[Closed] Your Bike:Guitar ratio?

2 Bikes, 2 Guitars but 4 synths?? oh yeah and 1 drum kit.

3 bikes 4 guitars 1 amp

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...

Since you asked for a ratio: 3.5:1

7 bikes 0 guitars.

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...

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

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!)

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....

3 bikes, 4 guitars, 1 mandolin, 1 synth

Too many bike:to many instruments.

Most hang around unused

6 bikes and 4 guitars.

1 bike, 5 guitars (6 including my mandolin) 😀

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 😆

2 bikes: 1 guitar

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.

3:3. I'm crap on every single one of them as well but thankfully that isn't the point

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)

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.

Try to find an early made in Korea one, these are considered to be of better quality than the latter made in Indonesia models 😀 Mine is a 2004.

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 😆 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.

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 🙂

1:1 at the minute, not including the two BMXs that are hung on the walls 😆

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...

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.

2:1

10 bikes : 2 guitars.

1 bike : 1 bass

4:4 here

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!

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 🙁

5 bikes, 2 guitars.

No kites.

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....

I'm impressed with mrs momo's instrument collection!

#kiteforrusty

Bikes = 6
Guitars = 0
Fish tanks = 2

1 bike 6 guitars.My equal favourites are a 2002 Gibson SG Standard and a 2014 Gibson Firebird.

5:1

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

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.

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.

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.

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 😉

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 🙁

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 😆 I imagine they're awful to actually play though.

edit- shut the front door!

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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.

4 bikes:
13 guitars (5 acoustic, 6 electric, 2 bass)
2 mandolins
1 ukulele
2 amps
1 piano

I need to sell some...

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!

One bike, one bass drum and an old banjo string.

3 bikes (if discounting bikes in bits). one bass, one acoustic, one trumpet and a harmonica. We have a piano but technically that's more Mrs Pondo's domain - she has one bike, a flute and numerous recorders, too.

DezB - Member
5:1

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

Nice! - I'd keep it and use it, they were nice basses in my opinion, if a bit heavy.
There's nothing that something like a Jazz Bass or Stingray will do that the Shergold won't.

As used by Mike Rutherford, of course, and Rory McFarlane used to use a fretless one with the Richard Thompson band around '83.

5 full bikes, two frames and a bunch of components with good intentions : 4 guitars

I'd like my ratio to be 1:1 - I want to play the guitar, but can't read music and frankly don't have the time at present.

What's ukulele like to learn?

Do air guitars count?

This thread reminds me of that old tommy cooper joke ...

I went up into the attic and found a Santa Cruz and a Martin.... Unfortunately Santa Cruz was a terrible luthier and Martin made lousy bikes

😀

Just like that

😆

2:1

Covert, BFe, Fender accoustic. I'm rubbish at riding the bikes and worse on the guitar.

@Ro5ey 🙂

kayla1 - Member

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 I imagine they're awful to actually play though.

I've had 2 BC Riches, the Warlock was horrible to play, I kept stabbing myself in the knee 😆 But then I had a Virgin 7-string and it was actually lovely, it had a natural rearward weight so it hung exactly where it was put, like a good hefty les paul does. Weighed a ton mind and the access to the high end of the fretboard was terrible.

And it sounded like cthulhu rising, which is all I really wanted.

core- you don't need to be able to read music to learn to play guitar! 😉

4 bikes, 3 saxes, 2 guitars, 1 flute. Saxes are the one thing I'm good at, my guitar playing is not much to write home about.

3 bikes, 4 frames in various states of assembly, 13 guitars, 3 amps, 1 keyboard.

The road bike is the only one out of the lot that gets touched more than once a month!

How about bike/surfboard/skateboard/guitar ratio?

3;1;1;1;1;1

Last being ukulele/keyboard

This thread has reminded me that I bought a load of guitar wall hangers on ebay a few weeks back.
So this evening I'm revamping the man-cave, and wall mounting 8 guitars.

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3 bikes, a 26" hardtail, a road/CX type thing and a BMX.

4 guitars, a cheap left handed classical guitar, a left handed Yamaha Pacifica, a left handed Rally Les Paul copy and a right handed Yamaha RGX A2 which my dad gave me.

I'm terrible at all of them, but they do keep me out of trouble. I'm considering selling the hardtail, the classical guitar and maybe either the Rally or the Pacifica. However they're not really worth much so I'm not fully decided.

only one guitar but i only play classical music these days so all i require

3 bikes (1 MTB, 1 CX, 1 Road)
6 guitars (1 Gretsch, 1 Custom Jaguar, 1 Strat, 1 335, 1 Jazz Bass, 1 acoustic)

I hung my old Washburn in my son's room. Means I now have a space on the wall with an unused hanger!

Two acoustics, 1 classical, 2 electrics and a ukulele.
2 steel 26ers 1 alloy 29er and 1 alloy 27.5er.

4 bikes
1 acoustic guitar
1 ukelele
1 trumpet
1 cornet
1 euphonium
1 flugelhorn
1 keyboard

Crap at guitar/ukelele, accomplished at brass, learning keys, occasionally manage a bike ride without falling off.

3 bikes at the moment, should be rationalising that to 2 soon though.

6 guitars at present... though at some stage that will hopefully grow as I have several on my wish list 😉 Everything I have is kinda Les Pauly (including one actual Les Paul) but that doesn't stop me wanting another 2 or 3 proper ones... then I kinda fancy an SG or two... and a 339 or two... and I so want a Baritone, especially if we ever do get around to "putting the band back together" or we just decide to build the Scottish "Supergroup" that gets knocked around every so often.

After that - I may even add a Strat and Tele.

This has just given me the realisation... I am going to need a bigger house!

The Flying Ox - Member

4 bikes
1 acoustic guitar
1 ukelele
1 trumpet
1 cornet
1 euphonium
1 flugelhorn
1 keyboard

All together in the floral dance!

I think I have equal numbers. About 7 of each 😀

Don't even play the guitars anymore.

4:5 of joyous-ness

Scott Sub commuter
DMR Trailstar LT
Specialized Pitch
Holdsworth Monsoon 1954

Yamaha acoustic circa 1990
Eko Ranger acoustic 1972
Tanglewood Jetstream 1996
Squier Cabronita Tele
Teisco Tulip bass 1962

I want to play the guitar, but can't read music and frankly don't have the time at present.

3 bikes
2 guitars
1 bass
1 amp

Japanese Epiphone Elite Les Paul, Marshall AVT 50 amp,
old Epiphone L00 acoustic and an amazing 12 fret Sigma acoustic. A Telecaster on order from Denmark Street.
"Why do you need so many guitars"? Asked all the time by Mother/ father in law/ girlfriend. They are all different I say.
On One 456 TI, Turner Flux ( stolen a few days ago), Ribble Carbon road bike, Singular Swift currently being built up
"Why do you need so many bikes"? They are all different.
Longboard and a skateboard, " why do do you need two skateboards"? They are not both skateboards dear, one is a longboard, they do different things.
The arguments we've had over why I need so many backpacks...

I've only got 1 guitar these days.
Mrs BigJohn understands my need for 3 bikes. She also understands the 7 windsurf boards and 8 sails.
But every time she sees me looking thoughtful in a hardware store I get "no you're not having another bloody toolbox"

Seven bikes, two guitars