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Six.
Which is about three times as many as I need and twice as many as I want.
But can I part with them? Can I f....
This house hold got a few, manly Cotics between me and the G/f
me
Cotic Soda
Cotic Soul
Da Rosa Road Team (old style)
Da Rosa Avant Farme at the mo,
used to have Full sus, and cross bike!
Spare wheels, loads of parts etc
G/f
Cotic Soda
Cotic Soul
Giant Reign
Spez Ruby Road bike.
So what that...7
this might not be the right place to say it, or it might be exactly the right thread...
but if you are trying to get yer mate, who may not have much money, into mountain biking, you've got them some bits, got their cheap bike to a certain standard, done a few rides and they are starting to love it.
and then they find STW and threads like this. it's just some other aspirational bollocks isn't it. Remember when you first started riding bikes and that buzz? no number of bikes will replace that without the time to ride them. it's N+1-T
4
Redline Flight Pro XXL - Racing bmx
Pace RC129 29er - single speed 29er
Surly Pacer - Single speed road bike
Muddy Fox Courier - Retro Pub Bike
For what I want this is a prefect quiver.
LittleTones, dude:
!!!!!The Whyte replaces the GF as the all purpose bike
😆
Some nice bikes out there though. Flamjob, loving the display!
2.
140 mm full sus and a steel cx/commuter.
All I need 🙂
Santa Claus Nomad (9 speed)
DMR Riddim pump track bike (single speed)
Everti Ti single speed flat baaaaa road bike
Skull Skates single speed cruiser
1952 Schwinn single speed cruiser
Norco VPS no speed ski bike (when I've put the skis on.
So for someone who thinks that single speeds are totally ghey, I appear to own four of them, plus a bike with no speeds at all.....
A year 2000 Gary Fisher 19in Big Sur with circa 2000 custom bits
A Ragley mmmbop 18in in lime, black, and gold/brown, lots of Hope etc..
A Specialized Pitch Pro 19in with no original parts, lots of Hope, etc.
mmmbop gets ridden the most.
Currently wanting a fourth steed to build but probably shouldn't.
Sanderson breath
Genesis IO
NS Society
Dk Spanish bmx
Kenisis crosslight evo2
Pearson carbon road bike (flat bars get to work)
That's mine then my dad has two as does my brother.
Saracen Ariel 3.
Cotic Soul.
Old steel commuter lump.
Daughter has a Merlin (british not american!)
Son has a fixie (trendy git!)and a bmx.
Missus has a Spesh Globe.
@kevevs I totally agree, but there are two things to consider.
1) People who reply to threads like this will have a lot of bikes
2) This forum is besieged with a whole load of boring middle aged, middle class blokes who have been riding since the late '80s. Their outlet from their dull soulless lives is bikes. They are bound to have a lot of bikes.
@kevevs I totally agree, but there are two things to consider.
1) People who reply to threads like this will have a lot of bikes
2) This forum is besieged with a whole load of boring middle aged, middle class blokes who have been riding since the late '80s. Their outlet from their dull soulless lives is bikes. They are bound to have a lot of bikes.
I'd say that anyone who loves bikes cannot be totally devoid of a soul.. it goes with the territory no? Particularly if the bike(s) was mostly built by the rider.
I don't run a car. I'm just a 40 year old teacher who's been into bikes since the late 70's.. My rent, council tax, bike parts, and food etc consume most of my money.
Kevevs - Member
this might not be the right place to say it, or it might be exactly the right thread...but if you are trying to get yer mate, who may not have much money, into mountain biking, you've got them some bits, got their cheap bike to a certain standard, done a few rides and they are starting to love it.
and then they find STW and threads like this. it's just some other aspirational bollocks isn't it. Remember when you first started riding bikes and that buzz? no number of bikes will replace that without the time to ride them. it's N+1-T
Ok I'll bite :D. I don't think it's been an aspirational bollocks thread, I don't particuarly feel people have been boasting "I;ve got this many look at me". It's interesting to see what people have and how some of the odder amongst us seem to have a fair few!!!
As one of the guiltier parties of bike accumulation it's my hobby, I'm not interested in a flash car, or flash tv's etc and I like fettling bikes. My bikes have been accumualted over the years and one of the reasons I've so many is for some reason I don't like getting rid of them - odd maybe but it's the way I am. Agree entirely sbout time to ride being.
Re your mate, well done forn helping him, but do you think me and Mrs K, and probably the rest of the "bike collectors" here have this many bikes and don't lend them out to mates?
And one final reason for having loads of bikes;
"Enjoy yourself, while you're still in the pink
The years go by, as quickly as you wink
Enjoy yourself, enjoy yourself,
It's later than you think"
Specials - Enjoy yourself (it's later than you think)
Album: Too Much Too Young
Aspirational? Not for me.
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.
Go-to HT - Saracen Zen steel
29er - Niner air
XC FS (not used much) - Boardman Team FS
Bigger FS - Ironhorse 6.4
Downhill (not used much) Session 10
Old mtb - Muddy Fox Adventurer
Winter road - Giant SCR 1.5
Summer road - Giant TCR Advanded
Few frames kicking around too. Needed to list to count them! 8.
Aspirational bollocks? Not actually sure what you mean, but here's my position:
we were asked, we didn't volunteer the information;
it IS a bike forum so you might reasonably expect people to have bikes;
some of us may be middle-aged men, but I am an elderly woman who has been into biking for many years and so built up a collection;
I don't collect paintings or go clubbing or buy designer clothes or live in a fancy house or go on expensive holidays, I have my bikes, three of them hang up on the wall in my lounge, my holidays - actually my whole life - is based around riding my bikes and being with my dog. It's a choice I made about my life.
Bikes (and Missy) is what I iz.
Kevevs - Memberand then they find STW and threads like this. it's just some other aspirational bollocks isn't it.
No. HTH.
Two
Bike 1- Unknown Ti hardtail
Bike 2- Santa cruz Tazmon [current project]
I try to keep things to a riding bike and a project otherwise[as many here will agree] you get inundated with them.
Owning a lot of bikes is hardly extravagant - you can get 10 top end carbon beauties for the price of a brand new family car (and I hear that some families have more than one car - outrageous!).
Eight between us all:
Dialled Bikes Love/Hate SS
Santa Cruz Superlight
Uncle John cross/road/turbo
Mrs Bakey
Ancient Ridgeback
Giant something or other road bike
Kids
3x Islabikes (one for sale when I get round to it!)
I'm down to 4 now.
Do it all HT - Evil Sovereign
Do it all FS - Chumba XCL
Jump bike - DMR rhythm
Hack/winter/pub bike - Old Diamond Back Ascent with slicks
They all get ridden, no garage queens.
I'm only allowed 3 at a time, one for each type of riding; road, off-road and commuting.
Currently of the view that the road bike isn't the right one any more, the commuter was cheap and would be nice to upgrade and I need to get the MTB stripped, resprayed and rebuilt with new bits.
This may be because various illnesses and injuries have stopped me riding properly since the summer and I'm going out of my mind!
Two, a hard tail 100mm carbon fibre XC race bike, and a carbon fibre CX bike. All my training, racing, and general riding is done on them.
SirJonLordofBike
'in your defence'? I questionthe doubling up of so many same bikes and so so many unbuilt, 2 VP frees a Ti Holeshot, 4X 2:1 .. all unbuilt
I'm so very jealous
Lol genuinely it's not big or clever. Don't be too jealous, my cars are utter s#!&e!and I struggle to find the time to ride half as much as I'd like to because of work commitments.
I have to admit that the unbuilt list is criminal,I'll be working on this over the winter.
Dialled Bikes PA
Whyte 905
Specialized Sirrus
Giant Rock (Wife's)
Ridgeback kid's bike
Wooden balance bike
Being boring, soulless and middle aged is grossly underrated anyway.
3 bikes. An Orange Patriot 7+ with Lyriks and fox,a Pitch with a dhx 3 and fox 32s and lots of Easton and a Pinnacle Coldharbour hardtail. These are all excellant bikes and very versatile. I use the Pitch as a trail weapon and the Orange for heavier stuff. Pinnacle has been gathering dust lately which is a shame coz its great as well. Love my bikes.
Cotic Roadrat
Raleigh road bike exact model name escapes me at the moment
Graham Weigh Cross bike
Dialled Bikes Love/Hate
Dialled Bikes Morning Glory
Cotic Hemlock
Yeti 575
Santa Cruz Blur
and a GT RTS in bits under going a very slow restoration
I prefer to catergorise the family's bikes by the colour of the rainbow:
1. Red: Kona Honky Tonk (winter road bike, me)
2. Red/White: Colnago Asso (summer road bike, Mrs)
3. Red/White: Colnago Primavera(summer road bike, me)
4. Orange: Cotic Soul (HT, me)
5. Yellow: Genesis IO-ID (commuter, Mrs)
6. Green: Brompton (getting about, shared)
7. Blue: Isla Bikes Beinn 20 (#1 son)
8. Indigo: Ridgeback MX 16 (#2 son)
9. Violet: Nothing! I do however have a grey Stumpy FSR which I now realise I clearly need to get resprayed violet!
Love/Hate Singlespeed
Cove Handjob
SC Heckler
DeRosa Merak (Road)
Ribble Road ( winter)
CX.
I have far too many:
- 29er XC bike - ridden, but not really enough;
- 150mm full-sus - bought because I got talked into doing the Mega, far too much bike for me really;
- 140mm hardtail - a favourite, but currently lending its running gear to the 29er;
- a moderately fancy road bike, not ridden in over 12 months;
- a CX/road/tourer - getting a lot of use;
- a cargo bike - used daily;
- a Brompton, on long term loan.
I need to get it down considerably. Cargo bike is staying, CX/road/tourer is staying. I can probably build a sensible weight hardtail for everything, but will have to stop imagining I can really race big mountain enduro DH races...
Doesn't feel very aspirational, feels like a sad bloody burden and a tragic waste of money and time. 🙂
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 . . . [url= 
]build No 101[/url] 😛
. . . and yeah, wot Karin said (except I don't collect bikes - I collect debt 😕 )
[i]mamadirt - wasting money since 1992 😉 [/i]
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?
[b]In India:[/b]
some bikes
[b]In UK:[/b]
some more bikes
[/quoteshow off 😛