[Closed] Which on do I keep????

keep both, offer wife a second kitchen

School boy error. You should always make sure your bikes are the same colour.
That way so long as you keep her out of the shed she will never know !

I even tried bribing her with Take That tickets! One definately has to go!!

Only two ?

You need to grow up ?

Jeez.

under the thumb....

Tell her she only needs one pair of shoes....grow up,the rest need to go.

You need to man up and tell her you wear the trousers and that your keeping both. Wear body armour while doing this though lol

a) Stop keeping them in the lounge and maybe she'll let you keep both.
b) Sell both and enjoy picking something new.

Surprised no ones said it yet...
We need pics of wife too, in case it's her needing to be binned!

If the living room is the only option for keeping and fettling the bikes, I think she has a point though. Have you looked at those storage poles that take two bikes, or some wall brackets to get them out of the way? Oh and keep the newest bike.

one needs to go
Help her pack...
Think you could get a divorce on the grounds of unreasonable behaviour as she is denying you of your basic needs.

Surprised no ones said it yet...
We need pics of wife too, in case it's her needing to be binned!

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I would get rid of all the tat you have hanging off the Boardman. Then sell the Boardman.

All that tat!! That hurts. I thought they were all useful!!

Unforuantly the wife also pays half the mortgage, need to take that into consideration!

I've been on a big selling spree and got rid of three of my bikes, 2 more to go (80's racer and BMX if anyone fancies?) That'll bring me down to "just" three bikes.

MTFU!

The least enjoyable ride should go. 😀

So as long as you pay your half of the mortgage whats the problem??

To be fair to the wife they both look like they serve the same purpose.
Maybe your second bike should be a hardtail?

You can always get another wife. You'll never get back the years you've lost compromising.

Get rid of the fishtank after drowning the wife in it first

You'll have to forgive me for this but; if you and your other half mis-understand each other to that extent then you've got to question your relationship, and not just that she thinks she can, and you're prepared to let her, tell you what to do!

Surely two people who are going to share their lives together have to be the same kind of people? Like be into the same stuff, you know, people who can enjoy themselves together, doing what they really love, together, as a couple of mates, as well as partners.

My (shortly to be) wife and I met on a mountian biking holiday. We ride together all the time, we've been on holiday to Morocco, The Sierra Nevada, The Alps, all over the place, riding together. We've got a dozen or so, XC, DH, road, pub, messing about, bikes between us.

Honestly, do you even speak the same language?

Why would you settle for second best? You only get one life. Do it right or not at all.

knock her brown door in and tell her you're keeping both

a chameleon frame arrived this week. My wife just laughed (but see my classifieds ad for stuff that needs to pay for it!)

Sounds to me like you need to take your nuts out of her purse and tell her you are keeping both 😉

Why 2 bikes that are so similar in their uses? A hardtail and full sus or full sus trail and DH bike? But 2 100-130mm travel bikes? Don't see the point, each to their own i guess. Sell them both and get something really bling! Is my answer

all you need is a scolds bridle, then peace and quiet will reign 😀

Which do you like more? They're pretty similiar, sure the Idrive's got more travel and is heavier but it's still an enormous XC bike at heart, with those angles. I really liked mine, if it was my choice of those 2 I'd keep the big fat GT despite its vast weight but I reckon the Boardman's better, and they can both do everything the other can do.

As said before get rid of the 2 and get 1 descent FS and a rigid SS. Then you can argue they are for different types of riding.. then you'll need a 29er for the same reason and then a geared hard tail then what else could we use the same reason for????

I got the GT this afternoon on a whim (£300 and I thought it was rude not too!) as I really like the frame. Thats how I ended up with the same sort of set up bike. I only do XC riding so dont really need anything else.

To be honest I wanted you all to say that the GT was the one to keep as I prefer its looks but didnt know which one to was best to keep in the long run.

As for the wife, as soon as I dragged another bike through door, looking at her face I knew there was no way of keeping both!!

I would love to sell both and get something more special but those bills wont pay themselves!!!