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Old 08-26-06, 11:30 AM
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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Is anyone actually going to read [insert names] list of bikes?
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Probably not, but it feels good putting them down.
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Is anyone actually going to read [insert names] list of bikes?
hey darkcloud, ive read 'em all.. love it.. keep them coming
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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

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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

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

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Old 08-26-06, 01:18 PM
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Some of you guys have amazing memories.
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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.
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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)
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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
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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-
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Sloppy. List your bicycles.
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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
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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
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What year mini-ripper? I love those bikes. My brother had one from '86 and it was the best thing ever.
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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)
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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
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