Bikes – how many and what you got?

2 at present, a surly disc trucker and a on one parkwood.
i want to cosolidate them into 1 bike pretty soon.
a rohloffed 29r would be ideal.

3.

Orange Gyro
Surly Karate Monkey
Ribble Gran Fondo

Cotic Solaris for commuting and fun stuff and Tallboy Carbon for racing and more fun stuff…

Not enough….

Op – get rid of the wife. My spare room now houses a full sus 29er, Whyte t129 and an On-one 456 in 26″ guise. And my drum kit

I find all of them less moany than a women.

Especially when I drink away my loneliness…

3 bikes.
Full bouncy Cannondale with a Lefty.
Whyte Shoreditch commuter.
Ratty old Cannondale Bad Boy with rigid Lefty and singlespeed. Currently my favoured commuter/pub bike.

The Pretty one
The Perfect one
The New one (in the process of upgrading the frame, forks, bars, drivetrain and seatpost of the Simple one)
The Fat one
The Fast one
The Winter/Turbo one

Do you want our mothers’ maiden names, and names of our first pet, too? 😉

Just one now, my Brompton, absolutely love it. Just sold the MTB as I just haven’t got the time/can’t be arsed to drive to ride anywhere.

Will probably get a hybrid at some point though.

Seven built and enough bits n frames for another three.
None are on the current transfer list but that can always change if I see a nice frame or wheels or cheap groupset etc 🙂

Had three,got it down to one.
Followed a trend and went back to two.
Will be back and happy with one once Disco is gone.

Singular Swift
Singular Gryphon (in bits at the moment)
Singular Peregrin
2009 Kona Major Jake which gets ridden the most – i also quite like Singulars.

1 kinesis ti lovely roadie thing with guards.
1 columbus thing of beauty in orange and blue with no guards 🙂

NS Soda Air
Ragley Marley
PP Shan

4 with a combined amount of front and rear travel of 28″ and 14 gears between them 😉

Canyon Grand Canyon CF SLX, nothing’s original on it any more except the forks, all the rest has been upgraded/ broken and replaced!

Singular Swift set up rigid (but geared)

On One Whippet set up suspended and SS

Merlin Maven road bike, with a Powertap hub that’s worth more than the bike it’s on.

Saracen Amplitude jump bike

Raleigh Mountain Lite (vintage CX frame) built up as a commuting fixe, with mad Cinelli LA84s

Dawes Jaguar vintage road bike set up as a SS winter road bike

7 in total, unless I’ve forgotten about one.

CX CaadX (Not sure of the brand 😉 )
HT Titus Fireline 29er
FS Hammerhead Thumper 29er

Accidentally not sold (still the wrong time of year, honest)
C456
Nukeproof Mega

Edit : Oh and an unbranded £30 road bike for a “cheap bike” charity challenge next year.

Pegoretti Duende dura/ace summer road bike
Chesini Prima SRAM force22 winter road bike (bit posh for a road bike but i don’t want to ride shitty dolans/planetX/ribbles in the winter as it’s when I do most of my riding, but it is steel though :-). Bought to stop trashing the pegoretti over another winter)
Condor pista fixed road
Giant trance-X (26in) great bike, can’t see the point in changing it just for the sake of it.
Dialled love/hate SS. Will soon make way for a cross bike.

Santa Cruz blur LTc and a transition klunker.
Looking to buy a production privee shan, probably sell the klunker.

’88 Kona Explosif
’95 Kona Kilauea (in Greece)
Singular Hummingbird (rigid 69er SS)
Singular Hummingbird (Alfine and SC32’s)
Genesis Alpitude (in Greece)

Plus my wife has a ’93 RM Blizzard (in Greece) and a small Hummingbird (with Alfine).

A very old Marin steel rigid lovely
A not quite so old Giant NRS
A not very new Spesh Enduro
A marvelously brilliant Brompton
A rather new Specialized Diverge

Had a bit of a review of the stocks when we moved a while ago. Am now very much in need of something else. Am thinking light, fast, playful XC hardtail for local missions, and then perhaps replacing the Enduro with another skill compensators.

2012 Saracen Kili Flyer, fillet blazed 853. Lovely, snappy feeling and fast. 26in steel at its finest
2007 On One Inbred, one of the 100 limited edition 853 frames, re sprayed, new chain stay, currently kitted out as a tourer.
2009 Specialized Pitch, well battered, rarely used, not for sale.
2015 Genesis Croix de Fer 10 for exploring and possibly light touring.

I’ll never sell the Inbred, it’s just too versatile. I’m planning it’s second respray maybe next year, so that’ll be good for another 6-7 years after that.

456 in HOT pink
Kona Nunu SS
Fondriest roadbike

However pans to extend the fleet with a carbon roadbike and a reaplcement for the venerable stumpy fsr that got sold, over the next year or so

More than I need, fewer than I want.
American ones, British ones and a German

Blur Ltc (last of them in red)
Spec allez Elite from about 6 years ago
Commencal DH V2
On One 456 – in parts
lots of wheels
and for the next hour a Rocky Mountain Element 950 that I’ve had for a long weekend of racing and now need to give back.

Five
Soul
Inbred ss
Boardman road
Boardman MTB
Wilson Road
Carrera MTB ( in bits)
Ragley Marley ( in bits)
Raleigh tourer
Carrera womens bike unused
Isla bike ( the kids)
We the people BMX

Yeti FS
Giant XTC Carbon 29’er
Cube Roadie
Pace RC200
Maverick ML7
GT Agessor hack
Enough frames & bits to build another 2 (probably)

’76 Jaques Anquetil Gaspipe French Randonneur (commuter)
’06 Norco Six that’s getting sold for pennies soon
’13 Felt Nine hardtail

I have four, a Soul, a Blur TRc, a Giant Defy for nice days and a Boardman for crap days.

1981 Colner Gran Sport Nuovo Record fully original except the tyres
1992 S-Works with all original first generation XTR
2010 Canyon road bike used as a turbo bike
2012 2Souls Quarterhorse 150mm 29er steel hardtail
2012 PlanetX Nanolight Team Guru winter road bike
2013 Surly Moonlander
2013 Rohloff 700c tourer
2013 Turner Sultan
2014 Cannondale Supersix Evo Hi Mod DA Di2
2015 Rose DX Cross bike with Ultegra Di2 and hydro disks

They’ve all got a use.

Yeti 575 (2006)
Cove Handjob (2006)
Genisis singlespeed thingy (with a flat back tyre)
Road bike (Giani Motta frame and bits from a dead Rocky Mountain)
Cannondale CAAD-X in my lounge ready to be ridden to work in da mornin.

2007 Marin Attack Trail – not used as much as it should be
2009 Bianchi Via Nirone alu/carbon – is likely to be moved to permanent winter duties
1990 something Ridgeback Mountain Sport – used daily for getting around town, commuting, pubs etc
Looking to buy a new carbon road bike for next spring / summer.

Gary Fisher X-Caliber 29er
Ridley Supercross CX race bike.
Genesis Volare 853 race day bike
Giant defy training audax weekends away…..
Hannington all original 531SL race bike from 1982
Raleigh Supreme Dawn Tourist 1958 (in bits)

Reign “proper” mountain bike
Surly Disk trucker, tourer/commuter/town/pub/pootle bike
Inbred now with alfine 8 for everything inbetween

N+1 is a lie. three bikes is nirvana….. unless you ride trials too….or road bikes proper like.

I’m down to 3.14 bikes.

Transition Bandit 26″ brand new second hand walloper
Pinnacle Dolomite stealthy road bike
Pinnacle Sentinal daily workhorse/beaterbike
and a Piglet 2 frame.

Ghost Dh9000
Commencal V3
Commencal Meta AM
Nukeproof Mega TR
Commencal Super 4
Solid.de hartail
Ribble Gran Fondo
Brompton
+ Suzuki 1000c motorcycle & the wife’s Pashley Princess & Specialized Rockhopper.

Also need a bigger garage 😆

I’ve been N-1ing lately, so down to my Ragley Ti hardtail, my Cotic Hemlock, my Boardman hybrid… And an Onza Bird trials bike which, to be honest, I never ride because I’m embarassingly crap at it. But keeping it in the garage stops me from buying a trials bike.

I could build a decent downhill bike and a fairly nice xc hardtail out of spare parts in the garage but they don’t count!

Oh and a very sad former-prizewinner-now-innertube-rack Suzuki SV650

I only own the bikes I need. Me and Mrs disagree on this point quite often. General rule is that if I don’t ride it for more than a year I don’t need it.

Just the one, its all I need or I would have more (Pivot Mach6)

There’s a distinct lack of pictures in this thread.