Bike envy - breathe deep!

[Zen]

I can offer no useful advice either as I spent two hours last night looking for a steel frame

[Biciclista]

I too have been stricken with bike lust. Sometimes it goes away, sometimes you buy a new bike.

[Cataboo]

That's why I don't go into bike shops much!

I get bike lust - but I generally confine it to... I want such & such... and if I see a great deal on craigslist or ebay on a used one... Then I can have it. And generally if I get it, I have to sell a bike. It doesn't have to be immediately selling the bike, but within the next 6 months, a bike has to go...

I'm having problem with the accessories though... buying the shaped carbon ergo handlebars that are nice on my wrist, the colored tires, or the shorter cranks. which is not so bad if you have one bike, upgrade that stuff and stop. But if you have a couple bikes, then it turns into a - got one new handlebars, loved it, now the other 2 need those handlebars too.

I'm lusting after the SRAM red carbon crankset for one bike currently... I can almost justify it.

[Zen]

Accessorizing or upgrading components can be done slowly, though. which is why I am thinking 'frame' and not 'bike'.
But 'bike' would be nice

[Cataboo]

Accessorizing or upgrading components can be done slowly, though. which is why I am thinking 'frame' and not 'bike'.
But 'bike' would be nice

I have poor impulse control.

I'm bad at the slowly part.

[BleeckerSt_Girl]

I have poor impulse control.

Me too. When object envy strikes me, I try to remember the old saying:

Happiness is loving what you have.

That often makes me feel better.

[Biciclista]

Once i got rid of it by doing a test drive. I actually liked the bike, but I guess
I realized it wasn't that different from what I already had. (This method might backfire!)

[Zen]

Me too. When object envy strikes me, I try to remember the old saying:

Happiness is loving what you have.

That often makes me feel better.

Do you come up with these pearls of wisdom while riding a custom built Luna, perhaps?

[Cataboo]

I can offer no useful advice either as I spent two hours last night looking for a steel frame

Isn't the mariposa steel?

[subengine]

Well I'm glad it's not just me!

Happiness is loving what you have - I like that!

Now I just need to avoid going into bike shops for a 'browse'.

I can't justify it at the moment and I need to use and love the wonderful sub I already have. But maybe I can get a pretty jersey to take my mind off it...

[hilldweller]

Well I'm glad it's not just me!

Happiness is loving what you have - I like that!

Now I just need to avoid going into bike shops for a 'browse'.

I can't justify it at the moment and I need to use and love the wonderful sub I already have. But maybe I can get a pretty jersey to take my mind off it...

Yours is the pretty coral red sub isn't it? Shouldn't be too hard to love LOL

[subengine]

hilldweller - I know, I know, she is loveable. Geez I sound so ungrateful. It's just that her cousin is so cute! But seriously though I willl enjoy little 'Sarah' for awhile before I look at getting another bike.

[crazycanuck]

At my fave bike shop there's a really really cool looking single speed that keeps calling me to drool on it. Ooooo ahhhhhh

[Crankin]

Despite the fact that I have had 3.5 bikes (the last one was just a frame swap, keeping my components) road bikes in 7 years, none were really due to bike lust. My first road bike was an aluminum Cannondale. I don't know what components it had, probably 105s. The shifting sucked and the deur. sucked, too. After trying several fixes, my DH took me to Landry's, where I tested 2 bikes (stupidly, by just riding on the trainer) and got my Trek 5200. I loved that bike, but was having constant neck, back, arm pain. In retrospect, it may have just been my Fibromyalgia or some sports injury that I never treated properly. When a new high end bike store opened in my town, we went for a fitting. He did not press us to buy new bikes, but we were swayed by all of the Italian carbon in the shop. I got a new bike, which really was too big... sometime in the 2 years I had this frame, I was in the shop for something and had the only "lustful" reaction to a bike I have ever had. It was a deep, cobalt blue (get this) Trek 5200. It must have been in there for service, because they don't sell Treks. I knew it was a 47 cm by looking at it... I felt terrible. I wanted my Trek back, but sucked it up.
After 2 years of wrangling, I got a smaller frame, same brand, different model of the bike I bought there. It's definitely sexier looking, red, etc, but so far, no bike "excites" me the way you all are describing. Well, actually I feel much more "fondly" about my Jamis Coda. It's just a cool bike that I use to do errands or have fun on. No pressure type of riding. Since they are not too common around here, I always get compliments on it. I also get compliments on my Kuota, again because it's not a common brand, but I guess I'm not genetically wired for bike envy, which is good.

[emily_in_nc]

Well, actually I feel much more "fondly" about my Jamis Coda. It's just a cool bike that I use to do errands or have fun on. No pressure type of riding. Since they are not too common around here, I always get compliments on it.

This is exactly, to a "t" how I feel about my Bike Friday Pocket Crusoe. Right now, that's the type of riding and the type of bike I most enjoy. I sold my sexy, go-fast carbon Aegis Swift and really haven't regretted it. I still have a very nice (but older) Titus Racer-X MTB. Even though I do get occasional bike envy, for now, I'm happy with what I have, and that's a nice feeling.