Bikes You Wished You Never Sold

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  1. pperrelle

    pperrelle iMTB Rockstah

    Location:
    Oracle, AZ
    Name:
    Paul
    Current Bike:
    Ripley V4 & Ripmo V2
    Wish that I would’ve kept my Psycle Werks Wild Hare for none other than nostalgia reasons. It was my first full suspension bike and was designed and manufactured by a local Laguna Beach company.

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  2. Runs with Scissors

    Runs with Scissors iMTB Hooligan

    Location:
    West Anaheim
    Name:
    Mark Whitaker
    Current Bike:
    Giant XTC with pedals
    Now you've done it. :facepalm::p
     
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  3. herzalot

    herzalot iMTB Hooligan

    Location:
    Laguna Beach
    Name:
    Chris
    Current Bike:
    2020 Revel Rail,Yeti SB 130 LR
    Love that stem! That's what all of my stems looked like until my Knolly in 2013. I think my longest stem was a 150 on a Trek. 135 was normal and 120 was short. I think I was running 90 mm on my Yeti 575s with their looong (at the time) top tubes. 70 mm on my Knolly and Tracer and now that top tubes and reach have finally gotten longer, a 40mm on my Megaplower.

    Oh, and if I recall, the guy who ran Rainbow Cycles in LB was the guy who built the Psycle Werks. The bikes were cool, but he was a grouchy dude.
     
  4. Sidewalk

    Sidewalk iMTB Rockstah

    Location:
    The road is where I call home
    Name:
    Josh
    Current Bike:
    N+1
    Only regret I have is not having enough insurance to cover my Stolen XC bike. I loved the bike, it treated me well and I failed it FAR more times than it failed me (never that I can remember). But I did want to replace it with something that was a better fit for me, and easier to maintain long term. I just got the check for it two days ago, enough to buy a decent used replacement. But I am going to wait since XC season is cancelled anyway. I will wait until the market is flooded with bikes people are trying to dump.

    Otherwise, as a guy who started cycling only recently, and only started riding decent bikes even more recent, no regrets. I haven't gone through many.

    I have some parts/frames I want to get rid of because I have no space for them. But, I really want to keep my 1985 Bridgestone and return it to stock condition instead of my modern roadie...but the modern roadie is so damn good. And I still have my childhood BMX bike, but what am I going to do with an early 80's BMX that was never raced?

    First bike I ever bought was a 1998 Outpost in Ketchikan Alaska. I barely rode it, I wasn't a cyclist until 2012'ish, didn't start MTB until 2015.
     
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  5. pperrelle

    pperrelle iMTB Rockstah

    Location:
    Oracle, AZ
    Name:
    Paul
    Current Bike:
    Ripley V4 & Ripmo V2
    Yep, and I think the bars were somewhere around 600mm’s wide, maybe less.....
     
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  6. mtnbikej

    mtnbikej J-Zilla

    Location:
    Orange
    Name:
    J
    Current Bike:
    SC Chameleon SS, SC Hightower
    whoa......DH bars back then.
     
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  7. Oaken

    Oaken Well-Known Member

    Location:
    OC
    Name:
    CeeJay
    My first “real” mountain bike. A rigid, steel, Diamondback Accent HT. That bike just got me. The Loop, the Luge, Rock-it, Santiago peak - many first trails were on that bike.
    After I had moved on, the garage had gotten crowded and I gave it away to a friend. Always kind of regretted it.
    Years later, I was helping him move. ‘Hey do you want that bike back?’
    Heck yeah I did. It’s still fun to ride.
     
  8. konakc

    konakc iMTB Rockstah

    Name:
    kc
    So I sold all my bikes so that I could buy a new bike. But now I have no bike.. and the Ripmo is still not here...
    thank God I have a loaner....
     
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  9. shawndoh

    shawndoh Well-Known Member

    Location:
    Lake Forest
    Name:
    shawn
    Current Bike:
    I ride all the bikes!
    Nothing yet. I've always sold em to get a new one, which have always been an improvement.
    Will see how long the economy takes to hire me back, my bikes could go on sale!
     
  10. Sasquatch9billion

    Sasquatch9billion iMTB Rockstah

    Name:
    trinidad j. mendez
    I’m torn on whether I want to sell this one or keep it as a loaner bike.

    I saw @hill^billy posted theirs for sale and am impressed, I wasn’t sure what to ask for mine.

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  11. Dr. Wellington Yueh

    Dr. Wellington Yueh Member

    Location:
    Northridge, CA
    Name:
    Tom Kenney
  12. skyungjae

    skyungjae Member

    Location:
    Fullerton, CA
    Name:
    Kyung Jae
    Current Bike:
    2015 Santa Cruz Bronson C
    A lot of you guys miss your Stinkys. I miss mine too.

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  13. buggravy

    buggravy iMTB Addict

    Location:
    Calabasas
    Name:
    Matt
    Current Bike:
    Transition Sentinel
    Wait, I feel like this is the less important part of a 2 part story. I know you were plotting a new bike. Has there been a NBD, or is one imminent?
     
  14. Sasquatch9billion

    Sasquatch9billion iMTB Rockstah

    Name:
    trinidad j. mendez
     
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  15. herzalot

    herzalot iMTB Hooligan

    Location:
    Laguna Beach
    Name:
    Chris
    Current Bike:
    2020 Revel Rail,Yeti SB 130 LR
    Intense Tracer 275.
     
  16. Faust29

    Faust29 Moderator

    Location:
    irgendwo
    Name:
    B. Bunny
    Current Bike:
    I gots some bikes.
    No explanation needed... :thumbsdown:
     
  17. Redman

    Redman iMTB Rockstah

    Location:
    Henderson, Nv
    Name:
    Kevin
    Current Bike:
    SC OG Hightower 29'r
    Second year Ellsworth Truth. Circa 1998. That bike was hand built by me. Picked all the components and built her up. Got a little help lacing the wheels up. But, other than that it was all me. Sub 23 lbs.

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  18. da big hills

    da big hills iMTB Rockstah

    Location:
    pearl harbor
    Name:
    cagey
    Current Bike:
    enduro 29
    did not sell it, broke it on an Indian Burial Ground. life time warrantied. Traded cash for a 2007 Enduro. The Trek was the flying V. This bike could FLY. The
    Enduro was the bike that set the standard for all bikes are still made. Classic down tube ovalized. Now everyone does it, made total design sense, if you could afford to get the aluminum or carbon to that shape. by 2007 you could. My 29er has the same base frame shape, just a more efficient rear shock placement

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  19. Runs with Scissors

    Runs with Scissors iMTB Hooligan

    Location:
    West Anaheim
    Name:
    Mark Whitaker
    Current Bike:
    Giant XTC with pedals
    Plenty of times I wish I'd kept this one....Trek Mamba 3x9 go anywhere, any time machine - this was on the Tour de Palm Springs century.

    Don't ya just love the roadie's expression????

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  20. Faust29

    Faust29 Moderator

    Location:
    irgendwo
    Name:
    B. Bunny
    Current Bike:
    I gots some bikes.
    Hey... This is the "sold" bikes thread. :p
     
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  21. Runs with Scissors

    Runs with Scissors iMTB Hooligan

    Location:
    West Anaheim
    Name:
    Mark Whitaker
    Current Bike:
    Giant XTC with pedals
    I "sold" it for zero dollars...that counts!! :sneaky:
     
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  22. Sasquatch9billion

    Sasquatch9billion iMTB Rockstah

    Name:
    trinidad j. mendez
    Those Enduros were awesome!
     
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  23. solislbc

    solislbc Well-Known Member

    Location:
    Earth
    Name:
    El
    Current Bike:
    2001 GT Zaskar
    I’ll never get rid of my 2001 team zaskar. Last year made in Santa Ana. Has the Easton stamp on the top tube. I love that thing.
     
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