20th Anniversary
It was 20 years ago today (I think) that I bought my first MTB. It wasn’t my first foray off-road, I’d already spent a couple of years riding a converted road-bike round endless laps of Rainbow Woods.
Originally I wanted a Saracen Tufftrax but wasn’t allowed to buy that and had to get a 23" Raleigh Memphis from Hares in Moorland Road, now The Velo Lounge. I had it for two years, broke one frame, bent a set of forks, but rode it everywhere until I replaced it with the first of two Alpinestars bikes.
I’ve now owned 13 different MTBs over the years:
- Raleigh Memphis
- Alpinestars Cro-Mega (x2)
- Orange Clockwork
- Univega 704
- On-One Inbred
- Cove Stiffee
- Planet-X Jack Flash
- Craftworks FRM125
- Kona Kaboom
- Kona Unit
- On-One 456
- Trek 69er
9 of those are still in my possession in one form or another.
May 22nd, 2009 at 8:22 pm
If inly you had been allowed to by the Tufftrax things might have been so different? I blame your Mother! And does that list include all those stolen bikes at Leeds Uni? 2 in 3 weeks at one stage I seem to recall. And my insurance had to keep buying the next model up because the equivalent had been discontinued!
May 22nd, 2009 at 10:36 pm
It was the two Alpinestars bikes that got stolen, the Orange Clockwork was the final replacement.