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Thorn Nomad semi-off-road tourer. This was my only bike for years, replacing the old 10 speed (upgraded to 15 speed) "racer" I'd had from my student days. Need to get it back in working order as I was half way into a "shimergo" upgrade, prompted by my breaking on of the bar-end shifters during "routine" maintenance. To be honest I never entirely liked the bike, as it is heavy, and stronger than it needs to be for my usage. Whilst I sometimes go off-road (tracks rather than mountain biking) and a might tour, but I am very unlikely to do both at once !
Decade later bought a
Condor Fixie on the cycle-to-work scheme. It had "stupid buy" all over it as I was an unfit middle aged guy in a hilly city, and I'd only once before had a go on a fixie decades before, but had always wanted one. By the time I'd added a Ti rack and Brooks saddle plus other niceties it was a grand rather than the £600 or £700 I'd envisaged. Anyhow I love it and rode it every day to work for maybe 10 years, plus reasonable days out on occasion
Subsequently was working away a lot so got a secondhand Brompton to get to and from the station / hotel / office, however the requirement disappeared before it had much use as we started working remotely during covid, and I subsequently packed in work entirely. Like the Thorn it is languishing unridden because of a half-finished brake upgrade; it having come with the very poor earlier pattern brake levers.
I need to fix up the Brompton and sell it, and keep the other two. If we move to the Lakes in the next year or two, I'll have to decide whether to keep the Condor as a fixie or turn it into a geared audax type machine, in which case I'll sell the Thorn (and finish fixing it), unless I do find myself doing a lot of rough tracks.