[Closed] how many bikes?

Why do you actually want to cut down to 2?

I kind of have the same as you - road, cx, ss mtb, geared mtb and an old kona for commuting/baby carrying duties. That covers all the bases I reckon.

oF your list, the cindercone and the unit are the two that obviously aren't both [b]needed[/b] but since when has need been any fun when determining what bikes you have? 🙂

i'm just building up a forth

stuff all that minimalisation nonsense - overbiked and overbikenumbered is the only true way

Sounds like you need a full susser.

Yeah, you need more bikes. Two or three full-sussers should do it.

With as many gears as possible.

Five:

Road (carbon)
Road (alu - winter trainer/commuter/light tourer/going to the shops)
MTB (HT - Cotic Soul/geared)
MTB (HT - Kona 1992 Lavadome/SS)
Track (er, for riding on the track)

I get sick of having to maintain them - they cost a fortune. That said, I do now want a cross bike (to race).

It's never ending. 🙄

Six here:

Hack
CX bike, also used for road rides and touring
Singlespeed
Hardtail
Big bike
BMX

I think between them they pretty much have every base covered for every type of riding I want to do. The problem is that I don't really get the best out of some of them, particularly the DH bike and the BMX, as I haven't ridden them enough.

Quite happy with just the one - full-susser (and the lil red 'bred s/s frame to build up for when I'm 'between bikes', as I am at the mo').

Quite happy with just the one

[url= http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/please-tell-me-why-i-shouldnt-buy ]Are you sure about that? ;-)[/url]

Where's Thurman Merman and his impressive collection? 😀

The current fleet consists of-

Genesis iO 520
Genesis Flyer 520
Genesis Altitude 853
Genesis Equilibrium 853

So I reckon some kind of CX bike is next, probably a Genesis something in steel LOL.

Seven. Although one is, at least vaguely, for sale.

Can't see why I'd want to cut down 🙂

Orange 5 2006
Cotic Soul
Rocky Mountain Blizzard
Kona Paddywagon
Holdsworth Touring bike
OnOne Inbred
and a few other frames kicking round.

Mr Agreeable - Member

Quite happy with just the one

Are you sure about that?

Yep, quite sure . . . but which 'one'?? . . . sometimes the indecision just gets too much 😉 . Glad I didn't go for the Stinky though . . . I have something much nicer in the pipeline 😀

Our household has 24 at last count.....

3...
A bullit for the alps
A superlight for the UK
A 1 gear kona Lavadome 94 vintage for the pub

Probably 4 more than I really need 🙁

Cotic Soul
Cotic RoadRat
Blur LT
Pace RC 2
Dawes Audax

A couple fewer than I'd really like
after all I don't have a SS MTB or 29er ...

I have 3.5 (nearly 4) and that just doesn't seem enough to cover all whims of fancy, as for picking which one to keep, I would sell relatives first if it was for the money

Current rides
SS Kilauea 853
Cove Stiffee
Santa Cruz Heckler
Marin hack thing if I ever get the BB out

plus the GF's Trek in the shed too

Only 3 at the moment:

Stumpjumper FSR 120 (130mm forks), currently 2x9, usually 3x9
Giant XTC Hardtail (120mm forks), currently 3x9, usually 1x9
rek 4100 (rigid forks), 3x7spd, currently with slicks

Would also like:

140(-150mm) FS with 140ish forks, with some extra 160mm forks to put on now and then
Possibly a 170-180mm full suss that (almost) goes uphill (ie probably 2x9)
A Road bike
A Kona Ute or similar
A 'Hardcore' Hardtail as a 'play' bike
A 29"er (or a few)

Seven Sola MTB
On-One Inbred SS
S-Works Tarmac SL road bike
CX bike made for me by a frame builder friend of mine.
Butcher's dog thing for pub duties.
On-One 456 hack bike that I leave in the UK for when I visit the family.
Two frames -one a Kinesis alu thing and the other another Inbred lying around waiting to be built into something.
How many is that?

All that is missing is a 5-6 inch full suspension bike which I am thinking about at the moment.

Just the 3 for me.

FSR XC Pro
Geared Inbred
Uncle John

I need a single speed.

...and a long travel hardtail.

...and a road bike.

...and some Ti.

ive four a ti audax. Surly cross check geared but have a spare ss wheel. Inbred 456 geared but have ss kit too (i miss the ss since selling lol)and a turner five full sus. Wouldnt mind another 29er ss unit or rig size 16. You hear me aw lol

Only the three, but only so I can leave room for a 4th.

Santa Cruz Heckler '03
Singular Swift
Lemond Alpe d'Huez

The number of bikes that you need can be calculated using the following forumla.

X = n + 1

Where X is the number of bikes you need and n is the number of bikes that you have.

Only three at the moment.

Gary Fisher Marlin-Well thats what it says on the tin. So heavily upgraded the only original bits are the frame and the front mech!

Cannondale Scalpel-Another custom build.

Cannondale Carbon Synapse.

But as i type this in Slovenia, I have just found out that the local 'Dale dealer in Maribor is doing 25% off Prophets and Motos. Guess where I am going tomorrow!

*counts fingers and toes*

Pompino
456
Planet X Superlight
another Pompino
Scandal (on the wall at the moment)
Inbred
Ti29er
Brompton
1970s falcon, SSd as commuter
Islabikes Rothan (frame's too small for me though)

"too many" according to my wife, but also more worryingly; my kids.

Ah hmmmmmm, shuffles feet

titus motolite
santa cruz superlight
853 Inbred ss
airborne lancaster hardtail
98 853 explosif ss
93 orange P7 (not built up)
Airborne carpe diem ti audax/crosser
roadrat (not built up and probably wont so will get rid)

One less than I need.

Inbred.
Gary Fisher HKEK.
Cove G-spot.
Superlight.
Pipedream Sirius.
Klein Adept.
Merlin Malt 1.
Corrado road bike

3 = Radford Elite, Mongoose Tyax, Giant TranceX

I want to swap the Mongoose for a Ragley

I have 3:

road bike for communting and road rides
5" full suss for pretty much everything off road
7" full suss for stuff that will snap the 5"er

I'd like 5" hardtail for stuff that the 5"er is too heavy for - longer rides
maybe this winter

I've got 6, all get used and I wouldn't want to ditch any. If I had to 1 and 3 probably get used least.

1 Commencal geared road bike
2 93 zasker hack/commuter
3 Commencal jump bike
4 Iron horse sunday dh race bike
5 Dialled PA geared XC HT
6 Marin Attack trail geared XC FS

stoner - are you missing digits? that list should fit on your hands 😉

A poor showing at only three

1. Alloy, winter hack road bike.
2. Marin Point Reyes - commuter/rigid MTB
3. Moots Ti Hardtail - From my racing days but plenty good enough for long days off road.

As you will have all spotted I clearly need a carbon, blinged up, road machine

1. Slotty S/S Inbred with RC31s
2. 853 geared Inbred with Rebas
3. 1998 Pine Mountain with flat bars,bar ends, Exotic carbon forks, 48/34 chain rings, 11-23 cassette - hack bike.
4. Genesis Croix de Fer

Recommend me a F/S....................................and a good divorce lawyer. 🙂

Five

1) Inbred 456
2) Ribble 7005
3) Orange Gringo
4) Kona Dew Deluxe
5) 1990 Diamondback Topanga - used by the old man now - long term loan!

Almost dare not go here...
mine:
Yeti ASR SL, fastest along
Merlin FatTi, most history, fastest up
One One SS, most ridden
Orange 222, fastest down
Stumpjumper, slow hack
Brompton, fold in train city hack
Brian Rouke Road, fastest road
- need a SC Heckler!, for some up,along and down 😆
- might need a Cotic Soul, most missed 🙁
Sprog James:
DMR Sidekick, jumping
Trek Lion, street/tricks, school run
One one Summer Season, hitting hard trails hard
Comencal DH, NPS series
Specialized fast road thing, training, getting to mates
Jane:
....... does not ride her two........
the list goes on prob, 3-4 (dusty) more and a few bits around to make a couple more..................

I've currently got 6, but am in the process of (re)building another:

NSbikes Society, XCish hardtail with Pikes

Muddyfox jumpbike (old, singlespeed)

Ribble 731 roadbike with 16speed campag

'97 Condercone with drop bars, mudguards and slicks for crappy weather commuting

KHE BMX for playing at skateparks and wallrides

Kona Howler 4x bike, 4" travel, getting more like a DH bike as it's now got boxxer 151s, 8" rotor and big tyres

As I'm currently turning the 4x bike into a DH bike, thought I'd better actually get one so I'm rebuilding my 1998 Schwinn Straight8... Got some saint hubbed wheels from here and with some careful machining they now work with the 20mm/15mm stepped rear axle.

Only thing I'd like in addition would be a 4 or 5" travel XC ish boingy bike - would need to be laidback angles. Might turn the howler into this in the future.

Oh, and possibly another singlespeed as I sold my last one to buy the NSbikes frame...

Four here:
96 Orange C16R
04 Specialized Enduro Expert
04 Turner 5 Spot
08 Cove Hummer

Would like to add a road bike and a short travel XC rig

7 and enough to put together a hack:

steel bmx
vintage steel hardtail (89 cindercone)
ss alu hardtail (frame swap imminent)
hooligan steel hardtail
steel fixed gear
ss alu flat bar commuter
alu road bike

vacancies for:

steel 24-inch cruiser
carbon road bike

and following bikemonger's recent postings, one of those longtail things!

I only have 3 at the moment
Cotic Soul
Ellsworth Specialist (jump 4x bike)
Orange 223 (in bits prepairing for new paint)
Just sold my Bullit and ss hack so raising funds for a Heckler or Orange Five.
It never ends 😀

Robidoo - great choices now and coming

1993 M-Trax, one of the old Ti ones, 21 speed LX and cantis.
1997 Claude Butler Psycho, converted to SS, comuting and going places.
199? Coppi K14, road/road racing/crits/hill climbs/touring
1999 Marin Attack Trail, 5" coil sprung and now with triple clamps and big brakes
2004 Saracen Killi, surprisingly light magnesium hardtail
2009 Yeti ASR-Carbon, just to make you all jealous. 19LB full suss! Racing only.

Probably enough spares to build another, just 'need' some wheels.

Collecting a time-trial bike on Friday, old and second-hand, blew all my funds on the Yeti. Just need a 'cross bike now...

Hmm..7 1/2 I guess:
circa '90 M500 Cannondale (in bits...components that is, not the frame!)
'96 M2 Stumpie (slightly more assembled than the above)
'02 P7 (vaguely more assembled than the M2 after a rear-wheel QR incident)
'03 SWorks Enduro
Trek Bruiser (which I really ought to flog on account of my age and jumping ability being diametrically opposed, and not in a good way)
HPVelotechnik Speedmachine (recumbent)
Challenge Hurricane (recumbent)
And a Pashley Municyle 😉

ok
orange road rat steel (proto)
orange aluminum elite
orange E8
orange Clockwork ltd eddition in matt orange
kona AA
Kona Dawg Deluxe
Joe Waugh Steel
Planet X Uncle John
Colnago Dream
+ 5 more in the house that are wifes and my son. Just need one more !

And a unicyle. And no, I can't.

I could...but haven't since snowboard lessons in hard boots took their toll on my knees 🙁

I knew I forgot one from my list - also got a unicycle 2 weeks back.

nomad,
kobe ti,
dialled alpine *probably going to put up for sale this weekend*
kona cinder cone
planet x road bike

Cove Hummer
Mather SS
Old Merlin XLM
Langster
Kona Jake the Snake
Seven Axiom
and on order
Singular Swift
Pegoretti
will then turn Mather into townbike maybe xtracycle

well by the sounds of it i need to buy more bikes and pretty quick.
Ive been mountail biking now for over 20 years and i only have two bikes,
my 17 year old Zaskar L.E. and my 15 year old Panter A.L.
well its of to the bike shop for me.... 😆

Its posts like these that bring me out in a cold sweat!

Turner 5spot DW
Dialled Alpine
OnOne Tinbred
Voodoo DJab SS
Kona Jake CX
OnOne Pompino
Woodrup Tourer
Litespeed Tuscany Ti Roadbike
1992 Orange Clockwork
Hack Specialized Hardrock

I have:

Scott Scale 30 - Race Bike
Scott Scale 40 - Training / winter bike
Voodoo Wanaga - SS
On One 456 - Fun Bike 😀
SCott Speedster - Road Bike

Could cut down but use each bike. Plus the more bikes you have, the more bits you can buy for them from here! 😆

I have the following:

Santa Cruz Nomad
Dialled bike PA
Planet X Uncle John

The girlfriend also has:

Santa Cruz Heckler
Spech Stumpy FSR
On One Inbred
Planet X Kaffenback

As we are both 5 11", thats 7 bikes to choose from 🙂

A heckler.
A Scott full-sus.
A 456SE
A Gary Fisher - alu rigid with disks and slicks.
A Marin - alu HT.
A Trek - ladies HT (for my Mum).
An unknown make steel HT to become a single 🙂

Here's my current eclectic selection

SS Karate Monkey
Fisher Rig
Mk1 Dialled Price Albert
Focus Cross Expert
MTBTandems Fandango with 66s and a Rohloff
1987 Cannondale sm1000 (still original spec)
Scott Fastback cruiser thing with Nexus and drum brakes!
CW Pistol Pete BMX race bike

Plus the wife's bikes plus a couple of other frames and bikes in various states of repair.

Pedals
On One Tinbred 1x9
05 Stumpjumper FSR
Schwinn beach cruiser SS
Raleigh Chopper MK1 sturmey 5 speed
Raleigh Pursuit (given to nephew so doesnt count now)
Some rockrider thing to build into winter hack.

Engines
1972 Gilera 50 Trail
1978 Bultaco 360 Pursang

And the wife and kids:-
Pedals

Specialized Hotrock... soon be a Felt 24"
Carrera Vulcan (but I made it from bits n bobs)
Claud Butler MTB

I feel justified with:

Kona Coiler DeeL (most crashed, often broken, like now)
DMR Sideick (5", 2x9, most ridden, most reliable)
Inbred (SS, Rigid, most night rides)
Diamondback cruiser (for sale)

My wife's got:

Kona Stinky DeeL (usually gathering dust)
Kona Dawg Primo (usually filthy)

And that is what is left after a cull. I'd dread to think how many we've been through over the years.

3

Spec Allez - winter road
Spec Roubaix - summer road
5 Spot - mtb fave
Orange Crush - for when i'm feeling unfit (most of the time)
Litespeed Toccoa - built into ss rigid weight weenie un-ridden cos it rides like a stiff gearless pig
96 Santa Cruz Tazmon frame - airshock stictionfest, should have bought a turner instead
Kona Kula at parents place in spain

Petrol
Kwak kx250f mx bike (not endurofag green lane sh@gger migh i add!)

Wants:-
29er Hardtail
29er FS

Erm....

On-One Ti29er (SS or gears depending on mood, my main race bike)
On-One Inbred SS (ye olde faithful)
Yeti 575
Cove Stiffee
Condor Pista (SS commuter)
Surly Steamroller (the old commuter - currently built as brakeless fixie but should just sell it)
Lynskey Cooper road bike (with powertap - the road/training bike)
Storck C1.1 (blinged up road bike - but rarely gets used because the powertap is on the Lynskey)
and a couple of frames lying round.

Just need a fast/light full susser for the 24 hour races, but the Storck and Surly will have to go... (that's downsizing, innit?)

Orange 5 diva
On-one SS
Rock Lobster geared MTB
Lemond Fillmore fixed

Not been out on the 5 much recently, but planning a welsh trail centre trip soon!
May swap the on-one for something else soon?

3 is the magic number.
but definatly need a commuter to stop nice bikes getting nicked, so is that counted in the three???

Trance, Primary, loved(cleaned and polished) more than its ridden

Single speed XtC, bridleway tyres at the moment for evening bashings, which make up most of the weight, swap them for conti mud tyres and it weighs next to NOTHING, so good to take along to races as a spare incase it turns filthy

Burley hardtail (currently a street/dirt/park bike, looking to sell it and build up a raather nice chameleon with lyriks)

Unicycles don't count. 2 of those.

Sounds like some people have more bikes than me - I'll have to get some more!

I seem to ahve too many. Trouble is, the Brompton and the Big Dummy are pretty well non-negotiable, and I sold my last Kona A'ha then immediately regretted it once already, so I'm not doing that again.

Only really got one mountain bike and one proper roadie. The "winter" road bike really needs changing for something else, but I'd struggle to do without it entirely. 😀

andylaightscat said:

and on order
Singular Swift
Pegoretti
will then turn Mather into townbike maybe xtracycle

You're going to do what to a Mather? 😯

Which Pegoretti frame do you have on order? Be prepared for a loooong wait - my friend waited over 12 months for his Luigino:

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You're going to do what to a Mather?

I think Rob is pretty happy to see his bikes being used for stuff other than just pure recreation. He started offering discounts for people who specified rack mounts and mudguard eyelets etc, so that hopefully people would continue to use them when it isn't pristine number 1 bike.

I have 6
Rigid singlespeed MTB for local riding
Short travel XC race/marathon hardtail MTB
Full sus 5 spot
Steel tourer/commuter/CX bike
Roadie singlespeed hack bike
Nice roadbike

Though my 'nice' road bike is getting decidedly long in the tooth, so I'd like to get a carbon bling number next year.

This many 😮
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Is there a prize for getting the right number ?
(10 ?)

>Unicycles don't count

Well, they might if you commute on 'em 😛 - I used to do about a mile at each end, to/from stations...

Orange 5 (one of the first ones)
Orange P7 (mud bike)
Inbred s/s
Ti 456 (lightish bike)
Building Cotic Soul
Dawes Tandem

Current 3 and 1/2:

Chumba VF2
Giant TCR 2 (good road bike)
Specialized Allez (with Record - hack bike!)
Cotic Soul frame and some bits (robbed for the Chumba but looking to be built back up soonish...)

I've actually got enough. 3 that is.
575 for most things
Roadbike for commuting
Handjob for most other things, like taking the dog out.

Does me fine.

I'm amazed how far this thread got without any pictures! (until that horrible white & blue thing)

Lemond Filmore fixie
Ti456 long travel hardtail for big climbing days and muddy winter XC
Blur Lt 5" for fast summer XC and trail centres
Boardman Team Carbon road bike, latest addition and whole new way to spend money.

Wouldnt mind a SS rigid hardtail but do I really need one.....???

how many inbreds?!

USE

06 Norco Six-One main bike.
Recently built DMR Trailstar SS for local loops. Don't know what year it is.
Old (maybe 60's or 70's?) LeJeune road bike. Converted to SS for commuting and training. Awesome bike that I paid a tenner for off Gumtree.

DONT USE

Circa 95 Marin Indian Fire Trail. Awaiting a reincarnation.
Team Saracen BMX Jump bike. Blookdy heavy.

Four bikes here

In France:
Switch FS 5" of travel
Handjob going from SS to geared
Commuter might be build back into geared at some point.
In UK

Hoss

But living in the family house kinda stop you from having too much bikes

Four here. For now.

On-one Inbred.'07
Yeti 575.'07
Carrera Fury converted to SS/rigid with slick for commuting
Bianchi roadie

Tried to whittle it down to a roadie and a long travel HT, but failed.
Plus there is a Voodoo Wanga frame on its way.

If you have the room, keep them. I always think about selling the Yeti, but then I ride it and I change my mind. Again I think about selling the Inbred, but then I ride it.
The Wanga is going to be built as a comparison to the Inbred. Then whichever rides better will be kept.

Just realised I need another one.. andrewh's carbon ASR please. For racing (badly) on!

CALLING BUGOWDERDUST

Let's see some pics of the Pistol Pete please (if it's a chrome one 🙂 )