How many bikes do you have???

[shootingstar]

Well, even though this thread topic sounds familiar, but can't be bothered to do a search for older thread..

I'm knocked out...Shefly with her 10 bikes. Jeepers.

Have 3: 2 hybrids, 1 mountainbike
He has 3: hybrid, touring road and folding bikes.
We each have storage lockers, but mine is in a common bike locker with other people's. My standalone storage locker includes a jumble of art supplies and canvasses, which I would have to repack to accommodate another bike if I get one later.

The next one probably down the road, will be a folding bike.

[SheFly]

Well, even though this thread topic sounds familiar, but can't be bothered to do a search for older thread..

I'm knocked out...Shefly with her 10 bikes. Jeepers.

I think we've been down this road before, too, but it's fun to see how many bikes people have, and who else shares this addiction - er, passion . And I think there may have been one or two who bested me in number...

Since others have listed, here's my breakdown:

1 road racing bike, Kestrel Evoke Carbon
1 road training bike, Rocky Mountain Turbo
1 road singlespeed, Voodoo Limba
1 MTB FS racing bike, Specialized Epic
1 MTB FS training bike, BMC
1 MTB singlespeed, Soul Cycles Hooligan
1 'cross racing bike, Specialized TriCross
1 'cross training/pit bike, Specialized TriCross
1 'cross foul weather/trainer/commuter bike, Flyte
1 TT racing bike, Cannondale Ironman
1 road tandem, Cannondale (I claim the whole tandem since we have two - the other is a TT-specific Cannondale)

Oh, and since MP counted the Ducati, I have a Honda Ruckus (scooter) for errands and commuting

SheFly (no, we don't have children, college funds, etc....)

[sfa]

Wow, now I'm feeling both jealous AND inadequate with just my one bike.

I like to think of my bike as a general practitioner in a world of specialists. It's a touring bike that I've now used for touring, commuting, charity rides and one tiny triathlon. Every time I think of getting a speedy road bike I hear my depression-era father in my head telling me that what I have is just fine for my needs. And I'm STILL sitting on a generous REI giftcard my sisters gave me back in January, thinking I could use it for a fun cruiser or a partial payment on a road bike. I can't make up my mind, and Dad's voice keeps telling me what I have is fine, so why would I spend money on something I don't need?

Sarah

[pinkbikes]

I can't make up my mind, and Dad's voice keeps telling me what I have is fine, so why would I spend money on something I don't need?

Because it would give you joy! And the world is a bit short of joy sometimes.

If you can afford it and you'll ride it, take your joy! There is no such thing as "too many bikes" if you ride and enjoy them all. (Says a woman with 4bikes and half a tandem).

[dachshund]

Heh... thanks to SadieKate I now have 3.
- Fairly new titanium road bike (Seven, painted orange!)
- a slightly too small Bianchi. I'm keeping it 'cause a backup bike is nice to have.
- my first mountain bike, a lovely titanium Litespeed that I bought from SadieKate. I just unpacked it and set up! Yay!

[OakLeaf]

Really only two. My old racer is collecting dust - it's geared way too tall for my old legs. With a six-speed freewheel and a standard double up front, I'd have to spread the dropouts and replace the entire drivetrain and the rear wheel to get shorter gears. For what that would cost, I could have a whole 'nother bike.

I've got the '07 Cannondale Synapse road bike and an '03 Trek Navigator that lives down south for the short commutes (<6 miles) I have there.

I need a commuter for up north. I'm thinking of a metal frame road bike, that I could hang a rear rack on, rather than a full-fledged heavy tourer. Friend of mine about my size just got a new Seven... I'm going to ask her what she plans to do with her Ruby.

[Biciclista]

Wow, now I'm feeling both jealous AND inadequate with just my one bike.

I like to think of my bike as a general practitioner in a world of specialists. It's a touring bike that I've now used for touring, commuting, charity rides and one tiny triathlon. Every time I think of getting a speedy road bike I hear my depression-era father in my head telling me that what I have is just fine for my needs. And I'm STILL sitting on a generous REI giftcard my sisters gave me back in January, thinking I could use it for a fun cruiser or a partial payment on a road bike. I can't make up my mind, and Dad's voice keeps telling me what I have is fine, so why would I spend money on something I don't need?

Sarah

my goodness, then don't! be a shining example for the rest of us consumers.
first to thine own self be true. who cares about how many bikes other folks have. you have one and you like it!

[Geonz]

Didn't this thread in the past get into all kinds of analysis of the difference between "want" and "need" and justifying wasteful consumerism in a world running short of resources?

I started with a green Schwinn Varsity (I think) 5-speed in 1990 that my mother put under the Christmas tree when I mentioned that at my new location in Richmond, it was flat enough to ride a bike. Little did I know my lifestyle would change! When I'd enjoyed riding it that summer, I went out just after Labor Day to *all* the bike shops 'til I found my Giant Nutra, entry-level hybrid.

I enjoyed it and then moved out to Illinois. My friends were into e-bay. My brother told me "get a Schwinn Racer for me if you find one because they're great bikes." I found one, bought it in 2000 ... and he didn't really want it. It has nice baskets so I could haul stuff easily.

I started *really* riding. People kept saying "if you had a lighter bike..." and one day in 2001 I rode one, and then inherited a little money. Bike shop guy said "you say you want lighter with bigger gears? Trek has a new line of hybrids." Got the Trek. Rode more.

2002: Got the Xtracycle added to the Giant. I thought hard about that ... but the company history sold me. Now I had a bike to carry anything and a bike to ride far and fast.

2003 or 4: Walked into shop to buy a tube. Grad student there, talking to my late lamented buddy Fritz about whether his asking price for his Dutch Commuter bike was fair, since he didn't want to take it home and he was graduating. Fritz had just said "you just have to find the right person." THat guy still thinks Fritz has telepathic powers Had I ever heard of a Gazelle? Yes, I'd been introduced to one by a biking buddy who saw it parked, and he'd told me about all its funky features, and I'd lamented that on this continent you couldn't get a bike *Really* made for commuting. "For 400 it's yours." Considered. Realized that for the rest of my life I'd be lamenting "I could have had a Gazelle!" and it was going to make his whole moving process easier.

A year later: whole mess of us had been talking about folding bikes and how the LBS didn't carry them because they didn't think they would sell - but hey, (he'd said to one of the employees in our group), if he *knew* 5 or six people were definitely interested.... As a service to my community I said I'd get one - would go halvsies with somebody, too, if that would work. He told me (before anybody else had even added to the tally) to go ahead, pick one out, he'd put it in stock if I didn't like it. I got one and within six months five more *had* headed out of the shop.

I have five bikes and I use them all. There's room in the garage because there is no car, and when I got the folder that was my rationale / rationalization... that *ten* of them would add up to the price of a reasonable used car. I also am a dismal mechanic and, therefore, right now I have two *ridable* bikes. My 7500 FX ('go fast' bike) is fine, as is the 1968 Schwinn I'm commuting with on these very rainy days. The Gazelle (Dutch commuter bike I got from a grad still has its studded tyres on from the winter, and the Xtracycle has a flat front tire that I fixed once but obviously *didn't* find the source. I got a recall notice about the Dahon so I might be getting a new handlebar for it, and besides, when I got on it last something was up with the chain adn it wouldn't, like, engage when I pedaled.

In the garage is also my friend's 1960 Racer that she never rides... and yes, I confess I acquired a Schwinn Spitfire from a man truly struggling with purchase addiction who was trying to unload some of the hundreds of bicycles in his basement (wall to wall, rather neatly arranged). That one I may take down and donate to the bike co-op, except that the folks buying bikes there want things that are more functional than a 55 pound coaster-brake bike (it really *is* hard to ride).

I sometimes struggle with buying things I don't need... when I think of what fun a Computrainer would be I slip $50 into the basket that goes to a certain nutrition program in El Salvador and then I can't afford it any more

[ZenSojourner]

Just the one. One's enough for me. I have no feelings of lust towards speedy bikes because I am not a speedy type person. I have less than no interest in racing, either participating or watching (not big on "watching" ANY sport).

I have nothing against it when other people are enjoying it, but it doesn't put any sparkle in my eyes.

I would kind of sort of like a more hybrid-ish style of bike and had hoped maybe to be able to buy a Susan B from Terry, but they're not making them this year, problems with the new supplier from what I've been told. But even that isn't a very serious want. Turns out I haven't had the money after all. Since I've been thinking about buying something like this since Terry was calling it the Athene, it's pretty obviously not a real high priority (that's like 13 years).

I love my touring type bike and the racks on it. I need panniers for the front now, I'm lusting after panniers much more than another bike. I just don't need anything else.