[Closed] Poll (sort of): How many of your bikes are currently rideable?

i have 6 bikes all ready to roll

1 of 1. I'm such a pauper 🙁

3 of 3 are rideable. FS needs an inner tube replaced at some point, HT has a slight bend in a rotor and SS is just creaking slowly to death.

3 of 4, need to sort out the bottom bracket and fix a puncture on the dh bike

3 0f mine, 2 of other peoples. other peoples need a bit of fettling. They are not interested in new tyres, brakes etc, just want it to work!

2 solos, one tandem ready to go - one road bike been hanging on the wall for 15 yrs, one broken unicycle.

Its one place where I am obsessive - the tandem was stripped to be transported and lovingly rebuilt with most bolts removed and regreased, everything cleaned and chains lubed!

Five out of five 8)

4 out of 5. All could probbly do with a new something or other, but they go ok so that's all that matters. The racer can be coaxed into action, but does need some new parts. The shifters are knackered.

2 bikes, both rideable.

5 of 13.....
Oops

almost 4/5...

don't have quite enough pedals to go round, apart from that have them all running nicely apart from my old rockhopper which is minus working hubs, gears and brakes....

2 out of 3

3/3 Just about. Just put the FS back together today; Commuter's rear wheel is just about hanging on; SS needs new grips but its rideable. Puncture on the 29er unicycle, was fine when I parked it so must be a slow one.

Roadlite - rideable
Pimpino - rideable
Chameleon - rideable
Handjob - Needs lots of work doing on it
Kaffenback - rideable
Van Tuyl - rideable

wow! That's all the bikes I have at the moment, I have been so brutal recently!

Downhill bike is fine.

XC bike is hanging in there, despite massive amounts of rear wheel bearing play ever since Mayhem.

BMX works, but is made up of such a mish mash of bits I'm suprised.

Jump bike needs chainring bolts to be rideable.

2 out of 4
Road bike forks been removed for replacement and got brake problem.
Yeti awaiting new bearings for the last month or so
Hardtail is ok (but has summer tyres)
Singlespeed/hack is fine and in daily use 🙂

HT - sorted
Road - sweet
Commuter - OK for commuting but as Im UB40 unused 🙁
FS - in bits, needs bearings, fork service, etc
Original Retro MTB - needing restoration

So 3/5 for me
And 1/5 not likely to be commuted for a while
Does that make it 2/5??

100% of all I have = one

50%, or 2 out of 4

S/S= Rideable.
F/S= Rideable.
D/H= In bits as it has been for 11months...
'Alps' bike= Still bagged up since coming back from Morzine a month ago...

My 3 are ridable. GF's two are too (tho she hardly ever does).

One Mongoose frame-only

Just one out of three, both mountain bikes are in bits... 🙁

Off to Snowdonia at the weekend... I might be finding out how good / bad the cross bike is up in the mountains!

5/7

5 / 5

7 of 7 though there are probably another 2 nearly there 😳

3.5 out of 4

Singlesoeed Scott scale ready to go
456SS currently on turbo trainer duties, could do with brakes bleeding
Trek fuel ex8 ready to go
Zx636r b1h wearing track fairings ready to go, road fairings freshly painted, need a quick run over with rubbing compound then they'll be ready to be fitted.

0/1 and it's doing my nut.

Forks being repaired (hopefully) under warranty.

If you count frames, I have 6 bikes. 2 are rideable, the rest are just frames really.

Road bike - good to go
Racer X - squirt of lube on the chain and fork stanchions
Maxlight - shares wheels with Racer X so only one ready at a time
Motolite - pump up the tyres and stick some brake pads in

So 2 of 4, but over the years I've found that I can only ride one bike at a time so I'm currently 100% over-prepared.

3 of 3, though the riding to work bike is struggling with gearing just now despite new cables, cassette, crankset and chain. Think the hanger is goosed but it's an ancient old Bike Co-op bike, and live nor work anywhere near the place anymore.
'5' is rock n roll
Kona HT is pretty good though front fork remote lockout disnae work anymore - disnae spring back - have to haul the cable !

3 from 3 all good, roadrat for daily commute is suitably filthy and it's a race between the rim and the hub for which will die first. My pastic road bike is mint and has seen a good summer, but sadly despite my soul being good to go it's has seen more dust from the shed than the trails this year, but it's limited outings still put a smile on my face!

3/3
Despite obviously not being able to ride 3 at once it really nags me if a bike is out of action.

Four out of four rideable. It bugs my happiness if they're not

Why have them otherwise?

1/2 New cassette, rings and chains - came in from ride and cleaned bike and chain as always - hmm time to check the chain (OMG) 😡 chain is well worn. Still 8 months and 2 chains worth of riding. Going for XTR and will check chain more regularly. Its expensive but I am worth it 😀 and the 100km Brecon Beast this weekend will be so much easier without slipping chain LOL

Five work
One doesn't

3 of the 5. Though the Hemlock is slightly unwell with a slow puncture I've not bothered to fix and various squeaks from the rear end. The other 2 are just piles of bits, one is awaiting me having the energy to finish spraying it and the other is just neglected.

Kona HT is pretty good though front fork remote lockout disnae work anymore - disnae spring back - have to haul the cable !

What fork is that out of interest?

3 out of 4. I hate it . . . there's no room in my kitchen . . . I only want one 👿

2 out of 4

the 2 that don't are historic MTB memorabilia that will be refurbed for a retro event one day to scare myself 😉

3 of 3. Road, mtb and bmx.

5 but only 4 to ride.

2 bikes both running, although saying that has probably just signalled the death knoll to the dodgy bb in the ss, too much month left until payday...

3 of 3, triggers track bike the commuter is used daily, needs a drivechain clean...
weekend best bike, did Mcr 100 on it last weekend (but needs bartape) so still rideable, needs tyres back to full pressure
Voodoo ready to go as well, needs tyre pressure check as do all bikes really

gf's giant is good to go also (too small for me tho)

is this interesting?

I don't know anymore, though its spilled over to page 2
Turns out pretty much everyone else gets round to mending their bikes rather than trying to ignore the ever lengthening list of things to fix

One of those easy reading kinda threads, just vaguely interesting but I still feel the need to contribute:
1 x 20" Kids bike for riding to the shops/gym and back

1 x Identiti Krisis, waiting on inner tubes and star nut in the post and steerer to be cut down from new rigid forks, it'll then work but be rigid, ss, chainless and brakeless, soon to have chain the right length when I scrape my pennies together to buy a tool.
Yes I'm a student!

4 working
1 project in bits
1 frame with broken gear hanger inherited off a mate, may get track ends fitted one year
1 spare frame

6 of 8

Orange Subzero - frame still broke after alps (in 2008) I will do something about it eventually
Orange 5- running fine after recent rear shock rebuild
On-one single speed running fine after recent new cranks
On-one 29er running fine after recent new mechs
On-one scandal - need to get around to fitting new cranks and bottom bracket I have had sitting on the work bench for nearly a year
giant road bike running fine
Rock Lobster 853 - new build nearly finished just in time as jnr Inbred is now big enough to go on the back in his seat 🙂

Wifes bike is working as well

This is a bit complicated...

1 frame on shed wall (01 Stumpy fsr) so unrideable...
Inbred is rideable but forks need service & front brake needs bleeding. It also needs a clean & the down tube helicopter taping.
2010 is back at lbs for warranty stuff - pics to follow at some point. It's ready to collect, but seeing as it's not here, it's unrideable.

Hmmm, so that's 1/3 until I get to the lbs tomorrow.

1 of 1

All 36 of them.

8/9

1) mc battery rideable but needs a brake bleed after morzine
2) heavy bullit rideable.
3) Lightweight bullit rideable
4) BFe rideable but rear pads are close to the bone..
5) Pinarello road bike rideable
6) Spesh rockhopper circa 1992 rideable but in need of a full clean and service.
7) BMX rideable
8. dawes racer - no saddle, ****ed brakes
9) Motobecane racer rideable.

4/5
The FS is off to the welder on monday. Someone who knows what they're doing this time.

4 out of 6 are good to go 🙂

Trek road bike - ridable
Langster - ridable
Sanderson HT - ridable
Orange Sub 5 - ridable
Tinbred SS - bars/stem borrowed on the Sanderson
GT DHi - not fully built yet

A better ratio than sometimes!

Cheers, Rich

3/4, one in LBS awaiting parts.

One working.

One in the build phase and is likely to be for some time yet.

All bikes rideable

3/3 for the first time ever.

I was so pleased that I wrote a blog post.

http://harrythespiderblog.wordpress.com/2010/08/13/pottering/

Almost 2 out of 2!
The road bike is working well, but the ss ht (which I wanted to ride today) is missing a couple of bolts out of the grips so they spin around and fall off 🙁 new ones should arrive today though (even if it will be after I've left for work 😮 ) It is ridable though 😛

0/3. Two ruined BBs, one with missing spokes. All being fixed this weekend.

6 out of 7, I took the pedals off the SS road bike to use on a LBS demo bike and haven't refitted them yet.

6 of my 7, but the 7th only needs the pedals putting back on

10 out of 11 in my shed are fully functional

the 1 that isnt is a frame i just bought and am in the process of building - which will leave number 10 minus a back wheel & forks

3 out of 3. Very rare occurrence to have all of them working

...but they're in a garage so have probably all be nicked if hora's right. 😉

I was going to say inbred, you have quite a few similar bikes there, but toys, [b]2[/b] SC bullits[b]?[/b]

1 out of 3 MTBs running, road bike ok & in turbo trainer

5 bikes, 2 unrideable - my cross and road bikes because I did a sportive a couple of weeks ago which was crap weather so I used my cross bike with the road bike wheels but need to swap bit back round.

6 out of 7.

All.
2 old hardtail frames for t'wife and I in the loft for a rainy day/frame catastrophes, but they really are just bare frames rather than half completed bikes.

4 out of 6
Cube FS - Rideable
Genesis Altitude - Ridable
Bianchi 1885 Road Bike - Ridable
Specialized Tarmac - Ridable

Mrs MM's Specialied MTB - In bits awaiting upgrade
Giant XTC Frame will eventually be a single rigid single speed project. Have most of the bits lying around.

1 of 3.

Although if you factor in various other frames, it's 1 of 6. 😳

BMX: yep

456: yep

road bike: yep, although need some new shoes as they broke

touring bike/commuter: yep, went for a bit of an adventure on it last night in fact 🙂

single speed roadie: no (awaiting cast offs from road bike to make it work,upgrades already bought)

Sanderson: no, not yet decided on its exact build!

Cruiser: yep (rideable is debatable though!)

Sunn: no

all of them, however many that is.
Or is this willy waving over the number of bikes everyone owns? 😆

none at the mo 🙁

Inbred 456 needs gear cables and gears setting up... will sort them out tonight though with some help from iplayered radcliffe and maconie.. 🙂

singlespeed is halfway through getting gears put on it for the first time in about 5 years.. for a trans penine trail epic next week.. and has no fork either as we are trialing a higher front end on my G/F's bike this weekend..

commencal meta 5 has no wheels / rear derailleur cos theyve gone on the singlespeed..!

oh and the RTS frame is sitting on a shelf feeling unloved after being stripped down and built into the 456... 😉

One of two, but then, the 5spot has been in bits for the last 2/3months being hand stripped and then serviced and rebuilt in a new and interesting 1x9 and coil spring guise. Just waiting for my shock spring.

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I had 4 bikes in various states of utter disrepair plus a Bullit that was/is mint.

I sold all the junk on ebay, it was worthless, but sold for enough to fund a new Carbon 456. So I know have two working bikes, though they're sharing a set of wheels at the moment as I haven'g to round to finishing the ones I'm building for the 456.

Every bloke needs a project bike, so I have a Mongoose Transfer for riding round the streets that is being worked on at the moment. It needs a broken bearing removing from the front wheel, disc brake adaptors, a front mech shifter and new bars.

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3 out of 4 are currently fit for purpose.

The Mount Vision is currently missing its forks as they are having a little holiday at Locotuning. Wxpect them to come home all refreshed & full of bounce/beans!:)

3/4 working, though one is lent out to my brother, and the 4th is only in pieces as I stole the fork for another bike, bought some new un's now so should put #4 back together.

5 all working and ready to roll