Bike Ownership

Have you ever thought about how many bikes you have owned over the course of your life, I just did. The list below is all the bikes I can remember but I kind of feel like there was more. I only included the bikes I actually rode about and loved (or didn't love) and had a relationship with, stuff I acquired and did up and sold on I didn't include.

The bikes I have owned to date are; 

Husky 12inch wheel brand unknown with basket on the front

Raleigh Mini 16inch Burner yellow and blue

Raleigh Mustang 20inch wheel 5 speed first wave of mtbs

Peugeot CPX 100, yellow mags

Raleigh Burner round tubes chrome, black tuff 2s

Raleigh Burner oval tubes chrome, black Araya rims

Diamond Back Silverstreak, gold components, retrospectively fitted gyro

Dyno Comp, Rob Ridge mega brake

PK Ripper, ball burnished loop tail 1982 ish

Dyno Slammer, first bike I owned with a diacomp 990 u brake

Homeless Player, awesome flatland steez

twin top tube Ammaco, no money option after snapping yet another frame

Hoffman Condor, chrome with orange flame graffix, dope

S and M Dirt Bike yellow, sketchy

Redline Freestyler, awful

Mongoose Expert, canti brake lug snapped off and forced me to be brakeless

Hoffman Deebo, continued the brakeless thing, heavy as hell with super forks

WTP KH01, first we the people frame they made

Standard Industries STA, the strongest BMX ever made?

another S and M Dirt Bike, classic (reissue)

S and M LAF, dope new wave thing, the first truly modern BMX

Kink Issue sean sexton, burly in times of weakness

The Make The Count, the ultimate frame with Newcastle livery, repping my boy Chris Lee

Raleigh Stonefly, cookie nearly died riding it down the stairs, rehab knee fitness rides

yellow Chopper copy with radial 20s and extended fork, beach cruising

KHE Cat Weasel russian prototype, good flatlander

GT Peace 29r (chromoly), 2006, first year of production 29rs

Fuji Crosstown, terrible 700c commuter but it became my first fixed gear experiment when it fell apart

Raleigh Record Ace 531c, gold, dope and fast

unknown 531 thing in blue, really nice fixed gear, good tight geometry, un-compliant fork

EAI Bareknuckle, still riding it as my winter bike 6 years on, ultra tight and fiercely responsive track geometry

Peugeot Premiere 53cm, too small for me but a fun fixed gear

Kona Honky Tonk, steel road bike for hill climbing commute when I lived out the back of beyond past Whickham

Scott steel mtb, with Kona project 2 forks

Cube Acid, 26inch wheels, current mtb, 1 by 9 gearing with a chain device for jumping and Shimano br-445s for stopping

Peugeot Premiere 58cm, fixed gear bike path and singletrack slayer

Giant rock rigid 5spd int gear hub 26

Claude Butler Stoneriver, singlespeed rigid aluminium pub bike

1938 BSA 821A, cruiser 3spd sturmey archer, proper vintage chiller

39 Bikes and counting.

1 for every year I've been alive and 5 to spare.

Compared with an estimated billion plus bicycles present in the world at this time this figure of 39 doesn't look that ridiculous. Most of my bikes have been pretty beaten up, or they certainly all end up that way eventually. I was toying with the idea of getting a carbon road bike soon, I'll try and look after it.

STA 2000

BSA 1938

Kink Issue 2011

Giant Rock 2008

Peugeot Premiere 1986