[Closed] How many bikes ?

In times like this, it helps to have an understanding partner. Who has multiple bikes.

i have 7, mrsTHtobe has 4.

No, it's absolutely not greedy, it should be encouraged. Having lots of something that's expensive and superfluous should make you proud, and it'll impress your peers.

It's awesome to think that there are homeless people freezing to death on the streets, but you're able to buy five bicycles and two motorcycle's. I bet your garage is something special; ironically it'd probably save a homeless person's life in this weather.

We don't know how lucky we are in this country. Enjoy it while it lasts.

Full sus 29

Hardtail 29

Hybrid commuter

Racer

Racer will be the first to go. Roads are terrifying

Just one at the moment, a NS RAG+. Only have room for one, but really miss having a mountain bike. Would love a steel hardtail when funds allow.

I am now at the "one in, one out" stage

SS road bike I have owned for 30 years

NIce hardtail mtb

commuterised mtb

e bike

Tandem

Unicycle

Plus Mrs TJs mountain bike and commuter ( neither of which have turned a wheel for ages)

I have just bought a fat bike so one has to go.  I live in an attic flat and all the bikes live in the flat.  Even with a dedicated (small) room for bikes I have run out of space

3

1 roadie/turbo

1 HT 29

1 650b trail.

Kind of one in/one out. I'm rubbish as selling stuff so the "one out" consists of stripping a bike down, putting the bits in boxes and leaving the frames in the corner of the garage.

FS ebike

surly karate monkey rigid

charge filter cx bike

Road bike(in loft)

wife has two bikes as well, we are now one in/one out.

Vintage Custom Built Dura Ace equipped Road Bike - not moved in 2 years

Vintage Ribble 653 road bike - on turbo now - used regulalrly

Fixed Gear Road Bike - commuter, but not ridden since my spine was broken on it

Vintage rigid MTB - crappy weather bike

FS 650B

Fixed will go once insurance case settles, then I'll get another FS bike.

In descending tyre width:

Fat bike

29er Hardtail

Short travel ( < 100mm) FS

SS all-rounder

Commuter

Road bike

My wife has five bikes so is understanding. All live in the house as we've no garage.

SS hack bike - pub, commute, shopping, bimbling about

'Serious' rigid trail slayer - big days out, gnar, lending to the missus

Well ..there are 4 bikes which I've bought ..however the trek hardtail is being held to be donated to the neighbours son ..there is a decent bmx which was bought a couple of years ago for my son's birthday and probably hasnt been ridden for a year ( might be sold ) ..a gen 1 Santa Cruz Nomad which was mine but given to my son ( which he loves as much as I did ) ..and my own 2017 T130 RS ..

So only one !

My next bike will undoubtedly be a full sus E-bike ..but I'm holding off as even with best intentions I would probably ride this exclusively ..

Cannondale Habit SE full suspension - Bought in the Jan sales, being saved for better weather.

Pinnacle Iroko - Parts bin 27.5 hardtail

Rock Lobster Team Tig SL - Fully rigid 26". Minimal maintenance winter hack

Orange Evo2 - Rigid single speed rim brakes pub bike

Cotic Roadrat - set up with Schwalbe Marathon Winter ice tyres. Cold weather commuter.

Orbea Avant - Carbon disc brake commute for when it's not icy (15 miles each way, 5 days a week)

Felt F1 - Full carbon, Dura Aced roadie. Choice of DA C24s or 60mm carbon tubulars

Kinesis Aethin - Winter road bike with Ultegra. Choice of Shimano 610s or Easton EA90s set up with winter/summer tyres

Gitane Triomphe - 1986 vintage, fully restored running 9 speed Dura Ace from downtube shifters.

Need a bigger garage.

I've been a one bike guy for a while, kind of take it as a challenge to be honest, OK so I don't have the right bike for all situations and occasions but just man up and get on with enjoying two wheels - whatever and however may you have perhaps.

My current bike is a Fat Bike and I do everything on in, trail centres, XC, DH, whatever just ride.

James

Drop bar rigid Inbred

Ritchey Swiss cross disc

Vintage Mercian road bike

Can't really decide if I want anything else tbh as I ride the Ritchey most of the time anyway.  I have a road frame and forks in the loft where it's been for years.

For me its about space. My wife is not really into bikes but understands that I am and I need a few different types to get the most out of it. So I have a 160mm travel full suss, a 29er HT, a road/gravel bike and a single speed thing for shop/school runs.

My son has an MTB, a road bike and a BMX.

My wife and daughter have an MTB each.

If I get any more i'll be struggling for space so that'll have to do for now, until my son needs bigger bikes and my daughter gets his current ones....

Me:

Mountain bike.

Hurty road bike.

Big fat tourer.

BMX.

Pub bike.

Her:

The same, apart from the  BMX, so she wants a posh road bike  to 'even things up a bit'.

my wife is kind of cool with, but am i beihg greedy or is five bikes too much?

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6. I'm on N+1=D according to my wife.

Orbea Occam tr29er

Cannondale Scalpel team 29er

Cannondale F29 singlespeed coversion <21lbs.

Turner Nitrous 26er - commuter

Calibre Dune Fatbike

Cannondale Synapse road death/garage bike. Not been on road for 2 years but about 5000 miles on turbo

I think after swapping 1 or 2 every year I'm finally happy with what I've got. Although the Orbea Rallon is really rather nice!!.

Santa Cruz 5010 Full Suspension

Cotic Solaris Max Hard Tail

Seven Evergreen Gravel/Winter

Seven Axiom Road

Don’t wish for more, but wouldn’t want less. Got off road, rough road and smooth road covered nicely.

Wife just has a Genesis CdF which does most needs.

If the OP's wife says she's cool with that she's hiding a guilty secret.

Or she's got her eyes on some Jimmy Choos.

Hmmmmmm, now up to 8. Not sure how that happened!

4 x MTB

3 x Road

1 x Track, for the Velodrome.

Still aspire to a CX and a TT though...

5

FS, XC, CX, ancient XC, ancient 531c roadbike (that's in bits being renovated)

2. Enduro bike which is my "everything" bike and just got a Vitus steel gravel bike for commuting & winter/spring base miles.

Can't think of any reason I'd want more.

Ore than I need for the amount of riding I'm doing right now but not enough to stop the bikelust.

I'm starting to wonder if I like buying/building them more than riding them.

I think I'd find having more than 2 bikes stressful. Unless you're into a lot of niches of riding then I'm not sure I see the point.

I'm now in new frame only mode. Old frames get hung on a nail in case I want to go back (I never do).

2 bikes,  both full suss 1 for general XC and a longer travel for fun days or weekends.

29 Orbea Oiz

29 Santa Cruz Hightower

Perfect combo for my limited needs.

1 x Hardtail MTB. Rarely used.

1 x carbon summer road bike.

1 x alu road bike, sort of a wonder bike.

1 x steel road bike, currently lives on the turbo but may be repurposed soon.

1 x fixed road bike.

1 x cargo bike.

1 x wife’s alu road bike

I could fit a couple more in the garage but I’m pretty happy with my lot at the moment though I do keep looking at new commuter bikes.

2x cx bikes = 1 canti brake & 1 disc brake.

3x road bikes = summer bike, occasional crit bike, and full on mud-guarded winter bike.

2x mtb = 26"HT & 26" FS (not sure if they count?)

Regularly tempted by a TT bike too ...

I'd have to go and check.

Around 20 in the workshop/attic. All ready to go but one I think.

Another 5 or 6 retros in boxes in storage. Moved them over from the UK last year, need a bit of TLC and new parts (forks, cables, bar tape and tubs mostly. Most of it I have already..... there's another few boxes that i brought back which I have no idea what's in them beyond "bike stuff". Planning to get them home in the summer and spread them out a bit.

Handful of frames/forks/wheels/parts lying around as well. Could probably put together another couple of bikes.

Only 6 out of the whole lot are less than 10 years old. The oldest is 86 or 87.

That's just the other half and I. (2/3rds mine at a guess)

Then there's the kids bikes as well.

I don't have a bike problem.

Me:

Genesis CdA

SC Hightower

DMR Trailstar jump bike

Scott Speedster road bike

Single speed flat bar commuter (too small so missus uses it).

Mrs:

Commencal Uptown commuter

Juliana Roubion

Orange P7 (small early 2000s, now a jump bike)

I'm running out of room in the house! It's going to be a one in - one out for me now. Not sure if I'd like to swap to CdA for something lighter or swap it for a fast XC bike? Rest is staying for the foreseeable 🙂

Look 695 SR

Seven Axiom SL

Seven Evergreen SL

Felt DA

On One Pickenflick

Condor Pista EOM

Stanton Switchback Ti Mk II

Cannondale F29

Cotic Soda

Brompton S2L

I’ve sold a couple recently and need to sell more - health issues meaning I can’t ride so hard.

5 bikes.

2017 Kona Paddywagon - fixed road

2016 Stooge - singlespeed 29er

2015 Ritchey Logic - Road bike

2015 Croix de fer - setup for light touring - Dynamo hub, lights, rear rack and guards.

2012 Cotic Soul - 26" with 120mm Reba forks and 1 x 10 gears.

I ride all of them throughout the year but I would like a lightweight marathon bike like a Scale or Scalpel but funds don't allow.

Cannondale habit black

cannondale scalpel

cannondale synapse Di2 disc

cervelo s3

pickenflick

merida pro carbon

fat bike

london road

dahon folding bike ( custom lightweight build )

dahon folding single speed

incoming - 3t strada

That I could ride now?

1983 Raleigh Competition

On One Pickenflick

Cotic X

Chinerello Dogshite TT bike

90's custom steel road bike

1930's Dawes with Fixed wheel

Higgins/JacksonTrike

Genesis IO

GT MTB of some sort (Zanskar?)

Dawes Shoppers x 2 Genesis hybrid

Cheap ladies MTB

Old Alpine Stars MTB

Early Moulton

Projects -- Rogers and Higgins trikes and a Spec nduro form 06 that's donated its forks to the GT above plus Kinesis CX bike awaiting fork expander bung and chain. Finally another Raleigh Competition that keeps being pushed to the back of the project queue.

After a lo pro TT frame.

Have 5 at the minute, no more room 🙁

On One 853 Single speed, very rarely used

Giant scr1 road bike sat on the turbo

Pinnacle arkose gravel / bikepacking bike

Pinnacle ramin 3+ bikepacking

Cube carbon attain GTC good road bike

I’ve been a one bike guy for a while, kind of take it as a challenge to be honest, OK so I don’t have the right bike for all situations and occasions but just man up and get on with enjoying two wheels – whatever and however may you have perhaps.

Same.  Been a one bike person for 15 years.  The one bike has either been rigid single speed or fixed track bike and for last 3 years a fixed brakeless track bike has been my only bike for road and easy off road.  I pretty much have the wrong bike most of the time but seem to enjoy it.

Doesn't stop me spending money though as often changing frame, parts, building up different wheels and so on.

29 mtb ss

26 mtb ti

carbon road bike

carbon cx bike

steel cx/winter bike

26 mtb that lives at my parents

I’ve been allowed to buy a new bike which I think be will a road bike on the condition that one of the other bikes has to go so it will be a toss up between the road bike or the mtb it.

1 650B+ mountain bike

1 cyclocross (and commuter)

1 summer road bike

1 winter road bike

1 80s vintage road bike

1 hybrid frame

26"

Cotic soul, 2008, thin tubes, 130mm fork, classic steel ride.

On one titanium, the original with the curved top tube but rear brake brace.

Orange clockwork 2007 special edition. Looks great but paint chips easily.

Orange 5, 2007, pre slack head angle, currently on studded ice tyres.

KTM Lycan, ex demo bike featured in wmb. Loaner.

Yeti sb66c. Awesome bike and unbelievably cheap to buy now. Bearing issues are massively exaggerated on forums. Only required twice in 5 years riding in all conditions.

27.5 plus

Felt surplus 70. Latest n+1. Great fun. Rear thru axle screws directly into frame though so easy to strip thread.

29er

Cotic Solaris, original version. Stripped previous trek paragon running a 120 fork. Turned out to have the same geometry but 2lbs heavier and lacks the ride quality of the Soul. Disappointing.

Trek Rumblefish. A great bike especially with a rs fork and if anyone has a 19" for sale PM me as the mrs has decided this one's hers!

Yeti sb95c. A disappointment compared to the sb66c.

Fat

Kona Wo. Brilliant fun for beach and snow. Great social side to ownership.

Road

Canondale synapse Tiagra, his and hers. Disc brakes.

Dawes Galaxy.

Motobecane tandem. Great fun but could do with a drum brake rear wheel. PM if you have one for sale pls.

N+1 adicttion with too much garage space!

.

Oh well if we’re listing them 😏

Me:-

Nomad CC Mk3

5010 CC V1

Mach 429SL

Mukluk Carbon (fat and 29er)

Levo FSR

Sequoia

Madone Di2

MrsTHtobe:-

Rune

Top Fuel

Rockhopper

OCR

Voodoo Wazoo fatbike (not the same named, new 27.5" hardtail Halfords released a few months back!)

Cube Attain GTC Pro Disc

If a good deal came along on a hydraulic disc drop bar adventure, I'd be tempted... It would have happened if I read the spec properly of those Charge Grinduro SS when they were £510 around last August, it was only once the price increased to ~£700 I spotted they were Hylex! 😳

4

Well 5 if on count the one on the way.

Ok, 6 if you count the one in bits ready for a repaint and rebuild.