Your personal bike history

[veloduffer]

Originally Posted by Clean39T

Amateur —


Do I really have to kiss and tell?

I'm not even close to you!

[cmbicycles]

More or less timeline order as best I can remember.

Schwinn Hollywood
Generic BMX bike
Jazz Latitude
Trek 2100, first road bike
Specialized Allez Epic
Head Mtb, Yeti made, I think, elevated chainstays
Cannondale F1000, first bike I bought/built
04' Giant TCR, first Campy bike
04' Cannondale Scalpel
Trek 400-- had several incarnations... fixed, beater/commuter, road
Cannondale M300- kid hauler
Tomasso Slx
Lemond Victoire ti/carbon
Serotta Legend **$
Serotta CX - I believe Wesian is still enjoying this one
Burley Duet Tandem
Giant TCR Advanced **
Giant Trinity A1
Litespeed Saber
Merckx/Caloi Motorola team bike
Merckx MXL **$
Niner Rip9
Salsa Spearfish
Kona Heihei
Niner One9**$
Giant XTC advanced 29er**$
Intense Sniper Trail**

Bikes marked ** are still hanging around, though a few are currently listed for sale here and elsewhere.

[weisan]

Originally Posted by cmbicycles

Serotta CX - I believe Wesian is still enjoying this one

yes sir!

I am keeping it for two reasons. 1) absolutely love the YELLOW paint and 2) I promise there will ALWAYS be a Serotta living in the household. This is the only one left.

[CAAD]

Just the road road bikes.

Picked up my first road bike just to try it out in 2009:
1987 Schwinn le tour *sold

Then I got the itch:
2010 CAAD9-4 *sold
2015 Supersix Evo hm *sold
2018 English V3
2019 Checking sl6
2019 English S1
2021 English gravel

[sailorkevin]

Just saw this old thread and thought it would be fun (at the age of 68) to try to remember all of them. A sure sign that I have way too much time on my hands.

28 bikes: 9 New, 19 used

1. 1960s era: Schwinn generic 20 incher. Hand me down from older brother. Dad had it converted to imitation Sting Ray as a birthday gift (embarrassed not to have a real Sting Ray)
2. 1960s era: Schwinn generic 20 incher. I converted to imitation trick bike (first bike I painted). Took a header over a golf course bunker and the bike was toast
3. 1960s-70s era: Schwinn Collegiate. First new bike I bought with my own (paper route) money. I splurged on the Bendix 2 speed ‘kick back’ hub. I recall it cost $55 brand new. Rode it all the way through college.

Long, long gap through college, early adulthood, early career

5. 1990: Huffy “10 speed” hybrid type bike. Bought his and hers models at a K-Mart for about $75 each.
6. 1992: Trek 400 Multi-track, first bike of modern generation with indexed shifting (thought it was magic) and first bike purchased from a real bike shop. Cost $400, which I thought was a one-time only indulgence.
7. 1994: Bianchi Veloce, first new road racing bike (got me hooked). Cost $1,100 and I thought that would be a one-time indulgence. Started crit racing with that bike at the tender age of 40. Progressed up to the local “B” group, then quit racing because I liked my body parts more or less in their designed position.
8. 1996: Specialized Allez. First aluminum bike and first bike on which I learned to do basic maintenance. After repeated flats, it finally occurred to me to replace the rim tape. Problem solved and I felt like a professional wrench.
9. 1996: Centurion. Used bike (started a trend of multiple bike ownership with stable of some newish and many older bikes)
10. 1998: Purchased the Bianchi Veloce back from the guy I sold it to (first of many attempts to correct a regretted sale).
11. 1999: Trek 6000 Mountain bike. Owned for 3 months. Discovered I did not like mountain biking
12. 2000: Generic (unbranded) aluminum road bike. I’m pretty sure it was a Raleigh platform. Bought the frame for almost nothing. First bike I built up from parts in the garage. Used it as a foul weather bike. First time I fell in love with downtube shifting.
13. 2002: Litespeed Classic. First titanium bike and first truly high-end road bike. Cost $2,500 from Colorado Cyclist which I thought was a one-time only indulgence.
14. 2003: Giant low end mountain bike owned for about 2 months. Forgot I did not like mountain biking.
15. 2005: Raleigh “Record Ace”. Along with the “International” this was a retro styled bike intended by Raleigh as a kind of commemorative version of their bikes from the 50s. May have been my first internet purchase. My first completely independent build from parts in the garage.
16. 2010 : Serotta CSi. First Campy build
17. 2012 : Serotta Fierté carbon and ti mix
18. 2015 : Specialized Allez
19. 2016 : Lynskey Viale. Still riding.
20. 2019: Giant Defy. First carbon bike and first (and only) disc brake bike. Purchased the wrong size (expensive mistake)
21. 2019: 1997 Cannondale R900. Always coveted Cannondales when I could not afford them. Had to have one.
22. 2020: 2008 Cannondale Synapse. This bike helped me discover that I needed to bump up to a larger size.
23. 2020: Pinarello Gavia. Reignited my love of classic steel bikes and began a period of increasingly irrational and redundant purchases of lugged steel bikes. Still riding.
24. 2020: Serotta Legend Ti. Still riding.
25. 2021: Pinarello Treviso. First attempt at a full restoration including DYI repainting. Turned out ok but learned how incredibly difficult it is to paint a bike in the garage.
26. 2022: Serotta CSi 25th Anniversary Edition. Still riding.
27. 2022: CIOCC Designer ’84. Still riding
28. 2022: Pinarello Sestiere
29. 2023: Serotta Atlanta 25th Anniversary. Still riding
30. 2023: Ritchey Road Logic (on order, expected in October)

Current stable: 6 bikes (4 steel and 2 titanium) with another steel bike on the way