Machka 

Can you remember all the bicycles you have ridden from the time you got on a bicycle as a kid? Just for fun, reach back into your memory and see if you can come up with the list.



Bicycles I have ridden

• Red tricycle
• Gold convertible girl/boy bicycle (single speed)
• Red step-through "girl's" bicycle with basket (single speed)
• Red "boy's" bicycle (single speed) - this was a 1950s bicycle handed down to me by my father
• White ten speed - built up by my father
• Silver ten speed - built up by my father
• Blue ten speed - my mother's bicycle, but I rode it sometimes. My parents had a matching set of blue ten speeds, but when they got the tandems they often rode those and I rode my mother's blue ten speed
• Gitane tandem - green, late 1970s
• Gitane tandem - blue, early 1980s
• Venture ten speed - gold, mid-1980s - I still have this bicycle and rode it thousands of kilometres between the mid-1980s and late 1990s. Rowan converted it to a fixie in 2006 and he has ridden it a little bit
• Maruishi ten speed - blue, late 1980s - this was my father's bicycle for years, but when my Venture started to show signs of wear, he gave me the Maruishi to use and I rode it for a few years. Rowan borrowed the Maruishi when visiting me in 2008, and rode it on our wedding century
• Cannondale - red, very small. Too small, and I sold the Cannondale to a shorter friend who loved it
• Giant OCR3 - 2000 model - good little bicycle but it only had a double chainring and I wanted a triple. I traded it in for another Giant OCR3
• Giant OCR3 - 2002 model - good little bicycle with a triple chainring. I still have this one
• Mongoose Mountain bike - Walmart version - this bicycle was surprisingly comfortable and durable. I commuted year round with it for about 5 years
• Raleigh - borrowed from a friend in England on a 10-day visit there
• Recumbent 1 - can't remember the brand. A friend let me ride his recumbents. I have pictures so someone could probably tell me the brand
• Recumbent 2 - also can't remember the brand. See above
• Catrike - my father's recumbent trike
• Greenspeed tandem trike - a friend has one and we gave it a test ride
• Marinoni Ciclo - Machak. After 7 years and tens of thousands of kilometres of cycling all over the world. Machak was stolen 2 Easters ago
• GT Mountain bike - as a mountain bike and as a "frankenbike". Rowan converted into a road bicycle immediately after Machak was stolen so I could ride a 300K the next weekend. I still have this bicycle and it is awaiting a reconversion back to a mountain bike
• Red Postie Bike - Rowan picked up one of these from the tip and we've ridden it up and down the street
• Hasa Titanium - current long distance bicycle
• KHS Tandem - borrowed for several months
• Santana Arriva Tandem - current long and short distance bicycle
• Shogun - built up as a touring bicycle, but will be converted to a fixie
• Thorn Club Tour - brand new touring bicycle

I think that's all of them, although I'll probably sudden remember more while we're off riding this afternoon.

trevspeed

Boring......

pdxtex

hmmmm. lemme see.

plastic bigwheel
the "green machine"
metallic green schwinn stingray
schwinn varsity
columbia bmx cruiser 24" tires
miele mountain bike
fuji absolute 1985
some kind of shogun touring bike
trek 950 1992
gary fisher aquila 1995
lemond nevada city
jamis dakota
lemond zurich
trek 1000
gary fisher wahoo
kona paddy wagon
trek 2.1
thats it!

Rowan

Pretty well shows you lack of depth in cycling... and life.

chaulky61

Some sort of tricycle
Yellow two speed with banana seat and monkey bars
CCM "ten speed"
Norco "Monterey"
Giant OCR
Bianchi (circa 1982, with Suntour ARX- purchased at a Garage sale for $30.)
Specialized "Hard Rock"
Devinci Leo
Colnago Primavera
Colnago CX -1

fishymamba

uhhh...

Plastic trike
Two person trike(injured my self pretty badly on it, had to go to the ICU)
my uncles old bike(some super old walmart tipe bike)
Realmcycle MTB from a sporting goods store
Cannondale CAAD9

mechBgon

I'm a shop mechanic, so that list would be pretty large

Mike F

Unknown Trike
Blue Schwinn 3 speed with banana seat and a car type shifter on the top tube
Canary yellow Huffy 10 speed
Centurion BMX bike
1984 Schwinn Traveller
Raligh mtn Bike
Vitus 979
1995 Specialized Allez Epic - carbon with aluminum lugs
Jamis Mtn Bike
Felt Z-85
Scott CR1 Team

Machka 

A tandem trike? An upright one? That would be interesting.

fishymamba

Haha, yup that was a long time ago, when I was around 5. We loaded 5 people onto it and went down a hill(without brakes) straight into a huge pile of gravel.

alexaschwanden

magna mountain bike
rocket bmx bike
kmart junk mtb
diamondback bmx
misceo hybrid
windor stratford
caad10 2011
trek carbon mtb 9900 1995

mogwai

Plastic Big Wheel
Kmart bike with old school banana seat
1986 Diamond Back Cool Streak
2006 Trek 3700 MTB
2010 Trek 1.5

Kurogashi

Tricycle
Some small green bike.
Small red Walmart Supercycle
Trek Antelope I built for myself (my beater bike)
Caad10

+Test riding a bunch of customer bikes when I worked as a part time mechanic during the summer

LemondFanForeve

Hmmm.....

Maruishi road bike
Schwinn Le Tour
Gold road bike
Beater frankenbike(s)
Trek road bike
Specialized Allez
Bianchi Celeste
Beach cruiser

coasting 

i've ridden some hire bikes that i don't remember

roccobike

Hand me down tricycle
Hand me down 20" kids bike
Baronia balloon tire monster (first new bike)
73 Raleigh Record 10 speed
84 Ross Signature 290 (bought used in 06)
93 Fuji Club (bought used in 06)
96 Cannondale SR500 (bought used in 07) still have
06 Giant OCR-C3, bought new in 08, still ride
97 Lemond Maillot Juane (purchased 08) still have
93 Bianchi Campione (purchaed in 08)
01 Bianchi Campione (purchased in 09) still have
92 Schwinn Paramount (purchased on 2010) still have
I'm not including MTBs becaue that's a long list of bikes I bought, rode then flipped.

Machka 

Another Maruishi rider.

big chainring 

Raleigh Sports
Turin
Motobecane Grand Record 1972
Motobecane Le Champion 1974
Somec 1976
Schwinn Paramount Track
Rickert Track 1968
Raleigh Competition 1969
Rickert Road 1963
Schwinn Superior
Gitane Grand Sport Dlx.

Currently:
Peugeot UO-8 '74
REW Reynolds '70
Follis '72
Motobecane Mirage Sport 1984

telebianchi

Small red trike
Bigger aqua blue-green trike
(missing spot in bike memory)
Yellow three-speed with banana seat and monkey bars
Yellow bike turned into flat black bmx wanna-be
Black 10-speed
early 90's Bianchi Strada LX
'97 Specialized Ground Control full suspension
'99 Specialized Allez Sport, copper orange, ultegra
2003 Fuji Cross (still riding it)
2006 K2 Mod 4.0 (still riding it
2010 Schwinn Madison (still riding it)
2010 Giant Trance X4 (still riding it)
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cuda2k

various tricycles/'Big wheels'
Red Huffy BMX
Red '18sp' rigid mtb, K-mart inhouse brand of some sort if I recall - thought I was big stuff with 26" tires
1980 Schwinn Traveler (purchased 2005)
1986 Centurion Sport DLX (purchased 2005)
1981 Gazelle Champion Mondial AB-Frame (purchased 2005)
Flyte SRS-3
86 Schwinn Passage touring bike
86 Serotta Nova
1979 Gazelle Champion Mondial A-Frame
2006 Fuji Team Issue - WCS edition
Schwinn Crosscut - now converted to drop bars
Kirk Frameworks JKS-C

ridden, not owned:
Trek 1500 (rental in Colorado)
Centurion Ironman (too small, horrid components)
Palo Alto steel (loaner bike from forum member while on vacation)
Specalized Tarmac S-works (loaner from forum member while on vacation)
Wife's Townie Electra - in the snow/ice a few winters back

I think that's all of them. Probably test rode a few others, but nothing memoriable

Bearonabike

Fuji Esprit
Fuji S-10
Fuji S-10-S
Centurion Iron Man
KHS Tandem
Woodrup Team 75 (wasn't called that back then but it is the model name today)
Trek 1200
Jamis Aurora
Trek 7100
Giant Cyprus

Rowan

Well, why not list the bikes you've owned and ridden. With someone of your experience, it would be interesting to see the evolution of your riding preferences.

Machka 

Well Machak is back and we've just recently picked up Bike Fridays to add to the list.

I also took my father's mtn bike for a spin just recently too.

LesterOfPuppets

I'll probably have to edit this a time or two. Gonna try to keep them in order of acquisition. After the first three, just gonna keep it to bikes I put at least a thousand miles on.

Some kinda 2-wheeled toy bike
Red trike (wore out the front wheel so Dad had to put a garden hose on the front rim for my sister)
16" (I think) wheeled bike with rectangular tubing
Western Auto 20" bike
Huffy Santa Fe
10-speed with denim saddle cover
Yellow BMXer
1986 Takara MTB
1988 Mongoose Alta MTB
1983 (ish) Univega Super Special
1992 (ish) Bianchi Grizzly MTB
1988 Trek 400T
1996 Mongoose IBOC Zero G MTB
1973 (ish) Bianchi folding bike
1974 Schwinn Breeze 3-speed
1984 (ish) Pinarello Record
1969 Raleigh Sports 3-speed
1997 KHS Comp MTB
1960 ish Western Flyer Cruiser
1995 Novara MTB
1999 Trek 4000
1999 Diamondback Interval
1980 (ish) Free Spirit Sunbird
1995 ParkPre 825
1991 Raleigh Technium Pro
1990 (ish) Scapin
2001 Lemond Buenos Aires

jrossbeck

In order of acquisition

Tricycle
"Big wheel"
Something with training wheels
Something without training wheels
Raleigh Mag Shock freestyle bike (~'87)
Huffy Thunder Ridge ('94)
GT Timberline ('96)
Trek 7.3 FX ('13)
Trek Madone 2.1 ('14)
Specialized Allez ('02)