Bikes you have possessed?

[taterguy]

1980 Schwinn
1991 Trek
1995 Trek
2001 Gary Fisher
2009 Trek

[kayakjohnny]

1. Now you're talking....

1960's AMF Hercules English Racer

1973 Schwinn Suburban

1975 Schwinn Le Tour

1978 Schwinn Spitfire

1983 Jamis Dakota

1984 Davidson Road Bike

1985 Mangusta Road Bike

1990 GT Chrome Roadster

2005 Jamis Dakota SC Comp

2011 Kestrel Talon SL

[HereSince1628]

2. my first bike was a late 40's early 50;s Sears/JC Higgins with 20" ? balloon tires

a bike I rescued from a rubbish pile in the city dump and rehabbed...didn't have a chain guard and it regularly ate the then popular cuffs of my blue jeans.

Inherited older brother's 58? Schwinn "racer" (not very racy)

67 Schwinn Varsity Tourist

84 Schwinn Voyager (seen low use since leaving grad school--it still a good ride)

[HeiressofBickworth]

15. Must have been the early 50's

I was given a JC Higgins. I was terribly disappointed as all the cool kids I went to school with had Schwins. I remember I had scabs on my knees for months until I learned to ride without falling. Bicycle riding is NOT one of my warm n'fuzzy memories of childhood.

[RebelOne]

22. My first bike was in the early '50s and I think it was a Schwin.

I named it Sylvester, so when I was riding I would shout "Hi, Ho Sylvester." Since I did not have a horse, I would not shout "Hi, Ho Silver", since at that time the Lone Ranger was my hero.

[RevStPatrick]

3. I had a red trike when I was little...

And then I got a red two wheeler with training wheels.
Then the training wheels came off.
Then I had a blue bike.
Finally, I had another red bike.

Now, I mostly walk or take the subway.

[Kali]

14. this is how my memory is too

red trike
blue two wheeler (girl's) with training wheels
training wheels off
some kind of blue stingray type girl's bike
black three speed
black ten speed
blue ten speed (I do remember it was a peugot)

now I ride a mule

[HopeHoops]

4. '68 Schwinn Stingray, '70 something Schwinn Typhoon, '80 Schwinn Sprint, and...

... whatever the hell my current mountain bike is. A buddy gave it to me when he bought a more expensive one. The first thing I did was take the clip pedals off and put on normal ones. I put new tires on it recently.

The Stingray had a banana seat and the fat flat-tread tire in the back. DAMN was that a hard tire to find!!! I used to chew through them with power skids. Let's just say that my father wasn't pleased when I wore one out.

The kids all have Schwinns too, but unfortunately they're made in China now. Still, the construction and components (like Shimano shifters) are far superior to shit like Huffy and the price is pretty close to the same. My wife's got a high-end racing bike we bought about 20 years ago. And then there are the tandems...

[aikoaiko]

5. Rockhopper Comp from 1988 was my prized possession.

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This is pic of someone else's rockhopper, but I loved that bike. I bounced all around northern Arizona on that thang.

Flagstaff is (was back then) the poor man's western Colorado.

[hifiguy]

6. Oh man.

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First bike I can remember was a 1963 Raleigh with 20" wheels.

After that, in chronological order

1964 Huffy 3-speed (26&quot

1968 Schwinn Sting Ray Ram's Horn Fastback 5-Speed that looked EXACTLY like this one except for the wheel reflectors



1969 Schwinn Varsity 10-speed which was the main bike of my teen years (mine had fenders, but this one's its twin otherwise)



A mutt Stingray style bike I used to ride to school which I bought from a friend

1973 Jeunet Franche Comte 10-speed

Then I got a Ford Club Van when I was 17

[hibbing]

8. Now that is a funky ride

Hi,
The Ram's Horn Fastback is pretty crazy looking. That shifter thing looks like a potential nutcracker. Schwinn Varsity's were a big seller for many years when I was younger.

My current ride is an older Trek FX 7.5, thing has treated me very well. I've turned it into a total commuter bike, so now I'm looking for a bike to just ride. I'm thinking of getting another Trek FX since this one has treated me so well.

Peace

[hifiguy]

9. I think that's why Schwinn only made that gearshift

available for a couple of years. Exceedingly high ball-crush factor. Never happened to me, though.

[hibbing]

10. ball-crush factor

Hehehe

[HarveyDarkey]

7. I'm not a demon

but if I were I wouldn't possess a bike

[RedCloud]

19. Right on! I once possessed a pronoun.

It's true!

[Ptah]

11. I don't remember.

[cliffordu]

12. Well...

Currently I have a 2012 Surly Ogre with a Rohloff rear hub. I ordered a Schmidt SON generator hub for the front wheel today.

It is a GREAT trekking bike. Rode it from Seattle to San Fran this fall.

1960 something Schwinn Jaguar - delivered THOUSANDS of Oakland Tribunes on it when I was a kid. Loved that bike. My idiot brother traded it for a Schwinn Stingray when I was in the army.

1950 something Murray boys bike- my first single speed.

1985 Specialized Stumpjumper- got this in 2009, IN MINT FUCKING CONDITION. still had the original tubes in the original tires.

1987 Bridgestone MB2
1989 Bridgestone MB2

2002 Spot single speed mountain bike
2003 Spot single speed cyclocross bike

2005 Surly Cross Check- I rode that one cross country....

And a bunch of other clunkers, old french touring bikes, flea market specials.

Never met a bike I didn't want to ride home that very moment.

[politicat]

13. Fewer than I thought...

- A frankenbike with a banana seat, ribbon streamers and a purple paint job that my father built
- 6 hand 'em around bikes while living on base (mil families back then rarely transported kid bikes from post to post; rather, bikes got passed around.)
- a late 70's ten speed (in the mid 80s) Schwinn that was stellar until I taco'ed a wheel and bent the frame on an unexpected pothole
- a 50s Schwinn cruiser (boy version) that I rode through grad school - was perfect in pancake flat Tempe. It looked like hell, but ran great.
- Mongoose stump jumper (needed gears again when I moved to the mountains, otherwise I might still be on the Schwinn flyer)
- 2011 KHS Tc150. I'm getting old; a step through is now a necessity given these hips and knees.

[PD Turk]

16. I had one of these

Wish I had kept it now, coolest bike ever made

[driver8]

17. I've got a 1989 Trek 850 that I love.

Just had it tuned up -- new tires...ready to roll!!

[dawg]

18. Mine came from Target.

It's green!

[Brother Buzz]

20. A couple of fifties middle weight schwinns

'64 Schwinn Varsity
'67 Motobecane
'58 Follis
'65 Peugeot
'68 Peugeot
'70 Paramount
'70 Homemade mountain bike (I made it in Marin County before they even became fashionable)
'72 Dawes
'75 Raleigh Carlton road bike
'76 Peugeot PRN-10 (now my son's fixie)
'?? a couple of Nishiki road bikes and one urban commuter
'?? Azuki single speed (number two ride these days)
'85 Trek road bike (son's project in pieces)
'?? Schwinn prelude (son's first road bike)
'?? Japanese Raleigh (son's current road bike)
'?? Atala
'?? early Specialized mountain bike
'?? Giant road bike (it just rolled in last week)
'?? Raleigh sprite (number one ride these days)
'55 Montgomery Ward skip tooth balloon tire girls bicycle.

Plus a whole bunch of bikes that parked around me before I rebuilt them and gifted them forward.

[Rambis]

21. Murray got stolen out of the garage day I bought it

got this

[handmade34]

23. a Honda CMT400

until I totaled it and now a TREK 7.3

[geardaddy]

24. mine

1974 Rollfast
1978 Raleigh Record
1998 Mongoose mtn bike
2005 Raleigh

[sgsmith]

25. Still have the

1986 Trek 420 double
2006 Trek 7.2 WSD