is it still possible to have one bike for everything?

commuting, playing, trails etc and what would it be, a HT, FS?

i’ve got 4, but what if i only had one from
1xFS
1xHT
1xRoadbike
1XHTSS

can it be done?

Course it is.

HT: Chameleon
FS: Prophet

or have one of each, a singlespeed, a road bike, a downhill bike, a BMX, 4 different inbreds, a cotic, an alpine and another chameleon just incase you fancy a change one day.

Depends how much money you have.

Spesh Stumpy HT
Spesh Stumpy FSR

and if I had to only have one… it would be HT

It isn’t possible to have one bike do everything that is possible to do on a bike. It is possible to get by with one bike but you have to accept the compromise that it involves.

The most reasonable compromise is a Hard-Tail, slicks for the road, knobblies off.

I only have one bike a Scandal H/T but I have two sets of wheels one with road tyres on and one with knobblies.

Surly Crosscheck

You’ve seen them……you want one……tricycle 😉

no it’s not

Recently got shot of all my off road bikes (Hummer, Nicolai Helius, and Inbred SS) and got me-self a Chameleon. Should’ve done it before. The only thing I get next is a “filthy” conditions SS.

Stiff Hardtails with a long travel fork is the way forward

Not possible for my riding.

road bike
ht mtb
race bmx

All do a different job.

You did say everything, so no it’s not.
The UCI wouldn’t let me take my road bike, let alone mtb on to the velodrome for track racing. But I wouldn’t want someone in amongst us with brakes so would complain myself.

ht mtb (fs in pipeline)
2 x road bike (winter/training one and summer/race one)
2 x track bike (old one on turbo trainer and spare in case of crash damage to regular one)
plodding bike – for shops etc

Six, coming on seven.
I could narrow it to three but why? They’re paid for now.

I used to have one, but decided that to keep the costs down I need a road bike.

Replacing used parts on my HT for the same level ones would probably cost more than my road bike, and drivetrain on a road bike lasts way longer.

Used to cycle everywhere instead of taking a bus (before strating uni) so basically my road bike paid for itself after a year and than started to earn me money for saving on bus passes.

Currently have two bikes:
XC HT for offroad fun
Road/Commuter bike for everything else