I think these sort of threads are more like a mixture of an informal support group for people with an uncontrollable bike buying habit and a stark warning of how bad things could get if you don’t keep it under control.

I have to disagree. Can’t be many folk with a more uncontrollable bike buying habit than me, but I only have one honest guv . . . build No 101 😛

. . . and yeah, wot Karin said (except I don’t collect bikes – I collect debt 😕 )

mamadirt – wasting money since 1992 😉

I do the retrobike thing too, so some are sunny day riders only…..
but currently 11 (including those in bits)

1991 Saracen Trekker Hydrotech
1992 Cannondale M700
1996 Yeti Kokopelli
1998 Hoffmann Dirty130 BMX
1997/8 Massi Master
2002 Sunn Crosss (resting)
2004 Global Softail Ti
2005 Specialized S-Works FSR (resting)
2006 Dialled Bikes Prince Albert
2007 On-One Pompino SS/fixie
2007 Identiti Mr. Hyde

They all get ridden as often as possible. For example I took the Yeti on a 25 miler up on dartmoor today.

Ok I do have problem but I don’t have problem with it, sat round the house:-
Orange Clockwork one of 50 done in a mat floro orange
Orange Alu Elite
Orange steel road bike
Orange 29er
Gary Fisher Rosscoe
Planet X Uncle John
Dave Yates Steel road bike
Colnago Dream
Arriving soon Planet X Dirty Disco

Re. the ‘inspirational’ thing….I’m a bike mechanic, so it goes with the territory that I end up with several bikes. Hell, I even forgot one! My ‘Custom Cycles’ touring bike with a 59 tooth chainring and assorted Campy and other weird stuff….
My Ti road bike cost 20 bucks and some swapping action. The (new) frame was given to me.
The Custom Cycles was donated by a customer. I just bought some tyres and baaaaa tape.
My DMR probably cost around 300 bucks all in, and that’s with a new frame, Straitline stem, SLX cranks bla bla bla….
My ’52 Schwinn cost 40 bucks.
My Norco VPS has currently cost 30 bucks, and that includes buying JB Weld to fill in the slayed out head tube!

In my job I tend to end up with a whole load of free stuff and I like ‘projects’.

My only bike that really cost significant money is my 1999 Kona Pahohoeohoeohoeohhoeohoe, which in triggers Broom style has morphed into my current Nomad 12 years later (and around 7 frames later!)

4 rideable ones

Lynskey Cooper ti road bike
slot drop out inbred
cheap ebay Graham Weigh cx bike
Brew pro xl BMX race bike

plenty of other bits and pieces knocking about, but not all the right ones to put a full rideable bike together.

5 for me,

In India:

Orange Sub 5
Trek OCLV road bike

In UK:

On-One Tinbred
GT DHi
Specialized Langster

All get regular use 🙂

Cheers, Rich

Full susser
hardtail 29er
Cotic Roadrat

Have spent the last couple of months lusting after “proper” road bikes and I’m bound to buckle and acquire one sooner rather than later.

If you’ve got room to store them, no kids who are starving and barefoot because of your bike habit, and no other vices that swallow up your spare £, then why not?

If I won the lottery I’d have a massive strip-lit underground bunker with a bike for every day of the month in it. And an au-pair mechanic to keep them all in good nick.

Hmmmm…..all I can say is that this thread is way, way better than the endless dull and dreary “aspirational” car threads that keep appearing.

5 desperately trying & failing to reduce it to 4 🙄 All of them variations on the 3 x 9 or 2 x 9 hardtail theme

One, my crosser. It has to be my trainer, my road bike and back to a crosser to race on at weekends.
I had my collection prematurely cut short.

4 in the house, 5 if you include the R1; but for me just the one (two) so must try harder 😳

I have to disagree. Can’t be many folk with a more uncontrollable bike buying habit than me, but I only have one honest guv

Most people don’t manage to be so disciplined with their lack of self control as you though!

My comment was a bit serious, having got rather carried away myself over the last few years when I had a few quid and ended up swapping bikes every other month I know it can end up detracting from the actual riding.

Luckily I’m a bit skint and fully settled on my bikes now.

4 for me

SS HT
FS
CX
Road

1 for the wife

2 for the kids

All in a very cramped 6′ x 4′ shed.

I have just four.

And a set of sheels in the shed, a fork in the utility room, a frame under my bed…..shit. I have five, don’t I?

In India:
some bikes
In UK:
some more bikes
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show off 😛

5 for me, 9 between the 3 of us.

I have best road (race bike), winter road, TT bike, HT MTB, and cross bike. All of them get used, although the TT bike hasn’t been used in about 3 months. Apart from the winter road bike I race all of them at various points in the year.

OH has a hybrid and a road bike, Jnr has a road/cross Isla bike and a mountain bike. The only bike that doesn’t see much action is the OHs road bike, she’s just never got into riding it. She keeps saying we should sell it, for the spec we’d probably sell it for more than we paid, but if she got into road riding and wanted to get one eventually it would cost twice as much.

Currently 3 – Giant XTC HT, Giant TCRC1 roadie, Boardman HT Comp Fi and soon to be adding a Blur LTc.
Currently in the lounge (GF is ace) but with Christmas coming now trying to plan where the bikes go and where the Christmas tree goes!!
*shed coming in the new year 😆 *

3 here,
Santa cruz Heckler, sc chameleon
and a carrera kracken for to/from work and “detours” on the way home.

5 here:
Blur LT
Soul
P7 commuter with WeeRide kiddy seat
Ribble road bike
Old fakenger fixie

and I luv em all equally.

Me:
“Workmanlike” HT
Posh racy HT
FS
Singlespeed
Retro indulgence
Cruiser thing
CX
Road
Track
Hack

Wife:
MTB
Road
Hack

plus tandem and three kids’ bikes. Only two kids, though. Must be genetic 😉

Personally 4
DH bike
150 trail bike
Jump bike
and Road bike
All Rose’s obviously

Also have a reserve Yeti 4X frame

In the family another 4

if you include demo bikes erm….. another 30 odd….

Erm… one or two

If I won the lottery I’d have a massive strip-lit underground bunker with a bike for every day of the month in it. And an au-pair mechanic to keep them all in good nick

Class, Amen to that!

^^^ Ahem.. ^^^ 8)

Devinci Dixon
Devinci Wilson 2011
Cotic soul
One on inbred
Willier gran tourismo.
Argon 18
Langster
Singular swift

Plus wife’s specialised dolce and sons hard rock and bmx, running out of shed,hall,loft space, they all get used as well!