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When's too many bikes enough ?
I think I have problem, by bike stable keeps growing and I don't know what's/when's enough .
Any help/advice from fellow sufferers.
regards
Dave
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Just the one, but with both a winter and summer wheelset..optional mudguards..
Although you have to be fastidious about winter maintenance..
it means I can invest in one very nice piece of kit rather than spread the funds across several steeds which would otherwise be compromised in one area or another...
Are we including partial bikes? Do bikes in the loft count? If the number of bikes in the shed mean that the lawnmower lives under a tarp...?
If they do then I may fall foul of
Proper number of bikes = n+1 provided (n+1) < D where D = Divorce Court
Anybody know the recipe for toast?
I'm currently waiting for bike #3 to arrive. I've gone and weakened to the allure of carbon. I've the titanium Enigma which I'll alternate with the carbon one, just because I can, no other reason. Mind you why should I need a reason!
The third one is a CX which I use for winter days, casual rides and have a set of road tyres fitted for the run to the shops. 20 mile round trip there so a nice wee ride for milk etc.
I'm hoping that 3 is my number where I'll stop. I can't see me needing anymore bikes with this collection. But.....
Best road bike (one year more it will then become 2nd best bike)
Single speed
15 year old s works m2 stump jumper MTB (I still love this bike)
Carbon MTB
Re building 2nd best road bike project (will become 3rd best road bike):-))
CX bike
Hybrid for nipping to the shops bike
1995 GT Zasker MTB frame hanging on wall in man cave ( a project in waiting)
The answer then is..... Never.
Hi, wow what a response,
I am glad I am not alone with this condition. I have a wife and still my buying continues. I started with acquiring the Special Handmade Raleigh Racers from the 1980s (which Raleigh lost money on ) when I was a teeneager with racing in my blood and no funds. I love buying an old classic with the intention to restore them back to their former glory. I have already completed 2 bikes and the projects just keep adding. I can't resist a desirable bike which most people not in the know, sell so cheaply.
My wife has said on an number of occasions stop buying bikes. I can't and now I hide them :-), I am not doing anyone any harm and I am saving them from the furnace.
I appreciate the craftsmanship in making the bikes and can't see them destroyed.
I am currently researching small wheeled bikes, I had a Chopper in the 1970s, but the price to replace it now is too much for me, I would love one.
thank you for everyone who replied and good luck with your collections
Another for the n+1 argument!
I'm on four ('cross, road, brompton and old mountain bike) and decided against a 5th (slightly hokey club ten year old pinarello tt bike in need of some work) so maybe I'm at a happy n=s-1. Can sort of imagine a fancier road bike, but need to get out of cat 4 to justify that =)
*bows down
That is one impressive stable. Hang on, you'd actually need a stable to keep them all in, surely?
You guys aren’t trying.
I have at least 14. Carbon road bike, Ribble track bike, Orange mtb, On-One Pompino fixed, no name aly cross bike, 2 x tandems, 1 x penny farthing hand made by me, Raleigh 653 turbo trainer bike, Kona Lava Dome mtb (1990), Ancient 531 fixed commuter, 2 x unicycles – 1 handmade, Mongoose bmx.
Plus 3 or 4 frames that I’ve held on just in case.
My 11 year old has five (Fondriest Mega plus, GT BMX, Kona Muni Mula mtb, Raleigh fixed, hand made 3 wheel recumbent), 13 year old has three a no name aly road bike, 3 speed commuter, and a Bottechia mtb. Just to join the party my wife also has three, two hybrids bikes and a dutch ish style commuter.
Family total of 25 - a few duplicates due for pruning but mostly each having its own purpose.
You've got ribbles, GTs, On-ones, Raleighs and stuff you daren't even name in there. Quality dear chap, not quantity.
That is a serious number - you'd need what, at least a double garage to keep them all? Also loving that the whole family has 'the bug'.
"I'm just off down to the shops love, I'll take the unicycle..."
Lava Dome, damn my first proper mountain bike that lead me into 20 happy years of mtb'in & riding Kona for 14 of those years - i had a yellowy gold color, god i miss that bike, miss mtbin too as now just a roadie.
thanks for the memory jolt, away to google image now & feel depressed!
'ere ya go..
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When you can't bear to leave one particular bike at home every time you go out for a ride, then you have found 'the one'. Until then, keep buying more until that time comes.
I'm not sure when is enough, I reckon I've got between 9 and 11 depending on when a build becomes a bike. Still got a few more to get (Decent MTB, spare CX bike, Unicycle, Tandem); my girl friend has 3 with here eyes on 2 more this year . . .
Ahem, I have a hybrid commuter, mountain bike, summer roadie, winter roadie, folding bike and I am in desperate need of a cyclocross to deal with all those potholes ;-).
Of course if I go on a serious Pyrenees adventure, I am not sure my hardware is suited to that....
Yeah, I've got my fifth coming into being at the moment.
1. Summer bike
2. Winter bike
3. Steel vintage commuter
4. SS commuter, for getting to the clients who don't have secure bike stores
5. The new summer bike, currently being made in a Chinese factory.
I'm thinking with a cyclocross bike and a set of road tyres for it you could get winter/commuter/hybrid all in one.
I'm currently on 4
New/best road bike
Previous best road bike
Beater road/flat bar conversion
Mountain bike
Tempted to convert 2nd best road bike into winter bike/ fast commuter but I know I wouldn't really ride it in the limited time I have, so it's got to go.
My problem is components. I have more chain sets than bikes, not to mention stems, mechs, bottle cages.....
n+1 where n= number of bikes owned, until s-1 applies where s = number of bikes that would result in divorce.
Rob
I have 5. Or 6 if you count another folding bike I'm trying to donate to my mother-in-law.
And sadly I think 5 is probably too many, even for me.
In detail:
Commuting hybrid
Road bike
Single-speed
Folding bike
Best bike
Please help!!
I think the best bike probably gets by far the least use; all the others go out whatever the weather.
Yep. A woman in the house soon sorts that problem out...
DOES IT!?
Well obviously, you're one of the exceptional minority - tell your husband he's a jammy sod! 'Normal' women aren't so keen on chain oil and bikes all over the place...
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Well obviously, you're one of the exceptional minority - tell your husband he's a jammy sod! 'Normal' women aren't so keen on chain oil and bikes all over the place...[/quote]
I dunno, most of my cycling contacts are female so to me I don't see a minority.
But I think it's usually a difference of interests, rather than gender, but because obviously things like xboxes and oily shite is more popular with boys that's why. Like...most boys would be peeved if their wives came back with a grands worth of shoes
it's swings and roundabouts innit.
Speaking of chain oil, DEAR LORD I've just moved out of a rental property and could not for the live of me get that shit out of the cream carpet.....panicking about waving that deposit goodbye!
I got a bit on our oak dining table and nearly waved my life goodbye!
Ooops! I managed to soak the dye in to ours from fluorescent pink post-its... I'm basically a walking divorce textbook.
Good news, had a friendly text from ex landlord stating that the cheque is on it's way - happy days! (she must have checked it out without the lights turned on...)
how's about spreading it evenly over the entire carpet, and just make it less cream more dark grey in colour?
I have a simple solution: get married! I'd never get away with that many... got 2
When you find the answer, tell me! I'm going on my third bike and I've only been cycling for seven months!!
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