nishiki bikeboom frame designed around 27" wheels, so it was perfect for big fat 700c knobbies. Started out with track drops, but quickly ended up with cut down flat bars and the massive wald full metal basket. Left it at a house I quickly moved out of, never saw it again.

Kona Explosif : The workhorse MTB. It's been everywhere with me. Rode it to seattle and back in the early nineties, and now I can't bring myself to get rid of it.

Kona Humu : First production singlespeed. Loved it, sold it for beer money.

Post-highschool:
Kona Keiki : 3sp w/ coaster brake, cantis, 24" wheels. You've all reveled in its glory. Gave it to a girl who needed a bike, she promptly got the front wheel stolen and stashed it under her porch. I reclaimed it last year and brought it back to life.

The cherrybomb : Red SS/fixed MTB. My old boss showed up at my door with it, said I needed it. He was right. You'll have to pry it from my cold dead hands.

Karate monkey : Found it in the mtbr classifieds. Still needs a lot of dialing in, but I like it.

3rensho : You know it, you love it. Another cold dead hands pry-a-thon.

The holland : Came from gravityhurts with bullhorns and some kind of insane like 750mm stem (ok, yeah, I'm employing hyperbole. sue me.) It's got jitensha bars and a short stem on it now, and it's another bike that I'm not giving up anytime soon. If I do, it's going right back to gravityhurts, so the rest of you shouldn't even consider asking.

Kona A'Ha : Another kona production SS, with an amazing/appalling 'stars and bars' paint job. Also notable for the red white and blue crankset. Up for sale.

DBR ti : Picked it up at a swap meet, threw some parts on it, it's not really for me. Also up for sale.

Keiki II : before I rediscovered my old keiki, i was over at a friend's house and bemoaning the loss of my keiki. He'd bought one of the other ones to come from the bay area, and had just bruised the hell out of himself in some sort of wheelie incident. It's mine now.

....

That's all I can remember right now, I'll append as things come back to my poor scattered brain.