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

just curious.. let's see some.. start with that tricycle your grandpa gave you all the way to your current steed

Some Free Spirit stingray type bike
Free Spirit 10 speed (blue with Positron shifting)
Specialized Hard Rock sport (promptly stolen)
Schwinn High Plains (heavy piece of crap)
Cannondale M400 (Added Answer fork, eventually converted to single speed. Also stolen)
Cannondale R500 (Currently in pieces. Rattle your teeth out ride)
Gary Fisher Dual Sport 229 (Kind of like a flat bar cross bike, bit wider tires)
NYC City Fixed

Several banana seat bikes inherited from the kids across the street (all stolen)
Huffy BMX (Stolen but recovered from 2 kids riding it around a parking lot. It was covered in fish bait)
Univega 12 speed
Robinson BMX (First nice bike. I loved that one)
Dad's Peugeot Mixte. Fun bike to ride.
Specialized Stumpjumper FS Hardtail. (Still have it. Use it about once a year to get dirty)
Beach Cruiser (bought for $20 to ride while on tour)
Bianchi Strada single speed conversion (First fixed)
Nishiki Prestige Conversion
Bareknuckle
Sintesi Marina Conversion (Still waiting for that one after winning it on ebay).

Thats all I can remember. There were probably others.

Small red Huffy with streamers, basket and trainning wheels. 4 - 5 years old
Blue Huffy with spoke beads and for some reason, flat bars on a BMX bike (?). 5 - 9 years old
Some no-name MTB that I found on the road with north bars. 9 - 12 years old
Specialized BMX with a nice pair of FSA cranks. No brakes. 12 - still have it.
Old Raleigh Grand Prix. Converted a year after I got it. 16 - still have it.
Puch 130 (dumpster find). Converted right when I got it. 17 - still have it.
Bianchi Pista Concept. About to be with Mavic rims laced to Dura-Ace HF 7600 (thank you Kyle). 19 - 20 (present).

Right now i'm saving to build up my Concept and buy a road bike. Don't know what kind though. Thinking a Cannondale that my friend might sell me for around $300.

Some walmart bike, then a dyno vfr, then nothing for a long time, then I got a fisher xcaliber mtb, then a raleigh rushour which is my current bike.

red tricycle (I think my grandpa did give this to me)
red Sears 12" (8 yo neighborhood bullies stole & destroyed this)
red Schwinn 20" (like a kids version of the Collegiate)
chrome & red Schwinn Predator w/Skyway mags (later stolen when left unlocked)
black GT Performer (jr high grad gift)
grey Rockhopper (bar ends, slicks, fun city bomber)

and then the decline into FG

weird Trek 420 (?) with 7 spds (just a rear der)
Mongoose 24" bmx cruiser (I messengered on this bike for a bit)
red Merckx SS conversion (stolen & then discovered stripped & busted across the st. from my apt)
brown Raleigh SS conversion
black 01 Bianchi Pista (my first & most faithful companion)
black Univega conversion (my first FG conversion, winter bike-ish)
soon to be built up & painted red Univega conversion

still have the last 3

blue unnamed bmx
magna bmx bike
freespirit ten speed
haro group one
specialized hard rock
my dads old kobe cobra
my grandpas old free spirit townie
my grandpas old schwinn
mercier kilo tt x2

Is anyone actually going to read [insert names] list of bikes?

Probably not, but it feels good putting them down.

Is anyone actually going to read [insert names] list of bikes?

hey darkcloud, ive read 'em all.. love it.. keep them coming

blue tricycle
Schwinn 20" - black/w chrome fenders/ coaster brake
Schwinn 20" - blue/w tall gooseneck stem/ springer saddle/ coaster brake
Schwinn Stingray - purple/ 3 speed
Schwinn Apple Crate
Schwinn Super Sport - yellow
Raliegh Super Course
70's Cinelli Super Corsa
80's Colnago Master
Cannondale Beast Of The East
90's Ritchey Road Logic
02 Colnago Master-Light
06 custom steel fixed

pedal fire truck
little yellow bike with training wheels from a yard sale
Fox banana seat bike from Sears
Schwinn road
Huffy BMX
Yokota rigid mountain
Specialized Rockhopper rigid
Giant road
Merckx road
Davidson road
Concord fixed conversion
Soma Rush fixed
Bridgestone XO-2
singlespeed Cross Check
KHS Aero track
1982 Mercian Vincitore

in chronological order

training wheels bike
banana seat bike
huffy bmx
schwinn predator bmx
panasonic roadbike
raleigh roadbike
dyno bmx
specialized ground control mtb
cannondale super v 500
cannondale super v 2000
specialized stumpjumper hardtail
specialized s-works fsr-xc
iro mark v
bianchi pista
interpro korean keirin bike
khs flite 100 sloping top tube
dk general lee 24" cruiser.

Red Schwinn
Dyno VFR
Bianchi Veloce 2004
Fuji Roubaix fixed gear conversion (frame from the 1980s)

Girls banana seat bike
Huffy BMX
16" generic BMX
Huffy Mountain bike
Canondale M200 SE mountain bike
GT Fueler
Raleigh M80
British 3 speed
Pugeot conversion-abortion
Bianchi Pista
Schwinn Varsity
Giordana track

bikes in bold I still own

Some of you guys have amazing memories.

my very first bike was some sort of bmx with a coaster brake. i would spend whole days on that thing. i lived in a tiny town in the middle of nowhere, surrounded by dirt roads and wheat fields. i'd ride for miles, have skid comps with my friends, ride wheelies and wreck. ah, it was fun.

moved to philly and i just didn't see anywhere to ride a bike, since i was so used to wide open spaces. eventually lived outside philly in a house next to a big field whose owners let local kids play in it. then i got a trek mountain track. my friends and i would play tag on our bikes. sometimes we'd play where only "it" got to ride the bike. that's when people got hurt. it was sort of fun.

then no bike, no bike...finally moved to portland and rode a bike that had been stolen from a friend, who was able to re-steal it. i don't know what sort it was; i saw the name maybe once because we promptly covered the bike in stickers and paint to disguise it from the crackhead who stole it. wasn't mine, but i rode it.

eventually decided in needed a road bike, a schwinn le tour. pretty solid as le tours go, at least in the frame. the brakes and derailers were crapping out by the end. i wanted to convert it, but couldn't afford the wheelset. i then moved,and it wasn't worth the cost to transport it. *sniff*...the bike whose eventual jankiness led me to desire a fixed gear...

i was also given a raleigh that needed some fixing to turn into a grocery getter. again, not worth the cost of transport.

purchased a specialized allez which was a fun bike. i took many long rides in the mountains outside boise on that thing. but when i moved back to portland, i wanted to work up to the velodrome and saw a bianchi pista (with upgraded parts) on craig's list. the poster wanted to sell the bike in order to buy a road bike. so we met up and traded. he and i are friends now, both messengers in portland. my bike started out as his work bike and is my work bike now. my bike became his work bike for a while until he sold it to the girlfriend of another guy, who's using my old bike as his work bike while his is getting powdercoated. it's a fun little story there.

born: 1978
purple tricycle - los angeles, 1982-ish
red tricycle - chicago, 1983-ish
old schwinn with sparkly blue banana seat & streamers - los angeles 1986-ish
diamond back sorrento - los angeles, 1990-ish
old three speed cruiser - boston 2002 (found & fixed up)
nishiki step-through bike - boston 2003 (free at goodwill, fixed up)
old three speed cruiser - boston 2003 (free from my maintenance man)
peugeot fixed conversion - boston 2004 (swiss bottom bracket, arghhh)
soon to be circle a (ordered in july)

Mongoose BMX
Kuwahara BMX
Haro Sport BMX 1985
Haro Sport BMX 1987
General RL Osborn BMX
Trek 990 mountain
Bianchi Eros road
Eddy Merckx Super Corsa road
Cinelli Olympic track
De Rosa Super Prestige track
Casati Gold Line R. track
Levant NJS Keirin track

The young years>>>>>

Red Tricycle 68-69
Yellow Scwinn 3 speed with banana seat 71-77
10 speed scwinn(varsity?)77-80
The Long Dry Spell, 10 years no bike 80-90

The Roadie years>>>>>>

Bianchi MTB low end bike, don't remember model but the bike that got me back in 90-99
Cannondale R600 91-92
Cannondale R900 92-99

The Triathlete years>>>>

Softride Powerwing TT 93-00
Cannondale M600 99-02
Kestrel KM40 TT 99-04

The MTB years>>>>>>

Gary Fischer Sugar 3 01-04
Rocky Mountian Element 04-05
Kestrel KM40 TT 04-05

The Golden years>>>>>>

Nirve Cruiser WW2 style 05
Bianchi B.A.S.S. SS 04-06
Diamondback Seronto SS conversion gheto especial 06-
IRO Jamie Roy FG 06-

Sloppy. List your bicycles.

Sloppy. List your bicycles.

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

What year mini-ripper? I love those bikes. My brother had one from '86 and it was the best thing ever.

1. OLD schwinn little cruiser bike (I was 4yrs old)
2. Black Huffy BMX (6yrs old.. tried to back flip it 5 years ago and broke the frame in two pieces)
3. Huffy mountain bike
4. GT BMX bike
5. another GT bmx bike
6. Diamondback BMX (stolen)
7. Specialized Tarmac Comp
8. Steyr Clubman (fixed)
9. 60's Poooojoe (in progress)

it was prob. 1980? 81? i remember i wanted the PK but it was way too big.. i was obssessed with se racing.. but i had a powerlite all built and on order.. and the dude from the shop calls at the last minute to say they started making the mini again and he ordered it..i can barely fit on it now.. i raced it with both sew ups and 21 inch wheels and loved it like a brother

The early 80's bike came with the Araya 7x rims right?

mine was just frame and fork (i mean... frame and landing gear..).. but i think the first rims i had on it were gold arayas

Oh true.

I will always love those bikes. The '05- '06 models are hot also.

I am just going to list bikes I actually rode. If I listed bikes I have owned this list would be about 30 bikes longer.

Schwinn trike
Huffy BMX
Unknown 5 speed banana seat coaster bike in bling GOLD
Schwinn Continental
Murray MTB
95' Schwinn Moab Elite MTB
04' Specialized Enduro Comp MTB
Van Dessel Buzz Bomb ->fixed gear
86' Schwinn Peloton ->fixed
84' Raleigh Marathon ->temporary fixed gear
Surly Karate Monkey SS 29er MTB
Van Dessel Buzz Bomb Full Suspension 29er MTB
late 60's? Falcon San Remo fixed
73' P13 Schwinn Paramount road bike
76' P14 Schwinn Paramount track bike

Those are all bikes I rode. I have a few bikes that will be rode, but they are not road worthy yet. They include: 74' Raleigh Supercourse TT and a 87' Schwinn Le Tour

hmmm that I can remember
1 dyno vfr BMX
2 Auburn BMX x3 (because I broke 3 that were replaced under warrantee)
3 Kasten BMX x6 (broke six replaced under warrantee)
4 Mosh BMX x3 (same)
5 MCS Rocket BMX
6 S&M Challenger BMX (I still have it in storage)
7 Schwinn Varsity Road Bike (abandoned)
8 Libertas Conversion (wrecked)
9 KHS aero track (traded)
10 Colnago Pista ('89 polish track team bike)
11 Vitali Pista (for sale)
12 LeMond Zurich 853 Road Bike (Late 90's made at 7 cycles with full 600 STI group)

-Big wheel
-Supercycle from Canadian Tire
-Supercycle Hooligan, p.o.s. full suspension mountain bike from Canadian Tire, weighed like 60 pounds
-Specialized Hardrock pro, finally my first bike not from Canadian Tire
-Cramerotti road bike, full Ultegra 9spd Groupo, Columbus SL tubing, Ultegra hubs laced to Mavic CXP30's (used for when I wanna go fast for a long time)
-Elvish fixed conversion, found rusting in a friends backyard built up as a beater.
-Fuji Track 06.

That's all I can remember at the moment, there's probably some I'm forgetting from when I was a youngin.

trike (steel/non lug)
20" coaster / schwinn stingray
20" webco (factory issue)
20" reline (factory issue)
20" GT (factory issue)
24" GT (factory issue)
centurion ironman (red/white steel/lug)
cannondale r300
specialized epic (nude carbon/aluminum lug)
kestrel sci 200
lemond (team coorslight issue)
lemond (domestic team gan issue)
lemong (euro team gan/b-squad issue)

approximately 46 various track bikes... and counting

jeep powerwheels
bananna seat bike with back pedal breaks
huffy bike
some bike my dad but off a bum, which then was stolen
free spirit 18 sp
trek 1000 c
white peugeot 12 sp
murry conversion
mercier kilo tt
bareknuckle
2003 bianchi pista, just a frame right now

just off the top of my head:

some kind of purple Stingray-type thing
Murray freestyle bike
Dyno Compe
Mongoose kickscooter (that counts, right? it had little Skyway Tuff Wheels)
GT Pro Performer
Murray beachcruiser
yardsale 3-speed
Nishiki Olympic roadbike
Cannondale trackbike
Spicer trackbike (current ride)

I keep my bikes forever so I haven't had a varied collection...but lately the collecting bug has taken hold.

My first was a Western Auto bike, a coaster brake, fendered, chrome headlamp deal my parents got me for Christmas in 1964 or 1965. Way too big for me, but I learned to ride on that bike, but didn't care too much for it..."banana bikes" were coming into the scene and my bike wasn't "cool".

A Western Auto banana bike, blue with a "cheetah" slick rear tire, red striped tires, black seat with two red racing stripes.

A Shogun road bike...which my cycling friends told me was built by Specialized, but I've never found any info to confirm that. Ex-wife sold it instead of shipping it to me.

Two Specialized mountains, a Rockhopper and a Hardrock comp. The Morgan Hill built RH was sold by the ex also. The HR, Taiwan or China built, bought in 1989 I still have.

Trek 400.
Specialized Allez
Raleigh Roadster 3spd.

3-5 Some blue BMX brand bike.

5-9 Blue Huffy, had a blast on that bike.

9- Huffy 3 speed, wierd

9-13 A schwinn BMX from the early 80s my dad found in the trash, this is the only bike I wish I still Had

13-16 Pacific Mountainbike

16-18 Schwinn Letour

21 Felt F 70

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

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



Yep.

red schwinn one speed of some sort
mongoose californian
kuwahara exhibition
cannondale r400
bridgestone mb3
bridgestone mb2
cannondale r600
klein pulse
aegis aro svelte
3rensho athlete
colnago mexico
panasonic track
nagasawa track
3rensho super record
3rensho super record aero
hollands invicta custom
kalavinka super exhibition

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

yep.

"You got like three feet of air that time."

So, every one here built ramps out of plywood and stacks of 2x4s, right?
Nope. I used plywood and bricks.

well from what i can remember my brother and i used to tinker with some bmx bikes when we were little but i dont ever remember owning any.

bought my first bike when i was 17 or so. it was a Diamondback Viper. i think i sold that.
after that i got another Diamondback bmx but i dont remember the model. that got stolen.
then last year i got an old Shwinn Sprint and converted it to fixed.
then i got a Bianchi road bike and made that my main fixed ride.
the Shwinn i built back up to fixed for a friend in late may this year.
friend passed away mid June. never got to see it or ride it. i still cruise on it.
friends dad gave me one of his GT bmx bikes so i have that to ride on too.
so right now i have 3 bikes and the Bianchi is my main ride. thinking of getting the Shwinn powdercoated.
im itching to get a new frame or just a new whole bike. and im itching to build up more for friends

1) Unknown brand small banana seat bike, with white balloon tyres. Stolen. I still want it back.
2) Some crappy small wheel thing. The freewheel broke, and my dad welded it. First experience of fixed gear!
3) Coventry Eagle 10 speed. Made in England, sent to the USA, ridden by my uncle, sent back to England for me. Orange! Loved it.
4) Puch copy of a Schwinn Stingray, but with 5 speed derailleur. Fantastic!
5) First new bike - Coventry Eagle Kermesse. 531, narrow section alloys, quick release. Stolen. I still want this back too.
6) Clements. Not clear if it was an Ernie Clements, or one of the ones his brother built, but a nice bike. My only bike for years, in fact. Got left in a barn when I went travelling. When I came home, it had gone on a skip.
7) Dual suspension MTB from a chain store. Crap, but I needed a bike. Now has huge wide motorcycle bars on it, but it'll always be too small for me.
8) Gazelle Trim Trophy - back to high quality road bikes. 531, Shimano 105. Bought for £20 from ebay.
9) Nigel Dean road frame, gradually being built up fixed.
10) Falcon Westminster tourer. Got it free. My station/lockup beater.
11) Raleigh Royal - I wanted a tourer, specially for load hauling. Another £20 bike.
12) Mountain bike converted with a banana seat, sissy bar, and huge 24" ape hangers. So cool. Too cool. Stolen.
13) Horace Bates - for restoration......

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

nope, we used old fridges and dirt.

Plastic big wheel
Awesome red tricycle
Brick-heavy old blue BMX with plastic mag wheels, indestructable
Bridgestone CB-O proto-hybrid thing, stolen from school while in class
Haro MTB with funky Girvin suspension stem, stolen from school while in class. Skilled theives around there!
Haro BMX, chrome, too cool for school, stripped to nothing but frame + cranks at school while in class
Gary Fisher MTB, cheap, awesome, destroyed at BM last year
Bianchi Pista, didn't fit me quite right, sold to a friend who loves it
Peugeot beater conversion, loved it, rode the piss out of it. Now converted to SS for a friend
Yamaguchi TT conversion, the light of my life
Ciocc road

My friends and I made totally preposterous board + 2x4 ramps, eventually stacking them up so high they'd fall apart when jumped.. Too fun.

bigwheel
PeeWee herman bike
Magna tenspeed
another magna tenspeed
Gary fisher hybrid (a gift, don't ask)
Schwinn tenspeed, which, after nearly killing me turned in to a
Schwinn fivespeed, which, after nearly killing me turned in to a
Schwinn singlespeed, which, once more, turned in to a schwinn fixie
crappy motobecane
and after the schwinn got stolen, I'm rolling on
another Schwinn fixie

and soon I'm getting a Corsa which will remain a lovely tenspeed.

1. Training wheels bike
2. Red BMX
3. Canadian Tire Triumph MTB
4. Dad's Purple Road Bike (Stolen)
5. Benotto Road Bike
6. Rocky Mountain Fusion MTB
7. Gt- GTB track
8. Marinoni track 90's
9. Marinoni track 80's

1. Training wheel bike. I remember a sticker saying "Jammer"
2. Black BMX style Huffy
3. Frankenstein BMX bike that I bought from a neighbor for $10 at a yard sale. Mid 90's Schwinn Predator frame, GT forks, Araya rims, mini Boss handlebars, some three piece crank.
4. Diamondback MTB (Christmas gift when I was in 6th grade, sold it a month before I went to college for $50)
5. Mongoose Motivator (Christmas gift when I was in 7th grade, gave it to my brother two months ago.)
6. Specialized Hardrock (Bought with money from a settlement after being in a head on accident, thinking of making it into a single speed)
7. Trek 5200 (College graduation gift in June.)

Blue tricycle
No name bike with coaster brake/training wheels
5 speed Toys R Us Bike
21 gear Toys R Us MTB
1986 Specialized Stumpjumper
1976 Centurion Super Le Mans -> Converted to Fixed Later
Bianchi Pista
Bianchi Veloce
Fuji Track Pro
Cannondale R800

Rally "Predator" BMX
Roadmaster 24" mtb
early-'80s Mongoose mtb, all chrome, with awesome SR / Sakae components
'98 Mongoose IBOC SX mtb, later converted to ss
'98 Voodoo Bokor w/ full XT
'60s Schwinn cruiser (trashpicked)
'50s Wester Flyer cruiser
mid-'80s Schwinn BMX w/ Skyline mags! (trashpicked!)
'70s Schwinn Traveller (trashpicked!)
'70s Schwinn Varsity (trashpicked!) x3
'86 Miyata Team w/ full Record group
'86 Bianchi Strada LX converted to fixed (trashpicked!)
'02 IRO Highlander ss mtb
early '90s Miyata 914 converted to fixed
'06 IRO Angus