[Closed] Is enough ever enough? How many bikes do you own?

I buy a new one every time this question gets asked on STW.

Just checked, I currently have 264 bikes... 😯

Two bikes, and one spare set of wheels. I hate having loads, it's just more maintenance, more money and more crap to weigh you down.

A fixed gear and a fast tourer (which is actually a CX bike if i take the mudguards and rack off and swap wheels).

6 for me... doesn't feel excessive because they are all in different categories:

pub/jump bike
commuter/road bike
alfine cx bike
hardtail
light full suss
big full suss

Dave

I had 11 2 years ago, had a big clearout/sale down to 7..

Its crept back up to 9 and I still have 7 spare frames loads of wheels & 30+ sets of tyres.

Its a bit silly really as I have very little time to ride these days, still can't beat a ride to clear my head though 🙂

Best bike
spare
road bike
cross bike this week.

That's it for me at the moment, as long as I'm not counting my first two ever race MTB's at the back of the shed or anything that's not complete & rideable as that'd add up to another 5...
Isn't it in the rules that it's N+1?

5 for me, not excessive at all in my opinion, plus im giving one away!......to make room for another one... 😉

6
140mm FS trail
140mm HT trail
120mm FS XC
200mm FS FR
DJ
100mm XCJ HT

7 if you include the road bike

Mountain bike
Road bike
BMX

Never enough.

I regret nothing!

Normal steely hardtail bike
CX bike that becomes a road bike with a change of tyres (and vicey versey)
First bike of purple Marin goodness F+F that I'll never sell, currently set up as a 1*9
Latest addition of a skinny steel SS

I actually don't want anything else, as I'm too much of a pansy to get the most out of a full susser and I wouldn't use a 'proper' roady enough to justify having it and the CX.

120mm Cotic simple SS
140mm ibis mojo sl (with 160mm forks spare)
Kona dew commuter
Cannondale six 105 Road

I think I've got to the point where diminishing returns and storage space become an issue - have got 5 bikes at the moment and don't think I'll be adding to that for a while. Yes it might be nice to have a 29er or a full-suss, but they'd both be a lot of cash without adding *that* much that I can't already do on the Whippet or the Soul.

Carbon XC hardtail
Steel big days out hardtail

Carbon road bike (Sunday best)
Alu CX/winter road bike
Steel SS commuter

One, a singlespeed hardtail.

Plus a hooooge parts bin.

When I had two bikes (XC HT and 6" FS) I would be out, and at some point think that I'd like to be on the other. Bought a 456 frame and transferred some stuff over. After 3 months I sold the HT and FS frames. 9 months later bought a 456Ti frame.

3 years later its still my only MTB - ridden at least 3 times a week, and love it.

Plus I've probably enough parts to build 2 more bikes if needed 🙂

1 full mtb, 1 with no wheels (I swap the wheels between the 2 depending whether I want to ride ht or fs), a bmx and a road bike. Considering downsizing and changing the bmx + hardtail for a DJ hardtail since I only really use the bmx for DJs anyway.

150mm HT - main bike
100mm HT - wife's main bike
80mm HT (currently on the mag trainer)
Rigid skinny tyred SS - commuter
Half-built 100mm HT - will be street/play bike
Frame and bits for a rigid MTB 'cruiser' - will be town/pub bike

slainte 🙂 rob

Mountain bike
Road bike

I use my mtb (hardtail) for everything and have been thinking of buying a dh bike lately but think that I'll just end up swapping the hardtail for a 160mm bike!

Four:

Brompton for commuting
CX bike for commuting / child towing
Singlespeed (can go geared, haven't yet)
FS bike

Every now and then I have a bit of a clearout, and then buy more bikes. Last time was just before Udderlet #1 - sold a singlespeed, a hardtail (A lovely DeKerf that went to a good friend) and a FS bike. Bought the Hummingbird for geared and singlespeed and an Orange 5 frame and forks from a friend.

It's worth having a long hard think every now and then about the riding you do and the riding you're likely to be doing, and make changes based on that.

currently 3.5...

1 x burly 160mm FS (for DH/FR but just about capable of a decent XC ride)
1 x 150mm Hardtail (for general XC use but still tough enough to ride hard)
1 x Cheep Rigid 29er single speed (commuter)
80% of the parts needed to build a rigid winter bike as I'm sick of trashing my good bikes in this crappy weather.

2:
Commuter.
Mtb.

Just did the count this morning - 8 - I think!

100mm 29er HT
140mm steel 26er HT
180mm all round FS
Downhill bike - never used to should be sold
Rigid old muddy fox. Never used but first proper mtb, not wanting to sell it!
Winter road bike - needed full overhaul so replaced with below, will be a winter turbo trainer bike
CX with full mudguards and racks for commuting if I ever start commuting and winter road use
Carbon road bike

Mate is selling a DJ, suspect that will be number 9!!

It depends what you include. The core stable is:

Road bike
Cross/commute bike
Hardtail
Hybrid (old commute bike, might make it to a pub occasionally)

Added to that, OH's hardtail also lives in the garage and one of his other bikes is often floating around too. There's also my old road bike which is unrideable after a crash but still in the garage because I intend to salvage bits from it but never get round to it, and my sister's old bike which lives with at my house too.

I'm about to buy another road bike to live at my parents house in Spain (second hand, but it will save me renting when I go out there).

i have reached S-1,
cube ams130 with revs.
charge filter hi, with road tyres.
orange P7, rigid ss.
would like to add a proper road bike and a fatbike.
would even get rid of the P7 for the fartbike, but cant afford it also it would probably result in divorce/spare room overload.

just noticed a typo above^^^
however it perfectly sums up my sense of humour so ive left it in.

2 x Singular Hummingbirds (one rigid singlespeed, one Alfined with Maverick SC32's) These get ridden the most....
1 x Trek Top Fuel 69er
1 x 1988 Kona Explosif
1 x 1995 Kona Kilauea, although it now lives permanently in Greece.

Might show this thread to mrsnacho. I currently have 3 bikes (old 29er Kai Tai HT pub/road/emergency bike, Whyte 905 HT and Heckler FS) and she thinks that is too many.
Have been saving up for ages now and could buy a new bike - do I join my wife on the darkside and get a road bike? Or maybe a light 120m FS or a decent 29er? Or swap the 905 for a titanium HT? Or save it for upgrades? Or put it in the family holiday fund?

dry weather commuting road bike.ss cragg vale eno'd.
wet weather commuting touring road bike.thorn audax
sovereign
hustler
fireeye ht for getting around
brompton
kinesis granfondo(main road bike)
balloon trekking bike for lady friends.
5sp pompino
brandx road bike frame and parts under the bed.
1970s bianchi and my old road bike back in italy.
I think I've got about 2-3 complete bikes in spares,except frames/forks.

Live in a third floor flat with no lift.
I'm thinking of a stainlees steel road frame,I've been collecting parts for a while.

4+

heavy duty full suss
fast duty full suss
road bike
fixed wheel commuter

all working and in good condition

it's a rolling stable though - there's a rigid hardtail in the construction stage because I've got frame and forks (Cotic Soul) that I can't bare to just be hung up in the shed - and I NEED a lender bike.

Brompton (had it 9 years)
Cotic Soul (had it 18 months)
BMX (had it 6 weeks)

Would quite like a bike for track racing... I'm too aware of how I drove in my teens to voluntarily ride on the roads other than when trying to get places.

Hardtail 120mm fork
F/S 120mm both ends
Rigid commuter/Frankenbike thingy
All the above are 26" wheels

Road bike.

Don't [i]need[/i] owt else.........however, I wouldn't mind one o'them 29ers...

why not get a tandem, nacho?
obviously you'll need a mtb tandem& a road tandem.
or something in between.always liked the thorn raven twin.
holding off until i get married.

1 x off road
1 x on road

and some bits

I have 2 Hardtails 1 steel rigid and a Racer 😉

more will be coming...

I'm trying to rationalise a bit at the moment.

Road bike
CX bike
Track bike
Shop/campsite/trailer-towing hack thing
Sturdy 26in hardtail
Racy 26in hardtail
100mm FS
Singlespeed 26in hardtail
Period-correct early 90s retro impulse purchase

So I'm back down out of double figures, which is good (I'm not counting the tandem, my wife's bikes, or the kids' bikes...). Looking at combining two of the hardtails into one. Can't see myself getting below seven, though.

I have one for road work
I have one for popping to the pub on
I have one for the Wednesday bridleway bashing
I have one for trail riding
I have one for trail centres

. . the same one . . .

I have one.

I have 7, way too many, 4-5 probbers enough.

4 - 3 full sussers & a token HT. I'd like to try a 29er HT, but it would replace the current HT.
For me it more about lack of space to store them..

we both have
1x fs [northern filing cabinets]
1x geared ht
1x ss ht

seems okay ,the fs gets the least use .

2 pushbikes, 3 motorbikes.

4 at the moment

Road bike
CX bike
Hardtail
FS

I think this is all I need, as it covers all the riding I'm likely to do.

I did creep up to 3 for a while but back to 2 again now having got shot of my roadie thing

Inbred, rigid, geared, trail bike, bikepacking, riding with my dog (about 80% use)

Kona Dawg, trail centre play bike (the other 20%)

...I do have a niggling desire for a SS CX bike for no good reason but it's unlikely to happen...oh and I want a fat bike...

at present i have 2 working bikes/1 not working.

2011 charge duster mid
2012 wethepeople zodiac bmx (mid life crisis)
2005 mongoose fireball (going to get rid of)

i bought the bmx in the hope of trying to learn some basic bike skills,but i am crap (still cannot manual/bunnyhop 😳

i am thinking of p/xing both my duster/bmx (once i have paid it off/i know 😳 and getting another full sus bike (either a 2013 anthem x of some sort or a stumpy fsr comp/evo as i can actually use that for what it was intended for (well lack of fitness permitting 😉
i have no hope in hell of ever using the bmx (it's a lovely bike also 🙁
EDIT i am also thinking about p/x'ing my steel duster frame towards a titanium frame instead (either a lovely new gt xizang 26" or duster ti 🙂 tbh i think that's what i will do 🙂

4 for me:

29er hardtail
26" FS
'Best' road bike
Commuter/light tour road bike

And plenty of parts to sell!

1 Bike that I use for everything including work - a 100mm FS

Hmmm too many.

I can no longer negotiate a path through the garage.

1x 29er FS
1x 29er HT
1x DH
1x AM FS
1x 26er FS
1x 26er HT
1x Cross
1x Hack road bike
1x Road race bike
1x Training road bike

plus a motorbike.

do we have to include motorcycles adn bikes we have stashed elsewhere?

Christ! i'm running out of fingers, but thats for me, wife and three kids... still......

room for one more!!!!!! 😀

3 main bikes at the moment:

Mountain
Road
Inbetweener/Commuter

Have another one sat in bits at the corner of the room, still deciding what to do with it, and have been for about 4 years...

Also got my old BMX in bits, needing some tlc, which I was gonna fix up for my son, but given his lack of input I might have to reclaim it for myself (if he asks nicely I'll let him borrow it 😛 )

All of the above probably cost less than a lot of peoples individual bikes.

I remember that picture of sheldon's basement,after he died.
Can anyone find it?
I tried but my google is weak.
we should have a poll.on how many bikes.
grant petersen says 6.or 8.
I think 5 is about right.3 is understandable even to non cyclists.
double digits start to be a problem.(includes me)
maintenance,more than anything,is a chore.
spares can be,but you can standardize quite a bit.disadvantage is that you'll end up stuck in a time bubble.(no bad thing,as long as it works)
any thoughts?

pretty sure i can keep it pinned at 3
commuter, hardtail, full suss

but sometimes i want a real road bike, which i can mentally argue down to an audax/tourer/cx (guards/rack) which could replace my commuter, but im happy that the commuter is SS, except the frame is knackered and for what i will spend on a SS frame, i could buy a whole bike, but then i could keep the commuter which is still gonna be wrecked AND i would be up to 4 bikes again.

why did you have to ask

2 working with a 3rd missing some parts.
Road bike
29er HT
29er FS without drive train.

I've just stayed on the HT this year. I keep thinking of a winter road bike but just can't justify it.

160mm fs alps bike
120mm fs trail bike
100mm hardtail
road bike
I'm banned from owning anymore but I really need a time trial bike in my life...

I buy a new one every time this question gets asked on STW.

Just checked, I currently have 264 bikes...

Four:
29er hardtail
29er full susser
Road bike
Singlespeed urban/commuter

If I had the space and could justify the spend I'd also have a steel winter road bike, a Langster and probably a fat bike too. That's before getting into the nice-to-look-at-but-not-sure-how-much-I'd-use-it category, which would mean vintage Italian road bike and Calfee bamboo mountain bike.

3

Geared steel rigid 29er - my main "trail" bike
Rigid steel singlespeed - winter offroader and year round commuter
Oldish alu hardtail -currently built up as geared rigid 26er with slicks - mainly used for child seat duties and v. occasional longer road rides

Third one is a bit redundant really. Would ideally like to replace it with a steel cross bike.

Don't really see the point of more as I barely have time to ride the ones I've got.

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For me:
Ti29
Scandal
Pompino
Pompetamine
Inbred luggage bike
SS commuter
Brompton

For her:
Planet X Pro Carbon
Pompino
456

For them:
Islabikes Rohan
Islabikes Cnoc.

=12

My only urge for n+1 is for a Monster cross based on Pompetamine geometry. But that's not going to happen.

I refer you to this thread of wisdom: [url= http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/the-evil-profit-motive ]http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/the-evil-profit-motive[/url]

Now start sharing them out evenly please.

8 At the moment.

I work on ths S minus 1 principle. 9 appears to be S

How about how often do you change bikes. How many bikes have you bought / sold in the last two / three years?

Holy crap, I'm not that bad after all:

Audax/commuter bike (sensible road bike w/guards and hub dynamo)
Fixed commuter/winter bike
Road/TT bike (lightweight 'summer' bike with bars changed according to discipline)
Heavy Duty Tourer - lives in storage seeing as it's for the holidays only
Brompton
Hardtail bitsa MTB
Old Kona Lavadome in pieces ready to be built up old skool rigid

69er rigid ss for local and commuting
140mm fe for big days out

Although another 29er may be on th cards with the 69er getting a fat front

At the moment I've got
140mm FS
140mm HT
120mm HT Singlespeed
Roadbike

Due to the small size of my garage, I've just sold my motorbike to give me extra space in the garage and some extra MTB funds!

Only 1 at the moment and I can't ride that 🙁

Enough parts to build 2 more, except for the frames.

My mates seem to need 6-7 bikes to do the same amount/type of riding i do on 2:

Fixed gear road
Full suspension MTB.

Oh, and people that refer to their 'stable'.. they are for keeping horses in, not bikes. 😉

7

XCish hardtail
FRish hardtail
SS that hasn't been ridden in the last 18 months.
7" travel FS
Roadie
Fixie (hangover from the London commuting days)
Brompton (new commuter - something of a necessary evil

Plus a couple of old frames floating around the place.

Want a more trail friendly full sus at the mo.

I'm up to 4 now. Road bike, 180mm FS, 140mm HT and 24" SS jump bike. Quite happy and have little overlap but would like a lighter full suss

This again?

But if I must:

Five:

1x DH FS bike
1X 4" forked HT: Dropper equiped, 2x9 geared...
1x Fully rigid SS
1x BMX
1x Road bike (primarily for commuting)

I know how awfully Bourgeois’ I am...

5 but 2 need to get sold asap

29er ht 9 speed
26er ht ss
Cx/commute/hack ss

To go...
First propper mtb '96 p7 now ss
Road bike litespeed

Sold fs earlier in the year to buy 29er + commuter

Own:
Fixed road bike for commuting (used daily)
Ti Road bike for nice rides (used weekly)
29er rigid SS (used weekly)
Folding Airnimal Rhino (used hardly at all)
Kiddyback tandem (off to a charity)
Adult tandem (off to a charity)

Want:
Carbon road bike for training/race/crashing duties
FS MTB
Brompton (sold mine a few years ago and still miss it)
Road tandem (for fast fun with son)

Nice to have:
Paperbike town bike

Others in household
BMX
KMX
Road bikes for kids
MTBs for kids
Dutch ladies bike
Dawes Hybrid
Track bike for road

24 fully functional bikes.
9 are mine, one is my GFs and 14 are the kids' (I bought/built all of them so I suppose they all kinda belong to me)

1 bike, 3 wheels.
I have a 29er HT which usually runs a SS rear or an alfine 8 when I want to gear up for road or smooth, flat trails. Both have the same sprocket size so are an easy swap. Two bikes for the space of one 🙂

Hardtail with discs
Hardtail with cantis
Rigid geared
Rigid single speed
Mtb tandem
TT bike
Road race
Audax
CX 1
CX 2 (Spare)
Fixed road bike with guards
Fixed TT bike
Fixed hill climb bike
Tandem trike

I have 1...no need for any more. 1 that gets used. I also have a Pace RC 200 F8 but that hangs in the garage for sentimental reasons.

One long-travel steel hardtail for everything - big long all-dayers, trail centres, jumps, I've raced it, I'd take it to the Alps (with some bigger rotors), the Dales, Wales, everywhere.

Although I have borrowed road bikes for BHF rides and the like.

I just like it. And I have a small shed.

3 at the present minute though might be down to 2 after tonight then back to 3 after I pick up a Giant Defy 2 tommorow. Then hopefully down to 2 when I sell my Hardtail.
1 x full suss 1 x Road bike is all I really need.

I have 3-

A 94 Univega Alpina that I've SS'd, ride that to work, blast around the roads.
My Pitch, which feels like too much bike sometimes.
My Kula, was built as a SS to keep wear of the Pitch, easier maintenance too. However it feels more fun to ride a lot of the time. Just converted it to 1x9 for the Kielder.

Toying with using the Pitch as a donor for a c456...

1 sunday bmx 24", which really like, use 1-2 times a week
Hack bike for getting to my job
Scott voltage , really cool bike - used it for bike park vacations
Rigid singlespeed mtb 26" - needs a new frame, use 2 times a week.
My old bmx 24" - going to sell..
Old rigid 26" geared mtb - for rain and snow when i cant ride up the hills singlespeed

Would like to try a 29" ss rigid and a fatbike..

Crikey...

Well, I've only got three - a Camber, a Wolf Ridge and a P7. My Enduro has just been retired, so the frame is sat on the mantelpiece.

Mrs PJM has a 2008 Rock Springs, which I've built her, stepson 2 has a Merlin Malt 1, which I've also built. There's a Spesh Hardrock and two Viper Crazy Boy hardtails in the garage which the kids have grown out of.

I daren't count them.

4 here...

Cube Frittz for the Alps
Trek FuelEx9 for local trails
Orange Crush for winter
Boardman Team Carbon for my lycra perversion.

The Cube is up for sale as im gone major roadie and if i go back to the Alps it'll be to bag some of the big road climbs...

Ok
2 cx bikes
2 rigid 26 hard tails
1 29er hardtail.
1 full suz all mountain thingy
1 steel road bike
1 Italian campagnolo bling road bike
And more planned!