The bike you've owned the longest?

[jpromo]

I don't think I've seen this one before, so what's the bike you've had the longest? How long and maybe what attachment you have to it or why it's remained? I'm sure some keepers will be self explanatory, but it could also be a bike you've just never been able to friggin' move.

Mine is my '41 Rollfast. I bought it a month into collecting and it was my first prewar bicycle--so I've had it a meager 3 years. Gosh it feels like I've been in the hobby for longer than that.. She's not the prettiest, but one of my best riders, with a larger cockpit area and wide bars making a taller guy feel at home in her arms.

 

[bike]

I had my childhood stinkray

cousins clipped it!

I have a teens indian project I have been working on for 20 years... oh my

 

[fat tire trader]

I have a few bikes that I have had since the early 1980s. Here is one of them

http://www.fattiretrading.com/1906mystery.html

 

[rustjunkie]

20+yrs:

 

[rustjunkie]

Recently sold my second-longest by a year or so, it was kinda tough to let go:

 

[walter branche]

november 1975

1889 ,54 inch overman wheel co. victor ordinary

 

[JChapoton]

Here is my Swedish 1942 Husqvarna M/42 Military Cycle that I bought in 1991 while in Sweden as a foreign exchange student. Little did I know at the time, that the tire and tube size wasn't available in the USA, so a couple thousand miles and 22 years of riding on the Finnish tires that were on the bike when I got it, I found replacement tires and tubes from a mail order cycle shop in Holland. The tools and box were missing, but the pump was there. I found the correct toolkit and box at an Army surplus online in the USA last year. Also found the folding trailer that goes with it but I have to save up the money for that.

 

[JChapoton]

here is some more pics.

 

[JChapoton]

Here is the folding trailer for it. I am still saving up for it.

 

[jpromo]

That folding trailer is amazing. I picked a BSA parabike from a shed where she hung since the 50s so the war stuff has been a point of fascination since.