Who has managed to get their collection down to just one bike?
After a recent rationalization/moment of madness I decided that whist having a full sus, two hardtails and a retrobike was fun I was just not riding enough to warrant them. So they are going 
Having said that for every bit I sell another bit catches my eye 
Now its a battle of will power I feel 
So who has culled their collection?
What bike remains?
Has the urge to buy another happened yet?
I have tried and failed. Not going to try again.
i want to but i'm not strong enough
It depends what you're trying to do. I can't get down to one because:
- I don't drive, and find the cargo bike immensely useful
- I don't really want to have to choose between riding on and off the road
So I'd struggle to get below three unless I really had to. If that happened the cargo bike would probably be the survivor.
three.
now i only consider replacements or upgrades not additions.
@ Bigdummy they are all fair comments.
I should probably say who has gotten down to a single off road bike as this is what I am aiming for. The fact I have no other disipline bikes makes that easier I guess!
To Mister P & RD why have you experienced problems?
SOOBalias - Memberthree.
now i only consider replacements or upgrades not additions.
What sort are the three?
Apart from my pub/shopping/commuter bike (a £25 reclaim special) I've got a Cotic Soul with a Magura Menja 130 fork which I always think is the perfect bike for wherever I take it. Chase, Peak, Lakes, CyB, whatever.
It spends most of its time singlespeed but because mine has the old fashioned slotted cable guides I can put the gears back on in a flash without having to adjust the cables even.
At the moment 1 bike - and that only has 1 gear !
Ah if you mean one MTB then I have managed that at the moment, my Ti Altitude is the only fat tyred bike I have. Probably won't be alone for long though.
Down to 1 mtb, but got 4 other bikes so that doesn't really count does it! And the 1 mtb will be joined by another when I get around to finishing building it up.
Ti456 - would have bought an Orange 5 if I had known there was another hardtail on the way.
Pompino - now flat barred for shopping duties & buzzing around work.
One one ti cross - winter road, summer touring, autumn cyclocross duties- the bike I'd rescue from a fire.
Issac Kelvin summer road bike, could do without if I'm honest now I don't road race.
Cervelo P3c - that I'm currently too fat to ride comfortably but selling it would break my heart and be the slippery slope to obesity!
....To be joined by Alfined Niner Sir9 for mud duties.
I think 2 bikes should be achievable though if I was able to admit to myself I'm never going to be proper fast again - a bouncy bike for bigger adventures and another - maybe a cross with 2 sets of wheels to cover everything else including road. One bike would always feel too compromised.
Erm, anyone else trying to get their collection up to two or more?
If there's one thing will force you to rationalise your collection its unemployment. As things get increasingly desperate you start to look where all your spare capital is. Where did all your disposable income go? Oh look.... its all in the garage 
I'm now down to my full susser (and I'll be living on the street before that goes) and my pub/hack singlespeed
Everything else has been ebayed. Including all the 'surplus' parts that clutter everywhere up
you neeeeeed 2 mountain bikes so you can ride one when the other is broken. A HT and a FS seems the best mix to me.
I'm down to just my Soul. I do have a crappy pub bike though if that counts.
im with you on that one pook, although a job would help me massively 
Nope.
I'll stick to the 5 I have..
I agree with Binners tho..
When I was made redundant, the first thing I thought was to flog them off and get some cash, but then the Mrs pointed out that I'd be even more gutted, and with nowt to do..
So I didin't.
And, when I got my new job- I bought a new frame.
4 bikes here, all get used, what's the point in reducing the number?
theiving scumbags took me from 2 bikes to one...
They knicked my hardtail that did me for racing and local rides and left me with my 5 inch full sus, that was OK for ages, but as I was doing a few races at the time but was short of cash I sold the sus frame and bought another hardtail frame as I was never going to get a pass for trailcentres or the Alps for ages anyhow, but if a trip to Wales had come up I would have still been quite well covered....
so was still at 1 bike, and it was fine for everything & I was and happy, then the unthinkable happened and I got a pass for an Alps trip... bugger the do it all full sus now gone and a Lightwieght hardtail instead.. So built up a 6 inch travel bike just for the alps and trailcentres and stuff..
In answer if your going to have 1 bike make it a medium sort of travel full sus, light enough for XC racing, Enduros etc but heavy enough for a little bigger stuff... OK you dont need sus for trailcentres but I find it prefereable, but if you have any trips to do up a proper mountain you will enjoy it more with suspension.
One hooligan bike and one mincing bike for me. Both get used every other day all year long.
I came to Oz with 1 bike, the Salsa, now I have 5. Only 2 are used offroad regularly, the others are mainly used on the street. I could never sell the Salsa & the DBR Axis TT is a keeper. The Iron Horse will break for the last time soon.
I don't sell bikes. The ones I could sell, aren't worth much, so why bother.
1. Heavy Duty Full Suss - DH, uplift, awaydays, full face, pads etc.
2. Hard Tail - almost all recreational riding
3. SS/FG skinny tyred drop barred racks & guards commuter
My numbers are going up. Not down.
Turner 5 spot - for trails centres and scotland plus the odd surrey hills ride. Alps trip this year.
Santa Cruz Superlight - racing, general local riding and anything else.
Cotic Simple - Winter & Wet
Cotic Soul - on its way - coz I wanted one.
Specialized Tricross Single - new purchase second hand - nice for riding from the door
Road bike.
Only one not ridden in the last month is the road bike & the sould which is not quite back from respray yet!
I've been trying for a few years and I'm getting closer to my goal !! 3 years ago I owned 17 bikes (dont ask) and I'm now down to 6 (and 5 frames) 
My goal is to get down to one play bike (Vassago Jabberwocky) and 1 commuter (Cannondale bad boy)
because youve told me not to, how the hell did you manage to have 17 bikes?? i would love 2 bikes but there we go
I got by just fine with just one, the Soul. Well, plus my commuter but that doesn't count, it's not a real bike. Did me everything from local XC to snow commuting to fort william. I'm glad I can afford and have the space for 2, since they're built to do kind of different jobs... But I could go back to one without too much fuss.
I have one solo MTB - its set up to be OK at everything - a compromise between light and strong that works for me - and with travel adjust fork so its OK up and down hill. Its better than I am.
i've got two bikes. it's ridiculous! one ali hardtail and one steel rigid. i should just combine them into a steel hardtail - will be able to offroad, do alps, touring, some road... i sicken myself by having two!
double post..
One bike only, numerous sets of tyres, but since I don't plan on launching myself down the alps I should be fine for a while, yeti ASR, I suppose it depends on how much space you've got to store them.
I was always under the impression that the correct number of bikes was N+1 with N being the number you currently have. I currently have a kinesis maxlight and a giant road bike and as the above law suggests I am looking for another road bike.
Iain
I've got four at the moment:
1 x 130mm full suss
1 x Steel HT
1 x Road Bike
1 x SS Commuter
i'm pretty certain the HT is going to become girlyfied for the wife, so thats how I'm going to get down to less 
Those of you that seem to be on some sort of religious quest to get down to "just one bike"...
...do you take the same approach to other essential things in life? jackets?, shoes?,... underwear?!.
Sort of. One "proper" mtb, Thorn Raven Enduro with Rohloff Speedhub and Magura Thors.
But I do also have a fixie road bike for commuting which is soon to be replaced by an ALfine'd Peregrine Singular. And I have an old Kona Cindercone I can't bare to part with which is single-speeded but hung up in need of some TLC, but that's only for quick blasts through town and the local woods.
But I did used to have 8, so I consider it an improvement.
I'm trying to do the same. I'm just getting round to selling some stuff. The Pitch is being swapped for a ragley mmmbop, and if I really like it and it is alright at xc as well as bigger stuff I will probably sell it and my beloved litespeed and buy a ragley ti. That's the plan, but I'll be surprised if it actually happens.
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