How many / which bikes are too many?

Currently:
LT 29er (Yelli with 140mm)
ST 29er (Swift with 100mm)
Rigid SS 29er (Chumba HX2)
Road bike (Rocky Mountain Oxygen)

Future:
FS 29er (Tallboy LT or Covert- would sell the yelli)
Winter road bike
29er race bike

My ideal stable would contain:

1. fatbike
2. 100mm HT
3. road bike
4. commuter

My actual stable contains:

2. & 4.

I have 11 I think.

2 roadies
2 fs
1 bmx
And 6 hardtails

120mm FS
100mm HT
Road bike

Works for me

Currently:

Roadie
Roadie -tourer
Roadie – SS

SS 29er
Chumba HX1 (the cotic-a-like)
Pitch

BMX

I reckon I need a winter roadie (i.e. soemthig a bit more racey than the tourer, but less bling than the roadie, or at least elss cared for, maybe I’ll just get a ncier roadie and retire this one)

An XC bike (29er with gears and maybe suspension)
A 29er AM bike (maybe, but that would be instead of the chumba)
A 5″ travel FS, probably 29er, not sure whether this would replace the Pitch and overlap too much with the 29er AM bike though).

I also need some with engines 😈

At the moment

120mm FS 29er
80mm HT race bike
Hybrid type ‘Pub’ Bike
Carbon ‘best’ Road Bike
Winter Road Bike
Touring Bike

Don’t think I will need anything else.

For me

120mm FS for the trails
160 mm DH guilty pleasure 🙂
100mm HT for commuting and gf’s weekend bike

Officially though there is only 2 the gf does not know about the DH as it’s kept at my parents place lol 😀

Oh how the other half live!

2 – Covert & a BMX

Currently:

1 x HT – 120mm 1×9 (Soul)
1 x Ti HT – 120mm 3×9 (Soda)
1 x 100 FS ‘race’ bike (Anthem)
1 x 150mm FS (Blur LT)
1 x Carbon Roadie (Madone)
1 x SS for commuting (Bandwagon)

Thinking about a cross bike but cant quite justify it, also thinking about selling the Antehm and getting a 29er but that can wait until next year

My lovely other half
1 x HT – 120mm 1×9 (R8)
1 x Ti HT (race bike) – 100mm 3×9 (Lynskey – cant remember model)
1 x 140mm FS (Blur LT)
1 x Carbon Roadie (Ridley)
1 x Fixie for commuting (Condor)

Along with my kids bikes it makes for a pretty full garage.

I have:

120FS
130HT
160FS
Rigid SS
100HT commuter
Road bike

Weirdly, feels like one too many (I know, WTF!)

Currently thinking I’ll ditch the 120FS and go 29 with the rigid SS

Just bought a new bike and got it past the wife by explaining there was nothing I’m missing from my garage once I get my new Stumpjumper.

Having said that, always had a hankering for a Ti framed bike….

Currently running at

1 x 150mm fs Stumpy Evo ’13
1 x 140mm Cove Stiffee ’06
1 x 100mm fs Stumpy ’03
1 x Alu road bike/ commuter
1 x stupid expensive carbon road bike
and a part share in Mongoose Amplifier

My Soda’s definately the one bike too many, tbh it makes almost no sense to own it. Luckily I can use the excuse that it’s cracked/repaired so not worth that much.

I’d be pretty happy with just the Hemlock or Ragley + something for the road, and very happy with both the Cotic and Ragley + road. But the DH bike is nice to have, as is the rigid, and splitting the road stuff into proper roadie + commuter makes a lot of sense.

LT hardtail
Road bike
Pub bike

Same as horatio hufnagel, a Cham ( 140mm cotic-a-like) and a road bike.

Did have a shed full, but one got ridden maybe 2-3 times a year, and weirdly as it sat still so much it needed more looking after than anything else. Sold them all a few years back and don’t miss them

Although I want/need a TR250 now

For me I don’t have enough.

Currently built at the moment (4 more in the attic in bits)

Carbon Road Race Bike
Road Training Bike
Road Single Speed Commuter
100mm Carbon Hardtail Race Bike
Cyclocross Bike.

To complete my collection;

Time Trial Bike
Track Bike
Winter Trainer.

All bikes listed are not because I want them but because I need them based on my cycle activities. Any more after that would be just a luxury. 😀

Double post

Mine
456Ti c/w 140mm
Alfine commuter

Sons’
Norco DH
120mm HT

And enough parts to build two more bikes 🙂

Having had more than one bike, I’d always find when out on a ride at some point I wished I was on the other one – so now just have one bike that does.

Don’t really have any reason for owning my 2003 Stumpjumper FS but just use the excuse its not worth getting rid of as I’d get about 10p for it.

The rest I can just about justify based on the amount of riding they all get used.

I’m quite intrigued that a lot of people have a 160mm/long travel FS and a 120mm FS.

I quite fancy that Nukeproof in the Classifieds, but with an ASR5 at 120mm I can’t see that £1500 for 40mm of travel is justified to ride most “well known” UK trails.

Unless anyone’s happy to explain to me why it would be/why you have both?

Current count in the shed is 8:
Rigid SS Steel 29er
Ti XC Hardtail (26″ pn its Way to 27,5″)
LT Full suss 29er (Turner Sultan 140/125mm)
160mm Full suss Enduro
Ti Road Racer
Recumbent Prototype (commuting)
Carbon XC 29er Hardtail
Carbon Full suss 29
(The last two belong to my Gilrfriend ; ))

I could get it to 2.

150-160mm travel enduro full sus
140mm travel hardtail (Stanton Slackline) with adjustable travel forks- 140/150mm for trail stuff and 100-120ish for dirt jumping
A cheap hardtail would be nice for my off road commute but not essential.

Fully rigid SIR9 SS 29er.
Kone Ute, cargo bike.

Not counting the BMX, as its not rideable at the moment.
Used to have 5″ FS. Built it up & but one ride was enough to tell me they just dont do it for me anymore

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Unless your into multiple road events
1 Road Bike.

A Full Sus and a HT with travel/setups to cover most of your riding. For me they are both 150/160mm forked bikes.

I have some lighter and heavier wheels.

For me I just need the DH bike to compliment the lot. That stops me over building my FS to do DH on. Which makes my FS more versatile.

Perfect setup for me would be:

1 DH Bike (Nukproof Pulse)
1 150f/130r mm FS (Nukeproof TR)
1 130/140 mm hardtail (650B Saracen Zen X or a Privee Shan in the gulf colours)
1 4x/jump bike (The Nukeproof Snap for 869 on CRC looked tempting)

Currently just have a Nukeproof Mega

29 er 100mm HT
26 er 120mm FS
Road bike
Hybrid/commuter

Done

Road bike – race
Road bike – training
Road bike – winter/retro
Cyclo cross race bike
MTB – trail/race/do-it-all

I have 3 and would struggle to justify another

140mm FS – Lapierre Zesty
Rigid SS – Kona Kula
Roadie – Spesh Secteur

Maybe a 29in SS but then the Kona would go

1x 160 fs
1x 140 ht
1x rigid 29er

In the last 6 months I have sold my commuter and racing bike. These were replaced by the 29er asI had room on the rack.

1 x road bike and 1 x mountain bike. Job done.

Currently at –

Rigid SS 69er
Hardtail 69er with Alfine
FS 69er (with gears,obviously)
1988 Kona Explosif, which I’ll probably never sell as I’ve had it so long.

Plus a 120mm hardtail in Greece.

It all depends on what/why you ride. I could be quite happy owning just one bike (I have a ‘one bike’) and it wouldn’t limit my riding too much, the other 3 or 4 that I’d rather not be without are just a luxury / choice.

1 rigid 29er with ss-ability and wide-range handling like my Jones
1 road bike like my Equilibrum

and ideally a town-hack SS

..would do it all apart from the odd Alpine chairlift trip.

For me:

100mm hardtail.
Rigid hardtail- commuter/tourer.
Road bike.
BMX.

What are these ‘full suspension’ bikes that everyone’s going on about?
Sounds a bit odd, rear suspension on a pushbike.