[Closed] Am I the only person with just 1 bike?

Yes, i think so 😀

One bike here - Spec Pitch custom build does all I want it to do

I only have one mountain bike [ orange 5 ] and I couldn't be doing with the extra maintainance and fettling required if I had more .I do have a road bike I got when I was doing a coast to coast ride for charity but to be honest I rarely use it, even commuting to work looks a better option on a mountain bike given the state of the roads.

1 mountain bike. Used to have HT and FS, but they were similar and I don't use them enough as it is so I sold the FS. Now looking to change the frame on the HT, but still only going to have one.

Have other bikes though, 2 roadies and a hack bike.

me - only 1

I have one MTB a 06 Spech Enduro but the Wifes bike is my old frame so with a change of saddle I would be able to ride it. I have a BMX that I want to use to learn how to ride ramps but havn't been able to.

I only have one ridable bike.

My very old Marin is in bits in a box, so that doesn't really count. I'd like to have more than one but I can't afford at the moment.

I've only one mtb - a Genesis Abyss. I have a road bike for commuting.

I thought I could do it, but I couldn't, so I now have two...

realistically I just cant see what difference owning an extra £1200 bike will give me

Um. You would have [b]two[/b] bikes!

That's [b]double [/b]the amount you currently have!

[b]Two [/b]awesome things, not one!

[b]100%[/b] more betterer!

[b]4 wheels[/b]! Who doesn't love wheels?!

Can't believe some of the tripe being said above. Maintenance? If you had two bikes you wouldn't have to do maintenance! EVER!

I have one MTB and no plans for any more. The other bike is a Brompton so I don't think that counts!

1 bike is enough especially if its an Orange Five

How can 1 bike every be enough?

Hmmm, I could get by with one, but since that would be a full-sus, I would be overbiked for trips around town, would be paranoid about it getting nicked, and would no doubt have to replace the bearings and drivetrain far more often. In my head, it is cheaper to have a second bike too. 🙂

If it helps your survey, Mrs PixelMix only has one bike.

I've had only ever had one bike at a time since I bought my first mountain bike in 1986. That will all change when the Boardman I ordered yesterday arrives though.

I've only got one mtb, and am trying to stick to that for the time being.
A lineup of events pencilled in/entered for the year ranges from honc to megavalanche, so I'll be testing it's versatility I imagine.

i have only one
one fs
one 29 ss
one 26 ht

thats only one of each 😕

Only one here. And its got no gears. It gets used for commuting off roading and the skatepark. its fine you just have to accept that the components wear like mad. The eldest lad does have a BMX and i occasionally jump on it and embarrass myself and him.

I've only got one, more would be nice but cant really justify it at the moment! Most people on here seem to have far too much money!

I only have my Spesh FSR. Would love another, HT nice, or road bike as well, or even a more relaxed angle FS for playing on, but the missus would not be pleased.

I will only be taking one bike with me when I move to Colombia with my wife in a few weeks. The other 4 and the unicycle will be going to live at my dads until we return 🙁

Only one here. And its got no gears.

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1 bike - Orange Five

Suppose my '93 Scott rigid mtb in Singlespeed mode doesnt really count since its for commuting to a train on - and I found it abandoned so it was free.

That's a bit harsh carbon337. Even rigid singlespeeds count as bikes...

I've got a Focus HT and no plans to expand the stable. With 5 cyclists in the family I do enough bloody maintenance already!

I can satisfy my urge to splurge when I buy my boy a new MTB - he's outgrowing his 24" Decathlon special this summer.

even my mum has 2 bikes.

It's not just you. I've only got the one bike as well, which does me for all my riding.

I wish I only had one bike. Turns out two bikes cost a fortune to look after and then no one wants them when you try to sell them. Give me a horse or a child any day.

Only one mountain bike - a Pitch with Fox 36 Vans. Can do most things you might want to do on a bike.

All you people with only one bike - you're making it harder for the rest of us to keep the average up

I only have one bike - if you ignore the family hack bike, the hybrid, the road bike and the frame and bits in my garage that needs putting together. The big trouble is that the two boys have five between them and my wife has two - need a bigger garage to keep them safe.

I only have one bike, a 140/150mm FS so I use it for everything.
All the "overbiked" nonsense from peeps with 4+ bikes makes me laugh.

One is all I need.
I don't have room for anymore. I could chuck her bike out and buy myself another but I don't think I need two bikes.

A couple of years ago I had every intention of having just one [b]really really[/b] good bike but I occasionally look in the classifieds and ......................... I'm weak 😳

Now I have 4 good bikes and can't bear the thought of selling them as they are all quite different.

One mountain bike and one fixie for chaining up in town. Does me perfectly. If it wasn't for bike thieves I would only have one.

I currently own just 1 bike, and cant see that changing.

And if you took up road racing, what would you do? Fit a set of slicks?

Ditto riding a 17 mile commute in all weathers? Fit a set of mud-guards over the slicks?

Light touring? Fit a set of panniers over the mud-guards?

Yes tis true I could manage with one bike but you need different tools for different jobs 🙂

1 Cotic Soul - sometimes geared, sometimes singlespeed. Plus a pub/commute/shopping bike.

I only had one bike, until I bought it's replacement. I then bought an Inbred frame and put the bits off the old bike onto the frame, so now I've got an FS & a HT.. I wanted a bike that I could use on the road as well as off road and didn't really want to be riding my Stumpy fsr for road miles.
I already had a second set of wheels for on-road with slicks on - only cost about £130 including tyres, tubes, cassette & QRs.

I like the fact that if I need to do some work on one bike, I don't have to get it done urgently as I can just take the other bike out if need be.

And although I didn't think I would, I have actually been using the Inbred a lot more this winter off road to stop the FSR getting clagged up too much. Seems the sensible option, particularly for my 'normal' riding at Thetford.

Only 1 bike I use...got a Pace frame with some old kit on it but it just sits in the garage...never used...I'm keeping it for nostalgic reasons but don't ever see the need to use it...my main bike does everything I need and more...don't see the need for more than 1 bike - cost more in maintenance and you can only ride 1 bike at a time...so why have more?

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(Average number of bikes owned by people that say they only have "one" bike, on this thread alone)

freak.........

That ain't narmal that ain't.

Though isn't that because you can't ever make up your mind 😉

1 x Triggers Broom on-one 456..

and that's the way it's staying unless we get a lottery win..

One bike........ 😯

Blimey Oldgit!

We have never even met, yet you know me so well 😉

What's with the "more than one bike would cost too much to maintain" posts?

I didn't know my bikes wore out when they were sat in the garage...

In fact one of the reasons I have more than one bike is so I can ride winter and commute SS so save on drivetrain costs!

"cost more in maintenance and you can only ride 1 bike at a time...so why have more?"

With two bikes you ride each half the time. So the net wear is the same as having one bike.

Two bikes gives you a choice of styles, and also a spare when one is broken.

I've only got one, more would be nice but cant really justify it at the moment! Most people on here seem to have far too much money!

Nope, just choose to spend it on bikes and not much else (thank god for understanding girlfriends with expensive hillwalking habits, they understand...).

I've got a singlespeed cross bike, a racer and a singlespeed rigid MTB. Basically I was getting sick of being mugged by component manufacturers so gradually regressed to cheap/simple bikes.

However I'm already missing having a bike for scrabbling up highland singletrack and looning down the other side, cue a 'big' MTB, and I would also like something a little more forgiving than the racer that I can pull a trailer around Scotland's coast with for 3 weeks, cue a nice tourer. 😀

If you're happy with just one bike (I was...) then be bloody careful you don't try a different style of bike, it will reveal (brutally) what your existing bike is good at, and more importantly, what it is bad at.

Whoever it was up there ^ who thinks a 150mm full suss is all they need obviously hasn't taken a good road bike out for 100 miles on steep twisty scenic roads.*

*awaits tales of beasting professional roadies up Ventoux on their freeride bike etc etc 😉

Up to 10 myself and my GF has 4....

Admittedly some of them don't see a lot of use.

If you only use a bike for one thing then yes, I see no point in having more than one bike. If I only rode xc and lived next door to the supermarket in the middle of town then I can't imagine the need for another bike.

But if you want to ride downhill and "freeride" at full tilt and then ride the local bridepaths and then the local skatepark and then have something cheap and quick on the road to get around town then you end up in my situation with 1 bike for each application 🙁
My first bike was at attempt at something that could do everything and it didn't last long on dh tracks.

If all of us only had 1 bike, the "industry" would have folded long ago.

I to only have 1(ish) bike(s)

1 hardtail geared mtb - for general riding and fun
1 rigid s/s 69er mtb - to satify the niche whore in me
1 boardman roadbike - because believe it or not its actually good fun
and
1 fixie langster - for riding to the coffee bars whilst wearing my sisters jeans (not that i have a sister)

Each one serves a purpose, and boardman aside (which was C2W) fairly low cost all in, Kona Unit which is the s/s frame was £15 and other parts were lying around or bought second hand, as for maintenance of them, doesnt cost anymore, and if i one does get broke them i dont have to rush to get parts to fix it, i can use another whilst i am repairing the broken one