With constantly improving tech, mountain bikes don’t exactly age like fine wine. Still, it’s hard not to grow attached to your mountain bike. We spend hours customizing our builds to get exactly the fit, look, and performance we want, so why wouldn’t we hold onto our bikes for as long as possible?
For this survey we’re interested in knowing how old your oldest rideable — and ridden — mountain bike is.
Share a haiku (5-7-5) about your oldest mountain bike in the comments below. I’ll go first.
Hardcore hardtail once Now my bikepacking buddy Rust is now showing 😔
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Mar 24, 2024
Cook brothers and Hope adorned,
My first love, my Pace
Mar 25, 2024
It’s an old Fisher
Rides like a crazy dragon
I love it anyway
Mar 25, 2024
Mar 25, 2024
Went to so many new destinations and trails that the sentiment is too much to part with it. I treat it like a classic car. Occasionally cruise it around a smooth trail but only on Sundays.
Mar 25, 2024
Elite and crafted by Orange,
Born in '92.
Mar 26, 2024
Mar 28, 2024
Mar 29, 2024
Versus I desire to ride
Two distinct questions
Mar 26, 2024
Mar 25, 2024
Mar 25, 2024
Mar 27, 2024
Mar 29, 2024
Mar 24, 2024
Mar 25, 2024
But in the midwest I shred,
Love views from the Hightower.
Mar 25, 2024
Homegrown by Jay Dejesus
Lime Green Turned Drop Bars
Mar 24, 2024
Ultimate Gravel grinder
twenty pounds of love
Mar 27, 2024
Cannondale Rush my trail companion
429SL on long days
Mar 29, 2024
Litespeed forgives bumpy trails
Ti still rides smoothly
Mar 26, 2024
Trek Top Fuel Sixty-Niner
With a dropper post
Mar 28, 2024
Mar 28, 2024
Mar 25, 2024
Apr 1, 2024
It was my dream bike when young.
It is funky yeah!
Apr 3, 2024
Mar 26, 2024
Vitus carves fixed through trees, sun dappled, not fast.
Mar 25, 2024
Like a shadow in the dark
Only moves at night
Mar 26, 2024
Mar 26, 2024
Mar 30, 2024
Rides in place on a trainer
It's relegated space
Apr 11, 2024
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Apr 3, 2024
Blue Gary Fisher
First twentyniner with disks
Snappy trail buddy
Apr 11, 2024
May 8, 2024
A ride that knows no limits
Merlin forever
Apr 11, 2024
A ride that knows no limits
Merlin forever
Mar 31, 2024
XC techie singlespeed
Vlad cloaked in flat black
Apr 11, 2024
Still the best climber ever
Go, Diablo, Go!