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We all know that n+1 applies to both bikes and guitars. I wondered if people's application of this rule applied evenly? I have 4 bikes and 4 guitars, hence a nice 1:1 ratio. Please don't post if you have 0 bikes or 0 guitars... I'm not sure if the STW servers can cope with NaN?


 
Posted : 14/12/2016 1:49 pm
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2 Bikes, 2 Guitars but 4 synths?? oh yeah and 1 drum kit.


 
Posted : 14/12/2016 1:52 pm
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3 bikes 4 guitars 1 amp


 
Posted : 14/12/2016 1:53 pm
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3 bikes 1 guitar, 1 Ukulele and a drum kit.

I can't actually play either the guitar or the uke but I can play the drums and ride the bikes, honest...


 
Posted : 14/12/2016 1:54 pm
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Since you asked for a ratio: 3.5:1


 
Posted : 14/12/2016 2:01 pm
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7 bikes 0 guitars.


 
Posted : 14/12/2016 2:03 pm
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4 bikes : 4 guitars : 3 combo amps : 1 speaker cab

May be picking up a new amp head this weekend though. If I can sell one of my bikes or guitars in time...


 
Posted : 14/12/2016 2:06 pm
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2 bikes, 1 guitar, 1 uke, 1 cajon and a djembe.... oooh and a very sad looking bass in the attic that's desperately in need of a restoration


 
Posted : 14/12/2016 2:09 pm
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In true STW spirit I'm going to ignore the instructions in the OP - my ratio is infinite. Given I play brass not guitar though, can I include those in the discussion? And to simplify things given I CBA counting the bikes, the unicycle* to brass** instrument ratio in my household*** is currently 6:3, though I'm hoping to acquire myself a trombone shortly, and have been looking at euphoniums, tubas etc. on ebay for the next +1. Oh and in case anybody was going to ask, yes I can play trumpet whilst riding a unicycle!

* only counting complete ones
** I'm including son 2's trombone which is actually plastic
*** including trombone and cornet belonging to kids and son 2's xmas pressie unicycle (shhhh!)


 
Posted : 14/12/2016 2:11 pm
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hmmm... Probaby applies to motorcycles too. But since you're asking, 4.5 guitars (one is a travel guitar so I always count it as a half) to 8.5 bikes (yes, one's a tandem - should that count as two?).

It would seem that I'm under guitared, if that's a word. Interesting, he says rubbing his hands together and contemplating a twelve string....


 
Posted : 14/12/2016 2:12 pm
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3 bikes, 4 guitars, 1 mandolin, 1 synth


 
Posted : 14/12/2016 2:13 pm
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Too many bike:to many instruments.

Most hang around unused


 
Posted : 14/12/2016 2:13 pm
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6 bikes and 4 guitars.


 
Posted : 14/12/2016 2:15 pm
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1 bike, 5 guitars (6 including my mandolin) ๐Ÿ˜€

My number 1 guitar is a Suhr carved top custom, had it for 9 years now:

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most recently I've acquired a G & L Tribute asat classic (essentially a Telecaster) it was dirt cheap but plays great and sounds HUGE, there's something about the pickups (made in USA) and the ash body, I could buy about 8 of them for the price of my Suhr ๐Ÿ˜†


 
Posted : 14/12/2016 2:16 pm
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2 bikes: 1 guitar


 
Posted : 14/12/2016 2:17 pm
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4 bikes and thinking about buying a Jazz Bass again.
2 technics 1210, 2 numark cd/USB decks and a Pioneer DJM400 are the way I roll now though.


 
Posted : 14/12/2016 2:22 pm
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3:3. I'm crap on every single one of them as well but thankfully that isn't the point


 
Posted : 14/12/2016 2:23 pm
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3 bikes, 3 electric guitars. Yeh!

Steve's got me browsing EBay for an ASAT now though.

(Plus an acoustic, a banjo, mandolin, uke but they don't count)


 
Posted : 14/12/2016 2:24 pm
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2 guitars, one acoustic, one banjo, one nord stage, one orange valve amp, two fs, one ss, one cx

have you seen that kemper profiling amp? oooofffff.


 
Posted : 14/12/2016 2:25 pm
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Try to find an early made in Korea one, these are considered to be of better quality than the latter made in Indonesia models ๐Ÿ˜€ Mine is a 2004.


 
Posted : 14/12/2016 2:25 pm
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3 guitars but 1 is in bits so if bike rules apply, it doesn't count. So just got my mik tele and my little crafter travel acoustic.

(I took my 2 lovely mij hotrod reissue strats to pieces about 15 years ago to do some witchdoctory, rebuilt one to stock and sold it... The other was more or less a CV/apprentice piece as I was working part-time as a shop tech, but I never finished it and now I have no idea what I was doing. What the hell are all these toggle switches for? Coil taps? Phasing? One of them might be a killswitch, I like that toggle on/off Morello thing which is also why it has a les paul pickup switch in the horn instead of a strat blade... There's a custom shop duncan humbucker I had built to spec for it, that I don't think has ever made a sound... I should finish it but it's out of sight, out of mind and I'd need to relearn all the wiring... But I kind of wanted to refinish it too as it has some dings and burns and they're not mine... Aaarghghhgh.

I genuinely used to own more guitars than I knew songs ๐Ÿ˜† I love them as things more than I like to play. Certainly more than I like to practice...

4 working bikes though I basically never ride one of them, and half an XC bike that I could build up in about an hour. So somewhere between 2:3 and 2:4.5 depending on how you count.


 
Posted : 14/12/2016 2:26 pm
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1:1

1 well worn Trek 8000
1 well worn Squire Strat in Sunburst/black

Niether are worth much to anyone else, but I'm fond of both. The Squire plays better than it should and weighs nothing, so is very comfortable. I do at least have a half decent amp, lovely old Vox AC4 in white ๐Ÿ™‚


 
Posted : 14/12/2016 2:26 pm
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1:1 at the minute, not including the two BMXs that are hung on the walls ๐Ÿ˜†

26" Cotic BFe : Epiphone SG 400 Pro and a big-ass Peavey 112 amp!

I too am bobbins on both.

OH is 1:1 bike to drum kit ratio. We have very understanding neighbours...


 
Posted : 14/12/2016 2:29 pm
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5 bikes : 12 guitars.
Two bikes to go soon. The guitars were mainly bought in the 90s when I had a lot of disposable income. They seem to have done rather better than my pension fund as I bought high end secondhand stuff.


 
Posted : 14/12/2016 2:32 pm
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2:1


 
Posted : 14/12/2016 2:32 pm
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10 bikes : 2 guitars.


 
Posted : 14/12/2016 2:33 pm
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1 bike : 1 bass


 
Posted : 14/12/2016 2:39 pm
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4:4 here


 
Posted : 14/12/2016 2:43 pm
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3 bikes (all mine, although one is my old s-works that got built up for mrsMomo to ride) 1 (electric) guitar, a drum kit and a tambourine!

Although if I include mrsMomos collection I can add and acoustic guitar, a mandolin, 2 ukulele, 3 violins, a piano, an accordion, a saxophone, her nice flute (main instrument) and piccolo, 2 clarinets (which neither of us play), a concertina and a plethora of flues whistles and the like!


 
Posted : 14/12/2016 2:44 pm
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Wow ... 1:1 here too ... never thought of it before.

3 Bikes ... 1 FS, 1 HT and my lovely retro steel Colnago

3 guitars ... 1 electric, 1 acoustic and a small nylon string acoustic that I rescued for my kids when someone down the road put it out the bin man.

Oh.... and all 6 are gathering in dust ๐Ÿ™


 
Posted : 14/12/2016 2:48 pm
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5 bikes, 2 guitars.

No kites.


 
Posted : 14/12/2016 2:50 pm
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My 14 year old son is currently 1:1, Cannondale Trigger and Freshman acoustic, but he's soon to receive a squier vintage modified tele - does this mean he's gonna want another bike as well? Hell....


 
Posted : 14/12/2016 2:53 pm
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I'm impressed with mrs momo's instrument collection!

#kiteforrusty


 
Posted : 14/12/2016 2:57 pm
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Bikes = 6
Guitars = 0
Fish tanks = 2


 
Posted : 14/12/2016 3:04 pm
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1 bike 6 guitars.My equal favourites are a 2002 Gibson SG Standard and a 2014 Gibson Firebird.


 
Posted : 14/12/2016 3:06 pm
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5:1

1 Shergold bass from 1980 in my loft. I keep thinking I should buy a new one.


 
Posted : 14/12/2016 3:08 pm
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Five bikes and, funnily enough, five electric basses (and one double bass). Nowadays I don't use any of them nearly enough and should really keep only the nicest one.
That''d probably be Liteville 301 and '93 Musicman Sterling fretless then. It'll never happen though.


 
Posted : 14/12/2016 3:11 pm
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4 bikes
2 electric guitars
1 acoustic guitar
4 bass guitars
1 ukulele

Shit, it sounds bad when I lay it out like that. Especially given I can't really play the guitar or ride a bike.


 
Posted : 14/12/2016 3:15 pm
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Guitars 6
Bikes 3
Oboes 4
Button Accordions 4
Recorders Many

As per mrsmomo, the same exercise chez slowoldman would add more guitars, mandolin, banjo, a few basses, trombones, saxes, bassoon, more recorders, more accordions, a brace of concertinas, violin, viola (mine actually) and cello.

I still fancy a drum kit though.


 
Posted : 14/12/2016 3:18 pm
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7 bikes

20 stringed instruments......

Guitars:
- PRS Zach Myers
- Larrivee LS-2
- Hohner SE400 Professional
- Jedson Les Paul
- OLP MM1
- Epiphone SST Classic
- Aria Sinsonido
- Takamine F400 12 string 1974
- Washburn Monterey-12 Custom Studio 12 string
- Yamaha APX-4
- Yamaha FG-180
- Cheap Thomann classical semi-acoustic
- Home made guitar - used a Strat kit from Ebay, reshaped and routed out the body and wired in a multi-effects pedal into the body behind the bridge.

Basses:
- OLP MM2
- Ashbory bass (Short scale and fretless with silicon strings. Sounds like an upright)
- No-name 70s bass - Walmart?

Other:
- Russian Mandolin - 70s, solid wood sides and back, plays beautifully
- Cheap as chips no-name electric mandolin
- Ozark bouzouki
- Fender FB-300 banjo

3 synths, a bassoon, alto & tenor saxes, trombone, and an electric piano.

*edit* Oh and a Theremin ๐Ÿ˜‰


 
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Ratio 1:1

5 bikes. 5 guitars, quality of bikes far exceeds the quality of the Guitars.

Quality of riding far exceeds quality of playing and I am not that hot a rider ๐Ÿ™


 
Posted : 14/12/2016 3:36 pm
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I've always fancied a ridiculously pointy hair metal guitar, like a lightning bolt shape or something, painted metallic purple with extra metal flake in it ๐Ÿ˜† I imagine they're awful to actually play though.

edit- shut the front door!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Jackson-Guitar-/252672197263?hash=item3ad46fc28f:g:WCEAAOSwNRdX48DX


 
Posted : 14/12/2016 3:39 pm
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5 bikes and 3 guitars although the same arguments can be applied to both. In both cases the quality of the kit far exceeds my skills and in both cases there is one that I use 95% of the time and the others are a pure extravagance.


 
Posted : 14/12/2016 3:43 pm
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4 bikes:
13 guitars (5 acoustic, 6 electric, 2 bass)
2 mandolins
1 ukulele
2 amps
1 piano

I need to sell some...


 
Posted : 14/12/2016 3:53 pm
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I didn't even mention my amps *adds up* 4 guitar, 1 keyboard, and 1 bass. And a PA. I need to sell some stuff!


 
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