Three currently. Might go to four once I get a geared cross bike. Kinda fancy keeping the SSCX for the champs

I own 5 at the moment but am on an ever lasting quest to get it down to one. Main bikes of choice are the kiddie carrier- a bastardised mountain bike with a cross bar seat and a trailgator with big highswept bars which I use to ferry the kids around. I use a car too. Then my fixed/ss depending what mood I'm in for most journey's or for going for a run. I've also got a geared mtb which hasn't been used in anger for years, a ss 29er mtb which has been used about 5 times and similarly not in anger for years and another old school mtb with a heap of now outmoded 'new' parts that has also seen little use. I use the ss/fixed primarily with 2 wheelsets with different tyres/cog/brake permutations. Geek? Me?!

3 and a frame and some parts... Gonna get shot of 2 of them and make a track bike for the Velodrome, if I can ever afford it.

1 working (Armstrong fixed-gear conversion), 2 complete but not-working (Dawes hybrid single-speed conversion & Principia RSL road bike), 1 in pieces (Carlton waiting for fixed-gear conversion) = 4 total.

3 - Bob Jackson fixed / SS for myself around town and shorter rides out of town, 1 Trek hybrid for load carrying or touring with family, 1 Audax bike for longer light touring stuff myself.

7 bikes in the household. Too many for a tenement flat.

N-4 + several options plus changing requirements of offspring in my case. Try to fit in every single bit you want to keep being incompatible with every bit you want to bolt it to. then start thinking about the kids bikes. this is for fun remember! Nobody I know actually takes this seriously and does training and diets etc. But yeah, you need to have a cull dude. So do I. Do you want to buy a ....!!!

Yip, defo the answer. You need another bike to solve your growing bike dilemas! Ha Ha :\"> Just get one bike and make it do everything no? You need to sell all those lovely bikes first tho, then spend a lot of time and money on a bike that's so nice (to you - and probably only you!) that you're shit scared to leave it locked up outside anywhere for any amount of time. I am being a pedantic arsehole but there is some truth in it! I reckon you need working bikes and if you have a fight of fancy you can build up a nice flash bike which you won't ride much. It's nice to have tho and don't get me wrong, when you put it all together yourself and you get it finished - that's a good feeling. But I'm trying to be brutal and ask myself 'how often have I ridden that'. The moral is probably buy high quality out of fashion stuff. But who's going to do that eh?

I've always adhered to the n+1 theory too.

2.. my road bike and my in-bits mountain bike.

I'll own another bike by the end of the year, unsure if it'll be a cross bike/fixed gear/commuter utilitarian machine.

Where do yez find the time to ride all of these? Jealous tho.

I have 2 having just acquired the 2nd. Both fixed! Plan is to use my present bike as my winter warrior with the new one for April - September.

This thread would be cooler with pics.

4
i run one to three bike depending on the season
1 moutian bike for winter/injury
1 fixied wheel for shopping/raining
1 geared bike i can lock outside/for anything good if fixed has puncture
1 nice geared bike

literallyoverthemoon said:

s-1 bikes, currently.

Hard tail mountain bike, polo bike, BMX, single speed. The Mrs has a mountain bike.

If I could afford one I'd like a nice, light, geared road bike, but there's no longer any room in our flat. I'd also be in big trouble.

Forgiveness is easier to get than permission

3 - fixie, polo bike and weird chopper project

the_liquidator said:

My Peugeot conversion
My colnago project - frame and gruppo, needs the rest
Have a raleigh shopper
and an old Peugeot MTB which I might try to make into a Polo bike. The girlfriend wont allow me to bring it to the flat though.

i have some record hubs...

McGilicuddyReeks said:

Where do yez find the time to ride all of these? Jealous tho.

I have 2 having just acquired the 2nd. Both fixed! Plan is to use my present bike as my winter warrior with the new one for April - September.

This thread would be cooler with pics.

As requested.

This is my bicycle corner.



As to when i find time to ride them all, I usually manage at least half an hour a day on one of them.

Cinelli Gazzetta and Flying Scot only in good weather only.

Dawes impules, Peugeot Elite SS, when weather is not so good or there is a chance ill have to lock it up unattended.

Giant Escape M1for anything other than road.

BAD or bicycle acquisition disorder is making victims here.
I've got one and it doesn't work. sad panda..

mmmmmmmm shiny :)

I'm curently at n -2.5

oh yeah, n -1 car too!

2: a geared Colnago Ramarro and a fixed Kona Paddywagon (though only the frame, headset, stem and post are stock).

Complete

1 Winter fixed (Old Ribble 531 Frame)
1 Summer Fixed (Old "Colnago" track frame off Gerry)
1 Summer Road (Schwinn Paramount)
1 Winter/Family Utility road (Olmo Giro)
1 Retro Road (Made to measure for me, when I was 14, Ellis Briggs Favori in 531 Pro)
1 Polo (AeroPolo)
1 Track (Raleigh Team Pro)

In bits

1 Alan screwed and glued aluminium frame.
1 '50s Ratrays Flying Scot
1 Marin Bear Valley SE

Does a ski bike count?

Mrs Getafix has a couple and I think my boy has 3 and girl has 2.

Looking at this list I think I/we should downsize.

I absolutely love that cervelo, Rusty. It's just so offensively expensive looking. True Porn

Just going to be really different here and say how many I have.

1, because that is how many bikes one can ride at the same time. :P

Jeeves said:

Just going to be really different here and say how many I have.

1, because that is how many bikes one can ride at the same time. :P

you'll never be a proper cyclist

^ Nice!