Old bike/Mad bikes..........
Here are the obscure bikes i have had / still have. Its funny, I never actually thought about it but I have had quite a few weird / very rare bikes. In fact most bikes I have had were rare.
First Dh bike back in 2000 was a Raleigh DHO. Bought off one of the Irish Team (John Lawlor) from back then complete with a Fox twin clicker, cracked Marzocchi MR T's, Hope C2's and Michelin DH soft tyres. It got stolen at university. No actual pics of the bike but it looked like this.
After the DHO was stolen I needed a new steed and this came up, Remec Dh pro. Carbon front end made by Elan (Maker of Snowboards and skis) and Risse racing rear end. Was a pretty good bike but was too small for me. At one stage I had some 2002 Red Dorados on it but I don't think I have any pics of that.
Got a bit sick of the small size of the Remec so I got a Foes DHS Mono ex race team bike. Initially it had the Dorados on it but I changed to 2005 888RC and the Curnutt was the bidnitz
Next came a brief (2 rides) ride on an Ancillotti DHP. Didnt get on with it so i got rid....Guy sold it to me as was in the picture, 1 crank and 1 pedal?Spastic
Rode a demo for a bit but then the opportunity came up to buy the bike I have always wanted, Brooklyn Machine Works Racelink! Bought it as is below from the uk importer ( It was his own bike and not well looked after)
Rode it for about 3 weeks and cracked the rear end, rode it in Whistler 6 months later and cracked the front end. Got replacement front and rear ends and built it again like this
Looked waaay better in real life, I painted it myself. Then guess what, cracked the fucker again! This time another rear end. That was the end of it (Plus it was really small) Sold the bastard and got a V10 in large which was the sweetest bike I've had.
Then sold that to do a masters in London (Read expensive) and got a Curtis Thumpercross. The Thumpercross was a stupidly designed Huck to flat bike made with a T45 front end and a RISSE rear end. 15.5" bb and 68 or so HA with the stock shock. But I thought that if I stuck a shorter shock on it it would make a decent short travel bike to ride in Uni which it did but it was again too small.
I still have the Curtis and I'm planning to use the Risse rear end in a Carbon fibre DH frame project but thats another story.
Last but not least!
My mate turned up to my house about a year ago with one of these in the back of the van!
Its a fully original 1997 Sintesi Bazooka Corrado Herin replica with all of the original parts. He told me that a bin man that he knows found it left out with rubbish bins on the side of a road out in the middle of nowhere!. The guy thought it looked good so he kept it but left it lying out in the rain for about 2 years and then decided that he wanted to ride with us so wanted someone to fix it up. Its been in my garage for about a year as the guy hasn't been back for it.