Your personal bike history

[bridgestone1]

Thought it might be fun to list all the bikes I've owned since I became a serious recreational cyclist in 1978 following a trip to Martha's Vineyard. Here goes and I invite others here to do the same:

Raleigh Grand Prix 1978-1985 (wrecked)

Bridgestone 400 1985-1990 (wrecked)

Centurian 1990-1992 (wrecked)

Diamondback 1992-2000 (traded in)

Lemond Buenos Aires 2000-2000 (traded in)

Lemond Zurich 2000-2001 (traded in)

Trek 2200 2001-2009 (wrecked)

1990 Bridgestone RB-1 2001-2015 (sold)

Trek 2.3 2009-present

1993 Bridgestone RB-1 2015-present

I've never owned more than 2 bikes at one time. One guy I ride with claims he once owned 22 bikes. Now he's down to a paltry 7.

[buddybikes]

Start in 1974 - Flandria Professional - first gen Dura Ace
1975 - Built my first frame at framebuilding class in Somerville MA (Tanguy cycles
1981 - Built my second frame replaced first one - touring bike
1982 - DeRosa -
1998 - Fischer mt Tam
1989 - Kestrel 4000
1997 est - Kestrel 200 ems
1999 - Fat Chance Ti
2003 - custom Bilenky tandem 26" road (anyone interested?)
2004 - Bilenky tandem show bike -aermet 200 (anyone interested?)
2007 new kestrel to replace crashed one
2009 - Specialized Roubaix sl2
2013 - Firefly carbon/ti

done perhaps for life...

[Black Dog]

You have wrecked a lot of bikes!

Originally Posted by bridgestone1

Thought it might be fun to list all the bikes I've owned since I became a serious recreational cyclist in 1978 following a trip to Martha's Vineyard. Here goes and I invite others here to do the same:

Raleigh Grand Prix 1978-1985 (wrecked)

Bridgestone 400 1985-1990 (wrecked)

Centurian 1990-1992 (wrecked)

Diamondback 1992-2000 (traded in)

Lemond Buenos Aires 2000-2000 (traded in)

Lemond Zurich 2000-2001 (traded in)

Trek 2200 2001-2009 (wrecked)

1990 Bridgestone RB-1 2001-2015 (sold)

Trek 2.3 2009-present

1993 Bridgestone RB-1 2015-present

I've never owned more than 2 bikes at one time. One guy I ride with claims he once owned 22 bikes. Now he's down to a paltry 7.

[eddief]

35 since the year 2000. interesting to see from my signature where i ended up. on the Roubaix today. all good.

[bart998]

Peugeot UO8
Windsor Pro (SP)
Follis (531)
Italvega Super Speciale (SL)
Woodrup Star Trophy (531 SL)
Pinarello Treviso (SL)
Klein (Alu)
Dean (Alu)
Gianni Motta Personal 2001 (SLX)
Dean (Ti)
*Masi GC (531)
*Merckx Gran Prix (753)
*Dawes (531)
*Pride (Ti)
*Land Shark (Carbon)
*Serotta HSG (Carbon)

* (denotes still owned)

[Jaq]

Motebecane Grand Touring, 1981 - 1985
Trek 760, 1984-1996
Waterford 1200 1996 - present
Fuji Feather 2014 - present

[victoryfactory]

~1974 Atala
~1974 Zeus
~1980 Masi
~1981 Benotto
~1990's Trek, Cannondale
Litespeed arenberg and Tuscany

2000 Serotta Atlanta
2003 Serotta Legend Ti
~2010 Look 555
~2010 Serotta atx rigid steel mtb (project)
~2009 Lynsky cross

(Couple of mtb's along the way)

All are gone now except the serottas. A few are still being ridden by friends.

VF

[SlowPokePete]

1987 Cannondale SR500 - still being ridden.

198X Kuwahara mountain bike, given away. First mtb.

199X Cannondale Super V - prototype, given to me by a friend who was an engineer at C'Dale, given away to a HS kid about 20 years ago. Wish I still had it.

199X Devinci mountain bike, bought in Canada while on vacation.

200X Santa Cruz Hecker

2005 Ellsworth Truth

2007 Ellsworth Evolve (first 29er)

Niner One9 (first singlespeed)

Ventana El Commandante

Jamis Xenith Pro (still have frame, need to sell this)

2010 Ibis Hakkalugi

2007 Parlee Z3

2013 Kona Raijin (singlespeed)

2013 Ventana El Rey

First, and last four, make up the current stable.

SPP

[mcteague]

Not sure of the exact dates.

Road
1972 Raleigh Grand Prix (stolen)
1974 Gitane Interclub (handed down to younger brother)
1976 Proteus (sold)
1980? Condor Italia (hit by car)
1985 Eddy Merckx Pro (sold)
1990 Spectrum Road Ti (sold)
2001 Seven Axiom (still have)
2013 Seven 622 SLX (still have, of course!)

Mt
Schwinn Hi Sierra (sold)
Specialized Team Stumpjumper (sold)
Klein Mantra Race (sold)
Giant Anthem X 29er(sold)

Tim

[oldpotatoe]

Gitane
Junne
Ciocc(still have)
Simoncini
Derosa Primato
DeRosa Giro
DeRosa Professional
DeRosa 1972 Replica
Nobilette
Nobilette(hit by car on first one)
Waterford Stainless
Waterford R-22
Merckx MXLeader(4)-still have one
Merckx Corsa(still have-50th ann group-hanging in Vecchio's)
Moots fixie-converted to der bike(still have)
Moots Vamoots with 80th Ann group(still have-hanging in Vecchio's)

For the Nobilette's and Waterford, when owning the shop, big believer in riding what ya sell, hence the Nobilette and Waterfords.

[dsimon]

Well Considering I was born in 73,

1980ish 1 green Schwinn stingray with sissy bars mag wheels and a banana seat.
Gitane
Centurion LeMans RS/Black and Yellow
Basso Hot pink
serotta csi
Steelman
Serotta TI
Parlee

[Brian Cdn]

1953 Torpado
1958 Bauer Cross
1962 Torpado
1971 Raleigh Pro
1972 Atala
1980 Cambio Rino (two of these, 1st crushed by car)
* 1982 Marinoni Special
1984 Marinoni Crit
1989 DeRosa Pro
2002 Aquila
2005 Specialized M4
2008 Felt F55
2009 Pinarello Prince
2009 Garneau TT
* 2012 Lynskey Helix
* 2015 Masi 3VC

* still have

[Avincent52]

Three. Still have them all

Circa 1961 Steel Fiorelli Road bike (Campagnolo Grand Sport, tubulars, my 8th grade graduation present)
Circa 1979 Serotta Custom (Columbus SP, Campagnolo Super Record/Cinelli/Regal/Mavic/Clement, my college graduation present)
Alpinestars Mountain Bike (Shimano Deore XT)

and on the way
2010 Specialized Tarmac SL, Campagnolo Chorus/Record/???

[fuzzalow]

Had to give this some thought as I've never listed the entire progression as a curriculum vitae as it were for the whole nine yards. An entire lifetime of cycling summed up into a tossed-off paragraph! Anytime one does this there is always the lookback that maybe one could have done more!

Only one or two comments that might keynote some of what's happened here:

• Every bike was bought new except the '70's-era DeRosa Professional which was bought as a collector bike from Mike Kone which I rode anyway
• Every custom bike is denoted by the builders full name and I am the original client commission for every custom bike listed
• There was about a 7-year hiatus from cycling in that timeline when at a point I got serious about my career and the profession's time demands were "non-negotiable". Wasted time where I coulda bought more bikes!
• I have a great affinity for Italian bici

1. Raleigh Gran Sport
2. Paris Sport Dave Moulton custom
3. Colnago Super
4. Francisco Cuevas custom
5. Olmo Competition
6. Serotta Team 7/Eleven Murray
7. Cinelli Supercorsa
8. DeRosa Professional (?)
9. Masi 3Volumetrica
10. Klein Mantra MTB (my one and only foray into MTB)
11. Colnago C-40
12. DeRosa King
13. Roland DellaSanta custom
14. Cinelli Supercorsa
15. Pegoretti Luigino
16. DeRosa Corum
17. Bianchi EV3
18. Bianchi EV-Ti
19. Colnago C-50
20. Dario Pegoretti Marcelo custom
21. Sacha White Vanilla custom
22. Bruce Gordon custom
23. Kent Eriksen custom
24. Brompton

[bridgestone1]

Originally Posted by Black Dog

You have wrecked a lot of bikes!

I have, but none of the wrecks were serious, though the impact was enough to bend the frames. The seat stays of the Trek 2200 got destroyed when I tried to shift up from a chain drop. It wrecked not only the seat stays, but the rear derailleur as well. That folly produced a tangled mess. Then I got the Trek 2.3. Despite a couple crashes, it remains intact.