Tonight’s quick ride out on the SS CX bike made me realise at the moment it is by far my most ridden bike – commuting when I can and evening rides when I can. It cost my £150. It’s currently going out ahead of far more expensive bikes…

What’s yours?

At the moment, it’s my Brompton. Nipping in to the village, up to the train station, around London, etc. Only reason I don’t take it to the pub is that the pub is in walking distance!

In similar vein, my 7 yr old Roadrat – used for commuting off-road 3-4 days a week. Meanwhile my MTBs get far less use.

It’s why I don’t mind having hand-me-down bits of bling on the Roadrat: I ride it enough to make it worthwhile. More than a commuting tool for me.

TBH they all (7) get ridden fairly evenly, though recently it been the turbo Levo due to injury/recovery. Biggest miles for the year is either Pivot 429SL (lots of miles per ride) or Specialized Sequoia (lots of commute rides per mile)

varies but currently the Winter SS – though the commuter wins over the year-

My on one 456. Winter filth and riding with my kids makes it by far the most used.

I have a nice FS that is woefully under used. That needs to change, which really means I need to stop saving it for dry days and big rides and go ride the dam thing.

Planet X cx bike for about the last six months followed by my norco cx, to the extent the full sus wasn’t even useable when I went to the shed last week pre-Swinley

That needs to change, which really means I need to stop saving it for dry days and big rides and go ride the dam thing.

yeh… I suffer from that! The SS CX is a lot of fun though on the trails close to home.

depends…
CX bike gets ridden less often but more miles per ride and more miles total
Rocket gets ridden more times but fewer miles per ride/total
Soul got ridden by far the most miles and rides if I widen “recently” to go back a year or so
Road bike got ridden a whopping 15 miles this year, but total miles trounces the rest put together, because it is 28 years old, and has been ridden enough miles to go round the earth

Yep it’s the beaten up Surly Troll ‘life bike’. It get used for commuting, shopping, socialising and weekend days out in the countryside. It probably does 10x the amount of miles of all the other bikes (and my van!) combined.

This has done 26,076.5 miles according to strava, and still going strong.

Ritchey Swiss cross disc ridden most times and miles this year and don’t expect that to change anytime soon

Past year it has been my Surly KM Ops.

Most ridden bike is my Specialized allez , it works and keeps working despite the winter filth.

And it cost a lot less than the summer road bike or the mtb

Fixed wheel road bike. Then probably the race bike, then winter road bike, best bike, cross bike and trike.

TT fits in their somewhere too as I did some long hours in the saddle and commuted to work on it for after work races. Mtb and track bikes won’t figure this year 🙁

10 year old Gary fisher cobia keep looking at new bikes but it just works for my really flat terrain around here and the geo is good. closely followed this time of year by my “I don’t want to get cold and wet and clean the cobia” road bike.

This year it’s been my Sonder Camino.

Whichever bike is dirty is the one that gets used most

Whichever bike is dirty is the one that gets used most

Brompton baby!

My Shan.

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I commute on my fatbike, but then I only live next door to work…

cx bike.

Cotic escapade in off road mode. Great for the miles of gravel tracks here.

Day one singlespeed

On-one Parkwood 29er.

I ride this dispiriting thing almost every day, 7 minutes down the hill and 10 back up:

🙂

my kona rove al .

commuter , tourer and occasional cross bike

Having 4 bikes with fundamentally interchangeable parts means I can build pretty much anything. This year’s incarnations which have been ridden to death are an Olympic-spec short travel FS and an ‘aggressive’ long-travel HT.

The fat bike comes out from time-to-time and smokes them both

Pub bike.

Unfortunately it is my Road bike / commuter.

If I could rely on my MTB being at the station when I got back to it I’d ride that every day

This bad boy!
Singlespeed rigid Ragley blue pig.
Gets used mainly for mucking around with the kids, taking them to school or bombing down shop. Sometimes BMX track.
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The town bike, shopping, errands etc. It’s now much rustier and more beaten-up than in this old pic – but still keeps going. I tend now to ‘wash’ it with rust brush and GT85 😳

I’ve ridden more miles on the fatbike over the whole of 2017, because of often extending my commute home from work, but also because I only got my road bike in May.

This (SS Belt drive)
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Followed by this fun blaster:
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With this just having some new brakes installed for the offroad winter duties:
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At the weekend I happened to check what distance I’d done on the various bikes this year, turns out I’ve done most riding on the Cotic Solaris, then it’s the Croix de Fer which is my commuter/winter road bike then the Spesh Roubaix which is my summer road bike.

Might not currently be that clean…

Although mainly running to and from work at the moment, so it’s generally only used once or twice a week.

Cheers, Rich

Mine, fortunately, is my Tripster, the most expensive bike I’ve ever owned by a long way.
Used so much it lives in the front room and hardly ever goes back in the garage.

Long travel 29er here.

Probably in distance covered as well as time spent in the saddle.

I spend about 15 hours a week on my commuter, no way any of my other bikes will get close to that.

World’s least logical commuter bike! But it is fun.