My latest n+1 has expanded the breadth somewhat 😆

full suss
hardtail
cx/commuter
racer/summer bike
brompton!

all bikes are good

niche is dead

if you say so chap 😆

I’ve had a bit of a clearout this last year or so, down to six now.

Carbon road bike
Ally road bike
Ally CX/light tourer/commuter etc
Steel proper road tourer
Steel 29er MTB tourer
Ally 26″ MTB (needs parts)

The ones gone this year are the 26″ FS and the 26″ rigid SS. I also had a steel track bike but that went some time ago, wish I hadn’t sold that.

I’d quite like a Brompton for trips to the office and another track bike. Next year maybe.

classic 531c road race bike
ye olde worlde hardtail with 50mm XC forks rather than the 64mm all mountain
cx bike that doubles as a road bike where I don’t need to stay on roads
hardtail w/ 120mm up front more for “big days out”

I have a green one and a blue one..

I’d say mine cover a good chunk of the “Gnarr” to “Meh” scale..

-DH bike
-Geared, steel HT with a dropper
-Rigid, SS MTB
Geared Plastic road bike
Fixed, heavy steel Winter (and summer) commuter

Got rid of BMX and jump bikes as they simply weren’t being ridden any more…

With that lot I could take part in a lot of different types of events, and I can do lots of different types of riding just for fun…

Still quite fancy a CX bike, but I’m not sure how much use it would really get given the current lot…

Too different, I had a 150mm FS bike but it got used so infrequently and when it did it often felt like I was using it for the sake of it rather than because it was needed on a given day.

Should really have gotten more similar bikes, a SS, HT and XC/trail FS would have covered all my riding to some degree, rather than trying to cover too broad a spectrum and always being on the wrong bike.

An odd fs / slopestyle type 4x bike with 150 revs and 100mm on the back which serves as my do it all mtb.. and a tripster atr which is my do it all road / cx / gravel bike.
Throw in an assortment of tyres and forks and I sort of have it covered

SS 26er
SS Fatbike
Fixed Fatbike
Fixed 29er
commuter
fixed road bike
cruiser
trials bike
SS race 26er
I really must have a clearout………….

Fixed Fatbike

Wins ‘most niche’ award.

Fairly. Bfe for all round riding, Covert for Alps/away trips. They both have same wheels, brakes etc though. Both have adjustable travel forks.

red, white, orange and a blue one on order 😀

Google pics but from:

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with 5 inbetween.

I,ve got two bikes ,an oldish thorn xtc and a 6 year old rocky mountain element f/s,so pretty different I guess,i would get a nice new f/s bike if I had any money but you be very sad if anything happened to the thorn.

Not bad, andrewh. My track bike is further out than your TT bike though, and my Patriot is similar to your Stinky, but then again you have coil springs.. hmm..

Anyone own both a track bike and a DH?

unicycle to kiddyback tandem, via recumbent KMX kart. With a handful of road, track, TT and mtb bikes for mainstream, and a dutch ladies roadster for shopping.

How’s that?

I don’t have a DH bike *shudder*

Steel SS CX (discs, slicks and mudguards) – commuter
Steel Geared CX (diss, slicks=roadie)
Steel rigid SS 29er (winter mtb)
Steel hardtail 29er (1×10)

All variations on a theme but all get used for a purpose. I keep fancying a bouncy bike but I think it just wouldn’t get used for the type of riding I do…

Probably a bit too closely grouped in “middle of the road” spec when I start to think about it…
456EVOTi – 140mm /65.n deg / dual ply tubeless / 2×9
LV 301 – 160mm /65.n deg / dual ply tubeless / 2×10
Patriot – 180mm / 65.n deg / dual ply tubeless / 2×9

Think the Patriot might have to go to make room for a LV601, at least that should get me to 64.n deg 😛

Stepthru Dutch 3spd behemoth made of Hi Ten and increased gravity that weighs more than double the

Flyweight alu 3×9 XC which cannot travel in the boot like the

20″ cromo folder which sits unloved (almost hated) in the corner for most of it’s life.

All go fwd when I pedal yet each one can’t even slightly do what the other does. It all makes sense to me.

I think you just beat there Mol!
However, TiRed has just reminded me that I have a unicycle too, where that come in the spectrum relative to your track bike?

Errr. There is more than one track bike 😉 . Since the unicycle is steel, it has more in common with the vintage one, as opposed to the alloy Dolan.

Of course there are two further fixed wheel road bikes as well.

I don’t have a folder any more – but have owned a Raleigh 20, Brompton, Airframe (no. 87) and an Airnimal Rhino.

Still don’t have a proper recumbent. A Mango velomobile would be my choice.

TiRed has just reminded me that I have a unicycle too, where that come in the spectrum relative to your track bike?

Well.. I started thinking about it then I realised that unicycles are not bikes 🙂

26″ P7 on 120mm front end
26″ Keewee cromo 8
Both steel but very different to ride. No road bikes here, no interest since a car tried to smash me to bits nearly 20 years ago.

26″ 100m HT (2 x 9)
700c disc braked Hybrid (2×9 – winter road bike)
Giant Defy 1 roadie (for dry roads)

fixed

ss mtb

bikepolo (bits rewelded and not repainted hence paintjob)

the photo doesnt really show short that polo bike is. end to end the front edge of the tyre only JUST comes up to the front axle on my 29er. turns rapid!

hmmm… at the one end I have a classic steel hardtail frame with a rigid carbon fork and 2.35 knobblies

at the other I have a classic steel hardtail frame with a rigid steel fork and 2.35 slicks

Oh… and a customised unicycle 🙂

one has fat tyres…the other has skinny ones
one has suspension…the other has nothing
one is slow…the other is fast
one cost a lot…the other one didnt cost a lot
one is blue…the other is orange
one has a name…the other doesnt
one lives upstairs…the other lives downstairs

I realised that unicycles are not bikes

No, but bikes can be unicycles 😯

I’ve got a road bike, a 140mm HT and a 100mm HT currently with slicks on.

I would like more travel and more bounce at that end of my spectrum.

Road bike
150mm full suss 26
100mm HT 29er
1990 Kona Explosif with slicks for general use