This site has a lot to answer for. I used to have three – a hardtail, a bmx and the ratbike – and that was more than enough.

Now the the ratbike's on its way to becoming a wheel truing stand, the hardtail's the SS hardtail, the bmx is now the old bmx and I've got the new bmx, the shiteweather SS commuter, the fixed gear commuter, the antique, the lending hack, the good hardtail, the winter road bike and most recently the dream road bike.

Mrs tyred has two and the Tyreds Jr (combined age 7) have three between them. Maximum capacity is approaching, we'll have to move soon.

17….lots of stuff in storage…people keep giving me old vintage type stuff….. 3 mtb`s in use

2 . . . and 2 frames (one of which is on ebay at the mo').

Maybe 7 is the magic number…..
I don't know about the rest of you but me and jedi are riding GODS and we've both got seven bikes. Looks like the millenia age riddle has been solved. The answer to 'what's the perfect number of bikes' is no longer 'n+1 where 'n' is the number of bikes you already own', the answer is far more simple than that.

7

Cotic Soul (Main ride)
Specialised Hardrock (Road convert)
Proper TTL (BMX)

Think I need another bike or 4 😉

3 (Cotic HT, Scott HT, Ridgeback roadbike)
plus a pile of bits to make one more (Drössiger CX bike)

9 or 10 used to have 15

Just the 4 (and plenty of bits…):

Cannondale Prophet 140mm FS
Rock Lobster 853 100mm HT
GF X-Cal 29er 80mm HT
One One Inbred 29er SS rigid

2; 700c commuter and XC full susser.

Would like to add a BMX/DJ type muck around on bike and a road bike.

Can't be arsed shuttling the DH stuff around here and I get bored of it TBH anyway, so no need for DH. Would be different if I lived need lift served maybe.

Don't need/want an XC hardtail either; ride for fun, not race, so pref the comfort of the full sus. Could go for 5" instead of the current 4", but again don't need the extra cos of the terrain around here.

Roadie for "just riding" would be good; commuter has a small sus fork up front for the half asleep commute in and out of work and flat bars, but is a bit sluggish for longer rides when the point is the actual ride, not just transport.

Can't see the point of more than you can actually use and is why at present I would like another two, but don't actually have them. Would rather spend the money on other stuff, like travelling to new riding locations.

Seems I have 6

MTB
FS – Orange Sub 5
HT – Sanderson Life
SS – On-One Tinbred
DH – GT DHi

Road
Trek carbon something
Specialised Langster fixed

Thinking about a Pompino for a bit of touring too 😀

Cheers, Rich

I think I've got a Whyte problem, I've got 3 Whyte 19's:- 19 alloy, 19 Race (Carbon Seat Stays),& a 19Ti.
there's also a Whyte E-5, Marin Mill Valley, Orbea CX bike, Genesis Flyer & a Pashley unicycle.

Ragley mmmbop- really good but I never use it…

Road bike- not been used for ages, will probably sell it…

Deluxe bmx- my baby, I ride her nearly every day…

Three and a half.

4,

A Hardtail,
A 6" full sus
A Roadie
A tourer

I'd like to add a TT (but dont need one really), also a light short travel sus, and a comfy Ti road/tourer.

So yeah, 7 seems to be the requirement,

raleigh chopper for dicking around with my mates
spec enduro for armchair riding
marin muirwood commuting to work
gt zaskar for local muddy rides
on one 456 for all other rides

a 29er
a ratbike
a bmx

of course I need more!

5 full bikes and 3 semi built.

DH race bike: Banshee Legend
XC FS race bike: Giant Anthem Advanced
Road race bike: Trek 6.9 Pro
CX/winter bike: Cresent Race CroMo
Commuter: Cresent ladies 😳

XC HT race bike: Univega carbon team
4X race bike: Univega 4X
Road race bike: Old ally ex-pro frame

BUT, need more, need:

XC FS 29er race bike: GF (or now Trek) Superfly 100
XC HT 29er race bike (poss SS): Kingdom Bikes Titanium
Road fixie
AM 6" jobbie for our bike park

😆

None…it owns me – every time I ride it…

3 currently but want a 4th.

Orange P7 pro for proper MTB'ing
Trek 4300, with semi slicks as the commuter
Old Claude Butler MTB with child seat on for pottering about with the little ones.

I'm looking to add a road bike for the commute.

100!

That's 100 posts, not 100 bikes which would be nice but I manage fine with my 5:

– Geared mtb (Shortly to be a Singular Swift)
– SS mtb
– Old geared mtb/commute/baby carrying bike
– Road bike
– CX bike / winter road bike

Covers all the bases for me though I'd quite like a track bike again if I had the time to ever go to the track..

Ancient 1994 British Eagle Strike (for wobbling into town with – if it gets nicked, no problem(
1997 Stumpjumper steel fully rigid – being used by Dad but still mine
2007 Stumpjumper Comp HT – with about £1000 of upgrades – my baby
2008 Rockhopper Disk – Mrs Matts but I use it when mine is being fixed
2010 Allez Elite – very underused but good fun when we do have a ride on it

Many surfboards
Many waterskis
Two wakeboards

6 and counting.

Heckler 6" all day fun
Handjob 100mm Hardtail
Love/Hate 100mm SS Hardtail
Focus CX
Ribble Road (Winter)
DeRosa Merak Road ( Summer)

Soon to be getting either an Alpine/ BFe

In the words of my kids (not the wife!); "too many"! Actually, the wife says that as well. I just say it's cheaper than a sports car…err better not push that too hard I suppose.

Just the 5……..

FS – Yeti 575
HT – Lobster 853
Roadie – Carbon Focus

1984 BMX, forgot what it is.
1989 Diamondback MTB

Oh yeh, the wife has 2 as well! 🙄

– 2005 Heckler with pikes (Real bike, doesn't get ridden enough as there just isn't the terrain around the north east to justify it)
– 456 with 100mm Rebas (rather embarrassingly built up from "spares" – local trails where a full suss would detract from the fun)
– Singular Swift single speed (Winter, mud, local trails, suffering, fun!)
– Surosa Audax (commuting – I hate road riding but this bike at least makes it more bearable than my old converted mtb with slicks)

I think I would only replace rather than add to this collection. I tend to swap parts between the 456 and Heckler to give a longer forked hardtail with sturdier wheels so does that count as a half?

My other half has 2.5 bikes as well and she wants a real road bike. Looks like space in the garage will be at a premium soon.

(Edit) Actually decided that I don't want to advertise on here the total content of my garage

1.5 bikes for me

my 2004 sworks enduro….its a do everything bike
Giant xtc frame only now as i have broken it down to build a bike for the GF

1 for the GF

the GF has a kona scrap which she loves as she has colour coded it all!

On-One race bike
Ribble road bike/training bike
Cube Agree Road bike
GF Rig 29'er (going soon)
Planet X Stealth (well, maybe if I go and pick it up, maybe not if she finds out)
BSA road steel thing – currently the turbo bike but maybe a fixie at some point

But I want/am swopping the 9'er for a CX bike and I'd like something trialsy again, depending on my back

I've got 4 based upon seasonal riding

Winter = s/s CX for road
= s/s (soon to be sturmey-archer 3 speed) HT MTB
Summer = Road bike
= full sus MTB

plus my old full sus MTB is now my Mrs D's
plus son has my wife's old MTB (but needs replacing as it's an old Muddy Fox)

Glad I read this thread, makes me feel better about my own four bikes.

Cove HJ – Not ridden much this year but hanging on to it as it's the only bike that child seat fits on.

Lapierre Zesty – Newish and ridden loads, think I'm in love with it.

Lapierre Froggy – Also newish and ridden quite a lot, mainly uplift and DH.

Charge Blender – Hardly ridden at all but it was a killer bargain so it's not losing me any money.

2 a green one and a black one 😀

1x FR/DH bike. But have access to my dads XC HT.

4-5 for me

On-one pomp for commuting
On-one 456 general trail centre, eduros etc.
Scandal 69er rigid SS light weight low maintenance for gentler touring rides. (Sorry bit of an on-one fest but they are tidy frames, well designed and good value.)
DH bike Giant Faith (old style) for DH upift days
Just built up a hack rigid SS out of parts lying around for general rides with the kids on the wee ride.

Horses for courses. I use all of the above for different rides through out the year. I think I'll stop at that though.

I enjoy fettling building up bikes, looking for bargains parts as much as the riding.

I am running out of space though so I'm having to build a garage.

THe wife's not happy about the amount of bikes I have.

2009 On One Scandal
1998 Merlin Malt 3 for commuting purposes (too many good memories to sell!)

1990 Orange Clockwork. currently frame only in the attic

Missus has 1- Giant XTC

Bedds Jnr (currently 8 months) has two!!.. balance bike in the guise of a Superbike and another 'older kids' bike 😯

22 (ridden 4 this week so far)

1

I have plenty of other things in my life to spend money on before bikes unfortunately.

2

FS – Yeti Kokopelli
HT – Rockhopper

Yeti DJ 2010 for dicking around town on.

Yeti 303 rdh 2009 for the rough stuff.

Trek Remedy 9 2008 for trail and clocking up some mileage.

Cotic Soul (Main Ride)
SC Blur
Fat Chance Yoeddy
Colnago Road Bike
Kenisis Cross Bike
would love ti hei hei 🙂

one. A Five spot.