True Love/How Many Bikes?

[withm]

1 car

2 kayaks

3 bikes
2005 Trek Pilot 5.2 - carbon road
2008 Trek Portland - commuter
2008 Trek 7300 - hybrid

Now I want a touring bike.

And a garage.

[PinkBike]

another proud miata owner!!
and 5 road bikes (3 Trek, a Bianchi, a Litespeed)
and a recumbent (Burley)

[elk]

I have an Aurora ...so does Sandra.

It is a fabulous ride...smooth and quiet and it fits me like a dream. I think part of that is that the top tube is the right length. The Trek 520 had a way too long top tube...


I THINK the Elite is new....and I have n't heard much about it....but the plebeian version is pleasing enough. I'm going to go look up the difference.

The other bike I really liked was a Surly LHT...but couldn't find it in my size at the time....

I also have a Specialized Globe and my DH has a Trek hybrid...but he really should have a vintage steel bike....

[elk]

also...I don't want to have a lot of bikes...but I can see how you could end up with a bunch...here's my question:

Is the stable growing because you're looking for your one true love?
Aside from having like a road AND a mtb.

I can imagine.... I keep looking to re-create my 1976 Grand Prix 10 speed..(Raleigh)...

[singletrackmind]

My stable grew because I started with a 35# mtb and wanted something a little quicker and lighter and from that something even quicker and lighter. Each bike still serves a purpose and each is still ridden for various reasons/terrain. The road bike I got to get faster on the mtb. The mtb tandem came about because my son was too big for the trailer but not big enough to ride his own for more than 7 miles and certainly not on the road (he's 5).
Occasionally I get a comment about how it's too dangerous to have a child stoker but nobody says what age is acceptable to ride the back of the tandem. He's gone 2000 miles on both road and dirt and loves to ride.

[SheFly]

Wow! Glad to know that I'm not the only household with "too many" bikes (although from what I've seen, I am so far the household with the most bikes )

We do have hooks in the basement ceiling to hang all of them, and have to do it in a couple different places. Fortunately, when we built our addition a couple of years ago, it gave us the perfect bike storage area, and we can hang 11 of them there. The tandems are in another location, with one hanging and the other against the wall underneath. Two more hang next to the bike service area, two more have permanent homes in the trainers, the chopper lives behind the water heater, and the other 3 bikes are currently hanging out agains t the walls. It's a good thing we have a big basement .

And our stable continues to grow. Why? Most of our bikes have a specific purpose, and are ridden for their purpose. In some cases, we build up bikes to see if we like them (my new SS road bike, for example). I find that we go through ebbs and flows, but we have started to implement the one in one out rule .

I liked PsyclePath's comment in another thread that the optimum number of bikes is one more than we already have....

SheFly