What mountain bikes did you own BITD?

[SantasLoneCruzer]

1989 - specialized hardrock sport…..”upgraded” it at the time with LX and Quadra 10’s, thought I was the mutts nuts. Later upgraded the brakes to XT V brakes!
2001 - specialized stumpjumper FSR.
2006 - Santa Cruz superlight mk2 (stolen).
2009 - Santa Cruz superlight mk3 (stolen).
2010 - Trek Top Fuel.
2014 - Whyte 901? fully rigid.
2015 - Santa Cruz superlight (again).
2017 - Santa Cruz 5010 mk2.

Current retro rides:
Gary Fisher pro calibre ‘95/96 - complete.
GT RTS Team 94’ - in build.

 

[DesertRyder]

Sometime in the later 80's and into the 90's.

1st - New. a box store MTB of un-remembered brand for a commuter
2nd - Used. 198? Schwinn High Sierra in black chrome. Had the chainstay U-brake.
3rd - Used frame. Self built. 1985 Mongoose ATB with a Trek DS2 fork
4th - Used Mongoose MGX D50i. My first full suspension
5th - Used KHS DJ 200

Those bikes are all gone but have been replaced with a new set of vintage MTBs from BITD

 

[al-onestare]

I'll play this one again.

1988 Raleigh Maverick (not the Porsche)

1995 (nicked), 1996 (nicked) and 1997 Kona Cinder Cone (finally broke in 2008/9).

 

[Tootyred]

post trackies.....

86 saracen toughtrax ..... boat anchor, but fun.
89 team marin......still have it, she's here in the kitchen with me as we speak.
91 profex.....lasted 6 months, pile of poo.
91on...see 89....

 

[jimo746]

Early 90's Claud Butler "Magna" (Grattan/Marshall Ward catalogue special)
1993 Orange Prestige (via post-dated cheques to Leisure Lakes in Bury )
2000 GT i-drive.

 

[wynne]

My first was in 1986 and it was a Peugeot Ranger. I reckon it weighed more than my three modern mountain bikes put together. Terrible canti brakes on chromed steel rims that gave only a suggestion of slowing down, gears higher than a modern road bike, tyres with no grip etc. I loved it. Used to carry it miles up welsh mountains. Made me the man i am today.

 

[minor_LEGEND]

90 Raleigh mirage
91 GT Talera
92 DiamondBack Apex
95 Mongoose Iboc zeroG
97 Voodoo Erzulie 8sp

Those were the bikes from my teenage years. Anything after that doesn't feel like it counts.

 

[Siish]

A 93 ??? Muddy fox alu sport in anodized purple, Fred salmon bar ends and stx groupset,

Another mid 90s muddy fox sorcerer pro

Kirk revolution

1 from Lincoln factory warehouse ( frame was so heavy think the fram was solid bars and not tubes)

Plus a few catalogue specials

 

[thegrouch]

1988 Raleigh Lizzard
1990 Carrera Krakatoa
1992 Ridgeback 601GS
1994 Parkpre something or other…
1996 Pace RC200 F2 (sold to pay for a gearbox for a golf gti and regretted it the instant it went)
1989 (?) Kona Cindercone (splatter paint one) that my dad found in a skip! Still got it now.
Current bikes:
Pace RC200 F2
Pace RC200 F3 frame
89 Cindercone
2005 Maverick ML7
2017 Whyte T130 C Works.

 

[Ren Rawbor]

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I then saved up and bought a really lovely giant. I can't remember the model but it had full dx and a pearlescent purple, blue, pink paint job which was stunning. Sadly after it's maiden proper ride I cleaned it up so as good as new and it got stolen later that day. The following day my 531 framed Peugeot aravis 105 groupset bike got stolen.

Escaper? If so, you don't happen to have a record of the frame number do you? Very unlikely but if the one I rescued from the local tip is a match I'd love to reunite a bike with it's rightful owner. The only reason I have any suspicion as to it's provenance is the fact it was barely used & sans-wheels. Just throwing it out there in case haha