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