Cool bikes you’ve/I’ve given away

[Yaldie]

Gave away two recently, 96 Zaskar to my brother. Always wanted a Zaskar, it road lovely but I am a specialized fan and my brother is getting good use out of it.

The regretful one was an m2 sworks 92 purple haze. I gave it to a fellow retrobiker who had an emotional attachment to attaining one. Woke up the next day with mixed emotions of good deed versus regret, now it’s just the regret I remember as they don’t come along very often!

 

[BerthaPog]

In my pre-Retrobike era, gave away my owned since new ‘91 Fire Mountain for very good and sensible reasons - I wasn’t using it, and a son of a friend of a relative needed transport to college.

Now have “copy” of it, less the Mint Sauce & X-Lite stickers. That will not be given away.

 

[rentedmule]

Sometimes I buy a bike cheap and sell a few good parts to recoup the money, so I don't mind giving one away every now and then.

I 'restored' a Trek 6000 and gave it to my lab manager this Christmas. She was riding some old Giant that seemed to be made of cast iron. The Trek ended up being 25.5 lbs, so it was a nice upgrade:

2024-12-03 18.54.40 by Rented Mule, on Flickr

I gave a Planet-X Compo to my buddy 5 or 6 years ago (he still has it). I stripped, powder-coated black, and put new decals on it but don't have a post-rebuild pic:

tysbike2 by Rented Mule, on Flickr

IMG-20130216-00186 by Rented Mule, on Flickr

I also gave a KHS Team to a friend who lost his classic Kona in a barn fire. It had a SID on it and at some point I had it down to <22 lbs:

KHS by Rented Mule, on Flickr

 

[Boron]

One of the first things I did on this forum was give away an '88 Rockhopper frame/forks/stem/bars etc. To me, 'cool' was mid/late 90s stuff so I didn't think it would generate much interest. Someone really wanted the stem so I agreed to sell that separately, got told I broke forum rules, then got in a complete muddle with who I'd offered what to, tried to undo the mess but still managed to pee off several members.

I took it as a sign from God that giving stuff away is bad, so now I put a 75% markup on everything to keep people happy.

 

[bikeworkshop]

I can think of quite a few cases where A has given something of value to B, but C,D and E all thought they should have got it!

Several bicycles and rare parts too.

Surprisingly common with personal items from a deceased estate!

 

[TreaderSteve]

I bought gt tequesta some years ago; it was cheap and I didn't really want it.

I put it up on here for free - some guy who will remain nameless asked for it, turned up and didn't even say thanks.

Classy.

That was a long trip from Barcelona for a free Tequesta!