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  • Is enough ever enough? How many bikes do you own?
  • AlasdairMc
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    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.

    RestlessNative
    Free Member

    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…

    racefaceec90
    Full Member

    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 🙂

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    addy6402
    Full Member

    4 for me:

    29er hardtail
    26″ FS
    ‘Best’ road bike
    Commuter/light tour road bike

    And plenty of parts to sell!

    Dancake
    Free Member

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

    pjm84
    Free Member

    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.

    Drillski
    Free Member

    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!!!!!! 😀

    butcher
    Full Member

    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.

    emanuel
    Free Member

    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?

    soobalias
    Free Member

    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

    Shred
    Free Member

    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.

    Cheeks
    Free Member

    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…

    khani
    Free Member

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

    Just checked, I currently have 264 bikes…

    [giggles]
    Answer of the day!… 😀
    Edit..four and a bit….

    bol
    Full Member

    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.

    SprocketJockey
    Free Member

    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.

    Stoner
    Free Member


    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.

    rogerthecat
    Free Member

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

    Now start sharing them out evenly please.

    imnotverygood
    Full Member

    8 At the moment.

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

    slowboydickie
    Full Member

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

    grahamg
    Free Member

    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

    Bernaard
    Free Member

    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

    wisepranker
    Free Member

    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!

    mtbmaff
    Free Member

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

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

    RichieBoy
    Free Member

    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. 😉

    JonEdwards
    Free Member

    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.

    Steve77
    Free Member

    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

    cookeaa
    Full Member

    This again?

    But if I must:

    Five:

    1x DH FS bike
    1X 4″ forked HT: Dropper equiped, 2×9 geared…
    1x Fully rigid SS
    1x BMX
    1x Road bike (primarily for commuting)

    I know how awfully Bourgeois’ I am…

    oxym0r0n
    Full Member

    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

    TiRed
    Full Member

    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

    GW
    Free Member

    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)

    Andy_Baz
    Full Member

    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 🙂

    Edric64
    Free Member

    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

    DickBarton
    Full Member

    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.

    timnwild
    Full Member

    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.

    stanfree
    Free Member

    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.

    breadcrumb
    Full Member

    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 1×9 for the Kielder.

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

    sheephills
    Free Member

    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..

    PJM1974
    Free Member

    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.

    smogmonster
    Full Member

    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…

    wool
    Full Member

    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!

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